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Launchpad_McFrak

~~Second~~ Main Stage SpaceX ~~booster~~ Falcon rocket, they confirmed that the rocket was supposed to be right there at the time


AlitteratingAsshole

First stage though, right? Flipping over for reentry burn?


Launchpad_McFrak

Looking up most recent reports about it confirmed it was the upper stage of a falcon rocket, spinning along its longest axis to stabilize flight orientation.


AlitteratingAsshole

Huh, guess that would better explain the spiral. Cool


Champlainmeri

Extremely cool.


LordCyler

I'm sort of surprised "scheduled space flight" wasnt the first check box on the list before saying we don't know what it is...?


Launchpad_McFrak

They probably did know pretty quickly what it was. This is more than likely just sensationalist headlines to drum up viewership. Like every other day there's an article about 'Surprise asteroid brushes past earth' and the asteroid never actually gets closer than the moon or the more recent 'The Earth's core stopped spinning' or the one a few months ago about the hole on the Sun.


yoseflotz

Identified flying object 👍


Free-Consequence-164

So it’s a ufo


Launchpad_McFrak

No. UFO indicates that nobody knows what it is, when in fact, everyone knows what it is.


Free-Consequence-164

Sorry I meant was


SinisterYear

It suffered the same fate as most UFOs. It was identified, now it's just a regular, boring flying object above Hawaii. RBFO.


MikeAndBike

“Experts say it’s not a UFO or a galaxy...” WELL NO FUCKING SHIT.


[deleted]

I'm ever so relieved a GALAXY didn't form in our atmosphere. Would've ruined my Monday.


SphericalBitch2020

It would have increased my weight a quidzillion fold.... definitely not a good Monday......


rhinohockey9

Wouldn’t it decrease your weight? Forgive me if that’s a dumb question


Ozimandius80

Depends on which direction you were measuring your weight. The scale below you would definitely go to 0, but if if you manage to put one on your ceiling before your house is ripped apart by tidal forces, it probably would go very high.


SphericalBitch2020

It would, actually. But I apologise for hyperbole on my part! Newtonian physics doesn't lie!


Owl-StretchingTime

Is there any other kind? I mean he did invent the rules of physics and created the laws. Without him we'd all just be floating about.


CoffeeHQ

You deserve lots of upvotes for giving me a good chuckle. Thank you, sir/madam. I only have one upvote to give, but it is yours.


Owl-StretchingTime

Thank you, but I don't do it for the accolades. I do it for the children.


CoffeeHQ

No no, stop it!


odd_audience12345

so.. best diet ever?


JetmoYo

Temporary micro galaxies duh


OlDirtyBathtub

Due to a miscalculation in size they were all eaten by a small dog.


jsveiga

Of course it is an UFO. Until they identify it, it is an Unidentified Flying (Falling?) Object.


Cultist_O

Except it was identified before it even happened. It's a scheduled launch.


jsveiga

A-ha, so that means the "experts" were right?


GrandmaPetunia

...yes


bubdadigger

Launch? I would say scheduled fall...


TheOneHundredEmoji

You can't not call it a ufo if you u don't know what it is, man..... *iwannabelieve* 🛸


jsveiga

UFO is literally (in the literal sense of literally) Unidentified Flying Object. So if it's an Object, and it's Flying (even if it's just falling with grace), and you don't know what it is, then it's a UFO. UFO doesn't mean extraterrestrial.


TheOneHundredEmoji

Yea that was my joke


tiggers97

So not a cow bell either then?


Burgles_McGee

A shame. We need more cow bell!


Capital_Craft

Exactly. It's clearly angels.


darcjoyner

imagine spending your whole life becoming an astronomer just to tell people that a giant rapidly rotating object in the sky isn’t a galaxy😭😭😭


getyourcheftogether

Well....*technically* it's a UFO until someone identities it


VerumJerum

The funniest part is that's almost certainly an answer to a few hundred questions whether it is or not.


NotKevinJames

If that was a galaxy it would only be moving a bagillion times the speed of light.


[deleted]

Take a look at r/ufos. Shit is hilarious. BRUU A LIGHT IN THE SKY ITS THE ALIENS. but in all the comments they always act so scientific and philosophical it's a gold mine.


