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The Governor of Maryland posted a video of lights in the sky that were very clearly not any kind of aircraft.

Because they were stars. Naturally, this dimwit took the opportunity to blame the feds for failing to act.

Apparently there are a lot of people out there who ordinarily just never look up in their daily lives. And instead of thinking “I’m not familiar with this stuff so I don’t know what I’m seeing,” they manage to conclude “I’m seeing something strange and nobody knows what it is.”

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Even 30 years ago, if you had a clear sky in countryside, you could see the occasional satellite. Very tiny, much tinier than airplane lights, and surprisingly fast. Today, there are a lot more.

And of course there have always been plenty of airplane lights.

Not to mention Venus, which more than one fighter pilot has tried to shoot down.

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I got to see an ISS flare once, that was fun