By Tim Binnall
A webcam watching over an active volcano in Mexico captured a curious moment wherein a cluster of 18 lights appear to exit from the fiery site, however it was later determined that the 'fleet of UFOs' actually had a terrestrial origin. The unusual scene was reportedly filmed last Thursday evening by a monitoring system which overlooks the Popocatepetl volcano in the Mexican state of Puebla. In the video (seen above), a glowing object can be seen seemingly emerging from smoke billowing out of the crater. Following closely behind the anomalous illumination are more than a dozen similar oddities that trail it in a straight line which resembles a string of bullets shooting into space.
The wondrous nature of the event understandably captured the attention of UFO enthusiasts as, by virtue of several strange sightings in the past, it has long been suggested that Popocatépetl could be some kind of alien base that craft enter and exit with some frequency. However, in this instance, the 'armada' was quickly revealed to have a rather familiar Earthly explanation. The string of glowing objects turned out to be Starlink satellites that just so happened to be passing through space at the perfect angle, in relation to the camera, so as to appear as though they were departing from the volcano. Similar cases of the controversial SpaceX program being confused for something alien have previously occurred throughout the United States as well as in India.