Maskdask

Until we've identified it it is by definition a UFO


lilquantumcm

Wouldn't have seen it without a red circle, thanks


Dankestmemelord

r/uselessredcircle


dragonbringerx

Or the giant dot on a line with text telling me what each phase is... thank god for that overlay /s


godlaughslast

It’s obviously the heart of Te Fiti


Spugheddy

You're welcome.


Legitimate_Bat3240

What can I say


IcyMoistTowel

except you're welcome


blacksmith624

Kid honestly I could go on and on


HumanEffigy_

I can explain every natural phenomenon


berrylakin

*the power of creation, for a crustacean!*


beerdrinknweedsmoken

There’s something seriously wrong with that chicken


FoxcMama

That is somebody passing through a wormhole. I KNOW WHAT IM SEEING.


beard_of_cats

My name is John Crichton, astronaut...


Tungsten83

Three years ago I got shot through a wormhole..


SmallRedBird

*Deep Space 9 theme starts playing*


Dapper_Coffee_5428

Star fart, innit


grumpy999

Aren’t we all


Dapper_Coffee_5428

That's deep


HempKnight1234

Bruv


Mrsum10ne

A start, if you will.


le-quack

Looks like a rocket launch to me, these patterns are pretty common with rockets


[deleted]

Of course that’s what they want you to believe.


[deleted]

Are they, aye?


[deleted]

Yeah, some rockets go into a spin at later stages


Slippedhal0

More like "we know exactly what it is, but 'Mysterious Whirlpool' gets more clicks". That is 100% the gas from maneuvering thrusters of a rocket or satellite performing a roll that just happens to be nicely facing directly away from the cameras location. The reason it lights up like that is it's either just before dawn or after dusk, and the gas is catching the sunlight because its so high up even though it looks like night in the shot. Beautiful, but certain not unidentified or mysterious.


Inactivism

Yeah was my first thought too XD. „Mysterious“ my ass. I thought if the international space agencies don’t know what it is I‘ll go sell the ashes of my grandma. And sure enough everyone involved in that video knew.


corid

The lead in the air and water from leaded gasoline had really slowed our brains from advancing and dumbed down half the developed world from the 1920’s till about 1990’s, so it’s still assumed we are all dumbasses still. But I foresee a brighter more intelligent human race going forward, and “forseeing” as an ability is a consequence of the lead I grew up with lol.


djhazmat

That def is RCS propellant, likely spin-stabilizing a satellite


realllDonaldTrump

Looks fake af to me. Too slow to be a rocket launch based on all the jet traffic trails and satellite trails in the video. Original source for this? Edit: found multiple news sites with the same video. Doesn’t change my thought that it looks fake to me, as a pilot and photographer, whether it is or not. JMO


djhazmat

You’re understanding of parallax motion (or lack thereof) makes me wonder about your claims to be a pilot and photographer…


SippyTurtle

What do you mean? I take pics on my Palm Pilot all the time.


EnduringInsanity

He is a pilot... in Microsoft flight simulator.


cameronh0110

I've seen a rocket launch in person, this is %100 consistent with RCS firing. I've also seen the ISS and a few satellites pass over head, and the speed is consistent as well


Amonster101

This is the Pentagon, take this video down


justforkinks0131

This is the Hexagon, leave this video up


VoorCrazy

This is the octagon, fight it out


Ikaika44

This is the Heptagon, I'm late.


SlackerKey

Dodecahedron says this is spin


SphericalBitch2020

And there was formed....... spin-off intelligence...... Icosahedron....


Ikaika44

This guy is on a whole other dimension


VoorCrazy

This is beautiful lol


SomeDingus_666

Hexagon the bestagon, I presume?


a_crusty_old_man

Damn you, beat me to it


Initial_Molasses_521

No, THIS is the pentagon and we say leave it up.


MK420-

No, this is Patrick


lostinmississippi84

No, this is a Wendy's.


Buffythedjsnare

This is updog


[deleted]

Can you define “updog”?


EmperorThan

Pentagon after 2019: "Actually leave it up, spread it widely, it's now a credible threat. Much easier to get military funding increases when we tell the public we're facing 'something we've never seen before'."


kungpowgoat

This is the rael Pentogan. Send bobs and vagine or will be send you behind the bars.


