A "Mysterious" Flying Spiral over Maunakea 2023-01-18 UT / マウナケア上空にまた渦巻き出現！

[@johnhartzler3089]

The amount of other satellites caught on the video is mind blowing

[@NARKISDUDE]

Wow, thanks for pointing out, at x48 they appear for maybe 3 frames.

[@janasvoboda9242]

And sort of horrifying.

[@SPBurt1]

As a kid in the 80s it was a rare thing for a satellite to pass through the eyepiece view in my old telescope. These days it happens every few minutes.

[@woopimright]

Are you referring to the dots that are gliding across ?

[@johnhartzler3089]

@@woopimright yes. I see a lot in the bottom right of the video... My assumption is those are satellites

[@tonyv8925]

I remember, as a kid, watching Sputnik go by with my Dad's binoculars. Then later, when I built my 6" reflector telescope, watching Telstar go by at night. Now days, I watch Starlink, weather and other satellites traverse the night sky here in Michigan.

[@sategllib2191]

It's crazy most people don't know you can see satellites. I have the space station tracker app and love when it's night time hanging out with people and showing them. Cool party trick

[@tinto278]

You are the best a.i. chat bot yet. 🤣🤣

[@PriyaDiva23]

Believe or not i saw this when i was kid once , i was running to tell my dad but it’s gone after .. No one in my family believe me and just said my eyes was loose of sight. Today as I’m almost 40 years old and see this video.. it’s kind of shocking because this is what exactly i have seen before 😮

[@subarutel_starcamadmin]

Wow thanks for sharing your great story!

[@norbertomoran4575]

There was no blaming SpaceX for it then. So weird.

[@ggshout3019]

Lightforms: Spiritual Encounters with Unusual Light Phenomena, extremely rare cases of people saw same thing, sometimes Jesus, sometimes not. But yes, wormhole would be plausible. If you ever have to wonder if Time Travel was ever possible for our civilization, to search for wormholes you should just look up with your own eyes from time to time. The most obvious place to appear is here on earth. Not some distant galaxy far away.

[@munitia100]

you saw a discarded 2nd stage from a Falcon 9?

[@tariqlatif1505]

I agree it looked this weird to me as a kid also..good comments..

[@EpicLib]

Look at all that traffic up there

[@robstubeview]

Those objects appearing and disappearing are not traffic. They are meteors burning out in the atmosphere.

[@billt4716]

@@robstubeview Nope. They don't behave like meteors, and there are way way too many of them.

[@notmo.]

@@robstubeview sometimes there are quick flashes of long white trails across the skies, these are comets and small meteorites burning in the atmosphere. the dots that are moving across the sky without any trail are satellites and sometimes larger space debree (depends on the size and angle if they become visible if they reflect the sunlight coming from below the horizon)

[@jking4020]

@@robstubeview meteors without trails? Never have I seen that phenomena. Not trying to belittle you. Just saying.

[@michelep2795]

They look like they have trails (tales) to me, very fast and there a many meteor showers that happen every month of the year consecutively and these are meteor's that can't be seen by the naked eye, this is a telescope view.

[@chuck80y]

That's the Bajoran wormhole.

[@tigeritaly123]

A man of culture.

[@L1GLIVE]

That's what I said. XD

[@MyKirbyBlue]

Of course, it’s so obvious!

[@periciasjudiciais]

I don’t know if I follow the whirlpool or the satellites crossing the sky...amazing!!

[@sayittomyfaceidareyou8629]

And 🛸 🛸

[@jeffc6832]

That is the upper stage of the rocket from the SpaceX launch you mentioned. This phenomenon has been seen before, and I believe it is part of the deorbit process. Since all of the propellant has been expended, there is leftover ullage gas which gets vented via the reaction control system. This causes it to tumble and go into an unstable orbit, so that it can reenter the atmosphere and break up.

[@Thyalwaysseek]

Yes Elon Musk polluting our atmosphere with unused fuel venting from the rocket's spinning second stage.

[@lcs1956]

@@Thyalwaysseek Ullage gas is not fuel, it is gaseous nitrogen, same as 70% of our atmosphere. Elon Musk is returning it to our atmosphere.

[@waterdragon4950]

More trash from John Galt.

[@Thyalwaysseek]

@@lcs1956 Of course he is fanboy.

[@jeffc6832]

@@Thyalwaysseek all the fuel is essentially expended, so it is primarily expending inert gas, and it is technically not in the atmosphere at that point. While SpaceX is launching more mass to orbit, it is doing so in a much cleaner and less wasteful manner. Once Starship is operational, it will be even less polluting and wasteful as all of the spacecraft will return to Earth and be reused instead of expended in the atmosphere/ocean.

[@ZeroChannelZero]

Van Gogh: Hold my easel.

[@damienk2372]

Very nice capture👍

[@SashyB]

well captured, lovely to see, thanks for sharing

[@Deadkandy]

I’m more fascinated by all the satellites we saw zooming by during the sequence. Soooo many.

[@ColleenCZC]

That would be wild to see in person, and then not having a clue as to what it was. Very cool!

[@sanityassassin8161]

I saw this phenomenon in August of '86, and photographed. It was news back then, and my photos were on TV and in many east coast newspapers. It was gas venting from a Japanese rocket launched earlier in the day.

[@ColleenCZC]

Very cool @Sanity!

[@JamesOberg]

Did anyone get a video where the initial forward pulse could be seen, from a location away from this observatory? I'd like to try to triangulate based on star background to estimate object altitude [and hence speed].

[@jaquessheet3267]

I'm gonna keep a lookout for Jem'Hadar, just in case

[@jefflaw1764]

Sorry but that was my pizza order by air freight. It got here late to.

[@stgalaska]

That’s crazy, all that activity going on. I don’t even see that much action and I live where it’s dark.

[@kevinhoney1385]

try to look at the sky at 4;50 to around 5;10 AM. my brother

[@jking4020]

@@kevinhoney1385 For what exactly? I do all the time in Nebraska. What are we looking for besides the "wandering stars"?

[@EpicLib]

Let your eyes adjust in the dark about for ten minutes and just watch 🛰

[@ROlymps193]

i only caught satellites 2 times in morning right before the sunset

[@soulbass7565]

Popocatetl is also crazy in some days you will see dozens of weird lights from all over the screen

[@TurikoSanShiro222]

a SUBARU marketing stunt. its a good one! love it.

[@hydrocarbon82]

This would have been the upper stage for the GPS III-06 mission (satellite USA-343 "Amelia Earhart"). Specifically this was the 'burn' of the maneuvering thrusters to put a centrifugal spin on the craft+payload to 'fling' the satellite away from the upper stage instead of use precious fuel. The initial glowing would have been the last final tiny course correction bursts in multiple directions, creating expanding shell & waves of nitrogen gas. It did indeed release it's payload over the eastern Pacific, and the launch video shows it spinning slowly in the sunlight when it did. It's last main engine burn was a 15min previous to deploying so it had to have induced that spin somewhere visible to Hawaii. The interesting bit is you can roughly gauge the other satellite's (the fast moving dots) orbital altitude by their speed and where they appear & disappear. Higher orbits are slower & are visible longer in the sun. This satellite was being pushed into a high geosynchronous orbit.

[@JamesOberg]

Spot on. Here are other examples: satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/zuma_vs_falcon9-stage2_clouds_plumes_overview.pdf

[@MyKirbyBlue]

Thank you so much! That was a great explanation. And thanks for adding the bit about all the other satellites we’re seeing.

[@JamesOberg]

@@MyKirbyBlue - Thanks. Any suggestions, or news of similar event, I hope you'll share them.

[@egyrmexiq1]

At second 27 to 29 there was a extremely fast bright object going from bottom left to top.. can not be a satélite ..

[@lazyman2451]

It's a portal to another dimension.

[@CMPunk1978]

This is not a portal.

[@konstantinoschristou3701]

Thank you. May you be well .

[@paladro]

yeah, looks like previous 'spirals' that appeared over scandinavia, during russian missile tests.

[@JamesOberg]

Exactly. Want to see my report on the 'Norway spiral'??

[@itsnotwhatyouthink1]

I have seen this same thing in wa state last year

[@filetminyion5302]

The _arc / swirl_ at 0:34 and 0:47 is from RCS thrusters firing

[@DJPaulFreeman]

Can we get confirmation?

[@Macrodoctor]

Nice video. Clickbait heading. This is not a mystery.

[@jomon8971]

Wow, so cool. I've been out in dark sky preserves and seen this kind of activity in the sky, but never the blue spiral dude. Also, you know this video (along with the comment section) was removed from CBS's news channel.

[@GreenCurryiykyk]

That's a lot of satellites visible. Are these from the various relatively new constellation systems (eg Starlink)?

[@jeffc6832]

Some, but not all.

[@zman4539]

The Starlinks Sat's I have observed usually travel in group multiples of 15 or more spread out in a straight line. The speeds on some of those objects in this video are beyond hyper. Amazing footage to watch above and beyond the reentry spiral forming.

[@torerasmussen4282]

But not one picture of a satellite has been taken EVER?

[@jking4020]

@@torerasmussen4282 Good point. Real time pic of one. Why don't they put cameras on them? Seems pretty simple compared to the satellite itself. Would help all the flat-earthers get off their high horse anyway hehehehehe.

[@woopimright]

Are you referring to the dots that are gliding across ?

[@dcv5000]

yo seen this before a few years ago over norway for the first time

[@Sandman-rd2ih]

That was an amazing video also.

[@JamesOberg]

Turned out to be a Russian missile test.

[@dhjw]

@@JamesOberg Allegedly. :p

[@JamesOberg]

@@dhjw -- "Allegedly" No. There's ironclad proof. Want to see it or are you afraid that it could break your brain? Example: triangulation from several sites along the northern Norway coast shows the apparition was far to the east, over Russian territorial waters in their standard sub missile test zone, exactly where advance warning notices said it was going to be.

[@dhjw]

​@@JamesOberg ok, maybe I'll try to find something about it

[@massa5808]

dr estranho abrindo dimensao pra viajar

[@bkim7000]

I saw this on Star Trek it's called a wormhole 👍

[@あいかわ]

宇宙は謎だらけ

[@JOfAllT]

Fascinating .. probably a rocket expending excess fuel or slowing down for re-entry. But look at all that space "junk" (not debris) flying around!

[@EZGamingAllDay]

Imagine if if this was the birth of a whole galaxy and we just caught it on film!

[@tongaovniufouap]

How do you explain the enormous amount of lights that pass in all directions?? They don't explain them, of course.

[@subarutel_starcamadmin]

Sorry I did not explain but they are all artificial satellites. As you see by the clock at the lower right corner, it is a time-lapse view. If you see the sky with a high-sensitivity camera, you can easily see many flying around. The best time to see them are 1.5hr after sunset or before sunrise.

[@WhiteTriForce]

​@@subarutel_starcamadmin How do you explain the other one at the bottom left ? 🤷

[@martelkipaczek4087]

To nie wygląda jak satelita ,ale oky 🧐

[@L1GLIVE]

That was a wormhole my dudes. Does no one remember DS9?

[@kntrygrl30]

Or Farscape

[@geokat616]

Mysterious Flying Spiral Over Maunakea Hawaii Perfect Vision 🔑🗝🤍⚡️🌫🔹️💫🦁🟢🪲💓💯🦉🐯☄️✴️🌠🐆🌀🐚.

[@romariomoscon9424]

Man, grow up.

[@randy464]

Upper stage of a rocket? so where's the rocket? Light is reflexing off other objects but not the rocket that ejected this.

[@myafelicia]

Same observatory that caught the green beams on the same day, right?

[@subarutel_starcamadmin]

No. this is earlier than the LiDER observaton.

[@myafelicia]

@@subarutel_starcamadmin Mindblowing! You all must be seeing pretty interesting stuff there (yes, I'm jealous)!

[@tigersblood12212012]

Aren't those telescopes on the ground? Where is the footage from the observatories?

[@subarutel_starcamadmin]

We are the Subaru Telescope! This camera is on our telescope dome which is at an altitude of 4130 m, Maunakea, Hawai'i. It is the view of the "Maunakea Observatories", the best ground-based astronomical observatory site in the world.

[@tigersblood12212012]

@subarutel_starcamadmin the footage is from the ground from a cellphone taken from behind the observatory.

[@tigersblood12212012]

@@subarutel_starcamadmin this footage is not from the observatory.

[@subarutel_starcamadmin]

​@@tigersblood12212012 No. It is not by cellphone but by our dedicated camera. Observatories in the view are not Subaru. Please learn about the Maunakea Observatories on the web. As for the camera, please see the description of the live channel below. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmKbiYqtd5abgpo

[@suzycat2026]

Lots of other satellites & meteors here. Imagine seeing that spiral & not knowing what caused it. 😻🌠

[@erhardpostinger1326]

0:34 - ich habe keine Ahnung, was die verschiedenen zeitverzögernden Ansichten von vornherein bewirken, aber YT bietet ja noch obendrein Reduzierung der Abspielgeschwindigkeit. Einige - vermutlich ostasiatische Teile - im Videotitel lassen mich hoffen/(befürchten ;-)) - dass was ? "Our keen viewers discovered this rare event" . According to them, it seems it is related to the satellite orbital deployment operation. A new satellite was launched earlier this day by Space X. - Jedenfalls mein "like" (Nummer 301 oder 302) dafür, dass diesem Thema Raum gegeben wurde/wird !

[@subarutel_starcamadmin]

Can you write it in English? Seems like critical comments but google translation may mislead your context.

[@theimaginariumnetwork5621]

These swirls almost always coincide with some kind of space craft entering upper atmosphere or space....and boosters falling back to earth generally being the culprit.

[@gabrielcoutinho9497]

It's the guardians of the galaxy jumping straight from knowehere u fools 🤣

[@ggshout3019]

Let them know I found a strange blue stone that resembles the Time Stone.

[@risuomaeda6478]

人工衛星(?)たくさん写ってる

[@courageetdevouement4786]

It's planes (the white points move)

[@risuomaeda6478]

@@courageetdevouement4786 That makes sense. Thanks!

[@subarutel_starcamadmin]

@@risuomaeda6478 人工衛星ですね　時計を見てお分かりの様に、これタイムラプスなのです。飛行機みたいですね。

[@shwnshts9469]

Why do the satellites disappear into nothing along straight paths and don't set over the horizon line? Or have the moments where they appear frozen bc the speed and distance etc line up just right?

[@subarutel_starcamadmin]

Some of them are getting brighter because at some angle a satellite reflects more light. Some disappear because it enters into the shadow of the earth (especially for one at low altitude). I hope that helps.

[@shadeyreign]

What about all the other stuff flying around? Those arent planes or satellites

[@tariqlatif1505]

I have to say i percieve this space video, is filled with anebo, and crystal energy...it also looks like a backdrop of a shimmering sparkling Cloth..

[@tr7938]

I misread the title was disappointed there were no flying squirrels.

[@musicagratisparavlogs7895]

Yo vi lo mismo en veracruz México en unas vacaciones por a ya del 2018 y es algo que no se que sea pero fue hermoso ver eso en persona

[@garyroberts1552]

it's like a damn freeway interchange up there, ridiculous number of satellites..

[@davethompson6570]

Okay I got that, but what was all that air traffic? That didn't look a lot like typical aircraft. No blinking lights, and so many of them. Is that typical Japanese air traffic in the middle of the night?

[@subarutel_starcamadmin]

Thiis camera is actually in Hawaii. The moving objects are mostly artificial satellites, and many of them are the STARLINK satellites.

[@pepperonihead]

@@subarutel_starcamadmin Correct. These are Satellites. The video is speeded up quite a bit making them look like they are moving very fast. I live on Haleakala in Maui and when I go out with my PV7 Gen. 3 night Vision I see tons of them.

[@fiftofnovember]

It's a Starship Avalon.

[@ggshout3019]

Which Avalon? If it's the Avalon from Passengers it's probably missing it's target, as it did stopped the engines for few seconds with 99% lightspeed which means it could miss it's destination by a lot.

[@vvl3m3vv42]

There a dome up there and water Above that, the white spots whizzing about are orbs of light, the spiral is most likely a portal if not a little project bluebeam show.

[@犬犬-u7w]

流れ星がはんぱねぇな

[@mitchellquartero]

Wow

[@muzkat101]

Maybe it is just a satellite malfunction; a sudden propellant leak used by the 'reaction-control engine' for directional/orientational change; it outgassed possibly due to a malfunction and spun out of control. That's my guess.

[@coleorum]

It's becoming a junkyard up there.

[@jeremyjackson1311]

The object appeared at 4 : 20.

[@giannhs.dlmprs6608]

These moving objects that run at crazy speeds what are they? 🤔🤔

[@michelep2795]

Meteor's

[@เบญจานิลรุ่ง]

WOW

[@carlstclair1955]

Deplayment operation? Huh??

[@subarutel_starcamadmin]

Ouch! Thank you for pointing out...

[@cocoamonkey888]

Looks like rush hour in space

[@etsuwise]

不思議

[@mrm1987]

So Gordon Freeman managed to fire the Rocket @ White Forest Base into orbit and the combine portal had finaly been closed!

[@rocketcityastro]

Am I going to be the only one to call this fake

[@JamesOberg]

Sadly, no.

[@CMPunk1978]

@@JamesOberg This is fake.

[@JamesOberg]

@@CMPunk1978 -- Why not the closing phase of a routine pre-announced satellite launch? That looks pretty standard for such visual effects.

[@scotty6783]

why cant i get a shot in real time, instead of everything being time lapsed.

[@subarutel_starcamadmin]

Good comment! Please visit the original data archive below. You can find how slow the evolution of the gas bubble is...it starts from around 04:30 in the clock on screen. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iICXlIp_qJx-m6s . Enjoy.

[@WhiteTriForce]

There is a second one on the bottom left ! The rocket booster explanation is BS ! 💩🗑💯%

[@josephastier7421]

Are those all Starlink satellites?

[@virgiliustancu9293]

I don't understand how a satellite launch can create that.

[@buggsy5]

I don't know either, but it is a well observed phenomenon with Starlink satellite launches. There should be a number of scientific explanations of what is happening.

[@desperatepsycho]

Yeah that's a Stargoid lol

[@djsanny10]

Goku is saving us. He is making a Spirit Bomb :)

[@Myorbart]

Oatman 1 second ago This was and supernova, . The rotation is what caused the spiral. If you think about something rotating then exploding it will sense. We will feel the effects to our solar system sooner or later.

[@martywebb1487]

Wasnt that a rocket booster goin ham

[@GrayMANk]

It looks like a rasen shuriken, even rotates.

[@PatrikFormanek1]

Numbers of satellites is disturbing !

[@michelep2795]

They are meteor's, like a meteor shower. Not satellite's, satellite's move in straight lines and are slower... meteor showers go on quite frequently up there, can't see most with the naked eye...this is a telescope view.

