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What have I just seen in the sky?

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HaveYouHadYourBreak · 28/06/2026 16:32

Not great photos. I didn't get my phone in time to get the v formation but did get one of one that stopped moving for a little bit.

About 20 small white dots went accross the sky just now. They were in a V formation like geese but way too high for geese. They flew one way then sharply changed by 90 degrees apart from 2 which stayed in the same place for a little bit and then followed the others. They must have been going at some speed.

Nothing on flight radar (although I know not everything shows). No noise. No vapor trails.

We do get jets over but these didn't look or sound or move like that. We are also on the flight path for a small commercial airport but the planes are always much lower than whatever these were.

I thought maybe helium balloons but they were really high and like I said there were about 20 of them. If they were somehow all attached and being blown about (there isn't even a breeze on the ground but I know that it can get windy up there) why would 2 just freeze when the others moved?

What have I just seen in the sky?
What have I just seen in the sky?
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DyslexicPoster · 29/06/2026 19:17

plims · 29/06/2026 09:13

Because why on earth would Aliens come to planet earth?

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If you belive I Darwins theory and if there was Aliens, there would be no common evolution between any species on earth. It would be very interesting to a scientist would it not?

Rumpoleoftheballet · 29/06/2026 17:46

plims · 29/06/2026 09:13

Because why on earth would Aliens come to planet earth?

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I guess the same reason as to why those on earth travel to the moon.

GasPanic · 29/06/2026 10:05

HaveYouHadYourBreak · 28/06/2026 16:51

I didnt know that. That's mad! What business have they got being that high! 🤣 Off to google although do they have the ability to change direction so sharply?

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Could be :

To fly over mountains.
Take advantage of the jetstream.
Changes in atmospheric composition/air density drag.

vs.

Lack of oxygen.
Decrease in temperature.

Aircraft have the same sort of optimisation to consider. Why do most jets cruise at 35000 ft and why did concorde fly higher ?

Quite funny that geese may have figured it all out before our engineers did.

BeMoreBear · 29/06/2026 09:54

SomeoneIsWrongOnTheInternet · 29/06/2026 09:24

They’re the biggest birds that can fly I believe.

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Lammergeiers and other vultures, condors, and wandering albatrosses are larger, but yes some swans are among the largest.

SomeoneIsWrongOnTheInternet · 29/06/2026 09:24

Elsvieta · 29/06/2026 07:37

Oh yes. They always take off / land from water - it's a great sight.

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They’re the biggest birds that can fly I believe.

plims · 29/06/2026 09:13

Rumpoleoftheballet · 29/06/2026 06:51

Yes.

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Because why on earth would Aliens come to planet earth?

notimagain · 29/06/2026 08:01

Elsvieta · 29/06/2026 07:34

This flight radar, does it show all flights, or just commercial and not military?

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It's a bit of an it depends but the flight tracking sites/apps tend to show most commercial flights, most recreational flights (e.g.light aircraft,.gliders) and some military...

The military bit depends to some extent on where the flying is being done, why it's being done and aircraft type.

Going back to the OP - they said there were about 20 objects....

An aircraft formation of that size isn't just casually put together for a bit of fun at weekends, it would be a major major effort - for context the Red Arrows at best have I think 10 aircraft, and that's only if they have a spare in tow on the way to/from a display. In any event they are in the US at the moment. Also the aircraft spotter sites would be full of traffic on such a formation of that size over the UK and a quick look at one or two of those shows nothing.

I'm still of the opinion this was probably something like birds. As.for drones, not so sure but not impossible.

Elsvieta · 29/06/2026 07:37

ClaudiaWrinklemum · 28/06/2026 18:31

I didn’t even know swans could fly 🫢

Oh yes. They always take off / land from water - it's a great sight.

Elsvieta · 29/06/2026 07:34

This flight radar, does it show all flights, or just commercial and not military?

Rumpoleoftheballet · 29/06/2026 06:51

plims · 29/06/2026 00:37

Why do I think it wasn’t aliens??

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Yes.

plims · 29/06/2026 00:37

Rumpoleoftheballet · 28/06/2026 21:54

Why?

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Why do I think it wasn’t aliens??

sweatymessi · 28/06/2026 23:49

is it just me who can’t see anything?

