You spy me - I spy you

Let me introduce "See A Satellite Tonight" - flightradar24, but for satellites

Just after sunset tonight, I was walking home and suddenly, a star-like, fast-moving object streak across the sky!

Now, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Santa (wrong season) or a UFO (well, not officially). It was definitely too fast and non-blinky for your average plane. Also, as an aviation geek and a flightradar24 contributor I was sure it was not a plane.

I whipped out my phone and fired up the "See a Satellite Tonight" app. I'm usually better at identifying pizza toppings than orbital objects, so I was hopeful.

Sorry for the bad image, but I was not prepared for astro-photography. The fast moving bright object is visible in the middle of the picture.

And what do you know? The app actually worked! It confirmed my suspicions and identified the elusive object.

The app confirming I wasn’t just hallucinating a very fast bird.

So, what was this high-speed, non-blinking, after-sunset superstar? None other than a USA 120 military satellite! Probably a spy satellite, according to my quick (and highly scientific) Google search that followed.

Proof that I was, indeed, being ‘spied’ on... sort of.

So there you have it, folks. I spent my evening getting watched by a classified piece of military hardware, and all I got was this lousy blogpost.