{"id":125305,"date":"2025-11-06T16:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/125305\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:59:10","slug":"mysterious-light-over-england-aliens-or-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/125305\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious light over England &#8211; aliens or rocket?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bright spiral-shaped light was caught on camera in the night sky across England and sparked speculation online, but it was most likely linked to a rocket launch.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said the light appeared in the night sky over Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island and was only visible for a short time before disappearing.<\/p>\n<p>Experts determined that the light was likely related to the launch of the Ariane 6 rocket in Kourou, French Guiana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">Emily Pike of WMTW-TV Maine&#8217;s Total Weather explained that the rocket, which was carrying the Sentinel-1D satellite into orbit, apparently ejected excess fuel from its upper stage, which froze into reflective ice crystals that created the spiral pattern of light before dissipating. \/Telegraph\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bright spiral-shaped light was caught on camera in the night sky across England and sparked speculation online,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[5040,61,60,22584,82,247],"class_list":["post-125305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-england","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rockets","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125305","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=125305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}