Mayon Volcano UAP Possible Identification
Mayon Volcano UAP Possible Identification
On May 25th, 2026 a Meteor was captured falling behind the Mayon Volcano in the philippines, shortly after at around 22:33:24 a UAP can be seen rising above the Volcano. This UAP looked much like a satellite to me, I am an amateur astronomer and see these multiple times every night. Downloading all TLEs on Space-Track.org and converting Mayons latitude and longitude into ECEF coordinates, I had claude write up a quick MATLAB script to propagate all orbits and see if any public sats where in the sky over Mayon at the time and if any match the direction the UAP is traveling in the video. The UAP in the video is moving up and to the right which corresponds to Increasing Elevation Increasing Azimuth Filtering out all satellites in the sky at the time that do not match these properties we are left with three candidates NORAD 63211, NORAD 60275 and NORAD 61048. we know what direction the livestream camera is facing and on the original livestream (https://www.youtube.com/live/UDAZWxehMAI?si=oRbD2HUHTiRbqRem), the description states "This view is looking north towards Mayon. The camera is approximately 14km south (SSE) of the volcano in the city of Legazpi." The camera looking North at Mayon means right side of the frame = East left side of the frame = West This immediately rules out NORAD 61048 which lies to the south east ( Az = 103 deg) NORAD 60275 is Starlink - 32152 Az = 48 deg El = 65 deg and 9 seconds later Az = 53 deg El = 72.13 NORAD 63211 is at Az = 10 deg El = 62 deg and 9 seconds later Az = 19.5 El = 69 So we have two satellites in LEO, matching the same movement profile as the UAP seen in the video and at the correct position in the sky at the time of the incident. I am not going to say with 100% certainty its one of those two satellites, but that is much more likely than any other possibility in my opinion. submitted by /u/Goose_Rocket26 [link] [comments]