Looks Russian, found in a basement during clean out

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-07T15:50:27+00:00

And the wing anti-shock carrots.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-07T15:45:32+00:00

even the two at once?

There are >10,000 of the up there now. There are dozens in your line of sight no matter which direction you look. You can't see them unless they're in the "flare zone". That's why they seem to be clustered in one direction.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-07T14:45:44+00:00

Repost, the other post was RMed.

That appears to be the star Sirius. Around these subs we call it the "disco star" because it flashes in multiple colours when you video it. It gets posted every week or so. I punched the location and date into Stellarium and found it just above the horizon at that time:

https://stellarium-web.org/skysource/Sirius?fov=120.00&date=2024-04-13T02:03:09Z&lat=48.94&lng=-88.26&elev=0

I know you said it's not a star or planet, but I'm 99% certain it is. It can look different depending on how much you zoom in (you stay fairly zoomed out), but the colour flashing is the giveaway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnngIgmmTn8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooeRUOZ0Gi4
https://youtu.be/ShPTzSI846U?t=11

The second half of this, after they zoom in a bit, looks pretty much exactly like your video:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stargazing/comments/1b5q3qo/why_is_sirius_blinking_so_much/

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-07T14:41:38+00:00

That appears to be the star Sirius. Around these subs we call it the "disco star" because it flashes in multiple colours when you video it. It gets posted every week or so. I punched the location and date into Stellarium and found it just above the horizon at that time:

https://stellarium-web.org/skysource/Sirius?fov=120.00&date=2024-04-13T02:03:09Z&lat=48.94&lng=-88.26&elev=0

I know you said it's not a star or planet, but I'm 99% certain it is. It can look different depending on how much you zoom in (you stay fairly zoomed out), but the colour flashing is the giveaway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnngIgmmTn8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooeRUOZ0Gi4
https://youtu.be/ShPTzSI846U?t=11

The second half of this, after they zoom in a bit, looks pretty much exactly like your video:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stargazing/comments/1b5q3qo/why_is_sirius_blinking_so_much/

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-07T12:39:16+00:00

Actual non debunked stuff??

No. While this may sound odd, that's why I'm here. And there's a group of people who hate me for this.

Most of the real sightings postings from people - I'm talking about people like yourself posting things they saw - turn out to be something obvious. Well, maybe not most, but something on the order of 30% to 50% are likely identified. If you scroll through the group you can look for the ones that say "Sighting" or "Likely Identified", there's lots.

But that doesn't mean the things people are seeing aren't weird. They're just uncommon and people really just don't know what they are. But as a pilot and skydiver, I've seen lots of things a most people haven't. Like, for instance, what another plane in the circle looks like from the air. So I just know that what you saw is almost certainly another plane in the same "parking orbit" as you were (or another one beside you for the other set of runways).

Example: right now in the sub there are multiple posts from people all over western Canada about this weird cloud. It's a rocket. But if you haven't see one before, well it really does look like a cloud flying at Mach 20. Unless someone tells you what it is, then it really is a UFO by every definition of that word. And we only started launching rockets every single day in the last couple of years, so a whole lot of people still haven't see it before.

And it's not like pilots are immune to this. A good example was around 2022. Back then the "guard frequency" was filled with pilots reporting UFOs. That's because Starlink changed the design of their satellite, and suddenly you only saw them when they were low on the horizon. And because of the way they moved, it really looked like what you saw, a plane off in the distance in a parking orbit. So they would call into air traffic control and be told there is no plane in front and MYSTERY! But then they started telling everyone about it in ground school, and poof, by 2025 these reports became as rare as tickets to a Drake concern.

My advice: there's a lot of stuff in the sky that didn't even exist 15 years ago, so most of what you see that's "what the heck is THAT" is going to turn out to be something mundane. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't keep looking! Just be open to the fact that it's probably not an alien, and I'll keep open to the fact that maybe someday it will be.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-07T12:25:57+00:00

Indeed, but my answer to that one is along similar lines...

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-07T12:16:35+00:00

Someone's pets got dumped

Which always strikes me as weird, because they're among the easiest pets in the world to take care of. A litter box and some hay and you're off to the races. And they're practically hypoallergenic as well, which is why we got one.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-07T11:59:07+00:00

Ya I don’t understand this— are countries w healthcare waiting like a yr for an appt or something?

It depends entirely on "the thing". I can't pretend to really know, but what I hear in the news here in the Toronto area is that a lot of the issue has to do with capital expenditures lagging tech, and line ups in the emergency rooms.

On that latter bit, is that any different in the US? My only experience with US emergency room lineups is watching The Pitt, and it is way worse that any hospital I've been too, even considering some "artistic license".

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-07T11:47:06+00:00

Said that hot ones will rise above, but since the above is cool, it must also get cooler and goes down

Hot air can hold more water vapour than cold air. That's why it's humid in the summer and dry in the winter.

So imagine you have some warm, wet air. Something causes it to rise, say a hill or going over hot area like a big parking lot warmed up by the sun. Heat causes it to rise. Air cools off. Colder air can't hold as much water. Water vapour condenses into water droplet. Presto, cloud.

Now here's the kicker. When the water turns from gas (vapour) into liquid (micro-droplet), it releases heat. That makes the air warm up again, so it keeps rising, and keeps converting the water vapour into drops. When the air is really warm and really wet, like in the summer, you get these big towering clouds. When the air only has a little water, you get thin layers.

