Astronomer Dr. Sebastian Voltmer witnessed an intriguing sighting in the night sky that temporarily contradicted all possible explanations. He was completely confused when, through his telescope, he saw a UFO speeding across the moon’s surface. Unable to get over the unsettling encounter, Voltmer recalled, “I suddenly saw a fast, bright something darting through the image while I was filming the moon.”
Voltmer thought the passing object might have been a space station or satellite. However, the object’s trajectory did not match any known orbital path, so he swiftly discounted this explanation. Furthermore, it moved at a speed that was unusual for traditional satellites. The object was mysteriously devoid of any characteristic tail, which is one of the apparent characteristics of a meteor.
Voltmer examined the sighting closely but could not explain it as the result of objects like dust or insects near the lens. He calculated the object’s distance to be more than 500 meters and speculated on its altitude, putting it between 100 and 200 kilometers above Earth’s surface, indicating that it was perhaps entering Low Earth Orbit.
The object’s particular shape was obscured by Voltmer’s blurry image, making it more difficult to identify definitively. Though military aircraft or space debris surfaced as plausible possibilities, Voltmer remained doubtful due to the absence of accompanying information. A different notion was by pforthetary scientist Elliott Sefton-Nash that the mysterious object looked like a group of low-Earth orbit satellites, potentially from the Starlink constellation.
Sefton-Nash elaborated, “The object looks like a series of low-Earth orbit satellites with orbits close together,” suggesting that the synchronized passage of Starlink satellites might offer a plausible explanation for Voltmer’s sighting.
