Interesting. I couldn’t detect the spiral at all at that speed.
Uzumaki!!!
Now you remind me of that - yes, I’ve come across it before. So now we know @pesco’s original “vidoe” headline error! 
you can slow the footage…
…just click the cog wheel and select a slower speed…
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I can see those observatories from my living room windows. I was even up and outside around that time on Sunday, thanks to dogs and a cat whose potty/feeding schedule doesn’t take weekends off. Crazy to think I might have been able to see that if it hadn’t been cloudy and raining on this part of the island!
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It’s not possible to get it down to actual speed, but I suspect even if I could, it would still look weird to me. I guess the issue is that fundamentally, it’s not moving the way objects normally (in a human-scale, daily environment) move.
So much for that satellite being “classified”, huh?
…the characteristic spiral caused by the post-deorbit-burn fuel vent of the Falcon 9 upper stage…
Uh-huh.
Now explain the one in my attic.
When they said “Mysterious flying whirlpool,” I was picturing a washer-dryer. But, whatever.
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On October 8, 2017, I was on a ship,
sailing from Honolulu to Seattle and about 270 nautical miles north of the Big Island of Hawaii, and saw a very similar “sky spiral.” The funny part was how the Chief Mate I was on watch with managed to convince himself that it was some epically huge UFO.
Sorry for the crappy iPhone pic.
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