04-22-2022, 09:00 PM
Last night as Kristi & I were leaving the Merc at approximately 9:50pm we were looking up at the stars by the post office and saw an enormous rod of brilliant lights coming from the NW slowly descending directly toward us at very low altitude! Neither of us had ever seen anything like it so we properly freaked. Did anyone else in town witness this?
Unlike a string of starlink satellites that are separated with space between them-this seemed to resemble several satellites rigidly attached to form one long single craft with a single silent and weightless propulsion-like a Starship! Moving like the pace of a Zeppelin.
It was so close over our heads and seemed to suspend there that we weren’t entirely sure what its next move was. Was it going to beam us up or land in Town Park and probe JT? Surprisingly it suddenly made a turn toward the SW and rapidly disappeared. Dissolved into the night. No clouds. Just poof. It was gone. Then we really freaked out-very Star Wars/ET all in one-certainly unforgettable.
Come to discover there was a big SpaceX satellite launch yesterday, and this was spotted over Michigan, Wisconsin and Cleveland last night-same description and behavior…and those viewers had a similar reaction-ha!
I guess they launch them quite often and when they are first launched they are close together and they spread apart over time. But there’s just not a lot of info out there. I’ve scoured our local news and can’t find a thing about a Colorado sighting last night.
Anyway I thought this would be of interest to all our Spaceship Geeks out there and to all of those waiting to get Starlinked-it’s obviously on its way!? I would love to understand more about the physics of what we experienced- Krypton thrusters and such.
May the Force be with Us!
Unlike a string of starlink satellites that are separated with space between them-this seemed to resemble several satellites rigidly attached to form one long single craft with a single silent and weightless propulsion-like a Starship! Moving like the pace of a Zeppelin.
It was so close over our heads and seemed to suspend there that we weren’t entirely sure what its next move was. Was it going to beam us up or land in Town Park and probe JT? Surprisingly it suddenly made a turn toward the SW and rapidly disappeared. Dissolved into the night. No clouds. Just poof. It was gone. Then we really freaked out-very Star Wars/ET all in one-certainly unforgettable.
Come to discover there was a big SpaceX satellite launch yesterday, and this was spotted over Michigan, Wisconsin and Cleveland last night-same description and behavior…and those viewers had a similar reaction-ha!
I guess they launch them quite often and when they are first launched they are close together and they spread apart over time. But there’s just not a lot of info out there. I’ve scoured our local news and can’t find a thing about a Colorado sighting last night.
Anyway I thought this would be of interest to all our Spaceship Geeks out there and to all of those waiting to get Starlinked-it’s obviously on its way!? I would love to understand more about the physics of what we experienced- Krypton thrusters and such.
May the Force be with Us!
