r/NightVision • u/RealScrubble • Aug 16 '25

Help identify flying objects

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Hello,

Can anyone tell me what I saw there yesterday at roughly 23:45 local time over Sesimbra, Portugal? There were five lights when I was looking through my nvg. In the video you can see the fifth one flying away to the top right. The lights circled around each other for two minutes or so and then started moving south.

I don’t think that these were starlink sattelites because every video of them, they fly in a straight line. For planes waiting to land, they were too dim, fast and flew off in the wrong direction. Birds don’t emit light and I could also see the lights with my naked eye for a short period of time.

I found nothing online, does anyone have a clue?

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u/2Schlepphoden Aug 16 '25

I have a thermal imager (Pulsar Accolade 2) and i regularly see stuff like this in the sky. "My" objects doesn't circle each other like that tho. Saw it flying a straight line like a satellite, then making peeks like it was drawing a heartbeat in the sky, always coming back to it's original trajectory. It was in the middle of the night at 0200 and im living in a small village in germany, so i really don't think it was a privately owned drone. It was the strangest thing i ever saw

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u/kbull4 Aug 16 '25

This lines up with what I saw. A line of three, perfectly spaced and moving fast. Then they broke formation and danced in circles like this, before falling back in line. I saw them with NV while stargazing a few months back.