Close encounters? SpaceX satellites spark Dutch UFO frenzy


  • TECH
  • Monday, 27 May 2019

Astonished spotters reported a "bizarre train of stars or lights moving across the skies at constant speed".

A Dutch website set up to record UFO sightings was flooded early Saturday with reports after a "train of stars" was spotted crossing the Netherlands' skies, sparking fears of an alien invasion.

But what some thought to be a close encounter of the third kind turned out to be a string of some 60 satellites launched by US-based SpaceX hours earlier as part of its "Starlink" constellation.

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