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Waddensky t1_j8fhilw wrote

How did you know that it was further than an airplane? It's very hard to judge distances in the sky if your only reference is a light.

My first hunch would be a drone, they have blinking lights in different colours and move erratically.

Another suggestion is Sirius, a bright star well-known for it's twinkling and apparent rapid colour changing.

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Andyman0110 OP t1_j8ficgd wrote

Usually I can see the details of an airplane, like the shape and what not. I don't live far from an airport so generally I can hear and see them pretty well. I used my phone to zoom in 30x which usually let's me see even windows on a plane. This was still just an orb of light at max zoom.

I thought maybe a drone too, but it was flying for over an hour and was really far but still very bright. It seemed a little unlikely although it's not impossible. It really seemed to be in space and not in earth's atmosphere. Sirius is a bit too far east to be what I saw.

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