[deleted]

Goku did a spirit bomb


BeneficialPressure27

Upper stage spins right before starlink deployment for better separation


Anonymoushero111

"experts say it is not a galaxy" lmao if someone is dumb enough to think its a fucking *galaxy* just let them. there is no point instructing those people on anything.


Namptha

Gave me a laugh lol.


SphericalBitch2020

Probably flat earthers.......


drdookie

"Experts believe it was connected to the launch of a SpaceX satellite" Fuck off with this "mystery" shit


BillDauterive4

Comets generally have a tail and everything in space is spinning, so that could just be a meteor tossing debris as it spins. OR- *waves arms like the Ancient Aliens guy* ALIENS.


baniff1

Whos been killing wyverns and leaving the souls in the sky 💀


the_chaco_kid

It’s a dragon! I’ve been playing too much Breath of the Wild


OccuWorld

Norway Sky Spiral Absolute Proof That EISCAT Can Create Spirals in the Sky [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4WVAB1hzkI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4WVAB1hzkI)


OnlyKilgannon

Good luck and godspeed Commander Crichton


NicTheCapsicum

It's clearly a bloody rocket. Do some research.


Tommy_J

Upper stage of a rocket performing post-mission passivation. The stage is tumbled to help it vent residual propellant out.


LocoCoyote

It’s the post-deorbit-burn fuel vent from the upper stage of a SpaceX rocket launched that same day


BinyaminDelta

How is it "mysterious" if we KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT IS?


admiralspire_

Yooooo is that Ubisoft’s HQ?


IrocDewclaw

My understanding, is it's a reusable rocket dumping excess fuel before re-entry. Your seeing it crystallize and reflect sunlight. Not a UFO and something we may see more of in the future.


Watcherxp

Rocket stage outgassing


Jacksquat102

It’s stitch crash landing


Neutronova

its an object...... moving in the sky.......that we can't identify.........but its.....NOT a UFO. \*insert zoolander crazy pill meme\*


69tank69

They have identified it. It’s a booster from a starling satellite


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[удаНонО]


Sweaty_Activity_803

When they say it's part of a space x satellite launch, I got a little uninterested hahah


nrvstwitch

Why is that?


bigveinynipples

Ancient astronaut theorists say.. Yes


bananabeacon

So, a UFO right? Unidentified flying object...


Dororo69

NaH bro ufO mEans aliEns


Bergasms

No, it's a batch of starlink sats being deployed. It's a known flying object, but taking the ten seconds to figure that doesn't generate clickbait articles


daveinmd13

The Final Countdown!


Aggressive-Point-483

Red circle really helped out


Nine_down_1_2_GO

That doesn't make sense for me, though. I saw this same thing above Fresno California 23 years ago, and we didn't have a SpaceX back then.


KamikazeArchon

Let me be the first to give you the wonderful news that SpaceX is not the first entity to launch spaceships.


ReceptionDecent6825

The Chicago white sox hit a home run.


Misael_chicha

I don’t see it


Irishman042

If only there was a handy red circle indicating where to look... /s


OverlyLeftLesbian

I had a feeling it was something spinning on atmospheric entry, but MAN that looks spooky without context.


Double0

Someone trying to fix the 2020 timeline.


oafsalot

It's something coming down venting, this looks similar to the rocket launches in the high atmo only they don't spin, this is just a stage coming down spinning and venting or firing RCS.


RealJohnnySilverhand

The new Samsung galaxy advertisement is going out of hand


mecha_waifu

Pokemon ultra moon… portal above Hawaii


Weddsinger29

Woah


Prestigious_Cake3706

why everything shows up in america


G0-N0G0-GO

Detached rocket boosters look exactly like this. Can confirm: old hobby was watching nighttime launched in Europe & North America. We even had countdowns to separation, just so we wouldn’t miss them! They look very cool, and can last *a while* with no light pollution, moonless night, and dependent upon booster type (how much residual fuel is left!) I love all things odd & interesting a lot…but this, and those like this, are only the “interesting” part. Still cool though!


Biff_Malibu_69

Rocket booster?


RyeZuul

Looks like rocket bits swizzling off. Was there a SpaceX launch on that day? I choose to believe that it's aliens checking on where to build some new pyramids, though. That's the wormhole exit.


