New Lion, Mexico, night of September 12. Several people saw in the sky some strange lights, one after the other. Surprised, they began to record with their smartphones. UFO invasion? Devil thing?
“There is a strip of lights, I don’t know if they can see. It is that here there is a lot of lighting in the park, but they go to waste. There they go to the cloud, now. We are in Monterrey, Nuevo León, on September 12, 2022. They are already lost in the clouds, ”said user Leopoldo Antonio on Twitter, in a video.
“Did anyone else see the lights in the sky of Monterrey?”, José Loredo asked, also on Twitter. “They were all in a line and they were moving a little fast, they disappeared after entering a cloud.”
What were these lights really?
Plain and simple, the satellites of Starlink, the company of Elon Musk, sent into Earth’s orbit by SpaceX.
What the “UFOs” really were: the satellites of Starlink, Elon Musk’s company
On Saturday, SpaceX launched into space 34 satellites of its Starlink constellation, in addition to AST Space Mobile’s BlueWalker 3 satellite. He did so aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
With this launch, it continues to strengthen its satellite internet service, which has more than 3,000 devices in Earth orbit, reaching the most remote regions of our planet.
In Latin America, Starlink offers its services in countries such as Mexico, Chile and Argentina, among others.
It is the 14th launch and landing of the first stage of the Falcon 9, as the Excelsior portal explains. It previously launched Crew Demo-2, ANASIS II, CRS-21, Transporter-1, Transporter-3, and nine Starlink missions.
What people saw was the array of satellites, one after another, reaching orbit after their deployment. Starlink’s famous train of lights.