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Last night my daughter and her husband say they were in separate locations a mile and half apart and saw this.  
 
She texted us but we did not get the message for a few hours so we did not see it.  
 
They say they were in a straight line and went higher then stopped. Was only happening for about 10 minutes at most. Around 7 pm.  
 
Did anyone in Westman see this? Any ideas what they were or where they were going? She tried flight tracker nothing showed.  
 
Just seems odd to us.

They weren't planes it was SpaceX's Starlink

looks like what they explained to me

Get the spacestation lite app. You can see when the next pass is on there.  
I saw it by chance last night too, it was the weirdest and coolest thing to see.

are really becoming a problem for astronomers though. With the planned 40,000 satellites, they can auto adjust their orbit so tracking software become inaccurate, they are highly reflective so they show up in astrophotos.

A little more in a story done by CBC on the satellites, which they say were visible for about 2 minutes:  
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-lights-sky-starlink-satellites-1.5410040