Strange lights lined up in the sky worry residents north of Caen: what was it?

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“It’s weird, it’s like a rocket. » This Thursday, October 31, 2024, while she hunts for candy in this Halloween night in the town of Epron, north of Caen (Calvados), a 10-year-old girl alerted her friends. ” It's what ? », worries one of them. “It’s scary!” “.

Perfectly aligned lights

An adult who accompanied them was able to film the phenomenon visible to the naked eye. “It’s as if perfectly aligned stars are moving in the same direction, slowly. » In this case from west to northwest. The object that was moving was quite high in the sky, without the witness being able to estimate its distance from the ground, in the dark night.

“We were able to observe them for two to three minutes, and they disappeared into the sky! Was it because they had passed us by and we can only see them in one direction? », he asks.

Musk's satellites!

In all likelihood, it was not a drone pulling a net equipped with lights. The explanation is completely rational. For several years, this phenomenon has been regularly reported in France. This would be “a train of lights”, as it is commonly called. These are Starlink satellites recently put into orbit.

The billionaire's SpaceX company Elon Musk therefore seems to have launched satellites into space. These feed the Starlink network providing Internet flows.

It was therefore not an optical effect or flying objects to frighten observers in the middle of Halloween evening. A specialized site, Find Starlink, confirms their passage and the possibility of seeing them in the sky of Caen this Friday evening.

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