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My Granddaughter Joie at the Grand Canyon
On a Class Trip posing for a tourist ad.


As she was leaving, Joie took this pic of colorful lights in the sky in the sky she believed were connected to UFOs.
According to Google AI - What Joie photographed appears to be a Starlink satellite train that has begun to disperse or is experiencing a visual flare effect. When SpaceX launches a new batch of Starlink satellites, they are all released close together in a low orbit. To observers on the ground, they initially appear as a tight, perfectly straight line of bright lights moving across the sky.
Over the days and weeks following a launch, the satellites use their onboard thrusters to slowly climb to their final operational altitudes and separate from one another. As they spread out, the strict line breaks up into a wider, more scattered cluster of lights across a diagonal path.
The colorful blue and purple tints, along with the heavily scattered dots, are primarily an effect of the camera lens trying to focus on tiny, moving light sources in complete darkness. This often causes a bit of digital noise, pixel distortion, or lens flaring that splits the reflected sunlight into distinct colored points