Comment Satellite sightings?? in Athens, GA (Score 1) 39
While watching the showers from a field outside Athens, my co-gazers and I noticed something strange...
around 5:00am we saw a pinprick of light move steadily (and rapidly) across the sky, at times growing quite bright, then fading again, but moving with constant velocity and completely traversing our field of view. This happened 2 more times over the next half-hour or so. Though none of us had seen such before, we suspected we were seeing satellites (perhaps the same one?). The lack of multi-colored lights and the small size ruled out the possibility of a plane, and we reasoned that the varying intensity of this pinprick could be attributed to a satellite's solar arrays reflecting varying amounts of sunlight in our direction.
Did anyone else see these? Any explanations/comments?
around 5:00am we saw a pinprick of light move steadily (and rapidly) across the sky, at times growing quite bright, then fading again, but moving with constant velocity and completely traversing our field of view. This happened 2 more times over the next half-hour or so. Though none of us had seen such before, we suspected we were seeing satellites (perhaps the same one?). The lack of multi-colored lights and the small size ruled out the possibility of a plane, and we reasoned that the varying intensity of this pinprick could be attributed to a satellite's solar arrays reflecting varying amounts of sunlight in our direction.
Did anyone else see these? Any explanations/comments?
