If it was low earth orbit and it was large enough to make out detail then it must've been huge.
I can't explain perspective to you well. It wasn't shiny, and had no shadows. If you drew it on a piece of paper it would be about 2 inches long at arms length. Didn't change direction or orientation. Didn't have any trails, and didn't upset any clouds. I remember there being clear skies but it was under clouds that were there. It also moved quickly, like maybe 3x the speed of an aircraft at altitude, and it was parrallel to the ground. That's why I thought it was a satelite when I was younger.
I'll draw a pic later if you're interested.
The closest nearby galaxy is 3.5 light years away so it would have been an intergalactic mother ship possible of moving at speeds of over 186000 km/s or using even more advanced tech to get to Earth. The thing is though, that technology is so beyond humanities grasp, if a species had that much power, they'd only come here to conquer it or not at all. We are primitive and stupid humans related to monkeys for the most part.
To put it in perspective, with current technology it's about 8 months to take a rocket to Mars. To get to the closest nearby galaxy it would take about 1500 years.
The closest nearby galaxy is 3.5 light years away
The nearest galaxy is 25,000 light years away. The nearest star other than our sun is Proxima Centauri that is 4.24 light years away.
But doesn't it have planets orbiting it since stars are sun's?
They're inter dimensional . distance doesn't matter
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