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Those eerie lights in the Bay Area s night sky are back. But there s a non-spooky reason why.
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A mysterious string of lights appeared Thursday in the predawn sky over the greater Bay Area. Twitter user @JustTeresa02 captured a photo.Twitter: @JustTeresa02
Fear not, locals. The Bay Area isn t experiencing a close encounter of the third kind.
If you ve looked up at the night or dawn sky lately and spotted a neat line of bright lights, those aren t UFOs. They re very well identified flying objects.
Musk s company SpaceX launched the Starlink satellites on May 4 yes, Star Wars Day from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center. The Falcon 9 booster lofted 60 Starlink satellites into the atmosphere. The most recent sighting in the Bay Area was on Saturday: