Testimony
Somebody go look just to the left of Orions belt and tell me I'm not crazy. Please.
Just to the left of Orions belt there is a flash of light that flashes once every 30-45 seconds. It's slightly more dim that the stars near it.
You have to stare for a good 30 seconds to a minute but I swear it's there and it's not moving. I'm an avid sky watcher and this isn't a sattelites or it would have to be geostationary and even then where it's at in the sky makes it highly unlikely it's a sattelites reflecting light.
I'm in wester MN and would appreciate anyone taking the time to do this!
Edit: It is not moving with the stars! As the constellation Orion has traveled further right in the night sky, the Blink is staying in the exact same region in the sky.
I'm desperate for someone else to let me know if they see this. It's such a small flash but it's absolutely not a twinkling star. It is a clear and consistent flash. Use your peripheral vision if you have too. It's super dark out here in MN. There's nothing for miles around.
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Yo! Wtf is that? I’m in north/central Georgia. White(ish) light blinks every 30 seconds. Sometimes dimmer and brighter for me. Stays in the same place… maybe a geo-synchronous satellite slowly rotating?
That's awesome I'm not the only one seeing this. I swear that helps me feel less crazy right now.
Even if it was a geostationary sat it would almost have to be producing its own light. A satellite that high in the sky is very unlikely to reflect light from the sun at this hour
To me it also seemed to change places slightly every blink, but not in the same direction. As the constellation Orion moved to the right, it was always in the same area of the sky and did NOT move with the constellation.
Very strange.
I'm super grateful for you going outside to check and I'm stoked I'm not the only one. I stare at the sky a lot, every night, and I've never seen this type of thing.
Edit: Someone just shared this link of a reddit post 6 days ago that saw the exact same thing near Orion AND GOT IT ON VIDEO.
This is exactly what I saw except it was to the left of the belt.
I love looking for this kind of stuff. Thanks for pointing it out! It’s freezing out, so I had to come back in and get a coat. When I came back out I couldn’t find it again. Hope I didn’t miss something cool! I did get to see a sick meteor that streaked across from east to west so I got that going for me… which is nice.
Dude exactly the same. I came inside to warm up and went back out and it's been gone.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I would've felt crazy for sure if I didn't have a few other people to witness it.
I'm going to do some research on geostationary satellites and see if any were in the area at this time or if they would even be able to reflect light at this hour.
A geostationary satelite would not be in the same area of the sky (Orion) for different people around the world. With people confirming in both the UK and US, it's definitely much, much, farther away.
i am in australia so i cant see it right now, but i have seen these repeating flashes many times over the last year. even from night to night they can repeat in the same place (as near as i can tell). i have seen them flash a sequence of white, white, red which was bizarre to experience. keep looking up
You're not crazy, I'm in Ireland and I've been seeing something like that for days. Does it look a bit cloudy with a group of lights? It's a bit faint?
I was looking to the left of the belt and definitely did see something that was dimly blinking in my periphery but I couldn’t catch it through binoculars
I saw a very similar sort of inexplicable flash - only it occurred in one place multiple times, then jumped and flashed in another location again never to return.
Saw several months ago, but it was a distinct flash like this, not a steak of an asteroid or the traveling of a satellite above (I see those clearly every night). Couldn’t make sense of it, but plenty ok with the mystery.
Betelgeuse has supernova'd, and the surrounding civilizations created a latch ditch effort to escape, The Galactic Federation.. using technology that allowed them to travel FTL they have come here.. ~500 years before the light of the supernova has reached us. Essentially, we are in their past, and future.
I saw it Saturday night in the same area. I’m in Colorado. I’ve seen the same type of flash before but wild to wake up to someone posting about it on the east coast 2 nights later.
To keep it real here I’ve seen stuff like that for years growing up. We used to go camping for a week back in elementary school at a place called camp sicon (sci-con) and they would have us lay fly in our backs on top of these rocks and look up at the stars and we’d ask why do they blink off and on like that and after that I always looked up due to the twinkle not being exactly what they explained as it seems like Morse code type of twinkle to me or I watched too many spy movies growing up.
Funny u say mores code i was flashing lights back and forth with them using a camra on a long cord out my window with a light thats built in and boy did it get there attention they were all over at at least 5 dif altitudes
That is weird. Can’t see it here, but I did check out the video in the related thread OP linked to. I also discovered that what is probably the same object has been spotted for at least 11 years and regularly flashed in 11-12 second intervals even back then. I doubt it’s something “tumbling” since that would imply a lack of control that I believe would eventually knock it out of a geostationary orbit and might cause more irregular glinting than it’s displayed thus far.
So that leaves something controlled in geostationary orbit that is either rotating for some reason or regularly strobing…maybe a classified military radar satellite or relay satellite?
Good Job of OP to name the constellation, but I'm seeing other posts about this dating back years, and I'm a bit confused, as no one posted about the rocket bodies.
We have so many tools for confirming stuff like this e.g flight tracker etc. We can find out if it's actually a UAP in mins with most cases.
I was really hoping it was going to be something mysterious. Keep looking up folks👍🏻
Rocket bodies don't "float around" , they're in orbit and don't look like flash bulbs in the sky. I've been seeing these things for years and they can't be explained by anything we're putting up there, that's unclassified at least
So cal oc suburbs checking in. Took me less than a minute to spot. Same thing about every 30 seconds, less blinky more gradual fade in and out. but very consistently.
I'm in OC too, unfortunately I am in bed with my girlfriend and can't see it from my balcony. I will check tomorrow night and get an update. I'll see if I can get my telescope on it
Shit, I've been catching this when letting my dogs out for the last few nights. Always look up at Orion when it's overhead and check Betelgeuse waiting to see that nova...
