PHOENIX – Social media users in Arizona, Las Vegas and California reported seeing a trail of lights in the night sky on Thursday, May 5.
Some viewers caught lights moving across the sky in a single line, while others claim to have seen them move from west to north.
In Arizona, sightings were reported in areas including Queen Creek, Surprise, Lake Pleasant and Duncan around 9 p.m. Wednesday.
The National Weather Service in Seattle reported that the launch of a SpaceX rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida is the probable cause of the phenomenon.
According to the site SpaceX, Starlink is the constellation of Internet communication satellites. The constellation is designed to bring fast Internet service to places where terrestrial Internet is unreliable, unavailable, or expensive. Starlink 24, which would probably be the cause of tonight’s lights, launched 60 satellites.
A similar event was observed in April 2020, when people saw multiple lights moving across the sky from the southwest to the northeast.
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