The strange, eerie light could be seen in the twilight sky from California to Arizona, leading many to wonder about its origin.
Screencaps from @GardnerGoodyear's video of the strange lights in the sky in Arizona. These were likely the illumination of rocket exhaust from SpaceX's October 27 launch of a Falcon rocket.The spectacular jellyfish-like lights are caused by sunlight reflecting off the rocket's exhaust plume at high altitudes. This mostly occurs around sunrise or sunset due to sunlight coming over the horizon.
"As the launch goes up, the exhaust [plume] expands in the light part of the atmosphere and the sunlight is then reflected off of some of that moisture and some of the other leftovers from the launch," 10 Tampa Bay meteorologist Grant Gilmorefrom Florida for the first time in three years, according to CNBC, carrying a classified payload for the U.S. Space Force named USSF-44.
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