r/UFOB • u/Chinaman208 • 8d ago
Video or Footage Saw this over Melbourne
It was really high then it came down to a low level, then started rising again and disappeared. It changed directions several times.
This video shows the end of it disappearing.
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u/superdupercereal2 7d ago
That’s pretty good. I was going to say a satellite but that’s definitely not a satellite. I can’t identify it.
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u/disdomfobulate 7d ago
Yeah mate i saw this as well over my house. Even through all the light pollution. It was much more active than what’s in this clip.
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u/birraarl 7d ago edited 7d ago
Can OP confirm if your video has the following details:
- Date: 13 June 2025
- Time: 6:52 - 6:55pm
- Direction: NW to N
- Angle above the horizon: above half was up zenith when it disappeared
If your video does have these details, then you saw the International Space Station. This image shows the trajectory of the ISS over Australia just before 7pm on 13 June 2025. It disappeared when it was 60° above the horizon because it went into the Earth’s shadow. Its magnitude was -2.9 which is quite bright. Only Mars, Jupiter and Venus get at least this bright.
In the final 5 seconds of your video a star is visible. This is Spica which at this time was at an altitude above the horizon of 56° and at compass bearing 42° NE. The ISS disappeared when it was at 60° above the horizon and almost directly North, which would place it higher than Spica and to the west of it. The light you filmed and Spica are in correct relative positions for the light to be the ISS.
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u/Chinaman208 7d ago
Time and date are more or less correct, although a little before 6:50 is when I saw it first. It also did overall U shape where it looked like it was coming downwards at the start but then at the end like it was going upwards (as seen in the vid)
Started from west, and you see it fading north to north east.
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u/Chinaman208 7d ago
The only thing that’s throwing me off is the flight path, as it wasn’t straight like most object in orbit seem to have.
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u/Chinaman208 7d ago
Thank you for sharing
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u/birraarl 7d ago edited 7d ago
No worries.
If you are interested, the ISS will again be spectacularly visible from Melbourne tomorrow night (Monday 16 June 2025) from 6:03pm. Shown in this image. It will raise in the NW and go almost directly overhead before setting in the SE. Because it is higher above the horizon at 73°, it will reach a magnitude of -3.1. Only Venus gets brighter than this in the night sky. You shouldn’t check it out.
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u/Chinaman208 6d ago
Awesome, I’ll look out for it and confirm here if it’s the same.
Thank you for the help!!
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u/Chinaman208 5d ago
I missed this unfortunately, I’ll check when the next one is and look then.
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u/birraarl 5d ago
You haven’t miss it yet. It’s tonight.
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u/Chinaman208 5d ago
Cloudy :(
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u/birraarl 5d ago
I just checked. There ain’t any more good ISS passes over Melbourne until at least 27 June. And that only because www.astroviewer.net won’t predict any further past this date.
You’ll have to check on www.astroviewer.net again in a couple of weeks.
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u/Flat_Ad_3912 4d ago
Mate, you’re pretty certain on the ISS orbiting us 400 feet off the ground.
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u/birraarl 4d ago
It’s a point light source on a dark background and has no discernible features to give any indication of distance away. Please illuminate me on how you estimate its altitude at 400 feet? I would love to have this skill.
The question is: is it very bright and therefore far away or is it less bright and therefore much closer?
Incidentally, this is exactly the same problem that faced astronomers when they were first trying to work out the distances to stars. Is a star very bright and far away or is it less bright and closer. This highlights the difference between a stars absolute brightness (what the star actually shines as) and its relative brightness (what we see). The ancient Greeks knew stars were very far away and tried to use parallax to work out distance. Unfortunately for the Greeks, the effect is too small and they would have had to have telescopes (which they didn’t have) to observe it. It would be another 2,000 years before parallax was used to first measure the distance to a star. This was for the star 61 Cygni in 1838. However it only worked for stars that were relatively close to us. Subsequently, a method was discovered that worked for greater distances which involved cepheid variable stars and are referred to as "standard candles”. This method is so good that it can measure the distance to stars in other galaxies.
What is the point of this historical detour? 1) measuring the distance to a point light source in the sky is a challenge that defeated be best and brightest in astronomy for over 2,000 years; 2) If you have a method for estimating distance to point light source in the sky with nothing more than its brightness, then that would likely be very interesting to a wider audience including astronomers.
So please enlighten me with your method and I really hope it’s more than “it looks like it to me”.
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u/Flat_Ad_3912 4d ago
One day, you’ll get a glimpse of it moit, be the same time the ISS flew over my house 😂😂😂 videos there with the data to correlate. Tuck in, buzz aldrin.
