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On nice warm evenings like tonight I like to sit outside in my lawn recliner and watch the planets emerge. Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were easily identified. Once it got dark enough for the stars to be visible I caught site with my naked eye of a blue light moving across the sky rapidly. I got my binoculars on it and at first I thought it was the International Space Station, but soon realized that the sun was down too far for its light to be reflected off the ISS, and this thing was moving much more rapidly than the ISS. I watched it all the way to the eastern horizon and a couple of minutes later caught site of another blue light on the same trajectory. These things were screaming across the sky. I thought perhaps they were military aircraft, but there were no strobe lights or marker lights. Even at extreme altitudes strobes and markers can be seen, and these thing seemed to be above the atmosphere, there was no sound.
About twenty-five minutes later I witnessed the same thing again. If they were satallights, they were in low earth orbit and had their own light source. They were moving WNW to ESE across the sky. I first caught site of them about thirty degrees above the western horizon and tracked them all the way to the eastern horizon. If it's clear tomorrow evening I'll be watching again. There's no telling what's up there.
About twenty-five minutes later I witnessed the same thing again. If they were satallights, they were in low earth orbit and had their own light source. They were moving WNW to ESE across the sky. I first caught site of them about thirty degrees above the western horizon and tracked them all the way to the eastern horizon. If it's clear tomorrow evening I'll be watching again. There's no telling what's up there.
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