An eerie video has captured the moment a bizarre set of laser lights appeared in the night's sky.
In late January, the Subaru-Asahi Star Camera caught the beams of light flashing one by one in footage that only lasts about one second.
The camera is co-owned by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and Japanese news agency Asahi Shimbun and is perched on Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island.
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As the footage made its way to social media, many thought it was a glitch in the simulation.
It certainly looks like the Matrix code was dancing above us.
But what could have caused something so bizarre to appear in the sky?
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It could have been a technical installation for a nearby show, it could have been aliens sending a message to Earth, or it could be something completely unexplainable.
Thankfully though, we have that explanation right here for you.
NASA has since spoken out to reveal the rain of laser lights came from NASA's ICESat-2 satellite.
The Subaru-Asahi Star Camera wrote on Twitter: "The On Jan 28, 2023, HST, Subaru-Asahi Star Camera captured green laser lights in the cloudy sky over Maunakea, Hawai`i.
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"The lights are thought to be from a remote-sensing altimeter satellite ICESAT-2/43613."
What the satellite was doing with the laser beams is a bit more of a mystery unfortunately.
However, Live Science says the ICESat-2 satellite 'tracks changes in the cryosphere and cloud cover caused by human-driven climate change'.
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The cryosphere is the part of our planet that is covered by 'solid precipitation including snow, sea ice, lake and river ice, icebergs, glaciers, ice sheets, ice shelves and permafrost'.
But that's not the only odd phenomenon that has plagued the skies over Hawaii recently.
Astronomers were left baffled when a mysterious blue swirling shape briefly appeared in the night sky last month.
Man, January has been a wild time for space cameras.
The unusual shape was spotted by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan's Subaru Telescope on January 18.
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Sharing their discovery to their official YouTube channel, the team wrote: "At first it was just a small dot at the left centre of the view.
"Then it ejected an arc-like feature. It became slightly larger...A bright dot appeared in the blob then it grew into a spiral."
The actual cause of this mysterious blue swirl in the sky was revealed to be Elon Musk. Classic.
The Japanese space agency noted that the strange appearance in the sky seemed to be connected to SpaceX's latest satellite launch.
SpaceX successfully launched their Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 18.
After a rocket shoots up into space and deploys the satellite, it will return back to earth - but not before it ejects any remaining rocket fuel.
Stewart Perrie