Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites were confused for UFOs after the latest batch sent to orbit were spotted hovering over New Jersey on Saturday night.
hovering over the Garden State as the aerospace company launched its latest batch of devices into orbit.
Social media was ablaze with hopes that alien objects had decided to cruise over New Jersey — on the heels of the latest round of congressional hearings on flying saucers.SpaceX revealed that the lights were just Starlink’s satellites passing over the area after launching from Cape Canaveral late Friday.
Earlier this year, researchers from the University of Vermont and the Center for UFO Studies found that Musk’sResearchers initially believed that pandemic boredom caused more people to investigate the night sky and report more than 600 sightings than usual in 2020. But the cases coincided with SpaceX’s Starlink satellites.Twitter/@IAmYhoshuaAdama dozens of satellites into orbit
The study suggested that SpaceX was solely responsible for the uptick, concluding that when reports linked to Starlink satellites were removed, “there was no increase in sightings in 2020 compared to 2019.”
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