Strange blue spiral-shaped clouds confuse the experts. Illustrative photo: JS Wood / Arizona Daily Star, via AP
The speculations there were many. Theories ranged from UFOs to foreign rockets to commercial advertising screens.
The truth is, members of a group of stargazers were completely disoriented when they discovered Strange spiral formations of blue light in the night sky of New Zealand.
extraordinary phenomenon
Alasdair burns acts guide to stargazing in New Zealand. Around 7:30 pm, while he was at home, he received a message from a friend telling him to go out and look at the sky.
“As soon as I got out, I realized it was very obvious what he meant,” he explained in the dialogue with Guardian.
There was a huge spiral of blue light in the sky. Photo: Alasdair Burns / Twinkle Dark Sky Tour
It is that he ensures that he has seen a huge spiral of blue light in the sky. “It looked like a huge spiral galaxy, right suspended in the sky, and slowly drifting away. It was a rather disturbing feeling. “
At that time Burns managed to take some pictures With the phone using the long exposure function, it describes The mirror.
Amazed by what he was seeing, he quickly recounted all of his own neighborhood so that they too could enjoy the phenomenon. “And so there were about five of us, all of us on our shared terrace looking up and alone go a little crazy“, he said.
The New Zealand stargazing community shared their thoughts on the phenomenon on social media while posting images, questions and various hypotheses around what it could be.
“Premonition of our orbital black holeone stellar observer posted online and “aliens do it again,” another added.
But there is an explanation …
However, amidst questions and theories, a physicist from the University of Auckland came out to clarify it the phenomenon was “strange but easy to explain”.
Professor Richard Easther said that clouds of this nature sometimes occur when a rocket puts a satellite into orbitpublic The mirror.
And he explained that when the propellant is expelled from the back, water and carbon dioxide briefly form a cloud in the space that lights up.
Many theories about the phenomenon have been published on the networks. Photo: Alasdair Burns / Twinkle Dark Sky Tour
It happens that the position of the Earth combined with the orbit of the satellite can create “strange looking clouds”added the expert.
He also claimed that the rocket in question was likely the launch of a global star from SpaceX, which the company sent to low Earth orbit in front of Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the United States on June 19.
Another example was in 2009, when the launch of a Russian missile caused similar blue spirals on Norway.
More surprises in the sky
In the last month of February, Michele Allotta40 years old, she left her home in Australia and was shocked when she saw a blue pattern in the cloudshighlights the British medium.
It almost felt like a color neonrather than the natural hue of the sky, and it had formed during a recent severe thunderstorm.
At that time, he was convinced that it was something supernatural or linked to science fiction and commented that the most likely explanation is that it was a “take them to another dimension”.
Source: Clarin
