Published May 03, 2024
By Isabel van Brugen
Reporter
Social media users have reported mysterious spiral UFO sightings across the United States and Europe this week, with one witness saying they saw an object in the night sky that was "omitting some sort of haze."
Sightings were reported in Ukraine and Finland, as well as in cities in Arizona and California.
Interest in unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), also known as UFOs, peaked last year after several experts testified before a Congress committee in July 2023 that they could pose a threat to national security. A Gallup poll conducted in 2021 found that 41 percent of Americans believe alien spacecraft have visited Earth, up eight points from 33 percent in 2019.
Multiple users on X, formerly Twitter, published footage and images of what they saw.
"Somebody, please tell me this isn't a UFO...Completely clear skies, and I see a super blurry white light (no flashes like a plane), coming straight at me horizontally," one person wrote on Friday.
"It then goes straight up and FREAKING [DISAPPEARS]. Checked, and there we NO rocket launches or anything like that (either way a rocket would've emitted a different color light). I was able to get this much on camera. SOMEONE EXPLAIN PLZ," they added.
Another X user responded, saying that they "saw this very same thing" in Arizona.
"It then goes straight up and FREAKING [DISAPPEARS]. Checked, and there we NO rocket launches or anything like that (either way a rocket would've emitted a different color light). I was able to get this much on camera. SOMEONE EXPLAIN PLZ," they added.
Another X user responded, saying that they "saw this very same thing" in Arizona.
"Came from the west, it hovered and looked like it is surrounded in a fog, then suddenly just disappeared into itself....JUST like this video... I'm SO GLAD others got it on camera!" they wrote.
One X user noted that there was "haze" around the object, despite the clear night skies.
"UFO sighting in Santa Barbara. Clear skies, you can even see the stars in the video but the light was omitting some sort of haze around it," they said.
Another person wrote, "UFO in Palm Springs tonight. Just recorded this on an iPhone 14 in Palm Springs with no cloud cover what so ever. Then it vanishes."
A similar looking object was sighted in Helsinki, Finland, according to footage posted to Reddit.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, Alpha Centauri, a Ukrainian non-profit educational project, said on X that a mysterious white flash that was spotted over some regions of the country on Thursday evening was the exhaust spiral from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base.
"Mysterious objects in Ukrainian skies again! Over some regions of the country, the second stage of the Falcon 9 vehicle could be seen launching two WorldView Legion satellites," Alpha Centauri wrote.
Newsweek reached out to SpaceX for comment by email.
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