NUFORC Sighting 178618

Occurred: 2023-10-02 00:48 Local
Reported: 2023-10-01 22:52 Pacific
Duration: 10 Seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Luray, VA, USA
Location details: In the Old Forge area right outside of Luray

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Two faint balls of white light traveling at a constant rate of speed across the horizon

As I was sitting in my living room on my couch, I looked out of my front window which faces Northeast, and viewed two faint balls of white light that were steadily moving North up the Shenandoah Valley. When I first noticed these two lights, they were above the horizon to the immediate right of the mountaintop “Kennedy’s Peak” of the George Washington National Forest. After bringing the lights to the attention of my younger brother, we both ran over to the window and opened it it gain a better view of the lights. These lights appeared to be maintaining a constant altitude of approximately 30,000 feet AGL and traveling faster than a regular passenger aircraft- if they were at the range they appeared to be they could have been traveling at more than 800 knots. These lights were rather faint, and they maintained perfect separation of about a thumbnail on an extended arm throughout the entire duration of the sighting which lasted about ten seconds total. By the time I found a pair of binoculars to get a better view of them, the right-hand light began to fade and was quickly joined by the left-hand light before totally fading into the darkness. We watched the sky for about five minutes afterward and saw nothing out of the ordinary. FlightAware.com and FlightRadar24.com had no aircraft in the area at the time. No satellite trackers had anything in the area either. I do not believe these were Starlink satellites- I have seen them several times before, however, I have never seen just a pair traveling perfectly along the horizon. Perhaps military jets on a training exercise? Both me and my brother are lifelong aviation enthusiasts with a father who is a private pilot. I've never seen anything quite like this before.

Posted 2023-10-28