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  • 2022-09-27 (xsd:date)
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  • Video shows Starlink satellites above Poland in 2020, not over India (en)
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  • A video has been viewed thousands of times in Indian social media posts that claim it shows a string of bright lights moving uniformly through the night sky over the northern state of Uttar Pradesh in September 2022. While there were reports of people in the state seeing a similar phenomenon at the time, this video has been shared in a false context. It has circulated on YouTube since at least 2020. The user who filmed the original clip told AFP it shows Starlink satellites, which provide high-speed internet service, over central Europe in August 2020. The 15-second video -- which includes three clips edited together -- was shared on Facebook here on September 13, 2022. It has been viewed more than 7,100 times. The video's Hindi-language caption reads: Breaking, locals in Farrukhabad are astonished to see a line of bright lights in the sky at around 7:30 pm. A bright object, like a small dot, was seen quickly coming out, local people captured it on their mobile phones. This was seen at various places near Farrukhabad. People who captured this incident said the lights were moving like train coaches, it then quickly disappeared in front of their eyes. Farrukhabad is a city in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Screenshot of the misleading Facebook post, captured on September 20, 2022 The same video was viewed thousands of times alongside a similar claim elsewhere on Facebook here and here . Comments from some users indicated they believed the video was recently filmed in northern India. Even I saw this yesterday, read one comment. Another read: This was seen not only in Farrukhabad but nearby places as well. The posts circulated online after people in Uttar Pradesh reported seeing a string of bright lights in the sky, which The Times of India newspaper said were Starlink satellites moving into orbit. Starlink is a satellite internet service operated by billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX . On September 10, SpaceX launched 34 Starlink satellites into orbit. The video, however, has been shared in a false context. Satellites over Poland Reverse image and keyword searches found a longer version of the video uploaded on YouTube here on August 11, 2020. The first part of the clip in the false posts corresponds with the YouTube video's 18-second mark; the second part corresponds with its 38-second mark, and the third part corresponds with its one-minute 15-second mark. The video in the false posts has been sped up from the original YouTube video. Below is a screenshot comparison of the video in the false Facebook posts (left) and the YouTube video (right): Screenshot comparison of the video in the misleading Facebook post (left) and YouTube video (right) Starlink satellites over Poland. Starlink Train, reads the title of the two-minute 28-second video on the YouTube channel Nocne Niebo , which is Polish for night sky. The channel is run by a user who gave their name as Zbyszek . They told AFP: This video was shot on August 10, 2020 in Central Europe. I recorded all the satellite passes on my channel personally. Currently, these satellites are flying over India, but people are stealing my old video from Poland. Patrick Seitzer , a researcher from the department of astronomy at the University of Michigan, told AFP that the clip shows Starlink satellites. These satellites in the video are observed right after launch when they are very close together in a low orbit, he said. There are over 3,000 Starlinks currently in orbit. The video shared in the false posts corresponds with images of Starlink satellites published in an article published on the UK's National Space Centre website here and on the Space.com website here. (en)
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