A lot of people seem to mix up satellite flares for UFOs

I keep seeing videos online where someone gets excited about a light moving in a straight line, but it's almost always just the ISS or a satellite flare. I was camping in Joshua Tree last summer and saw one myself, a bright silent flash that looked weird until I checked a tracker app. How do you guys tell the difference before jumping to conclusions?

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pat_moore4d ago

That tracker app logic is flawed because it only shows known objects. My cousin in New Mexico filmed a light last year that did a perfect 90-degree turn, stopped for ten seconds, then shot off. No satellite on any public database can do that. The official stuff just covers up what they can't explain.

patricia2623d ago

But that's the whole problem, isn't it? Every single time, it's a cousin or a friend who has the footage. Did your cousin ever post it anywhere public? And did they rule out things like drones or military flares, which can do weird maneuvers? Without that, it's just another story that gets added to the pile.

emery2903d ago

Totally saw something like that in Arizona last summer!