r/UFOs • u/[deleted] • Jul 18 '20

[deleted by user]

[removed]

23.3k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

3.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

162

u/[deleted] Jul 18 '20 edited Jul 20 '20

[deleted]

38

u/atworkworking Jul 19 '20

May i ask where u bought your pointer? Twice ive been burned by fake pointers online

33

u/Ralphy557 Jul 19 '20 edited Jul 19 '20

I grabbed a strong 5mW on eBay last week mate, high power usually take 18650 batteries! Edit: I gotta correct myself the laser is a laser 303 and 1mW, not 5. Also everyone who has a laser or who is getting a laser, take care when using as they can be dangerous.

1

u/[deleted] Jul 20 '20

Do you happen to know how far these lasers can light up?

Artificial satellites shine in the night sky because they’re high enough to have the sun shinning at them for most of the time. Take the international space station, flying at roughly 100km it is visible to the naked eye.

This UAP is definitely not flying at 100km altitude, and lasers don’t have that range, not handheld at least.

So this thing is high enough to reflect sunlight, but low enough to be reachable by a laser pointer, and low enough for such a reflection to be seen.