High Altitude Planes in Tow

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These caught my eye the other day - there's actually 4 (you can just see the 4th one in the first picture) and they all fall into line.
I live in the South East and not seen this sort of thing before. If only I thought to look on FlightRadar24 which is loaded on the phone I took these with!
So just a bunch of commercial planes or something more interesting?

The first picture (so the direction they're coming from) is facing the South West.

 
I'm a bit of a spotter. If it was routine I'd have noticed it before. Just wondered if it was more likely to be military rather than civilian.

Knon1 was never suggesting it was aliens lol :)
 
30 miles is nothing to a plane
That's my point. I'd be surprised to see any planes landing at Heathrow while flying so high where we are. We're well within circling distance. I've been on planes and seen Woking on the graphic as we pass over it and you can easily make out houses etc.

Could be heading for Luton, Stanstead, Manchester or some other northern city though! :) Just thought it was odd to see them in line like that, while at such a high altitude.
 
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