I know this because I saw a procession of equidistant and rather fast flying luminous spots (in my case 16 in total within 10 minutes or so, with no sound whatsoever) high up in the sky late Monday evening and went to this section of the forum to check whether there was any clue as to what those could've been.
This sounds exactly like what I saw yesterday.
Yesterday at sunset in the sky over Germany:
At least 15 bright lights, probably more, in sequence with about 20-30 sec in between, seemingly appearing out of nowhere and all with a similiar but not 100% identical flight path.
A light just became visible out of the blue but always in the same quadrant of the sky (appearing in the south-western sky travelling north-east) ; first the light was bright and then it quickly dimmed and disappeared...
I'm all for the satellite explanation since the sun had the right angle to light them up.
BUT I'm also sure that 2 or 3 lights came from the opposite direction... and 2 of the lights made a kind of maneuver thus leaving a straight trajectory.
It looked like really high altitude and for the estimated altitude they were pretty fast. Due to that I didn't grab the phone to take a video... I feel a little dumb that I didn't even try.
As I said they appeared all in about the same spot. The few (2-4 light) that came from opposite direction and about 2 coming from south, they DISappeared at the same spot.
I posted my observation on FB and also received the star-link information. That would explain very well the chain of 'satellites' going in one direction but not the few from other directions, right?
I appreciate any thoughts of yours on this.