Something passed in front of Jupiter last night.... and I captured it on video.

I attempted to work-out the metrics as best I could and have estimated that if an object that passes across the 5-degree Field-of-View of the Yukon Ranger in about one second, it is traveling at about 100mph if it is at least 1/8 Mile away.

I’ve seen many of these glowing orb things moving behind low-hanging clouds (about 1500 ft up) as well as go behind a distant building at 1/8 mile away. Also, with the lens being focused on infinity, anything closer than that 1/8 mile, especially very close objects like a passing insect, will look really big and out-of-focus as well as moving way to quickly across the viewfinder.

My numbers might be off a bit, but the concept is that apparent speed of the object increases quite a bit as distance to that object increases. Once we get to a speed estimate that is faster than any living creature, we can rule-out that as an explanation. Therefore the approximate distance is our only metric from which to build upon any useful estimate as to speed and thus size.

I guess one could argue that this was a satellite.. then I would have to reveal the few seconds of footage from BEFORE the object entered the scene. I left it out because it was so faint.. but either the same object or one much like it had just passed by Jupiter going the OTHER direction (was a bit below Jupiter). I didn’t want to confuse the issue.. so I just focussed here on the better footage of the Jupiter fly-over.

Incidentally.. as happens often.. the MOMENT i took aim at Jupiter... the first object was right there in my field-of-view. Like pretty good timing I guess.

I make no claims whatsoever as to what these objects are.
I just enjoy sharing unusual stuff that I see in the sky!

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