folks I’m serious and you’re all posting jokes. something was up there and I’ve not seen it before in all the years I’ve lived here. I’ll have to research it in the morning...mean time don’t stop having fun with it if you must. haha
I am not joking with you. It’s just, as an amateur astronomer, I spend a LOT of time out looking at things. Most of the time everything is as it should be, but, occasionally, they are not. It’s the not normal things that get your attention.
The Falcon Heavy went off Tuesday morning at 2:30am from Florida. Probably not what you saw.
Unless it was going VERY fast (meteor), it was either an aircraft or satellite.
That part of the sky doesn’t have a lot of bright stars in the sky. Spica would be the only star you might have noted.
Jupiter would just be rising in the east. Arcturus would be overhead.
When you go out at night, always take a good pair of 7x50 binoculars with you. 99 times out of 100 you can see what it is from there.
I believe you.
I was stationed at a NAS in Georgia, 73/74 working in the control tower. It was a clear night, I was by myself, no traffic. It was a VFR tower but we had an ASR scope (air surveillance) to watch any approaching traffic. There was also a ground control approach unit across the street. Like I said, there was no traffic. Suddenly, to the south, I see two lights in the sky kind of hovering. They’re a long way off but were high enough they had to be air traffic. I see nothing on ASR so I called GCA...nothing. At that point, they literally streaked across the clear sky and disappeared.
That was also about the time Jimmy Carter and others reported seeing UFOs all across Georgia
So, I’m not laughing at you! I’m a believer.
A few days ago here in Tampa I saw small (relative to the jet) shiny object darting around a passenger jet in flight. The jet left a contrail, however the small object did not. It was really quite strange.