A Dutch website set up to record UFO sightings was flooded early Saturday with reports after a "train of stars" was spotted crossing the Netherlands' skies, sparking fears of an alien invasion. The row of satellites which are part of a plan by billionaire Elon Musk's firm to provide Internet from space, glided across Dutch skies around 1am. Shortly afterwards, a Dutch website was inundated with more than 150 sighting reports, with astonished spotters describing a "bizarre train of stars or lights moving across the skies at constant speed". One spotter simply texted: "I didn't know what to make of it," an unnamed witness later told the NOS public broadcaster. The satellites then had to separate and use their thrusters to take up their positions in a relatively low orbit of 550km.

Source: The Star May 27, 2019 12:00 UTC