Space is full of mysteries waiting to be solved. For instance, what's the story behind the weird orange light in the sky over Temple, Texas that appeared Monday night?

The light is causing multiple theories to pop up on local social media about what it could be, but we still don't have a definitive answer yet.

The Light Was Captured On Video

According to KCEN-TV, a Temple woman caught the light on camera, and has her own speculations. Michelle Warwick says, "You could see like fire flickering and so it moved to the right, and then just stopped paths and kind of bursts like into three and just disappeared."

Take a look at the video and see what you think:



This Is Not A New Thing For Central Texas

Over the last several months, some weird sightings have made the news in Texas, including one from Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield.

Last year in March, Mayfield posted on Twitter that he and his wife saw a UFO over Lake Travis in Austin (or at least what he suspected was an alien spacecraft, anyway).

According to KXAN, the responses to his social media post didn't provide any real answers.

Recent Geminid Meteor Showers

We just had a meteor light show a few weeks ago, courtesy of the Geminids that show up every December. Most meteor showers come from comets, but the Geminids originate from a rocky asteroid.

Want a list of meteor showers to see in 2022? Click here.

One Mystery Was Solved

In April of 2021, a mysterious string of reported white lights in the North Texas sky turned out to be Elon Musk’s Starlink.

On SpaceX’s 10th mission in 2021, 60 interconnected satellites were sent into space in April. Starlink is designed to deliver high-speed internet to consumers all over the world.

Unanswered Questions Remain

So what are your thoughts about the strange mystery light over Temple? Was it satellites from Elon...meteors...or aliens sending a message?

 

10 Reasons Han Solo is Basically a Texan in Space

If you ask most people who their favorite Star Wars character is, the odds of them naming anyone other than Han Solo are approximately three thousand seven hundred and twenty to one.

The loveable space pirate is pure swagger, and when you stop to think about it, he's probably the closest thing to a Texan out there in that galaxy far, far away.

Let's take a look at 10 reasons Han Solo would fit right in here in the Lone Star State.

That Time We Found Derelict War Planes Hidden in Temple

Test Your Texas: How Many of These Jeopardy! Questions Can You Answer?

Jeopardy! as we know it has been on the air since 1984, but the show got its start way back 1964.

Over the decades, the writers have managed to keep coming up with challenging questions to test the intellectual might of America's best and brightest (and sometimes softball questions for celebrities).

Texas is a place packed with personality, culture, and history, and there've been hundreds of questions/answers about the Lone Star State. Let's take a look at a few recent ones, and keep an eye out because we'll add more soon to test your Texas trivia skills and challenge newcomers.

How many of these can you get right without Googling?

 

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