Experts revealed that the mysterious green lights that appeared in the Hawaiian sky a while ago were made by a Chinese satellite flying over the US state of Hawaii.
This comes amid a marked escalation in tensions between the US and China following the incident of a Chinese spy balloon over the US.
“Daqi-1 / AEMS” is a Chinese satellite equipped with environmental and climate monitoring equipment that works by firing laser beams towards the Earth and analyzing its reflection.
Scientists from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) published a suspicious video showing green laser lights moving in the cloudy sky above the summit of the Maunaki volcano in Hawaii on January 28, according to the British Daily Mail.
The observatory suggested that the lights were most likely from a NASA satellite, but Anthony Martino, who works on the American ICESat-2 satellite mission, denied this, and said that these lights “are not caused by any of the NASA devices.” “.
Dr. Alvaro Ivanov and his colleagues conducted simulations of the trajectory of satellites, which have instruments that can emit similar lights, and using data from “Orbital Focus”, an orbital satellite movement monitoring service, they found that the Chinese satellite “Daqi-1 / AEMS” was flying over area at the time, what is likely to be responsible for these lights.
It is reported that “Daqi-1 / AEMS” is a Chinese satellite equipped with environmental and climate monitoring equipment that works by firing laser beams at the Earth and analyzing its reflection. However, this discovery is unlikely to reassure the hearts of Americans, given that China claimed that the spy balloon, which was Dropping it a few days ago, “he was also monitoring the climate and the environment.”
The observatory scientists said: “We really appreciate the efforts of those who helped determine the source of the light, and we are sorry about our confusion regarding this event.”