Recent content by Jon Mayer

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    unusual sight in the night sky.

    Other than hearing of Reddit, I don't have any experience with social sites. In fact, this is my first foray into online discussions. Basic physics requires that this phenomena must have been in the vacuum of space, because the circular cloud of material remained centered on the two objects...
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    unusual sight in the night sky.

    An aircraft would be the most reasonable possibility. The only thing that seems quite hard to explain is why the glowing cloud continued to fly 'in formation' with the two bright objects, a few dozen degrees across the sky, rather than remain behind. I am hoping that someone may have seen...
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    unusual sight in the night sky.

    I think that it must be man-made. I thought possibly a rocket staging. whatever it was it was venting quite a lot of (fuel?) It took 40 minutes to go from southern Virgo to NE Virgo, which is very slow for an aircraft. Plus no red/green flashing lights. No sound. Plus the vented gas cloud...
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    unusual sight in the night sky.

    Hi all. I am very new to this, so sorry if I am not following protocol. I am searching for anyone who saw what I saw on Wed night (5-8-24) at 11:00 Eastern time, due south of Spica about 4 or 5 degrees. I was observing the "twin quasars" in Ursa Major and happened to turn around and look to...