![]() The satellites interfere the most heavily with twilight observations, which is the best time for identifying asteroids appearing close to the sun. The satellites are increasingly showing up as thin streaks in photos of deep space, cutting across telescope views as our atmosphere becomes more and more cluttered.Ī 2022 study reported that Starlink satellites, which currently make up the largest low-Earth orbit constellation, had created 5,301 streaks across archival images scientists had taken of the night sky. Starlink has launched more than 3,000 satellites so far, something which astronomers have been raising concerns about for years.īeing mistaken for UFOs isn’t the only way they're impacting our view of the night sky. "This study sheds light on the potential impact of social factors on UFO reporting,” Mark Rodeghier, Scientific Director of the Center for UFO Studies, said in a press release. When researchers removed the sightings that seemed to be connected to Starlink launches, they actually observed a drop in overall sightings reported to NUFORC in 2020 compared to pre-pandemic years.Īlthough the result was different than researchers had hypothesized, it’s still clear that UFO sightings often have human explanations.
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