New Jersey UFO scare seems to be Elon Musk Starlink satellite tv for pc launch

New Jersey residents got a space-age scare after they noticed Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites hovering over the Backyard State because the aerospace firm launched its newest batch of gadgets into orbit.

Stargazers had been left puzzled Saturday evening after they noticed dozens of lights hovering in a wonderfully linear place above their heads — believing extra-terrestrial UFOs could possibly be in charge.

Social media was ablaze with hopes that alien objects had determined to cruise over New Jersey — on the heels of the newest spherical of congressional hearings on alien craft.

The New Jersey sightings, nevertheless, had been rather more mundane.

SpaceX revealed that the lights had been simply Starlink’s satellites passing over the realm after launching from Cape Canaveral late Friday.

“This was the fifth flight for the primary stage booster supporting this mission, which beforehand launched Crew-6, SES O3b mPOWER,” in accordance with SpaceX.

This isn’t the primary time an anomaly over the evening sky has turned out to be a Starlink satellite tv for pc.

Earlier this 12 months, researchers from the College of Vermont and the Heart for UFO Research discovered that Musk’s SpaceX was accountable for an uptick in UFO sightings for the reason that pandemic started.

Researchers initially believed that pandemic boredom prompted extra individuals to research the evening sky and report greater than 600 sightings than typical in 2020. However the circumstances coincided with SpaceX’s Starlink satellites.

The corporate launched dozens of satellites into orbit in Could 2019 to offer web protection to 50 international locations around the globe, with studies of UFOs spiking at across the similar time.

The research steered that SpaceX was solely accountable for the uptick, concluding that when studies linked to Starlink satellites had been eliminated, “there was no enhance in sightings in 2020 in comparison with 2019.”

SpaceX has greater than 3,000 satellites orbiting the Earth, lots of them simply seen and presently making up the biggest low-orbit constellation within the sky.

The satellites are more likely to trigger extra confusion sooner or later as SpaceX goals to have greater than 10,000 satellites up within the sky by 2027.