It was a little past eleven when I went outsight today (april 18).
The sky is almost entirely clear. Only some clouds can be discerned because of illumination of a setting moon somewhere or the remnants of solar light. I hear the deep rumbling sound of a plane flying over (my location is near a NATO radar). Right above me, I see two blinking dots. Separated more than one centimeter (less than an inch) at arms length, I see that they blink in unison. Almost every two seconds, I see a short flash of very white light and short in duration (like the flash of a camera) and than complete darkness (two seconds! And than complete darkness). One is in front and the other flash is on the back as I estimate from the direction. I've never seen such identification. Few minutes later, and as it moves towards the east, now almost 30 degrees above the horizon, I hear another plane right above me. I than realize that the previous one made more noise and almost had twice the speed as this entirely regular one. Also, this latter one creates a short contrail that I can still discern in the nightly sky while the weird one didn't. So maybe it was simply flying at lower altitude, but such weird identification.
Was that the transport for his royal highness himself, or what?
So, does anybody know about such flashing pattern? It was moving towards the East.
I would very much appreciate any information on this; it can be so crowded up there with that radar nearby, and I am not a spotter.
The sky is almost entirely clear. Only some clouds can be discerned because of illumination of a setting moon somewhere or the remnants of solar light. I hear the deep rumbling sound of a plane flying over (my location is near a NATO radar). Right above me, I see two blinking dots. Separated more than one centimeter (less than an inch) at arms length, I see that they blink in unison. Almost every two seconds, I see a short flash of very white light and short in duration (like the flash of a camera) and than complete darkness (two seconds! And than complete darkness). One is in front and the other flash is on the back as I estimate from the direction. I've never seen such identification. Few minutes later, and as it moves towards the east, now almost 30 degrees above the horizon, I hear another plane right above me. I than realize that the previous one made more noise and almost had twice the speed as this entirely regular one. Also, this latter one creates a short contrail that I can still discern in the nightly sky while the weird one didn't. So maybe it was simply flying at lower altitude, but such weird identification.
Was that the transport for his royal highness himself, or what?
So, does anybody know about such flashing pattern? It was moving towards the East.
I would very much appreciate any information on this; it can be so crowded up there with that radar nearby, and I am not a spotter.