Experts believe a Chinese satellite fired down green laser beams that were seen over Hawaii last month.
The sighting arrived as tensions between the US and China escalate considerably in the wake of balloon-gate, which ended with the US shooting down a Chinese spy balloon that may have obtained sensitive information.
Scientists from the National Astronomical Observative of Japan (NAOJ) tweeted late last month that their camera had ‘captured green laser lights in the cloudy sky over Maunakea, Hawaii on January 28.’
Video footage showed a number of mysterious green beams shooting across the dark sky.
The lights, wrote the agency, were likely from a NASA satellite.
On February 6, however, NAOJ backtracked and said that the lights were ‘likely’ from Chinese satellite Daqi-1/AEMS.
