\n Eagled-eyed people spotted the unusual spectacle across the county, with many taking to social media to speculate\u00a0about aliens and asteroids.\n<\/p>\n
\n Edna Mendoza said: “I saw this strange moving set of lights this morning, around 5.45am, above Aylsham.\n<\/p>\n
\n The line of lights in Aylsham (Image: Edna Mendoza)\n<\/p>\n
\n “I’m absolutely clueless as to what may have caused them.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Another man added: “It was unlike anything I’ve ever seen before, totally bizarre.”\n<\/p>\n
\n But it wasn’t anything\u00a0otherworldly –\u00a0the\u00a0line\u00a0of\u00a0more than 20 individual lights\u00a0came from\u00a0Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink satellite.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n SpaceX began launching Starlink satellites in 2019.\n<\/p>\n
\n It aims to provide internet coverage to the most rural parts of the world by sending thousands of small satellites into orbit.\n<\/p>\n
\n The satellites beam\u00a0down broadband signals to areas without strong cable connections.\n<\/p>\n
\n It\u00a0is currently being used in UK government trials to connect areas without strong internet connections.\n<\/p>\n
\n Starlink satellites can be seen with the naked eye, but they are not always as clear as the most recent sightings.\n<\/p>\n
\n The probes are easiest to glimpse\u00a0within a day or two of their launch.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n When\u00a0the satellites reach the\u00a0intended height of 342 miles above the ground, they become much trickier to spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eagled-eyed people spotted the unusual spectacle across the county, with many taking to social media to speculate\u00a0about aliens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-308856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}