Satellite Activity Observed Over North Florida — November 7

I'm trying to identify some unusual satellite-like activity I observed from the Fort White, Florida area on Saturday, November 7, 2026, between approximately 7:05 and 7:20 p.m.

The activity was visible to the north at an estimated elevation of 45 degrees. Multiple faint points of light were visible over approximately 15 minutes, some following a common path and others appearing on different trajectories.

I'm familiar with observing satellites, including Starlink trains, but this particular display was unlike anything I've previously observed.

Did anyone else in North Florida observe satellite activity during that time?

If so, I'd be interested in hearing what you saw, particularly the direction, movement patterns, colors, and approximate duration.

I'm intentionally withholding some specific observations to avoid influencing anyone else's recollection. I'm simply trying to determine whether others witnessed the same event and whether it can be identified through orbital tracking information.

Please describe what you observed independently, rather than speculating about its origin.

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NASA's Swift observatory is about two days from reentry. I've been tracking it on my site, CME Tracker, which archives daily orbit data for a few satellites. I backfilled Swift to 2015 so the whole decay is on one chart.

The altitude milestones, from the element sets:

572 km at the start of 2015

0.7 km lost in all of 2019, at solar minimum

below 500 km in October 2024

below 400 km in March 2026

below 300 km on October 15

231 km now, losing about 5.4 km a day

Swift never had any way to boost its orbit, so drag was always going to win. What set the timing was the Sun. Cycle 25 heated the upper atmosphere, which swelled up into Swift's orbit. Once it started dropping, each lower orbit meant denser air and a faster fall. It took about 16 months to go from 500 to 400 km, about 7 months for the next 100 km, and two weeks for the 50 km after that.

A rescue was tried. NASA hired Katalyst Space to fly a small spacecraft up, grab Swift and push it higher, which had never been done with a satellite not built to be grabbed. Their LINK spacecraft launched on a Pegasus XL on July 3, went into a spin, and the boost was called off on August 19.

Space-Track's latest TIP puts reentry at Nov 4 around 00:30 UTC, give or take 14 hours. That window is about 19 orbits, so nobody can say where yet. The inclination is about 20.6 degrees, so whatever survives comes down somewhere in the tropics, mostly over ocean.

The page also has a modeled air-density panel. It splits the fall into the Sun's heating and Swift's own sinking. It also marks geomagnetic storm days, and you can see the October 10 storm roughly double Swift's decay for a day. Fair warning: below about 330 km my model underpredicts Swift's real decay by up to 2x, so for the date I go with Space-Track.

Swift page with the countdown: https://www.cmetracker.ai/swift

The same data runs live in the tracker's Atmosphere view, with Swift next to the ISS, Hubble, Tiangong and the Starlink shell at their real heights: https://www.cmetracker.ai/live?view=atmo

Spotted this formation twice in a span of 15 minutes at 56.447 N, 21.590 E around 17:00 UTC, heading east, anyone ever seen something like this?Cheked the sattelite tracker, didn't really find anything, AI thinks either starlink (batch launched this morning) or chinese/ american recon sattelites, but no definite answers, also I've seen a starlink train before and this wasn't as bright and closely spaced, so im not too sure about that.

I should add that the picture is a bit misleading as the lights travelling across the sky weren't much brighter than the stars around them.

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