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"As is my daily routine on weekday mornings I let the dog out onto the back porch

and had a smoke while my son ate breakfast before school. I usually greet my God with

my back facing the house looking aproximatley 132.68° SE with a short prayer as I look nearly

straight up at the stars while i stretch noting consteletions. I became aware of two white

stars two to three fingers apart from each other moving from aproximatly 46° elevation at an

azimuth of 116.19° (or likely a few degrees further south) they moved together one after

the other as though one was the bow and the other the stern of an invisable bow quickly

in a diaginal fashion from my high left towards my left and down towards the horizon.

they did not bling and there was no sound i could associate with it. i tried to get

my wife out onto the deck to see it but as i lost that discussion i turned back

just in time to loose them in the trees still at least 20 to thirty degrees above the horizon.

below is my site data i have shared from google earth along with known satalites visable

at that time. I did not include Flight radar24 data as the sky was empty at that time

I was very excited and was sure to write the time down as soon as i came in the house"

0625 AM EST January 12 2022 Time Date

Lat 34°57'XX.16"N Location (XX Redracted)

Lon 80°44'XX.46"W

132.68° azimuth I was facing based on structure of houses

46° Start Altitude or elevation

116.19° (Start) East extreme Azimuth Red

32° End Altitude or elevation

138.44° (End) West extreme Azimuth Orange

https://in-the-sky.org/satpasses.php?day=11&month=1&year=2022&mag=4&a…

Satellite Name Time Dir Alt Mag Time Dir Alt Mag Time Dir Alt Mag Diagram of pass

^(STARLINK-1496 6:17:20 SW 11° 5.9 6:21:22 NW 76° 3.7 6:25:30 NE 10° 7.6 Chart...)

^(STARLINK-2558 6:17:24 NW 23° 4.8 6:20:02 SSE 85° 3.9 6:24:05 SE 10° 9.4 Chart...)

^(STARLINK-2168 6:17:31 WSW 21° 5 6:20:27 NNW 49° 4 6:24:07 NE 10° 7.4 Chart...)

^(SL-16) r/B ^(6:18:27 SW 10° 4.3 6:24:01 NW 33° 2.9 6:28:40 N 10° 4.8 Chart...)

SL-3 r/B 6:19:09 NNE 14° 5.7 6:22:39 ESE 73° 3.7 6:26:39 S 10° 6.4 NORAD ID19046 (https://in-the-sky.org/search.php?s=&searchtype=Spacecraft&satorder=0…)

SL-3 r/B 6:20:09 NNW 12° 5.1 6:23:09 WNW 25° 3.8 6:26:12 SW 10° 5.2 NORAD ID12586 (https://in-the-sky.org/search.php?s=&searchtype=Spacecraft&satorder=0…)

^(STARLINK-2750 6:21:56 WNW 24° 4.6 6:24:21 SW 50° 4.1 6:28:13 SSE 10° 8.5 Chart...)

^(STARLINK-2557 6:22:41 NW 21° 4.9 6:25:46 S 71° 4.2 6:29:35 SE 10° 9.3 Chart...)

^(STARLINK-1485 6:23:13 SW 13° 5.7 6:27:13 N 63° 3.9 6:30:59 NE 10° 7.5 Chart...)

Conclusion:

Having gathered the above data im pretty sure i saw a pair of old russian rocket boosters but note that i observed them to be 2 to 5 degrees a part which seems closer than the sat data suggests further 19046 (https://in-the-sky.org/search.php?s=&searchtype=Spacecraft&satorder=0…) and 12586 (https://in-the-sky.org/search.php?s=&searchtype=Spacecraft&satorder=0…) are on seperate trajectories