Strange Object Seen Over Maine

On November 4th, just after 6 p.m. EST, residents across Maine, New England, and eastern Canada looked up to find an uncanny spectacle unfolding in the sky. Videos and photos quickly surfaced of a brilliant object racing northeast, trailing a spiraling light that seemed to twist and bloom as it moved.

Speculation spread fast—was it an interstellar craft, some secretive new technology, or a sign from beyond? The truth, though, was far more terrestrial. That glowing spiral wasn’t a rift in the heavens or a ghostly omen, but the upper stage of a rocket venting its leftover fuel. Spinning for stability, the stage etched the exhaust into a perfect spiral, and at its lofty altitude, the plume caught the last rays of the sun—transforming cold mechanics into a vision that looked, for all the world, like a galaxy unfurling above Maine.

So no, it wasn’t a portal in the sky or a mothership unfurling its sails—it was just another rocket, another plume of exhaust from the playground of the wealthy. And yet, standing there in the cold, watching that spiral glow against the dark, tell me you didn’t wish—just for a moment—that it was something stranger. Something not built by hands that already own too much of this world. Because deep down, most of us would rather believe in aliens than in billionaires burning holes in the heavens.