People report seeing string of lights in the night sky

We often get reports, photos and videos of a line of lights moving across the night sky. And everyone wants to know the same thing – what are they?»I was just outside having a fire when my cousin … saw some weird lights in the sky, and we decided to record it. Might not be anything crazy but I’m just trying to get a better idea of what it is,» one viewer said.What are the lights?If what you saw was a row of lights, or the lights were all in one line, moving in unison, odds are you saw the satellite array called Starlink, which is operated by SpaceX. You can see what it looks like in the video player above and in some of the ones below.There’s an easy way to find out if you saw Starlink. A website called findstarlink.com lets you plug in your zip code to see when the satellite array was recently visible – and it lets you look up times when it will be visible again. Video below: Starlink flies overhead last August.What does Starlink do?The Starlink satellite array offers broadband internet access to countries around the world.Currently, there are more than 2,000 Starlink satellites orbiting the Earth, according to Wikipedia.Video below: Line of lights in the Pennsylvania night sky.Share your photos and videos with WGALWe have several ways you can show us the photos and videos you are capturing.DIRECT UPLOAD: There is a form here to let you upload photos or video.EMAIL: Just send to news8@wgal.com.JOIN OUR FACEBOOK GROUP: Our uLocal Facebook group is here.