A number of people have reported seeing an odd ‘moving spiral’ in the night sky above Hereford and other parts of the UK this evening.
People quickly took to social media to guess what the object was, with many wild guesses, but a rocket launch looking like the best guess.
Live Science seems to give the best answer:
“A massive swirl of bright white light seemingly appeared from out of nowhere in the night sky above the Arctic last week, briefly upstaging a vibrant aurora display that spanned thousands of miles.
“The ethereal, galaxy-shaped light show was caused by an illuminated cloud of frozen fuel that was dumped in space by a SpaceX rocket, which released dozens of satellites into low-Earth orbit.
“Astronomers call this rare phenomenon a “SpaceX spiral,” and expect them to become a much more common sight in the future.”
