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weathercat4 t1_j6dxa7f wrote

I have many times seen lights flying fast and silent in a V formation. Everytime it has been geese flying, they don't honk much at night.

There are an insane amount of satellites now as well. Sometimes random ones just happen to appear flying in formation but it's just an illusion, with starlink trains as an obvious exception.

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hawkz40 OP t1_j6fe7gw wrote

If they were geese, i want to know what makes them glow at night and fly that fast. :D

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weathercat4 t1_j6fgbmh wrote

Same reason you can likely see the bottoms of clouds at night, light pollution. Birds in light pollution against the sky look like faint glowing orbs and they seem to move really fast because they are quiet so your brain assumes what your looking at must be far away when it is actually very close.

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KAKrisko t1_j6fjx1f wrote

I think flying geese are UFOs more than people imagine. I remember looking up one evening and seeing these shimmering, silvery things overhead, flying fast. Fortunately I was able to watch them until they resolved into a flock of geese. Geese and other water birds have a substance on their feathers that helps shed water, and I think it also reflects light very well, with a silvery or metallic appearance.

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weathercat4 t1_j6ifqtw wrote

I was thinking about it more, do you have any RC plane or drone clubs near by?

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hawkz40 OP t1_j6m89gb wrote

no, nothing exciting like that. Whatever it was, it looked in orbit, just really fast :P hard to really gauge distance though isn't it.

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bookers555 t1_j6gyf5r wrote

V formations can be aircraft prototypes. The likes of Lockheed and Boeing have been trying to get the flying wing design to work on small aircraft for decades.

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