SpaceX's internet satellites. The first batch of 60 went up on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in May 2019. Freshly released, they flew bunched together and low, catching sunlight over darkened ground. Witnesses in the Netherlands, Montana and Ontario reported a strange train of lights. In Brazil in 2022, analysts on Metabunk matched airline pilots' spiralling lights over Santa Catarina to sunlit Starlink satellites. The same year, a Delta crew's fading light near the Kansas and Oklahoma border was linked to Starlink flares. AARO later wrote that it increasingly resolves cases to the constellation.
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