Scientists are sounding the alarm as companies like SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, race to blanket the skies with tens of thousands of internet satellites.
Researchers estimated the potential damage caused by the low-earth orbit internet satellites burning up in the atmosphere and releasing aluminium oxides.
The Elon-Musk-owned company is not going to hook South Africans up with super fast internet anymore because they didn’t want to share ownership with locals per the government’s requirements.
Many of those who have spotted the train of lights didn’t know what they were and immediately jumped to conclusions thinking that they were UFOs or an alien invasion.
The space junk came from a recently launched batch of lost Starlink satellites caused by an unexpected sting in the tail from a solar storm.