If UFOs did not pass over North Texas Monday, what were those lights?
Calm down North Texas. Those were not extraterrestrial travelers over the night sky Monday night.
A few sky watchers sent in video to FOX 4 of what looked like a series of lights traveling in a row across the North Texas sky Monday night. As much as some people might “want to believe,” no green aliens descended into the Lone Star State and in actuality, something was traveling across the stars but not from another planet.
Around 9 p.m. on Monday night, SpaceX’s satellite Starlink-60 passed over North Texas for about 3 minutes, offering a light show to those below. The website Find Starlink tracks satellites in orbit.
Starlink is SpaceX-owned low-Earth orbit satellites that deliver high-speed internet anywhere on the planet, according to CNBC. The internet service surpassed 400,000 subscribers globally in May.
SpaceX launched 54 more satellites into space on Sunday night, so next time you look in the sky it might not be a UFO, but perhaps a giant WiFi router. The next chance to see the satellites pass over Fort Worth will be around 6 a.m. on Thursday across the northwest sky.
This story was originally published September 20, 2022 at 3:53 PM.
