{"id":304931,"date":"2025-12-08T11:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/304931\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T11:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:44:09","slug":"mysterious-streak-of-light-over-devon-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/304931\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious streak of light over Devon skies"},"content":{"rendered":"

One onlooker ‘couldn’t believe’ what she saw<\/p>\n

James Connolly, SWNS and Maxine Denton Senior Reporter<\/p>\n

10:41, 08 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

\"TheThe mysterious streak of light was captured above Devon (Image: Ellie Jarvis \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n

A mysterious streak of light spotted in the sky above Britain was most likely caused by a Chinese rocket, experts say.<\/p>\n

Early risers in various locations, including Devon, were convinced they were seeing something otherworldly when the glow appeared.<\/p>\n

Snapped by one witness in the early hours of Wednesday (December 3), pictures show the surreal pillar of light hanging still in the sky.<\/p>\n

Experts now confirm the display was most likely caused by a Chinese rocket’s exhaust plume catching the rising sun during a test run.<\/p>\n

Ellie Jarvis, 45, from Clovelly in north Devon<\/a>, was up unusually early when she captured the sight.<\/p>\n

\"ExpertsExperts say the blazing light was most likely caused by a Chinese rocket(Image: Ellie Jarvis \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n

She said: “I couldn’t believe it. We’ve seen auroras before, but I didn’t know what this was.<\/p>\n

”It was so straight and high up in the sky. I wondered if it was a natural trick of the light.”<\/p>\n

Speaking to the BBC<\/a>, astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell said: “It was definitely the Chinese Zhuque-3 rocket making its first test flight.”<\/p>\n

In the photos, the sky looks black except for the blazing light, which seems to hover as dawn creeps in.<\/p>\n

Ellie, who has lived in the village for 20 years, added: “I was so surprised when I found out what it actually was.<\/p>\n

“I’d already shared it in our family group chat and we had all kinds of theories.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One onlooker ‘couldn’t believe’ what she saw James Connolly, SWNS and Maxine Denton Senior Reporter 10:41, 08 Dec…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[23974,90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-304931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-north-devon","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}