NUFORC Sighting 168580

Occurred: 2021-06-09 05:00 Local
Reported: 2022-06-10 09:04 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Gainesville, FL, USA
Location details: Newberry Rd (West of I-75), Facing Eastward toward I-75

Shape: Light


Multiple lights streaking in succession, in a repeated pattern

On my way to the car I stopped to observe the early morning sky which I do every morning before heading off to work. I was tracking a satellite across the sky that I identified on Night Sky app and could see with the naked eye. As the satellite tracked from straight above toward the horizon (east) I noticed motion further ahead of the satellites path. In a very small portion of the sky there were, what initially looked like shooting stars and they were streaking (some with trails and some were just lights) through this small portion of sky. If you held up a golf ball in front of you at arm’s length, that’s the area these lights were streaking through. They faded in, increasing in intensity, and faded out till gone and all within this small portion of sky. The strange thing was that there were patterns that repeated several times. First pattern, it was single lights streaking in the same exact path one after another in one single path, 3 to 5 in total. Not sure exactly how many but it was only a few and then the pattern changed. Second pattern, similar to the first but then there were multiple paths (3 paths) but still single lights streaking one at a time within these multiple paths. Third pattern, two lights at the same time streaking within two of the multiple paths, each time the two lights would streak within different paths. After the third pattern the entire sequence repeated with the first pattern. This sequence repeated multiple times and each time the overall light intensity decreased until the lights weren’t visible. I witnessed this over the course of a minute or more but it had already been going on prior to my attention.

Posted 2022-06-22

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