PHOTOS: Strange String Of Lights Spotted Lighting Up The Utah Skies

By Ginny Reese

May 6, 2021

Fairy lights in the night sky

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:

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.

If you want to get in on the action and see the lights for yourself, click here for other viewing times.

Photo: Getty Images

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