30.03.2022
Aktuell sorgen Fotos von Raketenstart aus Russland für Spekulationen und führt in diversen Foren zu Diskussionen:
This strange orb is not a smudge, has been captured by different people across Russia or Ukraine
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Quelle: reddit
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Über Alaska wurde es ebenfalls per Video aufgenommen:
https://www.facebook.com/eskimobeauty2012/videos/1125213628313143
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Bereits 2017 sorgten gleiche Raketenstarteffekte für Rätselraten:
RUSSIA has been hit by a wave of reports of a giant UFO in the sky last night — with spectacular pictures of a giant glowing ball illuminating northern Siberia.
Social media erupted with claims of "aliens arriving" and locals in far flung parts of Vladimir Putin's empire told of "shivers down their spines".
Vasily Zubkov posted: "I went out to smoke a cigarette and thought it was the end of the world."
Meanwhile, the Russian defence ministry has disclosed there was indeed an unusual object flying at high speed over northern Siberia.
The extraordinary scenes were captured by leading Siberian photographer Sergey Anisimov in the town of Salekhard, which straddles the Arctic Circle.
"I was taken aback for a few minutes, not understanding what was happening," he said.
"The glowing ball rose from behind the trees and moved in my direction.
"My first thought was about the most powerful searchlight, but the speed of changing everything around changed the idea of what was happening.
"The ball began to turn into an arc and gradually dissipated."
After the multi-coloured light show was over he went home to find local children as young as five in the yard babbling about "aliens" and "the portal to another dimension", he said.
Some 520 miles further east, another photographer Alexey Yakovlev admitted to feeling scared as he witnessed the UFO spectacle at Strezhevoi, in the north of Tomsk region, reported The Siberian Times.
"At first I thought - it is such a radiance of such an unusual form, round in shape.
"But gradually the ball began to expand, it became clear that this is not some radiance .... and it became scary ...
"It's good that I was not alone....a group of people cannot hallucinate."
On social media, Anastasia Boldyreva posted simply: "Aliens arrived."
The were many similar messages.
Nurgazy Taabaldiev claimed: "It's a gap in the space-time continuum."
In fact local experts suggest there were two clear but most unusual reasons for the eerie spectacle in the Siberian night sky.
The first was that a vivid display of the Northern Lights - or Aurora Borealis - was underway.
This is why photographers were out watching the sky when the suspected UFO appeared.
But the second is that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin had chosen this moment to frighten the West with grandiose military exercises by his strategic nuclear forces.
Missiles tests were underway from submarines and aircraft last night, and the exercises included the launch of a super-powerful Topol rocket from Plesetsk cosmodrome, 550 miles north of Moscow.
From a mobile launcher, it was successfully aimed at the Kura testing range in Kamchatka on the country's Pacific coast.
It was the the trace of this rocket - capable of carrying nuclear missiles - that caused this extraordinary phenomenon in the night sky, say the Russian media.
As photographer Yakovlev accurately guessed: "It seems I accidentally shot the launch of a secret space rocket from Plesetsk".
The launch was then confirmed by the defence ministry in Moscow.
Other missiles were launched from a submarine and aircraft.
Quelle: The Sun
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Update: 10.04.2022
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Chinese rocket photobombs aurora with spinning orb of light
Mysterious orb caused by a frozen cloud of fuel left behind by a Chinese rocket.
Scientists have solved the mystery of a spinning orb of bluish light that slowly streaked across the sky above Alaska last month, stealing the show from the famous northern lights: The unusual ball was most likely debris from a Chinese rocket passing overhead.
Eyewitnesses across the state spotted the strange phenomenon March 29 at around 5 a.m. local time. "It seemed like it had something that was spinning inside it," Leslie Smallwood, a Fairbanks resident who witnessed the event, told local news station KUAC(opens in new tab). The orb appeared much larger than a full moon and moved from the northeast to the southwest, he added.
An automatic camera trap captured images of the orb streaking in front of the northern lights (also called the aurora borealis). The camera trap, operated by The Aurora Chasers(opens in new tab) Ronn Murray and Marketa Murray, a husband and wife duo in Fairbanks who run northern lights photography tours, takes regular photos of the sky every 45 seconds so people can experience the northern lights in close to real time. The camera took six photos of the orb, which suggests that it was visible for at least four and a half minutes.
"It's not like it shot across the sky," Smallwood told KUAC. "It was like, taking its time.
The orb came and went without any real explanation. However, after analyzing the photos, scientists determined that the big blue ball was likely the result of a photobombing Chinese rocket.
"I am very confident that what people saw was the dumping of fuel from a Chinese rocket stage," Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts, told KUAC. The orb corresponded with the flight path of a Chinese rocket that was delivering two satellites into orbit, he added. The rocket was a two-stage Long March 6 carrier rocket that launched from Taiwan, according to a tweet(opens in new tab) by McDowell.
The orb streaks across the sky in a sped up video. (Image credit: The Aurora Chasers/Ronn Murray/Marketa Murray))
The rocket likely released leftover fuel into space, where the fuel froze and spread out into a large ball that was illuminated by sunlight, McDowell told KUAC. "This cloud is probably hundreds of miles across; that's why it looks so big," he added.
Other scientists agree with McDowell's explanation. "A glowing cloud of gas that was sunlit would look like that," Mark Conde, a physicist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, told KUAC.
The orb seemed to be spinning because, when rockets dump their fuel, they enter a controlled tumble to maintain the rocket's orbit. The rocket would have been rotating "end over end while spewing out this fuel like a garden hose," McDowell said.
This is not the first time this phenomenon has happened. In October 2017, an even larger blue orb was seen in the sky above Siberia, according to Science Alert(opens in new tab). On that occasion, the frozen fuel was left by Russian military rocket tests in the area.
Quelle: SC