Here's what those strange lights over Sacramento were

of you called the newsroom last night to report bright lights in the sky and some even got this video of the mysterious lights. So what were they? Well, CBS 13's Dom Garcia is getting answers. If you looked up in the sky Sunday night and wondered what the heck is that, you're not alone. I'm not in the least bit surprised you guys would have got a lot of calls about this event in the sky. Kyle Waters is the director of the Sac State Planetarium. He says what people saw was the most recent batch of Starlink satellites. 56 of them that were black and white and white.

The sky was the first time in a while that the sky was black and white and white. The sky was the first time in a while that the sky was black and white. They eventually will end up in an orbit high enough where they're basically invisible to the naked eye. But shortly after they are launched, they're still kind of making their way up into higher and higher orbits. And so they're much lower down than they will eventually be, which means they're closer to us than they will eventually be. And so we're going to be looking at the sky. Kyle Waters is the director of the Sac State Planetarium.

He says what people saw was the most recent batch of Starlink satellites. 56 of them that were blasted into space from Cape Canaveral in Florida. They eventually will end up in an orbit high enough where they're basically invisible to the naked eye. But shortly after they are launched, they're still kind of making their way up into higher and higher orbits. And so they're much lower down than they will eventually be, which means they're closer to us here on the surface, which means they're brighter. SpaceX has had dozens of Starlink launches and it's just one part of what is a growing space industry. The Starlink project aims to provide high speed internet services from space to remote areas on Earth.

The industry is definitely booming, right? The kind of the advent of I don't know how to use the word space in the future. And so we're going to be looking at the space industry. And so we're going to be looking at the space industry. And so we're going to be looking at the space industry as well. So, the next time you see this, don't freak out. Just take a look at this right here. The first event of.

I'm used to word affordable with like finger quotes here. Affordable space launch is very beautiful. Talk of millions of dollars. But millions is better than tens of millions or hundreds of millions. Right? There's a lot going on and a lot of it's in the news. SpaceX, Blue Origin NASA, and it's sparking an interest in space, especially images from the recently launched James Web Telescope. The imagery we get is really what I think kind of grips people and younger just take it in.

It's very much our technology, not anyone else coming to give us a visit or anything like that. Water says the best time to see Starlink satellites is shortly after sunset or sunrise.

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