PHOENIX – Social media users in Arizona, Las Vegas and California reported seeing a trail of lights in the sky on the night of 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 likely cause of the phenomenon.
According to the site SpaceX, Starlink is the constellation of Internet communication satellites. The constellation is designed to provide fast internet service to places where terrestrial internet is unreliable, unavailable or expensive. Starlink 24, which would likely 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.