The cause of the strange blue spiral is actually a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1:48 p.m. EDT (1748 ...

A mysterious spiraling blue light illuminated the night skies over ... STUCK IN SPACE SpaceX spirals develop after the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket separates from its first-stage booster.