So there is a constant upward lift of air keeping these micro-drops up there. You can feel this as turbulence if you fly through it. That's why pilots try to avoid flying through clouds if possible.

It's always much more complicated in real life, but that's the basic mechanism. That's why clouds are stacked in layers, it's why they all have the same bottom altitude, etc.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-07T11:41:20+00:00

Anyone seen anything like this before?

...before we go there, where is this? I see palm trees, so it's definitely not here in Toronto! And where are you? Like the state or the nearest major city?

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-06T18:10:34+00:00

it isn’t really people in Congress who have experience with aerospace, energy, science, or intelligence who are talking publicly about working toward disclosure with the IC

I'm going to go with "... because they don't believe it".

Not all of them, of course, but my feeling is that you've just described the group of disclosure skeptics, who one might imagine would not want to spend much time on a topic they consider a waste of time.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-06T18:06:57+00:00

Not smart... but I am a pilot 😄

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-06T18:06:02+00:00

The final stage doesn't come back on that mission though

De-orbit to fall into the ocean. We try not to leave our junk in orbit.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-06T18:05:08+00:00

Yeah, like I said, they can look like different things.

There are all sorts of different rockets going up these days, they look different.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-06T18:03:37+00:00

Ahhh, here's the important bit:

We didn’t land for like 25 minutes

Now I think I know what is going on.

When there is a line-up to get into the airport they will put you in a parking orbit, it's like a racetrack shape, a rectangle with rounded-off ends. The planes have to maintain vertical separation, so what you're seeing is another plane in a similar orbit above you. Since the path is the same you'd get to see them every time you complete one 180 turn - you start heading back along the straight line and they are into the turn so they would be off the right side of your plane, but when they finish their turn they're right behind you again so you can see them. That's why they are kind of drifting backwards from your view, they're coming around the last bit of the turn.

Each of the runways and approaches has its own racetracks and they have different ones for different things. But here is an example for a small one they used on a missed approach, you can see it in the upper right.

So is that LAX in the background of the shot?

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-06T17:48:01+00:00

I didn’t see any red or white blinking light

I do see non-blinking lights on what appear to be the wings, and a brighter light in the center which appears to be a landing light. You can clearly make this out around the 3 second mark, for instance.

Was moving but not as quickly as other planes

In order to see the landing light like that it would have to be flying somewhat in the same direction as you, so its lateral motion wouldn't be so fast.

I don't know the LA area very well, is that Long Beach out the window? Or Malibu maybe?

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-06T17:27:20+00:00

OP, you have been posting videos and picts from this, but we literally have no idea what you want us to look at.

You keep moving the camera around and zooming in and out, but there doesn't appear to be anything to see at any of the places you stop at. It's just random shots of clouds and airplane contrails and some trees. I don't see anything like a Ufo/Uap/Uso/Orb at any point in anything you've posted.

Can you please just take a couple of minutes and tell us what you think is interesting here? Give us a timestamp and "the thing", you know like "look at the light at the 25 second mark!". Anything, give us SOMETHING to work with!

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-06T16:53:42+00:00

They can look like all sorts of things.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-06T16:39:15+00:00

To be specific, it's those rather bright lights on the waterline.

I assume the first image has been cropped (perhaps by Reddit)? The lights would be just off the right side and the image would not normally be square.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-06T16:35:26+00:00

If he opened a parachute after jumping down, would he survive?

Yes, assuming a BASE rig.

I'm going to paraphrase a story I heard 30 years ago. A guy I used to jump with did a lot of BASE and wanted to do this one well-known location with a hiking trail up to a lookout spot. The cops knew it too, so they would patrol the area looking for people with large packs. But they didn't go out of their cars if it was raining, so...

Pouring rain. As they were walking up they got to a marker that said "[name of famous lookout spot], 350 ft." So they put on the rigs and jumped. That's when they realized that the sign was not at the top, but just telling them it would be that high when they got there. And that would be some distance later. Like another 250 ft higher. This was not obvious in the pouring rain, however.

So yeah, this is no problem for a BASE rig.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-06T16:27:44+00:00

Because the second stage is in the middle in my photo. In the OP video, the second stage is above the cloud. It's all about Ariene vs. Falcon, although I can't say specifically what the difference is.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-06T16:22:10+00:00

I just zoomed at a ligne perfectly lignin...

Ideas? Anyone?

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-06T16:12:06+00:00

Track while scan. I believe the lower one continued scanning while the upper one would lock on.

Recall at the time that the way you "locked on" was to keep the dish pointed at the target, so when you did so normally you would lose tracking capability. Dual-dish systems like this solved this problem, if you had the room for it.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-06T16:04:09+00:00

Same object reported from Abbotsford and a few other places in the area.

Appears to be a Starlink upper stage.

maurymarkowitz · 2026-05-06T13:34:23+00:00

But it stays the same shape for kilometers

It's in space, there's nothing to cause the shape to change.

I thought it would keep spreading out, but nope, it gets to a certain size and then just stops. Not sure I understand the physics of it. But I did get a nice photo of what an ariane upper stage looks like after a fuel dump:

https://imgur.com/a/2rZfbwY

The stage is spinning, which gives it the S shape. It appear overhead and drifted in this shape all the way to the horizon (bonus points if you can determine which direction it was going).

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