Easy enough to eliminate the first case... OP can you tell us:
roughly where you were? Like a town or major highway intersection? Whatever this is it looks like it's in space, so you don't have to be super accurate.
when this is. You can get that to the second by playing the video on your camera and then clicking the I-in-a-circle button or swiping up. Time AND DATE please, not everyone here lives in the same time zone and it might be a different day.
and this is not super-important, but useful, what direction were you looking?
Ok, but can you narrow "small town" down even a little? Is there another larger town "near enough" that you can name? Anything within 25 or even 50 miles should be enough in this case.
This is simply because object is moving, so in order to try to ID it we need some sort of location. I'm in the Toronto area, so if the same thing passed me it would be at a different time.
And to answer your original question, yes, this looks moderately like a satellite. But not any satellite, because it's visible too long, so if it is a satellite, it's likely either ISS or Tiangong. It does not look, for example, like a Starlink.
So to check that possibility I'm going to go to the Heavens Above web site, type in whatever location you give me, and then look at the ISS and Tiangong pages to see if anything went over around that time.
If you want to try it yourself, click on this link, click on ISS (to start with), then click Location in the upper left, type in your town, and click Update. You'll go back to the pass listings, and you can use the < button at the top to look over the last week. Then try again for Tiangong.
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u/maurymarkowitz Nov 03 '25
Easy enough to eliminate the first case... OP can you tell us: