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HA! I've never seen the ISS before. Went out to the front of the house to watch with my kid. Lo and behold, a light appears right where the site said it would, following the trajectory. I start recording. Watching it, I start to notice blinking colored lights and comment that I didn't think we'd be able to see blinking lights. They start getting clearer (you already know where this is going), I start to get suspicious and stop recording. It's moving pretty fast so we follow it to the backyard at which point we're both pretty sure we can hear it. I'm already positive what we just watched was a plane but, just as it fades away, I look just a little higher up and see a much smaller white, non-blikning dot moving almost just as fast. So we watched that. Instead of losing it over the horizon of our fence, it sort of fades out of view in the middle of the sky, which I've never witnessed, and was damn cool to see, but exactly what I would expect to see watching a space station and not a plane :)

Went back and watched the short video I did shoot and, even at low quality, the ISS was visible right above the plane the entire time, we just didn't notice. What are the chances a close, but not so close to be immediately obvious (which happens a lot here), plane would be flying almost the same trajectory as the ISS the first time I try to view it?




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