Earlier this month, many witnesses saw an array of lights streaking above the sky in perfect formation.
The lights move too quickly to be a star and are too perfectly aligned to be a meteor shower, so what was it?
Well, it wasn’t aliens.. It was the SpaceX Starlink satellite array, a part of the Starlink Constellation.
On the evening of May 5, reports from eyewitnesses across Arizona reported seeing several bright lights moving above them in a single line.
A similar sighting of these light happened when residents of Phoenix and Tucson seeing lights in 2020.
Starlink is a satellite internet constellation being constructed by SpaceX providing satellite Internet access.
The constellation will consist of thousands of mass-produced small satellites in low Earth orbit.
The light parade may be a more frequent sight in the future.
Check out these articles on the subject:
https://earthsky.org/space/spacex-starlink-satellites-explained/
https://starwalk.space/en/news/spacex-launches-the-new-batch-of-satellites
TNC Strange Lights Above AZ Wednesday Night Explained
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