AllyMacbealmyarse · 28/06/2026 23:30

BeMoreBear · 28/06/2026 20:30

I've been hoping someone else might have seen something similar. I'm in South Wales, are you?

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No sorry, Wiltshire. Was travelling in a north westerly direction.

Mossstitch · 28/06/2026 22:25

ClaudiaWrinklemum · 28/06/2026 18:31

I didn’t even know swans could fly 🫢

This is why we need laughing emoji back, everybody discussing new tech and aliens, your take that from the discussion and I'm thinking I need to get a blind on my velux window which is directly over my shower as drones or military aircraft could be spying me🤣

JulietteHasAGun · 28/06/2026 22:01

Are you anywhere between bedford and Lincs? It was the flight festival at Shuttleworth today and the Tornadoes were there. But they are normally on flight radar. No idea how many went to the show.

Sherararara · 28/06/2026 21:57

ClaudiaWrinklemum · 28/06/2026 18:31

I didn’t even know swans could fly 🫢

🙄

Rumpoleoftheballet · 28/06/2026 21:54

plims · 28/06/2026 16:57

I think this is what the OP is hinting at. But of course it’s not Aliens.

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Why?

TheIdlerReturns · 28/06/2026 21:21

DyslexicPoster · 28/06/2026 18:12

How do they stop and change direction? They are in orbit surely?

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In that case it sounds like drones. You could look up Drone Show on You Tube. Incredible displays.

MrDobbs · 28/06/2026 20:42

How do you know how high they are if you don't know how big they are or how far away they are?

SomeoneIsWrongOnTheInternet · 28/06/2026 20:38

As long as they weren’t yellow and hanging in the air in exactly the way that bricks don’t.

BeMoreBear · 28/06/2026 20:30

AllyMacbealmyarse · 28/06/2026 20:27

This sounds very much like something over my house earlier this year. I only went outside as the dog started barking (she hardly ever does at night) but I wouldn’t hear it when we went outside. The size and very slow speed properly freaked me out.

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I've been hoping someone else might have seen something similar. I'm in South Wales, are you?

AllyMacbealmyarse · 28/06/2026 20:27

BeMoreBear · 28/06/2026 18:28

Well, yes, good point! I assumed that whatever it was that fly over my house was UK (or possibly US) military, and it was flying from where our nearest base is located. But, who knows?

I will say, it was far, far too low to be flying 'incognito' as it were. If it wasn't one of ours, then I would have seen fighters scrambling over the house.

It was just absolutely silent. 3am, no birds, no cars, not a hint of a sound from it, like it was just floating over the house. At about the altitude of a helicopter, so not high at all. And, in the dark, no indication of what shape it was, except for the lights in a v-formation. No blinking lights. No red lights. Just steady, bright, white lights. And very slow. Slower than a helicopter. I watched it come from the west, over the house, heading east. A full ten minutes I watched it.

Had to be military.

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This sounds very much like something over my house earlier this year. I only went outside as the dog started barking (she hardly ever does at night) but I wouldn’t hear it when we went outside. The size and very slow speed properly freaked me out.

Mansionscoldandgrey · 28/06/2026 19:08

ClaudiaWrinklemum · 28/06/2026 18:31

I didn’t even know swans could fly 🫢

😂🥰😂

DyslexicPoster · 28/06/2026 18:52

SerendipityJane · 28/06/2026 18:33

I wonder if there's new tech no one knows about as its got to be something?

Imagine seeing the Harrier testing when it was a secret ?

I know but at least they looked and sounded like planes. I used to work directly under a military air show. Some of those things was seriously scary at the time. That triangular on̈e that just stopped in mid flight. It kept dive bombing next to the office.

Shudder.

I think I remember you could not hear it coming but it was noisy when it was overhead. Can't think of it's name.

BeMoreBear · 28/06/2026 18:50

MsGreying · 28/06/2026 18:44

Starlink?

PP said that Starlink cannot be seen during the day. That makes sense to me, but I don't know that for sure. I've only ever seen the satellites in the early evening, just after dusk.

I have read, though, that the UK is one of the best places in the world to see Starlink, something to do with where they are after they have been launched, but before they spread out, combined with the latitude of the UK.

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