In Alaska, eyewitnesses filmed an unusual phenomenon in the sky (4 photos)
A photographer filming the northern lights in Alaska spotted the sky giant mysterious funnel. The photos ended up on the web users put forward their assumptions. 
Explorer and photographer Todd Salat captured the spiral in the sky against the backdrop of the peak of Donnelly Dome - an ancient glaciation, which formed about 100,000 years ago.
Todd said he first thought the ornament was in the sky appeared due to a passing plane, but soon the spiral began grow. A few minutes later the spiral disappeared. 
Photos of an unusual phenomenon began to appear on the Internet. Netizens wondered what it was. A natural phenomenon? UFO? 
As it turned out, the light funnel is connected with space. By according to the space physicist, associate professor of the Geophysical Institute at University of Alaska Fairbanks by Don Hampton, whimsical spiral the cloud was formed by the launch of the Falcon 9 spacecraft, Gazeta reports. 
A few hours earlier in California took to the skies SpaceX rocket. The drawing appeared after the discarded top the rocket stage flew over Alaska. The spiral came from the fuel which the module threw out during rotation.
