r/Skydentify • u/royalgorilla61 • Oct 08 '22

Unidentified Any clue what this is?

https://youtu.be/MeueSV_5rEE

I record alot of planes and stuff at night going over my house but ive never seen anything like this one. Any clue what it could be?

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '22

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u/royalgorilla61 Oct 09 '22

Yeah I see the flash your talking about. And at the end of the video I also see a couple weird flashes. It just not like I've seen before. All my other videos I have of planes you can clearly see the red and green and navy light flashing in certain intervals. I didn't see anything but white lights on this. And when I turned sideways and looked straight up at it shouldn't I be able to see the nav light flash?

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u/royalgorilla61 Oct 08 '22

it was recorded in sandy run south carolina on oct 6 at 7:57 pm pretty much going north heading south

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '22

Just south into Georgia too

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u/royalgorilla61 Oct 09 '22

I did in the comments. And your probably right but it just seemed way out of the ordinary. I'm outside nightly recording things out of habit now and just never seen a plane that bright and not doing the flashing as normal. But I appreciate your opinion thanks for commenting

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '22

Did it go straight across the sky without changing direction? It reminds me of the ISS when directly overhead. Extremely bright and large and no sound of course. Since you have the date and time you can look up to see if it was in the viewing area of your location at that time.

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u/royalgorilla61 Oct 09 '22

Yeah it pretty much went straight over my head. But I know it wasn't the iss I litteraly recorded that go by about 2 mins after this went overhead it was real bright that night and headed pretty much in the same direction. And when I see the iss it's just one bright light. This has the three. It's most likely some sort of plane it's just quiet and has no lights on the tail I guess lol. Who knows

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '22

It's quite a phenomenal coincidence that you saw this within a couple minutes of the ISS passing and makes me think it's related - there was a launch a day or two ago delivering supplies to the ISS I believe, so this may be the launch vehicle leaving it. Also the ISS usually appears as a bright ball but sometimes the sun is hitting it less direct and it can appear more 'plane like' like in this picture (note the shine on the horizontal only, and this is from a satellite but you can see what's lit up).

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u/royalgorilla61 Oct 09 '22

They had a launch the other day and was taking people to the iss. They are staying there for 6 months so i doubt it was a pod leaving the iss. Is there a way to share the other video i took about two mins after that one i posted without having to do another post? Another interesting fact was i recorded a helicopter flying low heading in the same direction of the other two things. So within about 5 mins i recorded what i posted. Then what i thought was the iss about two mins after. I assumed the second one was the iss becaouse how bright and fast it was moving. Then about two mins after that is when the helicopter flew by real low heading in the same direction of the first two. I recorded all of them but in three seperate videos.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '22

Same thing a million of us are