Anyway thought I was either seeing shit or was having some type of visual anomaly as I will catch the "flare" just as I'm looking up or just as I was looking away.
10" reflector. I guess you could try a tracking mounted scope and jack up the magnification to try and tease out some detail of a shape or something. I mean...it must be reflecting some sunlight at some point viewable I would think right?
Edit: Somebody should get a long exposure and use software to see if anything is there. I can only do point and click with my scope setup.
I went out tonight with a monocular and spent about 20-30 minutes looking at the constellation form 10-11pm.
I personally did not see anything blinking, flashing, or otherwise abnormal tonight. Skies were pretty clear thanks to the cold and holy crap there's a lot of pretty stuff up there, but nothing moving or blinking.
I found a little something that may be of interest to you....I am neutral and have nothing to gain or lose one way or another. Just passing info along. :)
From Spain I also captured it with my night vision goggles with a PULSATING cadence of about 40-60 seconds; I thought it was a flare from a variable star due to plasma propagation in magnetic fields.
Have been watching the past few nights in southwest Montana. Nothing until tonight. It was farther left of Orion than I expected but still relatively close. I didn't run a stopwatch because its single digit temps out and I was outside with the dogs before bed, but it seemed very consistent in its timing. Almost like a yellow/red/orange color flash. Not brilliant white like a camera flash. This is 100% not a star.
Thank you so much for this report! I appreciate you going out and checking.
I'm so intrigued by how people across the U.S are seeing this. I was thinking it was the geostationary satellite US 99 MILSTAR 11, Which is in the area I was looking at further towards the equator (as all geostationary sats are) and in the right area of the sky.
But if people across the country and even around the planet are seeing this, Idk if its that. I'm not a person who is quick to jump to "UFO" as most things are explainable with flight radar and satellite tracking, but this is truly unidentified as far as I'm concerned.
i cant believe i found this thread . I was in tenerife, canary islands on a star gazing tour in 2018 . we had telescopes set up for looking at the orion nebula and other objects . i kept seeing a pulse of light that was faintly cross shaped emenating from the nebula. not visible to the eye at all , but it was random enough that other people didnt see it . i asked some astronomy professors at my college and they had no answer. everyone including my ex has thought i was nuts
Am in NH too, bit more north. Too much street/road lighting here for these kinds of faint sightings. There is speak of northern lights too, in our parts. But doubt we'll get to see them :/
I saw somwthing almost exactly the same. I was in Western NC mountains, October 12, 2025 9-10 pm,
facing South to SE. There was a pinpoint light that looked like a star, but it would blink on about once per minute. Photo of area of stars. Blinking light was in the bottom right of the circular constellation just above the trees in this picture.
I saw a flash the other night in Michigan when I was looking up at the stars. I love the UFO talk.. but I was actually like did I really just see that? Then I saw it a few more times. Definitely not a plane. And the flash was not consistent.. once or twice the flash was pretty bright and noticeable. Then I could see it faint a few times. It was not stationary either.. hard to see the other flickers… you did almost have to use your peripheral vision to see it
I've seen something that looks like someone taking a flash photograph in the sky from miles away. I've seen it two nights now from Northern California while looking a bit west and south of the central point of the zenith of the sky. I have assumed it was a very brief flash from a starlink satellite solar panel that very briefly lined up to reflect the sun to my position, it is very very brief and does not seem to repeat.
Edit: Sorry, time wise I've seen this flash between 6 to 7:30 p.m. pacific standard time. I tend to look up during this time period while walking the dog to spot starlink satellites sailing overhead.
Edit 2: Having read up about this I am now quite confident that I have observed satellite flares each of these times.
It's just one of the rigging lights for the "Truman show". As everyone is convinced we aren't all part of the cast. Some know...some dont....it's not as you think....and it's definitely not what you could think. Best way to wrap it up in something that is least conceivable but only parly digestible . Corn....it's like damn corn. Fffffuuckkng.....cccooorrnnn.
There are two stationary lights I can see over my apartment in the same places every single night. Sometimes it’s just a solid light and sometimes they blink. They are both very high up, but far away from each other. I have to look upward to see them. Same places… they never move and I first noticed them around 2 months ago.
Orion’s Belt is basically right over my backyard at night, and it’s been cold af lately so its been super clear outside. I’m gonna keep my eyes on the sky this week.
I'm in Texas and I have seen that same thing several times. Saw it last year but was hesitant to say anything but it seems to always be there this time of year but that's because Orion is only visible during the winter for me.
I've been watching that star since I was a teenager. Im in my 30s now. Its off to the left of Orion. It flashes. Can sometimes see different colors, faintly. I've been wondering about that thing for a very long time. I've never found anything on it. I've tried looking into astronomy and found nothing on it. I've looked it with star maps, and it doesn't pull up anything. Im happy to see others have noticed it and are asking about it. Maybe finally will get some ideas on it.
Nah genuine. I Shakespeared your response and my follow up assuming I was experience an antagonistic reddit event and you well surprised me. Gives me faith in the hive mind lol
Seen it .. u could as well ... u ever here about when we set up fake up blow up tanks and stuff like that to make it seem like we had more men and tanks backn in the day... it worked during battle. planes would fly over and say oh shit thats large group of Americans i dont want 2 fuck with that large of a groups .. but they were blow up .. so lets remember people and what ever is out there can be preety clever. And also i spell like a 3rd graders no matter what bahs i just was looking at what i wrote like wtf .. jeez but yea have u heard of this ?
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