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Case NUFORC-167586
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Spotted while waiting to photograph Starlink Satellites

EVENT DATE
Apr 24, 2022, 8:20 PM
LOCATION
Mooresville, Charlotte, NC, USA
CATEGORY
UAP
DURATION
8.20 - 8.45+ PM

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SHAPE
Circle
DURATION (NUFORC)
8.20 - 8.45+ PM
WITNESSES (NUFORC)
4.0
CHARACTERISTICS (NUFORC)
Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

NARRATIVE

I have a Ph.D. and am an amateur photographer. I set up my Tamron ultra-telephoto zoom lens (SP 150-600 mm f5-6.3 DiVC) on a tripod to shoot the Starlink satellite pass over Lake Norman last night. I focused on the area where according to my Stellarium App the satellites would be visible from 8.20 PM onwards. I saw a yellow "star" that to the naked eye I assumed was probably Venus, but on closer examination through my lens it appeared to be a large circle surrounded by
a ring of bright white lights. Thinking this may be part of the satellite system I started shooting. When I developed the shots, most were blurry because the object was moving faster or more erratically than expected. I enhanced the clearest shot, which looks to be a bit too symmetrical for a planet or star. My neighbors were also watching from their docks and saw only the "star" but suggested sending the clear shot to you for further analysis.

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Data provenance: This record originates from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC). The dataset originated from Hugging Face (kcimc/NUFORC).

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