{"id":436,"date":"2025-03-09T14:21:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T14:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/changing-direction-satellites-over-hawaii\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T14:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T14:21:47","slug":"changing-direction-satellites-over-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/changing-direction-satellites-over-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing-direction &#8220;satellites&#8221; over Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Unusual &#8220;Satellites&#8221; Over Hawaii<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Date\/Time:<\/strong> November 1997, around 9 PM<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> Kihei, Maui, Hawai&#8217;i<br \/>\n<strong>Conditions:<\/strong> Clear Skies  <\/p>\n<p>I had another sighting, in addition to the black triangle I witnessed in &#8217;04, while living in Maui back in 1997. Almost every night, after work, my friends and I would relax on bamboo mats and gaze at the night sky. At that time, Halley\u2019s Comet was visible on the western horizon, creating a stunning backdrop against Hawaii\u2019s clear skies. While we were enjoying the view and looking out for satellites, we spotted three lights fairly close to one another. I pointed them out to my friends, and they quickly spotted them as well.  <\/p>\n<p>The lights were moving at the typical &#8220;satellite speed,&#8221; but it\u2019s pretty rare to see three of them clustered together like that\u2014especially back in the days before Starlink. Suddenly, all three of us exclaimed, &#8220;What the heck?!&#8221; simultaneously as they all made a right-angle turn together and headed off in a new direction. It was surreal! Just moments before, we had seen a satellite move smoothly across the horizon, so we knew what to look for. But these three changed course right in front of us, moving across the horizon until they disappeared from view.  <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m curious if anyone else from Hawaii on this subreddit has ever seen something similar. The night skies are so clear that you can see everything\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nUnusual &#8220;Satellites&#8221; Over Hawaii Date\/Time: November 1997, around 9 PM Location: Kihei, Maui, Hawai&#8217;i Conditions: Clear Skies I had another sighting, in addition to the black triangle I witnessed in &#8217;04, while living in Maui back in 1997. Almost every night, after work, my friends and I would relax on bamboo mats and gaze at&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/changing-direction-satellites-over-hawaii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Changing-direction &#8220;satellites&#8221; over Hawaii&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}