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over the last few weeks there have been

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several sightings and videos by pilots

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describing what have become known as

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racetrack UFOs

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the pilots describe distant lights that

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seem to be orbiting in circles or a

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racetrack a common type of holding

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pattern these sightings are generally in

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the north by the Big Dipper and

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generally seem to go from left to right

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multiple people have determined that the

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most likely explanation for these is

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starlink satellites simply because the

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lights don't go in circles or a race

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track they go in a perfectly straight

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line they are also in the same place in

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the sky as some matching starlink

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satellites flying in the same direction

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and at the same speed

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the most common objection to this is

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that the pilots say they were not

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selling satellites I even think that

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even satellites if they were even

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geosynchronous geocyclic they're not

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going to sit there and do 360s in a

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circle there's that's not going to

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happen they're not going to be doing

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this this orbit that that I saw some of

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the videos you posted there's no way

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those are satellites it's impossible

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they are half right in that it's not the

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common string of bright lights that we

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usually think of when we get UFO reports

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that turn out to be starlink

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those are starlings just after launch

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this is something different starlinks

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that are fully deployed and are only

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visible when at the correct angle to the

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Sun

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combined with the illusion of circling

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it's quite understandable that the

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pilots would say that these are not the

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how can we tell it's not circling well

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take the video and stabilize it then

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composite a frame every few seconds look

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at the spacing between the positions

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it's the same

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if it were going in a racetrack or a

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circle it would slow down as it

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approached the end of the circuit like

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with this light on a bicycle wheel

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what's happening is the satellite is

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reflecting the Sun for a few seconds

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like how you might see the sun

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reflecting off a passing car window or a

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plane like this one

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this is called a satellite flare

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not a flare in the sense of bright

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burning chemicals but a flaring that it

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another thing that indicates a satellite

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is the colors seen in some videos mostly

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white it flashes red and blue just like

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bright stars do near the Horizon here's

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Sirius for example

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this is due to atmospheric Distortion

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and indicates it's a long way away may

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be in space

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why starlink particularly well there's a

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lot more starlike in the sky now

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MetaBank used a flarky showed us how to

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use in the sky.org to display them to

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match the video

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click on spacecraft then satellites in

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your Sky then go to planetarium view

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scroll down and turn on the bright

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satellites including starlink then you

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can set a location a date and a Time

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let's look at the mufon report number

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124374 we've got the location we know

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the date and time plug that all in look

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over at the Big Dipper and we'll see

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starlink satellites in that location

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moving in the same direction as the

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lights and at the same speed that we see

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on the video

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if the satellite is shown in red that

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means it's illuminated by the Sun and so

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will flare when at the right position

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flocky also showed how the Sun was

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directly underneath the satellite at

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that point which makes sense if it's

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going to reflect the light back down

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this was initially suggested by Reddit

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user dance Macabre haunt

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flyky then did this with all the other

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videos where we have good time and

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location data in each one we found the

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same things the lights were going in

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straight lines not race tracks and they

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were always styling satellites in that

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location going in the right direction

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opposite the Sun and moving at the right

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speed

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so it seems very likely that all the

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lights seen on these racetrack videos

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were styling satellites

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now there are some eyewitness accounts

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that don't fit but the pilots have

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already made the understandable mistake

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of thinking something moving in a

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straight line was moving in a circle so

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maybe there were other understandable

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mistakes Pilots are human and while they

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are great at flying planes they are not

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always good at identifying things they

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have never seen before but really who is

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once everyone realizes these are

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probably starlings this whole flap will

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be reframed as an example of how we need

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to remove the stigma of reporting UFOs

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an issue of flight safety that's fine

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and I'm in favor of removing the stigma

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if somebody sees something odd that they

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can't identify then they should report

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it

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but we also want to avoid false

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positives we don't want starlink letters

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to be reported dozen times a day for

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years so we also need some good

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information from the FAA on how to

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identify when you're looking at

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something like this that way we can weed

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out the things that are just noise and

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if there's any real UFOs something