Following the UFO hype around Friday’s Space X launch RT looks at other rocket launches that caused the world to freak out
As the stunning sight lit up the sky and social media, even SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk joined in on the hype, suggesting his rocket launch was a “Nuclear alien UFO from North Korea.” RT takes a look at five other times that the world freaked out, crying “aliens” in the aftermath of rocket launches.
The Atlas V launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida in September 2015 produced a similar elongated shaped white plume, amplifying UFO hysteria. Some onlookers reported the bright trail as an unexplained flying object with the alien hunting community quick to claim it as proof of extraterrestrial life.
A Falcon 9 launch was previously the subject of UFO hype in 2013. Space X’s first launch from California, triggered reports of UFO sightings as far afield as Mauritius.
Video from the Indian Ocean island nation showed a glowing orb illuminating the dark sky. A South African astronomer dismissed the extraterrestrial reports, explaining the orb was created by fuel released by the rocket’s second stage.
