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Cubans confuse Falcon 9 trail with a UFO

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Cuban users and from other areas of the Caribbean reported from Facebook and Twitter the sighting during the night of Monday, February 27, of “rare objects” in the sky. It was a UFO, at least as long as it was not identified.

“What is this?” asks one of the witnesses before the outstanding cone of light at night, according to a video collected by the newspaper from Sancti Spiritus Invader.

According to Matanzas meteorologist Henry Delgado Manzor, aforementioned by the official site CubaDebateit was the wake of the Falcon 9 rocket of the SpaceX agency, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida (USA).

Indeed, the Spanish agency efe confirmed that the private company SpaceX had launched Falcon 9 with a new fleet of second-generation Starlink communications satellites.

The Starlinks would make it possible to cover new areas with Internet, providing “even faster speeds to more users.”

The launch took place at 18:13 local time (23:13 GMT), according to data provided by efe.

The sighting was possible in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico and in parts of Central America.

After separation, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket has returned to Earth eight minutes after takeoff and has landed on the unmanned platform “A Shortfall of Gravitas”, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, says CD.

According to the Facebook page Xtreme Social Mediathe cone of light was also surprising in places like Yucatan.

Since being originally licensed to operate the first-generation Starlink network, SpaceX has launched nearly 4,000 satellites and provides high-speed internet to more than a million places around the world, most of which are homes, according to the company. founded by magnate Elon Musk.



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