I’ve seen rockets fired from arab-occupied territories that do this when something goes wrong, like a bent stabilizer.
The spiral really isn’t a spiral, it’s a circling rocket and looks like a spiral because the rocket is either moving toward you or away from you in an even “cork screw” pattern, laid on it’s side.
Crappy Iranian rockets, crappy Russian rockets, same result, just bigger.
Lots of neat photos at the link. #14 looks like a contrail in the distance - perhaps from a rocket. #5 was weird though a black hole with the blue spiral extending to earth.
Interesting the various phases of the thing and the different looks from various perspectives. I’ll take your word on the rocket thing after I looked at all the photos. But that giant spiral is still hard to believe it came from an out-of control rocket.
I’ve seen northern lights before that looked just like the loops coming off both ends of a bar magnet with iron filings like we did in grade school. That was pretty cool!
First serious reply on the whole thread. Thanks for being a voice of sanity.