The billionaire tycoon’s company launched a series of satellites into orbit that went viral on social networks. What are they and what is their objective.
SpaceX -the space company Elon Musk– is the matrix of the popular Starlink satelliteswhose first mission was launched a few days ago in the United States and caused a curious reaction in a group of neighbors. In New Jersey, USAthe sighting of the line of lights generated panic among those people who They were mistaken for a UFO.
The people who observed the phenomenon in the sky They began uploading video and photographs to their social networksin which you could see the lights, wondering if they were or not unidentified aerial phenomenaas the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (POTfor its acronym in English).
“This was the fifth flight of the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew-6, SES o3b mPOWER“wrote the company Musk in your account x.
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Musk’s company put thousands of satellites into orbit in order to create a satellite internet network that would reach the most remote points of the world. “These releases include up to 60 small satellites at a time, so they are very distinctive and often easily visible. As a result, many people report them as UFOs,” he stated.
UFO sightings in the US
According to data from the National UFO Reporting Centerwas 5,882 sightings in 2020. This increased noticeably during the pandemicaccording to what researchers from the University of Vermont and the UFO Studies Center.
So far in 2023, the North American city of San Diego have the record of UFO sightingssome described as bright spheres in the sky and others as dark rectangles. California It is one of the states that registered the most reports, with almost 16,000; follows Floridawith 8090; Oregon and Ohioalso among the first.
On the other hand, at the end of July, three former soldiers gave testimony about a secret government program to study extraterrestrial activities and “non-human biological remains”. Now, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration published a UFO report and aliens.
Source: Ambito
