AUSTIN (KXAN) — Multiple Central Texas viewers reached out to KXAN Sunday evening after spotting a slow-moving, glowing object drifting across the sky.
Around 7:07 p.m., a bright light that “moved very slowly” and didn’t look like a plane was spotted over the city of Kyle, according to a viewer.
As unusual as it looked, the mystery didn’t last long. The light was almost certainly the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching a batch of 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on Sunday, Jan. 18, according to SpaceX’s website.
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The SpaceX website mentioned the rocket lifted off at 5:31 p.m. CST, sending its Starlink 6-100 mission into low Earth orbit.
This launch created a bright plume visible across parts of Texas, a sight Central Texans have seen before. In past cases, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that similar mysterious lights over the region were caused by SpaceX launches passing high overhead…