We saw moving stars... UFOs perhaps?

Question

The other night I was with my aunt and cousins by the river, in the pitch darkness and upon looking at the sky, we noticed that stars were moving. Not all of them, but like, one at a time, moving quickly in a certain direction. It wasn't a plane, because it seemed too far away and didn't flash like usual planes do, plus our air traffic is not that heavy! And we didn't just see one, we saw five, moving in different directions!! I can't seem to find anything in Google about it, but has anyone witnessed this??? Or can atleast maybe explain it?!

Answer 1

Well, if you couldn't identify them, they were definitely unidentified. They could have been anything from overactive imaginations, to satellites. It's impossible to tell from your description.

Answer 2

What you saw was most likely our own satellites that orbit around the Earth. They can be seen quite clearly if the night is dark and starry with no city lights to blur the sky. They could also be aircraft flying at extremely high altitudes and possibly overflying your area to reach some distant foreign land.

Here's something that I had seen in 2004 October in a city I was visiting in MD...I saw four stars moving in a single line at quite a leisurely speed. Then, they abruptly stopped- making me believe I had actually imagined they were moving. A few minutes later, these "stars" took a straight turn to the left and began moving again, before they vanished in the northern horizon. Were they UFOs....most likely.

And even if they were alien spacecraft- they would have been too distant to be spotted on radars in and around the DC area.

Answer 3

Most likely they were satellites.... occasionally, you'll see two 'stars' moving in a straight line close to each other, and those are usually a satellite with it's burned-out booster trailing.

If it moves in a more-or-less straight line, with no blinking lights, it's probably a satellite.

Answer 4

They were most likely satellites. There are so many satellites in low-earth-orbit now, that it is almost impossible NOT to see satellites moving in night sky.

I'll even go out on-a-limb and speculate that they are part of the Iridium satellite-telephone group, or possibly GPS satellites (because there are more of them than almost anything else).

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Answer 5

What you probable stated became a synthetic satellite tv for pc of Earth, more desirable by an overactive mind's eye. I see those each of the time, yet they continually pass with a uniform, extremely sluggish % in the course of the sky. there is an optical phantasm which will cause them to look to pass extremely irregularly, notwithstanding it extremely is an phantasm.

Answer 6

the idea that it might be something form god is interesting. but then why would god be moving little lights around the sky?

most likely explanation is satellites. not necessarily gps or iridium, just any of the hundreds of satellites that are up there.

Answer 7

It was probably satellites.

Think of all the cell phone users, GPS trackers, satellite TV users, and all that in the world. We have so much junk in our atmosphere it's impossible not to see something.

Then again, we don't have much information.

Answer 8

You were watching satellites. There are thousands of them in orbit - mostly weather and communication satellites.

Answer 9

it is possible to see satellites from earth. they don't blink and look far away. I'm not sure how many are up there but that's my best guess

Answer 10

I'm ready for the thumbs down. Do you think it could have had anything to do with God? Have any of you who saw this been in prayer, recently, for any reason? A lot of people say they don't believe in God because they see no evidence. Could this be your evidence?