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at about 1am on August the 14th 2022

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Jimmy church was on the second floor

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balcony of his house in Palmdale

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California using a night vision device

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to look for UFOs

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he spotted some to the north and started

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filming them on November the 3rd he

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shared the video on Twitter and someone

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sorry I can't find who suggested to me

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that it might be the same starlink

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flares that Pilots had been seeing and

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mistaking for planes flying in racetrack

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patterns a starlink flare happens when

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sunlight reflects off a flat surface of

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a starling satellite these particular

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flares are sunlight reflecting off the

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bottom of the satellite which is

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parallel to the curve of the earth and

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so the reflection mostly misses the

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ground which is why up until now only

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Pilots at high altitudes had reported

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them

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but Jimmy's night vision device was able

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to see the much dimmer flares that were

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visible from the ground over on metabunk

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we noticed that these flares were mostly

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observed when looking north towards the

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Big Dipper with the sun directly below

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the satellites

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due to the tilt of the earth there's

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always some satellites that are in

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sunlight in the summer when viewed from

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Palmdale and similar latitudes

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Jimmy gave me the approximate time of

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the video and Flaky used the in the

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sky.org site to get an exact match of

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two flaring satellites at the start of

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the video

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flocky also found the correct historical

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starlink position data using

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spacetrack.org and I loaded this into

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stellarium

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I identified the stars in the video the

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bright one on the left is to be part of

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the Big Dipper and I use the Stars to

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Overlay a screenshot of the video onto

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stellarium I set the time and pressed

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play

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result

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all of the flaring lights line up with

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starlink satellites in the exact same

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spot and at the exact same speed

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interestingly

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neitherinthesky.org nor stellarium

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thought that all these satellites would

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be visible

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this is because they are right on the

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edge of sunlight so any small variation

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in the calculated shape of the Earth or

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errors in accounting for atmospheric

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refraction could put a satellite in or

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out of shadow

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but since we see they match perfectly we

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know that the sun is actually hitting

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them these are all starlink satellites

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these stalling flares are only dimly

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visible from the ground but are a lot

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brighter seen from forty thousand feet

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from a plane

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so we are going to continue to get

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reports of these moving lights from

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Pilots for the next few years until

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everyone is aware of the issue

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so I suggest that the FAA and the

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airlines issue advisories to air traffic

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control and to Pilots to minimize

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distractions and disruption the

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frequency of reports will lessen over

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the winter due to the tilt of the Earth

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being away from the Sun but if nothing

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is done then this exact same flurry of

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reports will flare up again next summer

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if you want to learn more I've put a

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link to the metabung discussion in the

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video description and there's also a

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link to the full version of the