UFO
Ha.
So I was taking advantage of our lovely weather with a late night walk, and as I often do while on such walks I looked up at the stars. I only know a handful of constellations and the light pollution from Plymouth and surrounding areas make stargazing more of an exercise in idle wonderment than any meaningful astronomy, but tonight I saw something weird. A "star" that I was looking at started to move across the sky. At first I was convinced it was an airplane, as I frequently see planes flying overhead. (I'm close enough to the Metro Detroit airport to assume they must be on approach or in a holding pattern) But then I saw an airplane and it was moving much much slower than said "star". The light moved in a linear fashion for several seconds and then disappeared. I'm not sure what it was, maybe a satellite, maybe a meteor. The linear path suggests nothing. It could have been an uncontrolled free fall of a meteor or a highly controlled path of a satellite. It could have very easily have been a controlled burn of a satellite, and the more I think about it the more that makes sense. Whatever it was I was happy to see it.
Note: I have been watching the first season of the X-Files so maybe my imagination got the better of me, but it was still darn cool.
So I was taking advantage of our lovely weather with a late night walk, and as I often do while on such walks I looked up at the stars. I only know a handful of constellations and the light pollution from Plymouth and surrounding areas make stargazing more of an exercise in idle wonderment than any meaningful astronomy, but tonight I saw something weird. A "star" that I was looking at started to move across the sky. At first I was convinced it was an airplane, as I frequently see planes flying overhead. (I'm close enough to the Metro Detroit airport to assume they must be on approach or in a holding pattern) But then I saw an airplane and it was moving much much slower than said "star". The light moved in a linear fashion for several seconds and then disappeared. I'm not sure what it was, maybe a satellite, maybe a meteor. The linear path suggests nothing. It could have been an uncontrolled free fall of a meteor or a highly controlled path of a satellite. It could have very easily have been a controlled burn of a satellite, and the more I think about it the more that makes sense. Whatever it was I was happy to see it.
Note: I have been watching the first season of the X-Files so maybe my imagination got the better of me, but it was still darn cool.