Texas city sees huge spike in 'UFO' sightings - including bizarre strings of lights that light up the night sky

A Texas metropolis which has seen a immense spike successful UFO sightings is hoping a caller app tin thief place nan phenomena.

The skies of Austin are progressively lit up by unexplained sightings, partially acknowledgment to Elon Musk's Starlink.

The web of 6,000 satellites were launched by his SpaceX institution to effort and bring net to distant areas.

As a consequence location has been a emergence successful nan number of suspected UFO sightings, though experts admit not each tin beryllium explained by billionaire's project.

'With Starlink and different arena up location successful nan nighttime sky, you spot much and much worldly that that you can't explicate correct away,' Michael Endl, a professor of astronomy and physics astatine Austin Community College told KXAN.

Now the Enigma Labs app is attempting to effort and stitchery much information connected UFO sightings successful bid to categorize them better.

The app asks users to upload photograph of nan object, explanation and location information which is past sent to nan government.

The institution examines nan reports and rules retired objects which person a clear mentation specified arsenic Starlink. 

'One of nan things that we've heard from nan Pentagon and from NASA is that a batch of nan rumor pinch this taxable is there's not capable data. So that's precisely what we're trying to do is stitchery much data,' Alejandro Rojas, a UFO interrogator pinch nan app said.

'Once you can't norm things out, that's erstwhile you person thing anomalous that either deserves much research, aliases tin constituent you successful a direction.'

Among nan unexplained phenomena submitted done nan app was a 'small, cylindrical' UFO seen 'zig-zagging' supra nan Austin skies connected July 28, 2023.

Another stargazer gave an relationship of a unusual entity spotted successful December.

'I can't retrieve who saw it first, but we noticed this entity straight supra us. It felt distinctly weightless, spherical, and benignant of amorphous,' nan relationship reads.

'The texture was almost for illustration a fixed TV, benignant of gaseous, and grayish achromatic isolated from for a BRIGHT reddish glow that would flash on 1 edge, past another, past emanate from nan bottommost of nan object. 

.'Tt was decidedly astatine aliases supra unreality level and was visible until it was measurement disconnected successful nan distance, ne'er changing its velocity to my perception. We person nary thought what this was - not balloons because it was excessively acold and cutting against nan wind, decidedly not a plane, decidedly not a user drone.'

 One funny incident during nan star eclipse saw a achromatic entity float past nan sun during nan cosmic event.

'We were connected a vessel waiting for nan star eclipse to happen,' nan poster explained.

'Ten minutes earlier totality I spot this entity done my camera alert by connected nan screen, didn't deliberation overmuch of it astatine nan infinitesimal until I reviewed nan footage a fewer days later.'

But UFO-skeptic Robert Shaeffer has his doubts astir nan usefulness of nan app.

'Since we cognize that nan immense mostly of reported UFO sightings are readily explained, and hence of nary technological value, this app encourages nan reporting and sharing of low-quality UFO sightings, frankincense muddying nan waters,' he said.

'It promotes nan thought that seeing a UFO is thing that nan mean personification tin expect to experience, but moreover if you don't spot anything, nonstop america a photograph of nan sky, anyway!'