Near-Earth objects and close calls

[mabar]

Strange light in the sky seen over large swathes of the Middle East. From Turkey to Syria and Iraq

Grok is probably referring to this article: Iran's rocket launch raises alarm

This comes almost exactly 2 months after that Lunar standstill spirals that were allegedly caused by Musk´s rocket.

It seems that Grok is playing games, saying one thing in one post and something else in another. Although it could be from another rocket, which we still do not know, it would not be the first time, though. But from Vandenberg below, I am not that certain.

The Newsweek article refer to another one from AP, in which U.S. Senator Tom Cotton dismissed Iran's launch (post with an article from AP), in that article, the launched was on Monday.
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Grok says:

This is the ‘space jellyfish’ effect caused by the exhaust cloud from SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg on 23 July 2025 being illuminated by the setting sun. Similar events have been observed before in Europe and Turkey, and they are not UFOs.

Although, given the perspective, I don't think it's possible to observe. (Red dot from the left, from where it was launched. Red dot from the right, more or less Turkey, in fact I think is more from the perspective of the earth that can no longer be seen.) If that was so, Europe would had seen it first. Images taken from Video-SpaceX - Falcon 9 - TRACERS & Others - SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - July 23, 2025.


The ‘space jellyfish’ effect that lasts less than 10 seconds.



Interesting the aim, according to here, Vandenberg SFB Launch Schedule:

NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission, consisting of two identical satellites that will orbit Earth in tandem (one following the other), will help understand magnetic re-connection and its effects in Earth’s atmosphere. Magnetic re-connection occurs when activity from the Sun interacts with Earth’s magnetic field. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth. Hitchhiking small satellites: * Athena EPIC (Economical Payload Integration Cost) * Polylingual Experimental Terminal (PExT) * Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss (REAL)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1948119453549445426

From several Turkish cities was seen, according to the above thread.
Van


Konya/Kadınhanı

 

[Mari]

I´ve been thinking about these sky phenomena so I´ll just throw it here.
I don´t know if it is a rocket exhaust, some electromagnetic phenomena due to earth changes or a portal, but my thinking is that from the portal videos what we have seen (and the Cs confirmed), none of these sky phenomena look like a portal.

I.e. here is a video from Aleppo, that the Cs said it was "a breaching of the realm curtain":

https://twitter.com/x/status/1224317598084497409

Also here from Donetsk area in Ukraine; the Cs said that it was a portal being activated and that the energies are preparing to come through:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1563533391311425538

In both cases, all we can see is ripples in the sky, so without special displays of light.

But then, the Cs also said that ball lightnings are “trans-dimensional portals made manifest” (tornadoes are similar) - i.e. here is one of the latest examples of ball lightnings filmed

https://twitter.com/x/status/1941536888038338826

Also, in the session where the group discussed Dyatlov Pass, the Cs said that the fireballs that were observed at the location were not fireballs but the alien beings were probing opening portals to our reality.

Both cases makes me think that if there is any light when seeing a portal, it would be more a type of either ripples or a fireball or an electric. In this latest case of Turkey/Syria and before over Europe, those phenomena looked more static, so to say, not like the ones I mentioned above. Which makes me think that perhaps we are primed by SF movies to think of portals in a certain way, which is completely different that what it would look in reality.

Which also made me think about people entering a "zone of silence" when being around some paranormal phenomena, and again, that makes me think that a fully functional portal or a window could perhaps be invisible.

My 2ct, FWIW.

 

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[Olivierlejardinier]

Meteor over Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1956083946200162751

 

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A bright fireball lit up the night sky over the Andalusia, Spain.

Published on Aug 17, 2025 (1:48)

 

[mabar]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1957818407308370012

I thought it was an air shock in Kagoshima or an eruption of Sakurajima, so I checked the live camera, but what is this light?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1957811713383772609

 

[EmeraldR]

Fireball ‘bright as the moon’ lights up sky over western Japan​

Flashing light visible for hundreds of miles was an exceptionally bright meteor, say experts

Wed 20 Aug 2025 10.21 CEST

Fireball lights up sky over western Japan

Flashing light visible for hundreds of miles was an exceptionally bright meteor, say experts

www.theguardian.com

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1960602579374891320

In the absence of any unseen planetary-mass bodies in the outer solar system, the mean plane of the distant Kuiper belt should be the same as the plane orthogonal to the angular momentum vector of the solar system -- the invariable plane. Here, we measure the mean plane of the non-resonant Kuiper belt across semimajor axes 50 - 400 AU. We introduce a new method to measure the mean plane that we demonstrate to be independent of observational bias. In particular, our results are not biased by surveys that look only at limited areas on the celestial sphere. We find a warp relative to the invariable plane at semimajor axes of 80 - 400 AU (98% confidence) and 80 - 200 AU (96% confidence), but not at 50 - 80 AU or 200 - 400 AU. If it is not spurious, a possible explanation for this warp is an unseen planet in the outer solar system. With

-body simulations, we find that a planet with mass between that of Mercury and the Earth, semimajor axis in the range 100 - 200 AU, and inclination to be the most likely cause of the warp; however, parameters outside of these ranges are still possible. Such a body is distinct in both mass and semimajor axis from the various versions of an unseen planet invoked to explain apsidal clustering in the outer solar system. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is expected to confirm or deny the existence of the warp reported here, and might detect the planet that may produce it.

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
Cite as: arXiv:2508.14156 [astro-ph.EP]
(or arXiv:2508.14156v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this version)

Measuring the Mean Plane of the Distant Kuiper Belt

In the absence of any unseen planetary-mass bodies in the outer solar system, the mean plane of the distant Kuiper belt should be the same as the plane orthogonal to the angular momentum vector of the solar system -- the invariable plane. Here, we measure the mean plane of the non-resonant...

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