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Glowing spiral seems in evening sky – as Met Workplace reveals possible trigger

By Editorial Board Published March 25, 2025 3 Min Read
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Glowing spiral seems in evening sky – as Met Workplace reveals possible trigger

Is it a chook? Is it a airplane? 

Not fairly, says the Met Workplace.

This huge glowing spiral was noticed within the evening sky throughout the UK and Eire on Monday night.

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Ivinghoe Beacon in Bedfordshire. Pic: Keeley Williams

The swirl above Castleford in West Yorkshire. Pic: Jake Gill

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The swirl above Castleford in West Yorkshire. Pic: Jake Gill

Stargazers from as far north as Denmark and as far south as Milan in Italy famous the cloud-like spiral was seen for a number of minutes earlier than fading.

The Met Workplace defined in a submit on X that the phenomenon was possible attributable to frozen exhaust smoke from Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

“The rocket’s frozen exhaust plume appears to be spinning in the atmosphere and reflecting the sunlight, causing it to appear as a spiral in the sky,” the Met Workplace mentioned.

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These spirals kind when ejected rocket gas from the fast-spinning higher phases of the Falcon 9 will get frozen in house immediately due to the altitude.

The frozen swirls then replicate daylight again in the direction of Earth, which makes them seen within the evening sky.

“[It] hovered over this church for about five minutes then started moving and disappeared,” the reader added.

In the meantime, Keeley Williams mentioned the swirl “started off hazy, then became really bright before looking like it was spinning”.

The Falcon 9 rocket launched in Florida at round 5.50pm (1.50pm native time) on Monday on a categorised US authorities mission.

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