A giant whirlpool of light, known as a "SpaceX spiral," was recently spotted swirling across the night sky over Europe as a ...

A mysterious light spiral over Europe on March 24 was caused by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentering Earth’s atmosphere.

Aliens, black holes and far-off galaxies were some of the suggested explanations for a spectacular spiral light which appeared in the skies over Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Monday. The ...

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.

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A strange spiral light that appeared in the sky is believed to have been caused by a SpaceX rocket launch. If you'd looked up at the night sky on Monday evening, you might've believed that aliens were ...

“I watched this fuzzy light for what felt like about a minute when all of a sudden it started shooting out these spiral arms and spinning. “I realised straight away it was SpaceX because I ...