Saturday night was perfectly clear in Vermont; the Milky Way was visible. We were driving home from an author’s event in Burlington, going south on Route 89, when we saw something very odd in the sky. It was 7:40 p.m.
The photo isn’t great (we were in a moving car on the highway), but at the center you can see a light seemingly coming out of nowhere. It stayed there for over a minute, and didn’t seem to move significantly.
Then it vanished.
What was that, we wondered?
After a few hours of thought and research, I figured it out. At 7:32 p.m., SpaceX launched a rocket with 52 satellites onboard. By 7:40, when we were on Route 89 in Vermont looking east, the rocket was off the coast of Maine. We saw the rocket.
Case solved, right?
We also took this photo, 13 seconds after the first. It’s very similar to the first, except there are two additional lights at the bottom right. Here’s an enlargement of the lights:
See that light right above the Route 89 highway sign? What is that? It looks like the alien spaceship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, when it opens to let people out… or take them in.
That’s as far as I allowed my brain to go. You found a logical explanation for the big light, I thought, leave the rest alone.
Except… if my life was a movie or mystery novel, having the rocket light reveal an actual alien ship otherwise hidden in the blackness of night… well, that would make a very interesting way to begin a story.
Just saying.
Wow, that’s amazing in the naked eyes.
As if close encounter of the third kind🤭🤔curiosity lingers. How I wish 🙄
Anything is possible in this ever changing world!