Hundreds of moving lights in night sky
Time: between 11:30 pm-3 am (when I finally went to sleep - and they could have started sooner but that’s when I was looking). Night of May 16-morning of May 17
Location: just south of Santa Fe, NM
I almost continuously saw small moving lights (like satellites) emerging from one fairly small region in the sky — northern direction — and moving slowly and steadily for 10-30 seconds ish in an eastern direction until they disappeared. It was a fairly steady stream for hours. There had to have been hundreds over the course of that time. These were sometimes fairly close to the horizon but sometimes further up.
Sometimes one would emerge, sometimes a couple at different nearby points, sometimes several. They all traveled at generally the same pace and the same direction until they disappeared.
Sometimes they were more faint and sometimes they glowed brighter. Once there were a cluster of 5 that emerged at the same time. After a few seconds they appeared to line up vertically, three in a row, then one off to the side left, and the fifth back in the vertical line. They glowed brighter once aligned and then moved out of formation and then disappeared. A few times I saw two emerge close together and they appeared to get closer and when they were right next to each other one or both glowed super bright.
As the night went on, the emergence and disappearance areas remained the same except they shifted eastward due do earth’s rotation.
Could these have been satellites? The sheer continuous volume over the course of hours has me questioning…