BOISE, Idaho — Note: The video in this story is from April.
Strings of lights moving together across the night sky in the Treasure Valley sparked speculation recently about what they could be.
Airplanes? Shooting stars? UFOs?
The answer, it turns out, is none of the above.
The lights are SpaceX satellites from the company’s Starlink network. Some people in the Boise area saw the satellites moving across the sky Sunday.
SpaceX says their satellites, which help provide Internet service, can periodically be seen clearly when they’re in alignment with the sun to reflect light back towards the earth’s surface.
The satellites could be seen at 6:17 p.m. Sunday moving northeast across the sky, then moving southeast at 6:42 p.m.. Click here to see when they will be visible next.