Apropos the apparent almost nightly fun and games over Melbourne where   
   it appears light aircraft regularly chase after lights in the sky   
   (Melbourne Airport is ~20km to the SW of me) I saw this report via a   
   few news agencies that simply said "drones". But no descriptions of   
   what exactly was seen.   
      
   After some googling at least one of the drone reports concerned a   
   light in the sky. Bingo.   
      
      
     Sweden's spy agency probes drones over 3 nuclear plants   
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     A reactor at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant. ... appears to show a bright   
     single point of light in the sky, but little can be made of it.   
      
      
   Here in outer Melbourne you can fairly regularly see lights moving   
   around in the sky. Of course a good fraction of these look like   
   satellites and act like satellites, in particular they move in paths   
   that seem to conventionally orbit the earth, moving in the direction   
   of the earth's rotation.   
      
   But a good fraction are either way too bright for satellites (the   
   brightest ones are way brighter than Sirius that is generally hanging   
   around the night sky at the moment), and/or fly below the level of the   
   clouds, and/or move in paths that are not possible are at least are   
   extremely unlikely to be satellites.   
      
   Sometimes you can see more than one of the objects in the sky at the   
   same time and more often you can see multiple objects (the record for   
   me at the moment is about a dozen and I'm not talking sat trains like   
   Space-X) over the course of 5-10 minutes.   
      
   But the kicker to this is the aircraft also often seen headed toward   
   the general location of the moving lights or that show up within   
   minutes of said lights being spotted.   
      
   A couple of nights back I was out in my front yard -- as usual now on   
   clear nights in summer -- and I saw one of the familiar small   
   aircraft, that has a weird set of white led-lights on the bottom that   
   flash in some unusual pattern, headed straight toward me from the S.   
   The appearance of such aircraft is now a tip-off to start looking   
   around for something strange moving around in the sky.   
      
   And, sure enough, I turned 180 and Orion had a 4th star in his belt   
   and it was moving east at a reasonable clip. It just looked like a   
   sat, about as bright as the other belt stars, and moving at around the   
   usual rate. But it seems the object was "seen" by the plane.   
      
   By the time the plane got to my area the "sat" had moved off over big   
   trees to the east of me.   
      
   What did the plane do? It seemed at first to be just headed N after   
   passing to the E of me high in the sky. But then it started to turn   
   right and -- surprise! -- seemed to be headed to where the light was   
   last visible.   
      
   It also disappeared over the big trees to the east but I later saw it   
   orbiting over to the east of me and it overflew my yard a couple of   
   times before I saw it headed down SW presumably back to the big airport.   
      
   Either these guys are real interested to get photos of satellites they   
   could otherwise seemingly get from large ground-based telescopes, or   
   maybe more likely they are chasing off what they may perceive as   
   "drones" or unid-ed aircraft that are threatening airport operations.   
      
   The fact some of these light aircraft -- and lately the bunch seems to   
   include one small jet -- have large arrays of unusual lights that have   
   little to do with nav lights suggests the lights are part of the "warn   
   off" load-out.   
      
   There is my old pal "xmas tree" with the triangular display of   
   flashing white leds on the bottom.   
   There is another monstrosity that has white leds on the bottom and a   
   flashing big red led on a pole seemingly mounted over the aircraft cabin.   
      
   Another thing we see a lot seems to be a very very quiet chopper with   
   a large flashing red light in a concave area just under the nose.   
   This thing has overflown a couple of times and man it makes almost no   
   noise at all. Such features have been reported in some of the cattle   
   mutilation cases involving unmarked helicopters I note.  It seems to   
   be a new boy. Previous strange choppers included on that made a lot of   
   noise like a chopper but had zero lights but -- amusingly -- what was   
   visible when it flew over was a vague light-colored rectangle.   
      
   So it's all fun and games until the first someone that gits hurt.   
      
      
   --   
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