“Strange object in sky over Findlay Creek,” Troy Crosby said in an email to CTV News Ottawa.
The video and images show an illuminated line moving across the night sky shortly before 10pm
“He wasn’t a meteor as he was consistent,” Crosby said. “He disappeared shortly after.”
Hafed Nabbus told CTV News Ottawa that the light was moving quickly, “then it disappeared into the darkness.”
Stargazers also reported seeing the illuminated line flying across the night sky in Montreal around the same time.
Backyard astronomer Gary Boyle tells CTV News Ottawa that the bright streak of light moving across the sky was a Starlink satellite train. The Starlink train is a chain of satellites launched by SpaceX.
“Over the next few days the satellites will be stretched and moved into higher orbits,” Boyle said Saturday afternoon.
The website findstarlink.com, which tracks satellite locations, said Starlink-55 will be visible for four minutes at about 9:34 p.m. and at 21:45 over Ottawa. Astronomers were asked to look northwest to north to see Starlink-55.
SpaceX launched 53 Starlink internet satellites on Friday from the Cape Canaveral Space Station in Florida.
With files from Luca Caruso-Moro of CTV News Montreal
