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Mysterious 'whirlpool' appears in the night sky above Hawaii

• h2odragon 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Norwegian_spiral_anomaly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Norwegian_spiral_anomaly links to https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2009/1210/norway-spiral-a-rocket-scientist-explains-the-mystery https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2009/1210/norway... > The spiral, he says, "comes when you have a motor firing off the axis of the vehicle at right angles to the line that connects to the center of mass" yielding a "pinwheel."
• hanoz 4y ago
  "Experts say the object was not a galaxy..." No really? Thanks experts. "...or a UFO" Well, I mean, wasn't it?
  • llimos 4y ago
    Great comment, but tbf they did identify it so it is not U. > Scientist believe the phenomenon is connected to the launch of a SpaceX satellite.
    • schiffern 4y ago
      That's an unsourced hypothesis, not a confirmed identification. Many (most?) UFOs have at least one hypothesis.
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• likeabbas 4y ago
  [There was a radar satellite launch from Japan around the same time](https://www.rocketlaunch.live/?pastOnly=1 https://www.rocketlaunch.live/?pastOnly=1 ). The sulfur dioxide spreading would explain