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  • 📌 Roadmap and known gaps Staff
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  • 📌 Hall of fame: the best wrong guesses (add yours) Staff
    Funny & memes · wth-team · 1 h ago
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  • 📌 How to read the Tonight page Staff
    Night sky tonight · wth-team · 1 h ago
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  • 📌 What "still unexplained" means here (and what it does not) Staff
    Still unexplained · wth-team · 1 h ago
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  • 📌 The Venus Hall of Fame: why the brightest "unidentified light" is a planet Staff
    Explained · wth-team · 1 h ago
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  • 📌 Read first: what to include so your case actually gets solved Staff
    Sightings & reports · wth-team · 1 h ago
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  • Sky lantern over Sydney: orange lights, Oct 27, 2026 case Staff Likely
    Sightings & reports · Sydney · wth-team · 1 h ago
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  • Meteor over London: fast-moving green streak of light, Oct 27, 2026 case Staff Likely
    Sightings & reports · London · wth-team · 1 h ago
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  • Hovering white light over Tampa, Oct 27, 2026 (possible twinkling star) case Staff Possible
    Sightings & reports · Tampa · wth-team · 1 h ago
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  • Gliding white line of lights over Lakeland, Oct 27, 2026 (possible satellite) case Staff Possible
    Sightings & reports · Lakeland · wth-team · 1 h ago
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  • Satellite over Orlando: gliding white light, Oct 27, 2026 case Staff Likely
    Sightings & reports · Orlando · wth-team · 1 h ago
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  • Reading the official unidentified light reports without losing your mind Staff
    Theories & deep dives · wth-team · 1 h ago
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  • Apps and sites worth having when something is up there Staff
    Cameras, apps & gear · wth-team · 1 h ago
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  • Phone photos of lights at night: settings that work Staff
    Cameras, apps & gear · wth-team · 1 h ago
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  • Why the ISS looks like a plane that never blinks Staff
    Explained · wth-team · 1 h ago
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  • The jellyfish: rocket plumes at twilight (Florida, California, Texas, and far beyond) Staff
    Explained · wth-team · 1 h ago
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  • Starlink trains: what they look like, when, and why they vanish Staff
    Explained · wth-team · 1 h ago
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    New cases from everywhere. Every report lands here and in its place hub.

  • Explained

    Cases that got a satisfying answer, and how we got there.

  • Still unexplained

    The ones the data could not pin down. Bring your ideas.

  • Night sky tonight

    What is up tonight: passes, trains, launches, showers, aurora alerts.

  • Cameras, apps & gear

    How to get a usable photo or video of a moving light at night.

  • Theories & deep dives

    Long reads, history, declassified files and serious speculation. Sources required.

  • Funny & memes

    The Venus hall of fame, the best wrong guesses, the drone that was a plastic bag.

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Orbit data: Space-Track.org (USSPACECOM) and CelesTrak. Launches: Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs. Space weather: NOAA SWPC. Weather: NOAA NWS and Open-Meteo. Aircraft: adsb.lol (ODbL). Positions computed with astronomy-engine and satellite.js.

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