{"id":525980,"date":"2026-03-08T03:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525980\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T03:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:50:24","slug":"space-debris-lights-up-calgary-sky-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525980\/","title":{"rendered":"Space debris lights up Calgary sky &#8211; Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Calgarians looking up around 8 p.m. Thursday may have noticed some unusual lights streaking across the night sky. Photos and videos of a group of lights filled social media, with those who captured the moment left wondering what they saw.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was from one end of the sky to the other,\u201d said Forrest Hyslop, who was able to record video of the lights from his acreage northwest of Calgary. \u201cIt was pretty fantastic to see. I\u2019ve seen shooting stars and stuff like that but initially I didn\u2019t know what it was because it just lasted, it kept lasting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell believes the lights were those of Starlink 1723, which was launched in 2020. The satellite was removed from the Starlink constellation in October of last year and has been slowly de-orbiting since mid-January. 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