PENSACOLA, Fla. — What was seen in the sky above Northwest Florida Wednesday morning?
The answer: a space jellyfish.
According to SpaceX, around 4:50 a.m. CT, Falcon 9 launched “29 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40” at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Brevard County, Florida.
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SpaceX says this was the 25th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission.
“Following stage separation, the first stage landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean,” SpaceX says.
WEAR News started receiving photos from viewers in Pensacola around 4:55 a.m. CT about an image seen in the sky.
What they saw was a “space jellyfish,” which is a rocket launch-related phenomenon.
See some of the pictures and video from our Pensacola viewers above.