Hey guys, this is my dad's video.He's constantly fishing at night for big bass and he occasionally tells me about things he sees in the sky. This time, he actually got a video of something he saw, and I thought it was an extremely interesting video especially the very first second of the video, there's a weird green beam that flashes from this weird light in the sky. Anyways, I wanted to post it here and get some thoughts and opinions and just to put it out there. enjoy!
"Time: 08-19-2025 around 1am
Location: Canyon lake, arizona, united states of america"
by kaptainkush_97
3 Comments
Looks like a satellite flare
Submission statement: Dad was fishing like always at night. He spends a good amount of his time up there fishing for big prize bass. He occasionally tells me about the things he sees in the sky up there.He says he sees them pretty much every night.But not as intense as the video above. From my perspective, it’s a straight up ufo that I’m seeing in the video especially with the straight up out of a movie green beam under it but who’s to tell. I just thought it was super interesting and I was wanting to share it.So more people could get their eyes on it.Hopefully you enjoy the video and post thanks.
These are Starlink flares. The green beam looks white-ish to me, and unless I’m mistaken, that’s just the light reflecting off the water.
PSA follows:
Starlink used to get in trouble because their satellites reflected the sun and there were so many that it was a serious problem for anyone using a telescope. Eventually one would cross your field of view, and be bright enough in some cases to cause damage to the sensors.
So around 2020 (??) they changed the design of the satellite. The bottom was now flat, and the solar panel was arranged so it stuck out the top (I think they call it a sharks fin?). Since most of the light being reflected was off of the panel, this seriously reduced the problem.
However, because the bottom of the sat is flat, there is an arrangement where the angle between the sat and the sun, and the sat and you, means the sunlight is reflected off the bottom to you. The angle has to be fairly close, and the resulting area in the sky is an oval about the size of your hand at arm’s length, with the long axis horizontal.
So what you’re seeing is one after another of the ~10,000 SL satellites entering this “flare zone”, brighten up, travel across it, and then fade down again.
The good news is that this is a limited area of the sky, so the telescopes all know where it is and just don’t look there. The better news is we all get this light show when the sky is just right.