A spiral of blue lights as seen from Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand, on Sunday. Theories on social media about its origins ranged from aliens to foreign rockets to commercial displays.
Photograph: Alasdair Burns/Twinkle Dark Sky Tours
Posted on 06/20/2022 8:08:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Alasdair Burns, a stargazing guide on Stewart Island/Rakiura, received a text from a friend: go outside and look at the sky. “As soon as we actually went outside, it was very obvious what it was he was referring to,” Burns said.
He saw a huge, blue spiral of light amid the darkness. “It looked like an enormous spiral galaxy, just hanging there in the sky, and slowly just drifting across,” Burns said.
A spiral of blue lights as seen from Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand, on Sunday. Theories on social media about its origins ranged from aliens to foreign rockets to commercial displays.
Photograph: Alasdair Burns/Twinkle Dark Sky Tours
The country’s stargazing and amateur astronomy social media groups lit up with people posting photographs and questions about the phenomenon, which was visible from most of the South Island. Theories abounded – from UFOs to foreign rockets to commercial light displays.
The reality was likely a little more prosaic, said Prof Richard Easther, a physicist at Auckland University...Easther said the rocket in question was likely the Globalstar launch from SpaceX, which the company sent into low-earth orbit off Cape Canaveral in Florida on Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
New Zealand’s common sense is leaving the planet for a better place
It’s the last Mimzy!!!
Spiral Galaxy Spaceship
Approached the Milky Way.
Realized engaging us would result in idiocracy.
Fled.
Nice.
Occam’s Razor doesn’t exist to the corrupt media.
>It’s the last Mimzy!!!
So, you’re saying it was the borogoves?
Someone around here is practicing haiku.
Accidental Haiku
Haiku Ambulance:
A piece of green pepper
fell
off the wooden salad bowl:
so what?
Richard Brautigan.
It’s almost 8,500 miles (great circle) from Cape Canaveral to South Island. How did this spiral cloud get to Cape Canaveral from New Zealand?
My question as well.
The people interviewed in this article come across sounding like potheads. Is marijuana legal in New Zealand?
Venting from the SpaceX falcon 9 second stage before reentry
Whoops...it appears I was a pothead when I wrote: “How did this spiral cloud get to Cape Canaveral from New Zealand?”
I flipped the two locations. It should have been “How did this spiral cloud get FROM Cape Canaveral TO New Zealand?”
The particulate smoke from the rockets likely acted as condensation nuclei.
CC
Crop circles in the sky.
UFO doing drifting
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