{"id":5974,"date":"2025-03-25T14:41:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/how-does-one-distinguish-what-objects-are-satellites\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:41:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:41:52","slug":"how-does-one-distinguish-what-objects-are-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/how-does-one-distinguish-what-objects-are-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"How does one distinguish what objects are satellites?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the characteristics that differentiate satellites from other objects in the sky?<br \/>\nTime: 8:30 PM EST<br \/>\nLocation: Dayton, Ohio  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to figure out if what I observed tonight was a satellite. I spotted two fast-moving objects at different times, about 10 minutes apart. They were on separate paths and seemed to be moving quickly, potentially crossing my field of view in about 2 minutes. Notably, neither of them blinked. Can anyone help me identify what I saw?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nWhat are the characteristics that differentiate satellites from other objects in the sky? Time: 8:30 PM EST Location: Dayton, Ohio I&#8217;m trying to figure out if what I observed tonight was a satellite. I spotted two fast-moving objects at different times, about 10 minutes apart. They were on separate paths and seemed to be moving&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/how-does-one-distinguish-what-objects-are-satellites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;How does one distinguish what objects are satellites?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5974","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\/5974","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=5974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}