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Disk over Canandaigua, NY

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object acending in the sky

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September 15, 2023 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE

Canandaigua, NY

I was at a concert with my friend rj and we were sitting at a picnic table looking at the stats during the break. I noticed a satellite moving diagonally up to the right through the cup of the Big Dipper, then noticed one behind it at a fixed distance moving at the same speed. I assumed it was the Starlink satellite train and told rj “I think I see starlink” and pointed it out to him. He had an experience once when his friend Cody and him saw Starlink, Cody freaked out and said it was a ufo, but RJ looked up a video of Starlink and showed Cody, so RJ has seen and knows what Starlink looks like. We then watched and noticed there were three four or five dim lights following each other in a straight diagonal light. The light in the front would quickly fade our when reaching around the middle point of the cup of the Big Dipper. We noticed they were fading in in the start of the line, below the bottom left Star forming the bottom of the cup of the dipper, moving steady at a steady brightness and suddenly fading out near the center of the cup of the dipper. This went on long enough for us to have a whole conversation about what we were seeing. I would guess 90 seconds to two and a half minutes or so. I did not even get a full count of lights because you sort of needed to strain to see them, if I took my eyes off the one in the front I feared losing them. The lights were dimmer than the stars making up the Big Dipper. Near normal satellite brightness and speed. But they would seemingly disappear and reappear where they started, sort of like marquee lights. I joked with RJ “maybe it’s one big craft an those are the lights on the side” I looked in the sky along the same line that would wave been their path had they not faded out near the middle of the dipper and I saw absolutely nothing. Eventually while watching it all they lights dimmed and all faded out. We sat there looking nothing for 20 more minutes or so. We say various planes and satellites and grabbed the other’s attention for it but after 10 or 15 seconds of viewing each of those we quickly decided that it was a plane or satellite. Probably around 9:20 While looking at the big dipper a noticed what I assumed to be a bright star quickly fade away. RJ did not notice this as the light was completely stationary until disappearing. Later around 9:30-9:45 the music was back on and while dancing I caught a glimpse of a bright light wiz across the sky headed north and disappear. It is possible this could have been a shooting star, but I have seen plenty of shooting starts and this streak was much longer than any I have seen. Later after the show RJ and I sat on the back porch and continued our UFO hunt, again we say a few satellites and quickly decided they were such. I saw a few shooting stars, all in the same area of the sky all in the same direction, short dim streaks heading south. As far as a mundane explanation for the first set of lights I saw I suppose it’s possible it could be some satellite train but the more I look into that the less likely it seems. The venue had lights on the stage but they were off during set break and there was a building in between us and the stage at that point. Attached is a sketch at the lights in the Big Dipper [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]

March 22, 2020 · 8:30 PM · FORMATION

Canandaigua, NY

We observed a formation of lights moving in a straight line appearing from the northern horizon and going in a south westerly direction. They appeared to be coming from a single point on the horizon, one after another in an almost perfectly straight line approximately 300 to 500 yards apart from one another. Once they got to a point in the sky directly overhead, they would disappear into the night sky. We didn’t take an actual count, but best estimate would be at least 30-35 separate lights. They we’re not flashing or blinking like you would expect from airplane lights. And they were too low to be satellites. The whole event happened within 6-7 minutes and they we're not visable to my camera phone. Also, they didn’t make any noise like you would expect from jet engines flying at that height. I can only assume they we’re military planes taking off one after another, but I can’t imagine why they would release that many in a row, and why I wouldn’t hear they’re! jet engines? That’s why I believe we just witnessed a fleet of UFO’s.

November 16, 2015 · 9:06 PM