SIGHTING: ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO (UNITED STATES)

Witness Testimony

"I wanted to get a decent picture of jupiter and mars this morning but there was too much cloud cover to see either planet with the naked eye. i was getting ready to pack up my stuff when i saw a flash in the sky, like a meteor. then i sort of saw another one, but there's a decent cloud cover so i thought i might have just seen a star through a small break in the clouds, those two flashes are the only things i actually saw, all the lights in the video i assume were completely covered by clouds, i sure couldn't see them. there's four or five lights that seem to travel the same path, sort of like starlink but the angle and direction they're traveling in are totally off for something like a satellite. at 2:08 right after the screen goes blank for a second (i think i walked in front of the camera by accident, i was moving around trying to see whatever my camera was seeing) the last one shows up but instead of moving in the same, straight line, it suddenly takes a fast, sharply angled turn, then continues on it's way down. the video quality isn't the best, i was too preoccupied with trying to see these things with my own eyes to fiddle around with the settings on my phone, so i'm sending both the original and a version with better exposure and sharpness and no audio. one of my favorite things to do is capturing cool stuff that happens in the night sky, i got a really awesome shot of venus' conjunction with the pleaides cluster a couple of months ago, a great one of the iss sailing in between saturn and jupiter last week. i know how to take night pictures and i've never seen anything like this before. thank you for your time, and if there is a non-freaky explanation for this,. it would be huge relief to me. heather foster "