Strange, glowing spiral in the sky over Alaska baffles locals https://nypost.com/2023/04/17/strange-glowing-spiral-in-the-sky-over-alaska-baffles-loca

Is it time for “Independence Day 3” already?
A photographer southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, captured an unusual phenomenon in the night skies early Saturday — a stunning and bright spiral that was surrounded by the aurora of the northern lights.
But there was something eerily different about the sudden celestial centerpiece: It was moving.
“It got bigger and bigger,” photographer Todd Salat told the Anchorage Daily News, adding that the “beautiful piece of art in the sky” was just about directly overhead five minutes later.
“I had absolutely no idea what it was … I would say this was maybe the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen in my life.”
Hundreds of miles northeast in the remote Arctic community of Kotzebue, midwife Elizabeth Withnall had seen something similar.
A photographer caught an unusual image in the night sky this weekend in Alaska.Todd Salat / AuroraHunter.com An Alaska resident spotted a remarkable spiral in the sky this weekend.

“We get a lot of very unusual phenomenon in the sky in the far north,” Withnall told the outlet.

“I’ve seen fog bows, and rainbows around the moon. So I just thought, ‘This is some weird thing in the sky, and I don’t know what it is, but it’s pretty cool.’ ”
It turns out that “weird thing” was man-made and “appears to be rocket engine exhaust from a SpaceX Transporter-7 mission that launched on the Falcon 9 about three hours earlier in California,” according to Don Hampton, a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute.
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I think it's the aliens come to eat us.
A SpaeX launch seems to be the cause of a huge spiral in the skies over Alaska.University of Alaska

It turns out that “weird thing” was man-made and “appears to be rocket engine exhaust from a SpaceX Transporter-7 mission that launched on the Falcon 9 about three hours earlier in California,” according to Don Hampton, a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute.

Shit...a Borg transwarp aperture.