MicheleV_AK on Nostr: Cool pic and great story! "In the early hours of Saturday morning, Todd Salat was ...
Cool pic and great story!
"In the early hours of Saturday morning, Todd Salat was outside near Delta Junction doing he what he does often: directing his camera at the sky, hoping to capture dazzling images of the aurora borealis.
That’s when the Anchorage-based photographer saw something wild — a sudden, bright light on the northern horizon that quickly started to take on a spiral shape as it drew nearer.
“It got bigger and bigger,” Salat said Saturday. “And I had absolutely no idea what it was.”
The white-ish blue spiral appeared to moving quickly. After about five minutes, it was almost overhead, he said.
“It was a beautiful piece of art in the sky,” he said. “I would say this was maybe the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen in my life."
It was rocket engine exhaust from a SpaceX Transporter-7 mission that launched on the Falcon 9 in CA.
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https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/science/2023/04/15/mysterious-glowing-spiral-in-the-sky-over-alaska-draws-questions-and-a-simple-explanation/
"In the early hours of Saturday morning, Todd Salat was outside near Delta Junction doing he what he does often: directing his camera at the sky, hoping to capture dazzling images of the aurora borealis.
That’s when the Anchorage-based photographer saw something wild — a sudden, bright light on the northern horizon that quickly started to take on a spiral shape as it drew nearer.
“It got bigger and bigger,” Salat said Saturday. “And I had absolutely no idea what it was.”
The white-ish blue spiral appeared to moving quickly. After about five minutes, it was almost overhead, he said.
“It was a beautiful piece of art in the sky,” he said. “I would say this was maybe the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen in my life."
It was rocket engine exhaust from a SpaceX Transporter-7 mission that launched on the Falcon 9 in CA.
npub14umh7750urhm0v9u6wl65nvcj3pdlnaf62ne0v4zlt6z477vl70qwpxu9r (npub14um…xu9r) npub13fj5dxqp6n9up4wqsxxquddytez0axrkw25zqlhyf4u4h5epmkvs4vqmw8 (npub13fj…qmw8)
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/science/2023/04/15/mysterious-glowing-spiral-in-the-sky-over-alaska-draws-questions-and-a-simple-explanation/