I looked up into the sky last night and saw the stars. Then I saw one start to move. I thought maybe it was my mind playing tricks on me, but I kept watching, and it was definitely moving. It moved across the sky, then left, then right, then in circles. I thought maybe it was a plane? But it looked just like the other stars, not a plane, and planes went by so I know it wasn't a plane. I then thought maybe it is a space station or satellite, but that can't be since the thing was moving left, right, straight, in circles. At the height this object resided, it had to be moving VERY fast to be moving as it did in the night sky. I'm clueless. I researched online and others have seen this same thing. Has anyone else experienced this and do you have any explanations?

It's interesting and I wish I could see one not to upset you but I think this should be in the grey area for now

Originally posted by CharonIncarnate

Sounds like a ufo. Depending on how tit the circles were. But i am sure the skeptics will find some ridiculous thing to blame it on. Ive seen lights that were floating there and in a second them zoom straight down into the earth..

Well a UFO is just something that is unidentified right?
Seriously I got all excited one night when several bright lights appeared in the night sky in triangular formation. At first I thought it was one star as it was a solid light. Then it moved, then others appeared. Then they split up. In fact it turned out they were helicopters. I was gutted...

Those are your satellites.

This has happened to me as well. I disregarded it as a satelite because when my buddies and I saw it it just went left then disappeared. So I figured it was a satelite moving.

However come to think of it now, it did move pretty fast, it's possible it was a UFO...

We don't get many sightings in Minnesota so we kind of accept that these things are satelites, but your sounds a lot more like some kind of UFO craft.

I'm going to watch the stars more often now though may be can get a great shot of these or see more sighting. If that looked like a star though, it was waaay high up there, prolly right outside the atmosphere.

S&F!

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was there a cloud ceiling or maybe something to reflect light on up there ?
i saw something similar a few times and i figured it was a high power laser reflecting from dust or clouds high up in the sky.

another explanation could be a temperature layer in the athmosphere may reflect ground lights very similar to the effect you seem to see a wet road in the desert where air is moved up due to the intense heat.
This effect may work with lower temperatures too if there is just a sharp boundary between the layers of different temperature. these layers cannot be seen, just the lights as a reflection from a far away ground source

3rd explanation maybe not the best at this time of the year.
Sometimes there are love-bugs flying around emitting light. They usually not make it out too far from the ground, but sometimes high enough to let you think theres something high in the sky performing impossible maneuvers.

however its important to ensure you don't see a light reflection, which might lead to sightings of this sort when you wear glasses and something is shining on the inside of your glasses from behind reflecting this into your eye.

So these are the things i would check before getting too ecstatic on it.

I see the stars above where I live moving about constantly but I really wouldn't attribute it to anything out of the ordinary - I simply put it down to shooting stars. If your watching the same part of the sky for long enough your eyes can also 'make things up' and you seem to think you've seen something move...which it hasn't. If, however, what the opening poster is saying is true then I'd be interested to know more. My expertise on stars are not as good as they on beer unfortunately.