What have I just seen in the sky?

[HaveYouHadYourBreak]

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?

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🤣

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

is it just me who can’t see anything?

Why do I think it wasn’t aliens??

Yes.

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

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

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.

Because why on earth would Aliens come to planet earth?

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

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

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.

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

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?