See post 1584.
Also, A COMPLETELY UNSUBSTANTIATED NOTE: Some people commenting on YouTube are reporting seeing beams focused on earlier fires, too, including some from Australia last year.
I hope all of this is explained soon and that it isn’t a DEW, but we deserve to know the truth.
Instead of all this DEW hubbub, couldn’t the cause of the line on the image be one of those new Starlink satellites? They circle the earth at a lower altitude than the geostationary satellites. There are now plenty of them to interfere with the images of higher satellites.