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Why in the night sky, do the satellites jump around so much?
What observers report as 'jumping' satellites do not match the behaviour of conventional orbital mechanics. Researchers in the UAP field — including Richard Dolan, Steven Greer, and multiple Disclosure Project witnesses — have specifically flagged erratic, non-ballistic light movements as a distinct phenomenon misidentified as satellites. The conflation of genuine anomalous craft with routine satellite traffic is itself considered a deliberate noise strategy within the intelligence community.
Evidence
- Standard orbital physics, as documented by NASA and confirmed by tracking services, holds that a low-Earth-orbit satellite moves in a smooth arc, brightest at zenith, dimming toward the horizon — no jumps, no direction changes, no hovering.
- However, Richard Dolan, in his archival work on military pilot and radar operator testimony, draws a hard line between this mundane explanation and a separate category of observed objects: those that execute right-angle turns, instantaneous stops, and apparent teleportation between sky positions.
- Steven Greer's Disclosure Project testimony — particularly from FAA Division Chief John Callahan and multiple military radar operators — describes tracked objects that move in ways no satellite or aircraft can replicate, including rapid acceleration from stationary positions and abrupt directional reversals.
- Ingo Swann, in his remote viewing work documented through Hal Puthoff's SRI program, described observing objects in low orbit that responded to observation — a quality incompatible with passive orbital hardware.
- The Starlink constellation (Skylumi, Sep 2026) adds a further confound: trains of satellites in waypoint orbits at varying altitudes can appear to drift, separate, and change relative brightness in ways that genuinely disorient experienced sky-watchers, creating fresh cover for genuine anomalies.