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Old 14th Jan 2024, 09:55
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ShyTorque

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I certainly don’t claim to have seen any flying saucers but I did see something unusual last autumn. I went outside to watch the ISS pass from west to east, which I sometimes like to do (I have an “app” that can be set to inform me when it will be visible here). It always passes fairly well south of here, so I was concentrating on the southern sky. Whilst out there I also saw various satellites pass. What I took to be another satellite appeared in the south but it was unusual in its direction of travel and very high speed. It was fairly dim, but it headed north north west and passed over me from well south and was gone in not many seconds, moving many times faster than any other satellite I’ve seen. It certainly wasn’t an aircraft. My “app” has a comprehensive library of satellites and other night sky objects but I couldn’t find any information about it. An asteroid maybe?
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