Can confirm. Was at a large night time gathering on LI over Labor Day when Starlink passed overhead. Of the 100+ people there, not one single person knew what it was, and everyone was running around going omg aliens.
I saw that constellation the same weekend. It was stupendous, one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
If I hadn't heard it described to me before, I might've worried it was a train of ICBMs or something. I've seen more satellites than I can count, I saw two of them that night before I spotted Starlink, but it was unlike anything I'd ever seen. There were so many of them, at first I thought it was a contrail.
A thought I had shortly after was, "if there ever is an alien invasion, it will look exactly like that."
