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Re:Low Earth Orbit Visualization by _Microft on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @12:01AM (#26312054)
I saw a similar thing when I was a child, during daytime though.

A bright white spot moving over the blue sky and suddenly doing a 90 degree turn. It really scared me at the time.

I now believe we saw a high-altitude balloon that got into a layer of different winds at that moment.

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Re:Low Earth Orbit Visualization by user-the-name on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @07:37AM (#26314654)
If it was fast, it might be a meteor fracturing, and the fractured parts slowing down very quickly. It's hard to judge directions and speeds accurately against an empty blue sky, so a sudden change in velocity could easily be misinterpreted.
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