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Again, it could literally be anything.

It could be something falling off the ISS, like ice. It could be crap from supply modules. It could be propellant from one of these:
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Literally anything. It's a dot. Moving. In space.

It proves nothing and adds nothing to the debate.
 
Space debris, junk, waste, trash, or litter is the collection of defunct man-made objects in space – old satellites, spent rocket stages, and fragments from disintegration, erosion, and collisions – including those caused by debris itself. As of December 2016 there were 5 satellite collisions with space waste.

As of July 2013, more than 170 million debris smaller than 1 cm (0.4 in), about 670,000 debris 1–10 cm, and around 29,000 larger debris were estimated to be in orbit.[1] As of 5 July 2016, the United States Strategic Command tracked a total of 17,729 artificial objects,[2] including 1,419 operational satellites.[3] They cause damage akin to sandblasting, especially to solar panels and optics like telescopes or star trackers that can not be covered with a ballistic Whipple shield (unless it is transparent).[4]

Space debris - Wikipedia
 
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