[https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/sverige/mystiskt-ljusfenomen-over-stockholm/](https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/sverige/mystiskt-ljusfenomen-over-stockholm/)
[https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/KMyXqX/mystiskt-ljusfenomen-over-sverige](https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/KMyXqX/mystiskt-ljusfenomen-over-sverige)
These two are the biggest mainstream media on the internet in Sweden.
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Colleagues Magnus Pousette and Milan Bundevic were at Saltsjökvarn in Nacka when they suddenly witnessed the strange light phenomenon.
– We were standing on the quay outside when all of a sudden we saw the light up in the sky, says Magnus Pousette.
They were able to quickly determine that it was no plane – and luckily, they were quick with the cameras.
– We sat and talked and Magnus reacted to something behind my back. I looked up and saw the glow. At first I thought it was an airplane, but it was completely silent and appeared out of nowhere.
– At first it almost seems to stand still. It moved at a leisurely pace, then the pace increased and became very fast towards the horizon, says Milan Bundevic.
Similar phenomenon in 2022
They both question what it was, but don’t think it was man-made. Both describe it as looking like a ball in the middle and having what looked like a small tail.
– I was completely quiet, you couldn’t hear anything. It was cool as hell, says Magnus Pousette.
There are reports of similar sightings from other parts of Central Sweden.
A similar light phenomenon was seen over Sweden a couple of years ago. Then it could be explained by a rocket launch from SpaceX. Whether this time too is a rocket launch is unclear at the moment, but about an hour before the observations in Sweden, SpaceX launches two Falcon 9 rockets from California, one on behalf of ESA and the other with 23 Starlink satellites on board.
Expressen is looking for SpaceX.
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In the second Article I read about the locations before it got locked behind a paywall that the lightning sphere was seen through multiple places in Sweden. It cannot be a civilian drone because it was 100-200 km apart from the locations.
by CombinationGlobal831
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I mean it’s obviously (to us) a rocket launch, so I’m 60/40 on this being negative vs positive overall in that it’s covered in a mainstream press article. The positive part is that at least people are talking about things in the sky, but the negative part in that they’re not doing their homework before publishing and it’s just another mundane (relatively) explanation that will keep people disinterested for the genuinely unknown stuff up there.
It looks exactly like propellant from a stage 2 rocket.
Depending on the angle of the of the sun and viewer and rocket, it can take on the various looks.
[https://youtu.be/5vmGwosE5Ok?si=S2wvsDKN1nZBEOnA](here is one establishing orbit)
[https://youtu.be/nrUMC_eB1kU?si=xqNvWerfHZfdgi44](under certain conditions it can even look like a spiral!)
[https://youtu.be/3WraTmVS9qc?si=tgwa23fuu2myLT_2](here is one with a similar profile)
You might be saying “But no it doesn’t look exactly like this”, But the profile of propellant clouds has so many factors…how high is it, where is the sun, where is the viewer relative to rocket, how many engines are firing, what kind of propellent, what kind of maneuver…
But I am certain it is a rocket.
I’ve seen enough rockets on here to recognise this as 100% the upper stage of a rocket in space.
Apparitions of St. Lucia.