{"id":96765,"date":"2025-12-16T14:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/96765\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:07:09","slug":"string-of-lights-over-bay-area-prompts-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/96765\/","title":{"rendered":"String of lights over Bay Area prompts questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b985p4kegc2uause.jpg\" alt=\"String of lights in the sky seen in Bay Area\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/video\/1757030\" data-v-4292be72=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">String of lights in the sky seen in Bay Area<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-4292be72=\"\">KTVU viewers from San Francisco, Pacifica and San Jose sent in video of what appears to be a string of lights moving across the sky. While there is no official confirmation, the lights, recorded shortly after 6 p.m., align with a new set of Starlink satellites that launched over the weekend from Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; A string of lights spotted moving across the evening sky over parts of the Bay Area on Monday evening prompted questions from viewers: What were they?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Videos submitted by residents around 6 p.m. showed the lights stretching across the sky in San Francisco, San Jose and Pacifica.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">There was no official confirmation of what caused the phenomenon. However, the images resembled Starlink satellites, which are often visible as they travel to their designated positions in orbit.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">SpaceX launched a new set of satellites from Florida earlier in the day, and another launch took place Saturday from Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/science\/air-space\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Air and Space<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"String of lights in the sky seen in Bay Area KTVU viewers from San Francisco, Pacifica and San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[32509,100,88,90,89,645],"class_list":["post-96765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-air-space","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}