PHOTOS: Strange String Of Lights Spotted Lighting Up The Utah Skies
By Ginny Reese
May 6, 2021
There was a mysterious string of lights spotted in the sky over Utah last night, leaving some residents in the area baffled as to what they might have seen.
What could the lights have been? Were they aliens? Not this time.
KSL reported that the lights are associated with the Space X Starlink satellite launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The National Weather Service in Seattle posted photos on Twitter. They wrote, "Looks like this is associated with today's @SpaceX Starlink satellite launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida."
See photos of the strange string of lights below:
Looks like this is associated with today's @SpaceX Starlink satellite launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. More information here: https://t.co/oCgTYmVApO https://t.co/xpATMZpeXs
— NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) May 5, 2021
Starlink is SpaceX's internet satellites that deliver fast internet service to locations where other internet services can't reach or are unreliable.
Starlink launched 60 satellites last night atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.
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