“Does anyone know what this light could be?” hockey player Max Talbot wrote on social media late Friday night. Attached is a grainy image of the flying figure – a line of light moving rapidly across the night sky. “Saw it in Lac St-Jean,” wrote one commenter, one of several reporting sightings near Montreal. “Saw the same thing from Terrebonne,” wrote another. Along with similar grainy images, several others chimed in online with theories behind the nocturnal anomaly, joking that aliens were leading the way. Other comparisons ranged from classic arcade games to Darth Vadar’s lightsaber. But what was it, really? One possible answer is that the line of light consisted of several satellites launched by the American space company SpaceX. Findstarlink.com, a website that tracks satellite locations reported that Starlink 55 will be visible in the Montreal area on Friday night. SpaceX launched several dozen modules on Friday afternoon.
