Well that was crazy.
Got out of the car and looked up in the night sky like I usually do. Instantly spotted a faint satellite moving slowly since it was passing next to a planet. Within a second of spotting it, the satellite turned on a dime and launched roughly 90 degrees in a different direction and zoomed out of sight. WTF!?!? Took a while just staring at the sky coming to terms that what I witnessed was real and wasn't my brain doing any tricks. Whatever I saw, I really saw it. But since I'm a man of science and kept staring in the sky, I noticed the original satellite emerge from behind a tree and along its original course. Yay mystery solved! A second object, probably a shooting star, just happened to appear at the exact same spot as the satellite was. Since the second object was much brighter, it hid the original one and my brain tracked it as if they were the same thing. Was flipping cool.
Got out of the car and looked up in the night sky like I usually do. Instantly spotted a faint satellite moving slowly since it was passing next to a planet. Within a second of spotting it, the satellite turned on a dime and launched roughly 90 degrees in a different direction and zoomed out of sight. WTF!?!? Took a while just staring at the sky coming to terms that what I witnessed was real and wasn't my brain doing any tricks. Whatever I saw, I really saw it. But since I'm a man of science and kept staring in the sky, I noticed the original satellite emerge from behind a tree and along its original course. Yay mystery solved! A second object, probably a shooting star, just happened to appear at the exact same spot as the satellite was. Since the second object was much brighter, it hid the original one and my brain tracked it as if they were the same thing. Was flipping cool.
