NUFORC Sighting 171259

Occurred: 2022-08-19 21:54 Local
Reported: 2022-08-19 22:55 Pacific
Duration: About 3 or 4 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Barre, VT, USA
Location details: Top of Beckly Hill, Barre vt

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

I was shooting long exposures and saw a line with small round lights along the length.

I was shooting long exposures hoping to capture the northern lights. I saw, to my left (north west) what appears to be a small very bright line with round lights along the length moving from left to right (West/north west to the east/southeast
it seemed like it was pretty high up, definitely not a meteor or aircraft. In the video, which is not great, you will see what looks like a “line” moving across the sky. The two still photos are
long exposures, so the detail
gets lost a bit. The size stayed pretty consistent although it did get noticeably bigger as it moved over my location and appeared to just fade out. I do a lot of night photography and have never seen anything like this. It was way too slow to be a meteor, or even an aircraft.

NUFORC: Starlink

Posted 2022-10-08