Unsolved case.

Originally posted by C.H.U.D.
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In the case of the "star-like objects", they behave exactly as I (and others) have seen satellites behaving, so I am not convinced that what people are seeing there is anything stranger than a conventional satellite technology.

People also say, perhaps it's a "craft" disguising itself as a satellite or a star, but If it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck IMO. Even if it was not a duck, what does an ET craft look like? How would we know one when we saw it?

The counter argument usually is that, it did not move as a satellite is "supposed" to move, or it made "impossible" sharp turns, which a satellite is not capable of. Whilst it is true that a satellite will always follow a straight path across the sky, it is possible for a satellite (or satellites) to appear to do these seemingly strange things.
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I agree that cloaking as a weird looking cloud doesn't make sense, but I'm not convinced that moving stars are always satellites.

I work with a person who saw several "stars" zipping and stopping and then zipping back the other direction and stopping again. This continued for many minutes. He was with his wife and another couple camping and they all saw these "stars".

How can we explain something like that?

P.S. I got some more detail about this UFO sighting. He said they all laid there watching these moving "stars" for an hour or more until they went to sleep. A star would zip across 30 degrees of sky in a couple of seconds and then stop. Typically a "star" would follow a path forming a triangle, and then a different "star" would do the same thing.

Originally posted by matrichuploader
Unsolved case.

Care to elaborate on that a little? What exactly are you referring to?

Originally posted by cloudyday
I'm not convinced that moving stars are always satellites.

Nor am I.

"star-like" implies point sources of light, which what satellites are, but there are numerous other objects/sources of light which can also be point sources, including meteors, aircraft, chinese lanterns, planets, an LED tied to a balloon... not to mention stars and planets.

Originally posted by cloudyday
I work with a person who saw several "stars" zipping and stopping and then zipping back the other direction and stopping again. This continued for many minutes. He was with his wife and another couple camping and they all saw these "stars".

How can we explain something like that?

Without more detailed descriptions/accounts/investigation, it might be impossible, though we could probably rule out satellites since the movements were relatively rapid as "zipping" implies.

I have to say, fast moving implies either meteors, or possibly even something much closer to the ground/observer.

There is also always the possibility that it mat be some combination of phenomena, or even an as yet undiscovered phenomena, or simply some rare phenomena we are overlooking.

Could you get any details on the date/time/location (roughly)/surrounding terrain? Also what part of the sky this was happening in would be useful to know.

The other thing I would say, is suggest to your friends that they should invest in a DSLR with 50mm 1.8 lens (better yet a 30mm 1.4 or even a 24mm 1.4) and tripod, so that they actually get a record of what is happening if they see it again.

Originally posted by C.H.U.D.

Originally posted by cloudyday
I'm not convinced that moving stars are always satellites.

Nor am I.

"star-like" implies point sources of light, which what satellites are, but there are numerous other objects/sources of light which can also be point sources, including meteors, aircraft, chinese lanterns, planets, an LED tied to a balloon... not to mention stars and planets.

Originally posted by cloudyday
I work with a person who saw several "stars" zipping and stopping and then zipping back the other direction and stopping again. This continued for many minutes. He was with his wife and another couple camping and they all saw these "stars".

How can we explain something like that?

Without more detailed descriptions/accounts/investigation, it might be impossible, though we could probably rule out satellites since the movements were relatively rapid as "zipping" implies.

I have to say, fast moving implies either meteors, or possibly even something much closer to the ground/observer.

There is also always the possibility that it mat be some combination of phenomena, or even an as yet undiscovered phenomena, or simply some rare phenomena we are overlooking.

Could you get any details on the date/time/location (roughly)/surrounding terrain? Also what part of the sky this was happening in would be useful to know.

The other thing I would say, is suggest to your friends that they should invest in a DSLR with 50mm 1.8 lens (better yet a 30mm 1.4 or even a 24mm 1.4) and tripod, so that they actually get a record of what is happening if they see it again.

Yes, a video camera would have been ideal for stars zipping around in triangular patterns. I'll see if I can learn anymore, but I know the sighting happened 5 or 10 years ago. They never reported it and all but my friend seemed content to forget about it.