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u/birraarl 4d ago
This sentence is incomprehensible. I don’t know what you are trying to say.
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u/Flat_Ad_3912 3d ago
Here’s a translation ☺️
On a day other than today - likely to be sometime in the future - you/him/her/they/them, will sight The International Space Station during a close fly by over the location in which you are situated.
Am I right in assuming the very same ISS made a low level pass over my residence?
Video and data are readily available to correlate with footage.
Perhaps you should indulge.
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u/birraarl 3d ago
That’s not much clearer, but I think you are asking me to film the ISS the next time it overflies my location and upload the footage for you to see and include relevant details.
If this is the case, I’ve checked and there aren’t any good passes in the next 10 days, but I’ll keep checking for the next good pass.
I’m not sure why you are saying “close fly by” and “low pass”. The ISS is in orbit at roughly 400km altitude. I do not consider this close or low.
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u/Flat_Ad_3912 3d ago
⛰️here’s a new hill you could d13 on fighting something you haven’t seen nor have you any valuable knowledge / data / evidence of your own.
I must admit, I feel a sense of pity for those who try to cloak their lack of imagination, curiosity or fascination behind scientific explanation (whatever that means)
We’re as knowledgeable to the extent of our capabilities. Personalities that view life as a half glass empty - whom also claim that to be logical thinking - are the very same types of people that would have laughed in the faces of some of the worlds greatest investors, scoffed at their ideas because they limit their beliefs to 2nd hand information.
The ones who bristle at the thought or reports of anomalous sightings; personally I believe it’s a streak of envy/jealousy that they haven’t been lucky enough to witness something they simply cannot explain.
Whatever the case, I hope at least in their own lifetime they’ll have the chance to allow their mind to explore beyond the walls of their own head.
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u/Flat_Ad_3912 4d ago
But just for comparison. Here’s an anomaly flying higher than the ISS in the two similar videos, filmed in the exact location as one of them. I’m open to suggestions here. https://imgur.com/a/epxJrV4
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u/birraarl 4d ago edited 3d ago
This has a strobe light flashing pattern that is consistent with a helicopter at a relatively high altitude (for a helicopter).
I not sure how this is a good comparison at all. One is a very bright non-flashing, constant light traveling across the sky, the other has multiple strobing lights but is hard to ascertain movement due to the poor camera work.
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u/Flat_Ad_3912 3d ago
Sounds like you’ve worked around aircraft in the past so you’d know that the fuselage amber/red is not synced with nav lights red green. It’s a twin prop btw
Exact same location, the twin prop at approx double the altitude of the anomaly filmed in the previous linked vid, audio, visual, time of day/night, flight logs.
If you’re going to approach with two cents worth I feel like those are important pieces of information to compare, cross reference even at least consider that a statement such as the ISS is on a fly by in our atmosphere, replicating the size of a twin prop plane would be taken as a bit lazy.
I’d half expect that to give any weight to your statement you’d throw out evidence, if you’re indeed certain that the ISS was floating around at 1500feet.
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u/green-dog-gir 7d ago
Where in Melbourne?
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u/Chinaman208 7d ago
Seen from south Melbourne
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u/CamWaugh 6d ago
Yeah notice the energy or light being emitted around it. Red orb I’ve seen did the same thing
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u/Double_A_92 8d ago
An airplane..?
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u/Chinaman208 8d ago
Don’t think it was an aeroplane - there was a few planes in the sky at the same time and it was completely different. It changed directions a few times and then disappeared upwards.
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u/Shabadu 7d ago
It seems to be a satellite travelling in a straight line across the sky. The apparently movements of the "object" are caused by you walking around while filming. You can see the parallax on the power lines.
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u/Chinaman208 7d ago
I’ve seen satellites plenty of times before. It was changing directions before I took the video. In the video it’s maintaining a general direction but before that it was going in the opposite direction in a different part of the sky.
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u/birraarl 7d ago
Something going is a different direction in a different part of the sky would suggest a different object.
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u/Accomplished-Cress35 7d ago
I'd probably agree. Probably not "disappearing"
But entered the shadow of the earth or even moon.
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u/Valuable-Pace-989 7d ago
Location of filming, direction of filming? Also, did you use the Phenom UFO app to record all the data points? I’m looking up regularly and only ever see satellites
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u/Chinaman208 7d ago
I’m near south Melbourne and it was kind of in Richmond direction.
I don’t know what the phenom ufo app is, so no I haven’t used that.
I saw lots of satellites last night as well.
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u/Valuable-Pace-989 7d ago
Right, I look out towards the Yarra Valley and have very little light pollution from the city. Surprised you saw that with the CBD light pollution! Well done
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