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See strange lights above Utah? Here's what they were

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Posted at 7:45 PM, Dec 03, 2021
and last updated 2021-12-03 22:09:07-05

SALT LAKE CITY — Early Friday evening, FOX 13 began receiving a bunch of calls asking about strange lights appearing all across Utah.

Video below from Jaime Ludden shows the lights over Brigham

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Thankfully, the planet is not being invaded by aliens and there is no Armageddon-like meteors headed our way.

Instead, the lights were actually SpaceX's Starlink satellites which were set to fly above Beehive State skies just before 7 p.m. The satellites orbit the planet at a distance of about 340 miles.

Earlier this week, SpaceX announced it had launched 48 more Starlink satellites.