The classic culprit for UFO sightings is a group of clouds moving in front of Venus. Now there are rocket trails and Starlink trains, too.
And plenty of civilians see things they don’t know how to explain, either.
“Our ability to estimate how far away something is sucks when it’s not in a context where we have the usual clues,” McDowell says. A close-by insect moving in a peculiar way might be confused for something much farther. Or a shining light might appear close—when it’s actually Venus, 35 million miles or so away. Even professionals can be fooled. Every once in a while, a satellite or spacecraft gets temporarily mistaken as a new asteroid.
“You’ve got this big cloud of gas that then gets ejected from the rocket and forms ice crystals that reflect the sunlight,” McDowell says, ”so you get these big kind of comet-like clouds” moving through the sky. Even professional astronomers have been tricked by rocket fuel dumps, who reported them to the International Astronomical Union as new comet sightings.
“They march across the sky in this line, like little kids in the crocodile coming home from school,” McDowell says . “They’re close enough together that you can’t see them as separate dots. Even if you see them separately, to have them marching in lockstep across the sky as 20 different objects, that definitely looks like an alien invasion to your gut.”heavens-above.com
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