UFO over Regina Sk

aug. 21 2011 video of strange light over the city it moves south east of city directly above me and vanishes into space

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[jigglar]

Looks like you've filmed the ISS twice, albeit unwittingly.

I put the state vector into Heavensat 2.4.1. For that pass, it predicts ISS entered the earth's shadow when it was overhead and had about a 2-min visible portion, consistent with your observation. It would have stayed visible longer if just after sunset.

ISS is bigger than a football field and its shape can be discerned with binoculars. Try it next time.

Even cooler is a rendezvous which appears as two lights flying in formation

[elevenhooks]

as much as your unwilling to accept that this was not the ISS, Im not crazy,and im not uneducated. listen.......... This wasnt the ISS it wasnt even in orbit it was directly above the city and then it came directly above me  it acted more like a helicopter accept it was silent and helicopters dont dissapear in less than 10 seconds at a 90 degree angle from you im not full of shit this video is real this really happend im serious

[jigglar]

Look at NASA's realtime ISS prediction website. There are similar passes like this regularly over your region and they are bright enough for others to record on video. Once you realize what you are seeing, it's not unusual.

I will try the data in another software program that models the Earth's shadow and see where ISS would have disappeared for 21Aug2011. It was nearly 2 hours after sunset for that observation, so the earth's shadow was likely fairly high in the sky.



[elevenhooks]

@jigglar good luck with that..... ill try to get a video of the ISS... accept my camera doesnt capture enough light for something that far away and that small in the sky..... ive tried

[jigglar]

I obtained the state vectors for the International Space Station accurate for 21Aug2011 from an archive at the space-track website and put the data into the satellite tracking software WXtrack 3.8. It shows that there was an ISS pass nearly directly overhead for Regina, Canada at 10:45p local time on 21Aug2011. The pass was roughly from WNW to ESE with a maximum elevation of about 78 deg.

[elevenhooks]

@jigglar the ISS orbits at lowest 330 km above the earth..... im talking about an object that was about 6 km above me i know the difference between something in orbit and something flying overtop of me..... so even if the ISS was even in the sky i would not have seen it cause it was sooo far away compaired to a glowing ball which silently traveled towards my direction and Stopped directly above me!!!! THIS IS NO JOKE i am not ignorant to what is the norm, so trust me this was unusual!

[jigglar]

Check out the youtube video 'bright ISS dives in Earth shadow and disappears'.

[jigglar]

@elevenhooks I'll try to look up the state vectors of the International Space Station in an archive for the date you observed this to see if there were any visible passes over your region. What's in the video looks similar to an ISS pass.

There aren't any stars visible in the video to see the trajectory of the object relative to stars when the object faded.

[elevenhooks]

@jigglar the object i saw was only a few thousand feet above me! i lost sight of it when i was recording it go over top me but as i looked at the video after i realized when i was pointing the camera directly above me searching for it( near the end of the video) i caught it dissapearing at a 90 degree angle from my position!!!! watch the video closely it was moving fast across the screen and then it stopped DIRECTLY above me, hovered for a moment and then it took off in like 4 seconds!!!!!!!!!!

[jigglar]

Another person here commented about a similar observation of an object that faded and turned an orange color as it disappeared. That would be consistent with the earth's atmosphere making the light reflected off the satellite appear an orange color just before it enters the earth's shadow, similar to how it makes the moon appear orange during a lunar eclipse when the earth's shadow impinges on the moon.