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I live in Western Mass and every night since March of this year, these things that looks like stars caught like so much flotsom in the current, drift by the Northwestern sky. I recently purchased a night vision camera to try to capture these things and maybe get an idea if what these things are. Now that I have, it's just as clear as mud.

So hopefully this community might be able to help me. 

At about 10:40pm each night, in a section of sky that if you start with the North star and draw an imaginary line straight down to the tree line and another horizontal line going left from the star before terminating and completing the square about a hand's length by perspective (I apologize, I'm a therapist by trade and explaining sky cartography is a bit out of my wheel house). This roughly square "window" of space is where they appear. While I can see them faintly enough to have originally caught my attention with my naked eye, it wasn't until I got the IR camera that I could really see what the hell was going on.

I've checked Flightradar24 as well as following Starlink paths and the locations of other, similar satellite constellations and there's nothing even remotely close. The objects appear and disappear at random intervals (even on the IR) as well as stopping, starting again, moving at right angles and sometimes even kind of dancing around one another. In the video I'm linking here, taken last night around 11pm EST, they appear to form a triangle before turning on its side. The three points then shoot off in three separate direction from their standing position. There's several others I've put up on YouTube and will be putting more in the coming days including a full 45min wide shot of the entire event from start to finish. All together, there's 121 videos all showing this same, bizarre dance.

The only thing that leads me to believe that this may have more prosaic answers is the fact that it's on the same schedule and in roughly the same place in the sky every single night. Check out the videos I posted and feel free to let me know what you think it might be. I could really use the help. Thanks!

https://youtu.be/hnchKqL-oQc?si=TVKYqrDDbg7usLBv - Triangle

https://youtu.be/K_zbyaeVXuc?si=8a1ESq2GRQbqzM4G - A bit of the Swarm on 9/2/24