NUFORC Sighting 146318

Occurred: 2019-05-25 00:40 Local
Reported: 2019-05-25 07:11 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 4

Location: St. George, UT, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

Approximately 100 bright white lights in the sky.

I was in my backyard around midnight with my wife, my brother in law and my nephew. My nephew pointed to the north and when I looked there were approximately 100 white lights traveling in a single file line toward the northeast. The individual lights were similar in appearance and speed to when a satellite passes over head. The first part of the procession the lights were close together. The ones on the end were at different intervals with three brighter lights in the rear. The altitude was somewhere between near orbit to airliner cruising altitude. The lights were constant white, without the red and green anti-collision lights associated with aircraft. The objects continued on and eventually faded from sight. We managed to get a single cellphone photograph.

NUFORC Note:

Space X satellites, being released from the Falcon 9 capsule. PD

Posted 2019-06-07