[@mrzorg]

Some satellites when they get near orbit, have to spin up, and that's what you see here.

[@JamesOberg]

Close. The booster did a brief deorbit burn, then dumped excess fuel while spinning.

[@michaelmedina2148]

Spaceship coming out of lightspeed.

[@rossboyd2272]

I’m putting my bet on CGI .

[@grimmzard2841]

It was aliens, they flush their toilets :) :P

[@lesterdiamond5634]

That's a Nuclear Explosion in space.

[@CMPunk1978]

It's just a hologram.

[@lesterdiamond5634]

@@CMPunk1978 nope. nuke in space

[@CMPunk1978]

@@lesterdiamond5634 You don't know, what is planned in near future.

[@andreyandrey1004]

Hoping that was not a sort of traveling black hole 😮 Ps: if that was a rocket - some trace of the flight could’ve been seen.. doesn’t look like deorbiting or smth like that to me

[@subarutel_starcamadmin]

Yes, see at 1:24 of the allsky camera video below. There is more trace. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZSqZZWYeZuLrtk

[@NanocDark99]

Has anyone seen Gavin?

[@billt4716]

Dave's not here!

[@kntrygrl30]

It's a worm hole weapon... BETTER get Commander John Crichton and Officer Aeryn Sun involved ( a nod to All my "Farscape" fans out there!!😉

[@MyKirbyBlue]

Wow, I wasn’t surprised by all the Star Trek comments, but didn’t expect to see this one! Farscape is a very underrated show. Love it!!

[@Fritz_Schlunder]

John Crichton was one lucky bastard. He travels through a wormhole, and instead of getting ejected into a vacant and empty region of space where he presumably would have died all alone by running out of oxygen or power, he instead finds himself in an inhabited region of space surrounded by aliens. Included amongst the aliens are some attractive and interesting female aliens that look very much like human women. He later goes on an adventure of a lifetime, and he ultimately does end up sleeping with at least two of the alien women that he finds. What? How lucky can a guy get? Maybe I should spend some time trying to develop wormhole tech.

[@SM-qc3zx]

Space X my arse. That looks just like the spirals drawn on petroglyphs.

[@Camsynth]

Musky Skies

[@earthqwest]

Whirlpool only happends in Water!!

[@yuldashevdilmurod7012]

Andromeda is already here?

[@jeffreyreeves5524]

I'm not saying it was aliens but it's aliens.

[@CMPunk1978]

No, It's not aliens. It's hologram.

[@JamesOberg]

@@CMPunk1978 == A normal satellite launch sequence, please catch up.

[@evastronomy8048]

In 10 years or so....we will see more satelites than stars...too bad.

[@hildaschroeder7994]

Enero 18????????

[@m.martinez8400]

Jaja looks like a portal entrance near of Babylon 5

[@corey8677]

Well, you can't deny we know absolutely nothing about anything after seeing this. I come in peace ✌️

[@MatheusVinicius-cw8zm]

Eu vi esse negócio passando em linha reta de madrugada no último sábado ainda falei pra minha mãe ela penso que eu tava zuando entrei em desespero na hora

[@MatheusVinicius-cw8zm]

Pensei que era uma estrela cadente mais passou mais de vagar do que uma e o que chamou atenção era essa cor azul cabei de ver esse vídeo veio a lembrança doque vi. Deus e mais

[@romariomoscon9424]

No segundo post qnd vc disse "Deus é mais", entendi pq entrou em desespero no primeiro post. Deixa de lado a bíblia e estude mais sobre ciência e tecnologia.

[@shumshum3713]

It's happen before space x

[@epsilonxvi5675]

what happen to NASA?

[@Weigazod]

I hope Junji Ito saw this. :D

[@daveofbakersfield47]

mysterious?...really?? 😆

[@tariqlatif1505]

Amoeba i meant to say this is the word i should have said..Amoeba backdrop..