AARO Findings on Satellite Flares: Distinguishing Reflections from UAPs
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Satellites from Starlink, OneWeb, and Amazon can create bright sky flashes when sunlight reflects off their surfaces in diffuse or specular forms, and patterns like trains can resemble reported UAP, so observers use solar geometry tools such as SunCalc to estimate visibility, as a 2022 airline-pilot sighting near Gallup, New Mexico shows Starlink can explain the lights rather than a real anomaly.
