Two extremely bright satellites in formation

I was out photographing the Perseids this morning and caught what looks to be two very bright satellites in formation. They were in a polar orbit and moving south. They were as bright or brighter than any Iridium Flare I've ever seen. The trails are chopped up since I was doing 30-second exposures. These were taken with a Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 lens at ISO 1600 and f/2.8 on a Canon 1D Mk IV. Anyone have any ideas which satellites these are?

Really good captures . Certainly looks like they could have been IR Flares the way they brightened up in that second image and back dimmer in the rest . But i remember reading an short article explaining the change od IRs’ in space . I think it was on heavens-above.com but not sure . But how they are few anymore cause of the amount of new ones introduced to space and some old ones returning back to earth after there expected time return . Sorry I don’t have a link to back it up , been awhile since i read it .

I live just outside of Indianapolis, Indiana and checked the heavens-above site and there is nothing brighter than magnitude 3.5 listed for that time (IR flares or other satellites)
. This photo was taken at 3:50am Aug 12, 2018 EDT. The mystery deepens.

Are you registered and have your location put in ? If not it wont give you correct readings . I use my google map location coordinates for my precise location .

Yes, I registered many years ago and was logged in and had my home location coordinates which I had taken a while back using a GPS.

Interesting, and cool shots!

I saw two satellites about two weeks ago. Not parallel, like yours, but one after the other. I don't remember the interval, but it wasn't too long, maybe a minute. They also didn't flare like Iridium satellites. Also strange, is that they were travelling approximately South->North.

I also couldn't find anything that really explained it on Heavens Above. I'm kicking myself for not noting the exact time.

They're in a hurry, got some spying to do

I figured it out. The satellites are NOSS 3-3(A) and NOSS 3-3(C). Did more digging in heavens-above and found 2 that matched perfectly. Time, sky track and ground track all match.

Good deal ! I saw another image posted elsewhere that had the same doubles posted . Very neat !

I think I figured mine out, too. Resurs 1-3 and Meteor 1-4 Rocket were a minute apart. Not exactly the same path, but very close.

Resurs 1-3 is a Russian satellite, launched in 1994, while Meteor 1-4 is a Russian rocket body, launched in 1970.

It's incredible to be able to figure things like this out, thanks to websites like Heavens Above.