
I recorded this clip off a live cam that goes 24/7 on YouTube in a rural area. No airport in the direction of the lights. They have a weird trail behind them in the live and appear randomly mid air then disappear shortly after. I was watching them live for around an hour. Continued to watch them again today although there was WAY less than last time I tuned in. They disappear behind clouds. Not planes as we saw planes and they looked way different in the live. Any explanation? Thanks!
by Global_Telephone_360

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Long exposure
Yoooo I’m seeing stuff like this to tonight I’m trying to upload the video
No details of date/time/location.
Could be planes or satellites. Need info to look it up though.
> They have a weird trail behind them
Looks like video compression artifacts from doorbell cameras using heavy compression.
> A video compression artifacts “trail” refers to the temporal or time-based artifacts that result from aggressive compression, causing distortions to appear and persist over several frames, rather than being limited to a single image.
Just one possibility: Satellites, maybe Starlinks. The tails could be video artifacts. They’re ever-present at this point, thanks to the big constellations that have gone up in recent years.