Spectacular blue spiral light brightens up night sky, likely from Space X rocket
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A mysterious spiraling blue light likely caused by SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket illuminated the night skies over Europe on Monday.
Time-lapse video taken from Croatia at around 4 p.m. EST, or 9 p.m. local time, shows the glowing light spinning across the sky in what many social media commentators likened to a spiral galaxy. The full video at normal speed lasts for about six minutes. Michael Dorgan is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business.
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The Met Office in the U.K. said it had received many reports of an "illuminated swirl in the sky" and said it was likely caused by the Space X rocket which launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida at around 1:50 p.m. EST as part of the government’s classified NROL-69 mission. The Elon Musk-owned SpaceX was launching a payload on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the government's intelligence and surveillance agency.
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