UFO. United States

In the early hours of Sunday morning, patient night photographers received a picture of an "otherworldly" red glow sweeping through the galaxy. They suspect that the culprit was a SpaceX rocket launched just a few minutes earlier in Florida.

Photographer David S. Johnston captured the red sky while shooting the Milky Way with a long exposure at 12:30 a.m. on June 19 in Bear Rocks (West Virginia, USA).

The red color in the sky was not visible to the naked eye, but after Johnston looked at his photographs again, it became clear that the camera had recorded something special.

"I had no idea what it was, and it scared me a little," Johnston wrote. "This morning I showed the photos to some people, and a friend, perhaps jokingly, suggested that it could have been a rocket launch. But I looked into it, and of course SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 from Florida that morning, just a few minutes before the red color appeared," he added.

Johnston is not alone in his assumptions. Similar pictures were taken in Maryland, North Carolina and other places, and many other photographers came to the same conclusion. Some scientists also agree that it could have been the result of a SpaceX rocket launch.

Carlos Martinis from the Center for Space Physics at Boston University explained to The Washington Post that the red glow may be due to the burning of the Falcon 9 second stage engine, which usually begins about three minutes after launch at altitude when positive oxygen ions are present in the atmosphere.Gorenje, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, is the first stage of the Fueled by the intense combustion of the rocket engine, oxygen ions combine with other environmental molecules to form molecular ions O2 +, N2 + and NO+, which react with electrons and produce a glow.Gorenje