{"id":112628,"date":"2025-10-30T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/112628\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:04:06","slug":"the-truth-is-out-there-and-its-probably-elon-musks-rocket-flying-over-ireland-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/112628\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth is out there \u2013 and it\u2019s probably Elon Musk\u2019s rocket flying over Ireland \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An unusual bright light that could be seen in the sky across Ireland on Wednesday night, prompting speculation of UFOs, may have be linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/elon-musk\/\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/space-x\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/space-x\/\">SpaceX<\/a> rocket launch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It was reported to be moving West to east and was lower in the sky than the moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Alan O\u2019Reilly of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CarlowWeather\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CarlowWeather\">Carlow Weather<\/a>, the forecasting website, explained that the light was too high in the sky to be a helicopter and that it had made no noise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Soon after it could be seen in the sky, social media speculation began to emerge of it being an unidentified flying object (UFO). <\/p>\n<p>A mysterious light in the night sky over Ireland was found to be the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket dumping fuel in orbit following its launch. Video: Carlow Weather <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr O\u2019Reilly reported the night\u2019s events on his social media accounts. He received thousands of comments and direct messages from people with reports and theories. He was also sent photos and videoswith messages coming from as far away as counties Clare, Donegal and Dublin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt was the whole island, really,\u201d he told The Irish Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It was clear from many of the pictures and videos that the object had it \u201clit up the whole sky\u201d, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He said he was \u201cpretty confident\u201d the phenomenon was linked to the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX company designs, manufactures and launches rockets and spacecraft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Wednesday, SpaceX launched 29 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit. They lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at around 4.35pm Irish time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr O\u2019Reilly explained that one part of the rocket released fuel which froze and formed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWhat we saw was the frozen fuel and the ice crystals reflecting the light,\u201d he said. \u201cIt matched the time and direction perfectly.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) were contacted for a comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unusual bright light that could be seen in the sky across Ireland on Wednesday night, prompting speculation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[605,61,60,14647,43,53956,1390],"class_list":["post-112628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-elon-musk","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-aviation-authority","tag-news","tag-space-x","tag-starlink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}