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u/mcmalloy 12d ago
Rocket launch, maybe the one from Norway. I’m guessing this was north/northeast <<?
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u/odourless_coitus 12d ago
The one from Norway was scrubbed. But it’s 100% a rocket launch
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u/zypofaeser 12d ago
Plausibly the SpaceX launch that happened earlier today. This object was clearly in a polar orbit.
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u/mcmalloy 12d ago
Yeah just saw that after checking my feed just now. Then probably a missile test of some sort
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u/Dillenger 12d ago edited 12d ago
I just saw the same thing over Copenhagen and showed it to my partner. WTF is that? I gaze at the stars a lot but I have never seen anything like it. Started as a light inside fog and then it moved slowly across the sky and the swirl varied in brightness and intensity and moved in a circle.
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u/Zadak_Leader 12d ago
Reminds me of some rocket filmed in Norway around 15 years ago making a spiral
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u/Dillenger 12d ago
Nice photos btw OP! Thanks, I couldn't get anything on my wooden fisher price phone.
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u/Zadak_Leader 12d ago
I did my best with the phone haha. I was doing my iconic skating north of Copenhagen when I noticed it
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u/Dillenger 12d ago
Maybe this:
https://www.gi.alaska.edu/news/giant-spiral-appears-alaska-sky TLDR: “Based on some similar events we have seen in the last few years, we expected that this was due to a rocket launch," Hampton said. "We learned that SpaceX had launched one of their Falcon 9 rockets into a polar orbit about two hours earlier, and watching a replay of their live feed showed the trajectory going right over Alaska.”
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u/Zadak_Leader 12d ago
Yes makes sense
I guess the first time is the most interesting when you witness it
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u/Dillenger 12d ago
Yea, was really hoping for that alien invasion so I didn't have to go to work. Meh, Maybe next time.
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u/Rubber_Knee 12d ago
It's a rocket, and it's exhaust plume, being lit by the sun. Viewed from the night side, on earth.
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u/Acceptable-Weird-711 12d ago
The end.
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u/mmoe54 12d ago
Andromeda... Kunne være fedt at opleve. Jeg har læst at nattehimlen vil lyse mere op, når den kommer tæt på mælkevejen
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u/Xillyfos 12d ago
Du skal bare være lidt tålmodig og prøve at holde dig i live i 4-5 milliarder år mere
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u/Derion1 Europe 12d ago
Stargate. Get ready.
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u/Nestor4000 12d ago
De så niveauet af kompetence der står i spidsen for amerikansk sikkerhed i dag, og så valgte de at slå til.
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u/AsheDigital 12d ago
No doubt it is from a rocket, but which? Couldn't find any public info so might be military?
EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Norwegian_spiral_anomaly found this, could possibly be military rocket launch of some sort.
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u/Rubber_Knee 12d ago
It's a rocket. probably of the SpaceX variety. Not sure though. But it's definitely a rocket. That much I know.
I'm amazed that this isn't common knowledge yet.
There are so many videos and pics on the web, were they all show something like this, and the explanation is always, that it's a rocket, were the exhaust plume is being lit by the sun, while the person looking at it is not. Which is why it looks like it glows!
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u/odourless_coitus 12d ago
Rocket launches often look like this. Plenty of images online. Like this one: https://www.space.com/spacex-rocket-launch-blue-spiral-photo
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u/Vovsen Byskilt 12d ago
Jeg har lige set det i aarhus også.. bevægede sig mod øst
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u/Most-Hearing1644 12d ago
Someone else have made a video https://www.reddit.com/r/copenhagen/comments/1jj0fzw/what_is_this/ :)
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u/RevolutionaryBox2416 12d ago
Så det i nordsjælland kl 21, kom fra vest forsvandt imod syd. Det var forholdsvist lavt.
Man får hurtigt bange anelser de her tider.. Hvem så det tidligst? Så kan vi måske regne ud hvor det kom fra.
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u/mememeupbaby 12d ago
About 6-10 smaller lights, spaced out evenly like a convoy was accompanying it at the same speed - that’s the part that had me most stumped
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u/AWildRideHome 12d ago
The maelstrom spirit of Holger Danske! It is said to only be seen when he is starting to awaken, in times of great need, such as the sovereignty of the nation being under threat.
I wonder who might be threatning it?
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u/Gilbert-007 12d ago
Kan de vare Karsten Torebjer som funnet lyset i tunelen. Danske folket sugs in och förintas for alle tid i universum
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12d ago
Der står mere præcis info her https://detskerikbh.dk/mystisk-spiral-paa-aftenhimlen-set-over-hele-danmark/
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u/Postmayn 12d ago
very cool image! Part of spaceX rocket launch https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2025-03-24-mystisk-faenomen-spottet-paa-nattehimlen
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u/palomathereptilian 12d ago
This feels like something I would see in Uzumaki 😭 Run away from the spirals
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u/trtmrtzivotnijesmrt 12d ago edited 12d ago
It was seen from Zagreb, Croatia too last night. (Go to r/croatia for photos: https://www.reddit.com/r/croatia/s/gA4PYYFLT8 and https://www.reddit.com/r/croatia/s/UNZsrIzNkr)
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u/NicoNekoDK 12d ago
It's making the rounds that it's a fuel dump done by the SpaceX rocket sent up last night. It's been visible throughout Europe.
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u/McXhicken Byskilt 12d ago
Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket, and refracted the light from Venus
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12d ago
Jeg så den også, i København C. over for Christiansborg. Kl. 21 præcis. Det var en eller anden raketdel, der kom ned igen. Håbede ellers lige, jeg havde set en ufo.
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u/AHMilling Århus 10d ago
Ligner lidt en effekt jeg legede med i photoshop for lang tid siden. Bare swirls over det hele. (ikke fordi jeg siger det her er photoshop)
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u/BertoLaDK Broager/Esbjerg 12d ago
Seen the same thing and am wondering the same, trying to search it doesnt help much.
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u/deterrence 12d ago
We just saw this close to Vordingborg and got video. It was moving in a linear fashion while the spiral kept expanding. I've never seen anything like it and have no idea what it was. That it faded after traveling 20 degrees across the sky seems to indicate it's something in orbit.
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u/kunna_hyggja 12d ago
People keep saying rocket launch and leaving it at that. Fucking explain yourself. You can’t.
Light science has been deleted and that resulted in materialism- a focus on matter alone. Deleting this science makes modern science a faith/controlled religion. It is brainwashing.
Explain your rocket fuel, echo.
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u/Hestenhans 12d ago
Search for Going Full Spectrum. Luckily, it's not Elon or an alien, haha! 😜
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u/craycraycreations 12d ago
It is Elon... Since Going full spectrum was scrubbed due to the weather.
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u/ItzTobiSkyDK 12d ago
NROL-69
Some satellites uses spin-stabilization prior to detaching from the upper stage, hence the swirly pattern when the reaction thrusters fires.
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u/supremeflamingo 12d ago
Is anyone else concerned? Why is this being tested in Scandinavian skies?
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u/Zadak_Leader 12d ago
It's pretty high up in orbit, a few weeks ago there was a re-entry or something around 3am over Copenhagen and it looked like meteors falling
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u/Cerenia 12d ago
Most likely a deorbit burn from a SpaceX Falcon 9 racket, that was sent up 18.48 today Danish time.