Recently, a “strange nebula” shaped like a bright blue spiral appeared over the South Island of New Zealand. Many locals who witnessed this strange miraculous spectacle took pictures and posted them on social media, sparking heated discussions among many astronomy fans. Many people speculate that this is probably a trace of aliens visiting Earth.
According to the Mirror, Stewart Island stargazing guide Alasdair Burns received a text from a friend at around 7.25pm on June 19, asking him to go outside and look at the sky.
As soon as he stepped out of the house, he saw a giant, blue, spiral-shaped unknown object or phenomenon appearing in the dark night. Bones said in disbelief, “It looked like a spiral galaxy. A giant snail, suspended in the air, slowly fluttering, very strange.”
He then knocked on the doors of all the neighbours and invited them to witness this strange astronomical spectacle. He stood on the balcony shared with five people and looked at the sky. Everyone was horrified by the scene before their eyes.
In addition to Borns and his neighbors, many local witnesses also shared the photo on social media, which immediately sparked heated debates among Internet users.
Many people speculate that this is probably a trace of aliens visiting Earth.
However, physicist Richard Easther of the University of Auckland commented that although this scene is very strange, it is actually a phenomenon that occurs every time a rocket is launched and a satellite is put into space orbit. East explains in more detail, when a rocket ignites it spews out exhaust gases, water and carbon dioxide, briefly forming an oddly shaped cloud illuminated by the sun.
It is known that on the same day, the American space exploration technology company SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 Block 5 medium-sized launch vehicle (Falcon 9 Block 5) near Cape Canaveral, Florida, towards the company’s communications satellite. US Globalstar satellite communications “2 FM15” was sent into low-Earth orbit. “The shape of the satellite’s orbit and our position relative to the sun combine to create the strange clouds we see over South Island,” East notes.
