Large spinning/flashing objects

[Sirius]

I was watching trains of starlink satellites go by a while ago and I noticed something rotating above them in orbit.  It appeared to be large and definitely rotating , this was happening just after sunset.  It also appeared stationary but on the same path just higher up and rotating very slowly. Sometimes it would be gone after one rotation (probably just timing).

I know it was large and rotating because it must have had a hard angle that casted a shadow on itself, it wasn't a blinking light.  There was also multiple of these objects, or something that moved in unexplained ways, but I'm going with multiples as I didn't see movement other than rotation. 

If you where not looking at it directly you would think it was just a flash of light or your eyes playing tricks on you and that is exactly how it was for me.  I saw these flashes a couple of times and dismissed it.

[UltraBudgie]

it amazes me how those starlinks are visible, how you can see the little pricks in the sky at night even though they say there is no emissive light on them? very reflective and its like what: sunlight off of moon, moonlight off of earth, earlight off of starlink, then to our eyeballs?  wow that is tenuouus illumination and yet visible all over northamerica!

perhaps is just illusion of rotation from giant hovering alien spaceship haha

[Sirius]

I can buy into an illusion of it being stationary but not about it rotating/changing it's rotation.

[Sirius]

See, I'm not crazy ​​​​​​​

[Maxmars]

See, I'm not crazy

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0U6t7jTcAA]

Thanks for that.... I could never convince anyone that this kind of thing happens... but then, I spend more time staring up into the sky than most people I know.

I always imagined it could be a satellite reflecting the sun in its' solar panels as it spun... but some of these things defy that explanation.

I'll be referring to this example now... I'm glad you shared it!  ​​​​​​​

[Sirius]

Another   I should have looked it up before.  You can see the sides when it rotes, it casts a shadow on itself.  It's massive.

[Sirius]

This is bugging me allot now.  You can't have something stationary in orbit unless it's thrusting all the time, or it's really far out in geo stationary orbit.

The best explanation I can come up with now is structures the size of a continent far out there rotating possibly to keep temperature even 

I saw this around March/April.  All the way down in Cape Town, South Africa, it was during our fall and at sunset and why I think I could see more than just a flashing light.  I saw two, one NNE in about the 2 o clock position and the other directly over head.  Went on for a couple of nights.

[Sirius]

So many examples out there.  Still have not found a plausible explanation.  I have not seen anyone mentioning the size, so guess these are people watching late at night and it's not catching light the same way. Allot of the videos is from 2-3 years ago coming up for me, maybe it moved 


A geostationary equatorial orbit (GEO) is a circular geosynchronous orbit in the plane of the Earth's equator with a radius of approximately 42,164 km (26,199 mi) (measured from the center of the Earth).[sup][21][/sup][sup]: 156 [/sup] A satellite in such an orbit is at an altitude of approximately 35,786 km (22,236 mi) above mean sea level. 

[Sirius]

Onwards with the search.  

A report from 2017
https://www.backyardastronomy.net/2017/0...night-sky/

redit  thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/comme...?rdt=55111

Astronomy forum. SDO?
https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/73829...thern-sky/

Flashes in this video is geostationary satellite. The flashes I saw and many others reports was visible to the naked eye and bright. (actual UAP's near the end of the video )