Originally Posted by
TURIN
Have you watched the videos? You are not seeing satellites changing direction under their own power, you are seeing multiple satellites in converging orbits that appear to the naked eye as if they are one. There are currently over 5500 of them, with a further 40,000 planned.
Correct.
I have seen this phenomena coming back up over Greece / The Balkans heading north west several times over the last couple of years. My initial thoughts were high altitude AWACS aircraft in a racetrack pattern monitoring the situation over Ukraine. Once I'd seen the Starlink explanation about perspective it made total sense. I can understand why some people want there to be a little wonder left in the world (that includes me) but the fact is, advanced alien races won't be sending little brightly lit objects to spam us, like some giant game of intergalactic knock and run :-)