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Re:NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens by crustaceansoup on Saturday September 16, 2023 @11:17AM (#37535527)
You missed satellite. So many of them are just satellites.

One of the three witnesses at the Congressional hearing was touting getting a bunch of observations from commercial pilots, and when he finally posted his first video it was... satellites. Starlink, to be precise.

Starlink is probably singlehandedly responsible for more sightings than any other source right now.

Re:NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens by polynomial on Saturday September 16, 2023 @11:30AM (#37535655)
Can confirm. Was at a large night time gathering on LI over Labor Day when Starlink passed overhead. Of the 100+ people there, not one single person knew what it was, and everyone was running around going omg aliens.
Re:NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens by maxbond on Saturday September 16, 2023 @01:31PM (#37536789)
I saw that constellation the same weekend. It was stupendous, one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.

If I hadn't heard it described to me before, I might've worried it was a train of ICBMs or something. I've seen more satellites than I can count, I saw two of them that night before I spotted Starlink, but it was unlike anything I'd ever seen. There were so many of them, at first I thought it was a contrail.

A thought I had shortly after was, "if there ever is an alien invasion, it will look exactly like that."