I’m sitting on my porch in southern NM and all of the sudden, we see this light in the sky. It flew over us west to east and we caught a picture as it did this odd ring.
https://i.redd.it/afwjmf0loiue1.jpeg
I’m sitting on my porch in southern NM and all of the sudden, we see this light in the sky. It flew over us west to east and we caught a picture as it did this odd ring.
https://i.redd.it/afwjmf0loiue1.jpeg
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It’s the Borg headed back to the 23rd Century after ensuring that humanity never achieves FTL travel.
One thing it’s not, given your mention of being in southern NM, was tonight’s Starlink launch, given that it launched to the SSE from Cape Canaveral.
Probably a falcon 9 second stage doing a debit burn, they typically happen over the central US (have seen multiple in Texas)
Edit: and there was a launch earlier today, this was definitely a stage 2 deorbit.
Space X
[https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-12-17-b1083-kennedy-space-center](https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-12-17-b1083-kennedy-space-center)
They had a launch today at 9:00pm EST
Mass Effect: the clearly just opened a jump gate
“what is this?” 95% of the time it’s a Falcon 9 launch. Someone else will share which one exactly here soon I’m sure.
Looks a lot like the separation stage of a rocket launch. This especially happens near dusk or dawn.
Falcon 9 rocket
https://rocketlaunch.org/mission-falcon-9-block-5-nrol-192
I’ve seen a ton of space x falcon 9 reentry pics and videos that look just like this.
I believe this was a Florida Space X launch. I’m surprised you can see this in southern NM. It must be the second stage doing a burn after already orbiting Earth.
SoaceX launched earlier tonight… more Starlink satellites went up
Decepticons starship entering the earth’s atmosphere.
Obviously a gargantuan space jellyfish.
Wait, jokes are allowed here, right?
oh wow. my first immediate thought when i saw this was that it was a jellyfish.
r/itsalwaysspacex
Literally. If you have to ask, SpaceX.
Just the carrier dropping off our copy of the paperwork for the new bypass being built. Nothing important.
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Saw something similar in North Carolina, year 2010. It came in through a ring then disappeared into another ring. The “rings” warped as it flew in/out. What we saw had more color.
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I want to see that!! That would be awesome. How long did it last?
The Enterprise E realizing they overshot and leaving for 2063.
Lol I’m watching UFC 314 and Elon musk is there sitting next to president trump meanwhile his rockets are being launched into space and posted on Reddit. What a time to be alive
Galactic smoke ring, 420 im the future already
Pretty sure you just saw an alien baby land somewhere in Kansas.
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Pretty much exactly what it looked like a few weeks ago when I watched the manned SpaceX flight accidentally.
Saw this over dinner here in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Not bright, but definitely visible.
It’s Cooper trying to reach out to you from the bookcase. Cue bone chilling and powerful organ music.
I saw this exact thing in south Texas. Was wondering g what it was!
Ok, here me out: the enterprise e just returned to the 24th century after preventing a temporal incident. Watch first contact, yall!
Space nazi’s doing their thing tossing their junk into the sky.
How about this: who’s got the link that has the scheduled launch dates so people can plan ahead to watch these spectacular views of the pierced atmosphere
I think i saw it too! Im in south texas. It looked much smaller over here, like the size of a star, but i saw the ring of smoke as well. Idk what it was. i was thinking it was some sort of rocket launch