Was very high up, couldn't hear anything and was moving at an incredible speed considering the height it appeared to be at?? Started out as a smaller dot with a halo, then became larger as it moved across the sky and the swirl was far more obvious around it.

by NigelOdinson

28 comments
  1. It’s a fuel dump from the space station. I wondered what it was myself

  2. Something to do with space x falcon 9 according to another post I’ve just seen

  3. Aliens!! Aliens from England! Runn!! Take’a’cover!!!

  4. Comments in another post say it’s a rocket launch, such as space x, at a high altitude.

  5. Whenever I’ve seen images before it’d always been some sort of missile test. Can’t imagine it’d be that in Powys though.

  6. It’s just been over Liverpool too (check out r/Liverpool there seem to be some knowledgeable guesses on there, something to do with spaceX/ falcon booster)

  7. It’s a space X rockets jettisoned its fuel so you can see it falling back into the atmosphere.

  8. Its all over the world, it’s do to with a rocketships thrusters – nothing to be worried about!

  9. Very strange but cool too, only thing i could suggest is a “moon dog”

  10. How strange. I’ve seen an incredibly similar thing on the page of a group of photographers by RAF Conningsby

  11. Typically you see these types of trails after a rocket launch. I wouldn’t expect to see one over Powys though.

  12. Not sure where all the comments have gone. It’s says there’s 20 comments.

    In case this wasn’t answered, this was from a space x launch earlier today in Florida, which flew over UK and Europe.

  13. It’s a fuel dump from the second stage of the spacex launch from earlier this evening.

  14. Its the batphone from gotham, come and save us from trump and musk!!

  15. From another thread…
    Rocket launch from Florida https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/launch/falcon-9-block-5-nrol-69/

    Here you can see the trajectory and time it went over the UK and Europe https://flightclub.io/result/3d?llId=c985cc7c-25ce-4bff-81ba-3b07334dae42

    It first passed over at 18.10, and would have made this spiral from the exhaust plumes on it’s second turn around the Earth, 90 minutes or so later.

    Google image search “falcon 9 spiral” will show similar images.

    Very cool, I wish I had known I would have popped outside to see it

  16. Lewis Hamilton doing a wheely in the air in his lear jet after his China race points were cancelled due to the wrong piece of wood under his car? 😂

  17. Damn I just stepped out to try and see that but it’s foggy as fuck

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