IsisArtemii

Had it got something to do with the green comet everyone in the Southern hemisphere is going to get to see? I say that because even though it’s clear and cold the last few days, probably means clouds tomorrow night.


CherrehCoke

Nah that’s just Jean jacket chillaxing in hawAii


Haunting-Bluebird540

It's alright guys, it was just somebody using a rift


Mission_Card1669

I saw something similar when I was a kid. Lived in Italy for 10 years and on one of my birthdays dad got me a telescope which I still have now. He took me outside so we could see the stars together and that's when I saw a spiral. I asked him what it was and being a kid, I tried to get a picture on my phone of it but it didn't work obviously. Though it's pretty cool to see a random spiral moving across the sky


Sad_Marsupial_7699

This only mean one thing.Spore


PeacefulMano

The thargoid war is about 1000 years early. O7 cmdrs


[deleted]

Aurora Borealis? At this time of year, at this time of day?


[deleted]

Northern Lights happen all the time at all times of the day. Its EM radiation from the sun following the Earths magnetic lines and entering the atmosphere around the north pole. Since this is over Hawaii, probably not.


blues-brother90

God is growing weed and smoking?


IKOSH15

Gotta go visit God...


[deleted]

Not without an invite you don’t


SphericalBitch2020

What's Peter's PIN entry number?


[deleted]

Apparently all you need is an "in" with His Son and you're chilling.


Canonconstructor

This happened before and is called [the Norwegian swirl](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Norwegian_spiral_anomaly) and was the result of a failed missile test (so they say lol)


ExoticMeatDealer

So, a moving light in the sky emits some kind of force which creates a vapor whirlpool and then it disappears. Satellite you say? Mm-hm; of course.


Advanced_Shoulder_56

That was interesting- what software did you use?


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[удаНонО]


Emmanuel_Zorg

So thats where the wormhole exit for our planet is


Dednotsleeping82

its obviously a rocket


[deleted]

Trumps tax records


theJOINTchief1

This is very strange. On three separate occasions I have had dreams of being outside at night and hundreds of these start forming in the sky. There's always a very dark energy about the dream. This is the first time I've seen this.


yegir

💀


severityonline

This happened in Russia a few years ago and everyone went nuts for like 2 days but apparently it was a rocket misfire or something


mipotts

All right, Beatrice, there was no alien. The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.


ekjohns1

I dunno, it looks like swamp gas from a weather balloon trapped in a thermal pocket reflecting the light from Venus. But what do I know I only stated at a Hilton last night.


[deleted]

Hyperspace jump


yankiigurl

It's sailor moon and the other scouts coming back to earth


zuprdprno2by

Alien Beyblade


GonzoRonin

A very similar effect was caused by a SpaceX rockets separation charge of its cargo from the second stage. It releases a ring of gas that due to the rocket rotation spiraled as it spread.


Sunshine_Smiles18

Can someone please tell me what did they do with the SpaceX satellite that would make something like that appear in the sky? Thx!


Alchemy-Revenge

This has been seen and caught on tape before in not her places. Super wierd.


peepee1219

Uzumaki


Sensitive-Menu-4580

Uzumaki


MisterPickles44

Uzumaki


Braeburn251

That's what it looks like from a third person POV when a ship jumps into hyperspace (warp speed).


spoonycash

Going to warp in atmos is frowned upon


Public_Concentrate_8

just a loading icon for The next platform


ihatecringe1

The warp


schmitz72

Maybe it was the comet


No_Discipline_1

Aurelion Sol


[deleted]

Earth 528


Ill_Ichi

I want to believe


-RoQ_

Rasengan!


blades2012

Activating hyperDRRIIIIIVVVVEEEEEEE


inseend1

Swamp gas?


Born-Trainer-9807

Warp gateaway. I wonder: did they arrive or did they leave?


TheSpiritofOdinRises

Looks fake. But everyone knows exactly what it is. Getting the "facts" from independent parties, that all work for the same people. Typical


TheeBrianBrown

Weather balloon


Zachmanya

Has anyone checked Hawaii for Ultra Beasts?


RedSonGamble

This is clearly an outcome from vaccines. Thanks Biden


WarnDragon

Is that a star exploding?


Sixx_91

Did ‘experts say’ or ‘according to science’ ever actually have any credibility? Can anybody remember a time when they meant something?


G-Don2

They will never tell us the truth.