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UFO spotted in the background of SpaceX rocket launch

Conspiracy theorists say a UFO spotted in the background of footage from Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket launch could be an alien craft. With a mannequin named 'Starman' inside of the car, Musk's photo the Tesla Roadster roadster in an elliptical orbit around the sun with a increasingly distant crescent Earth in the background, the final photo that will ever be seen of the dummy's voyage into the solar system SpaceX's Starman dummy launched into space on the maiden voyage of Falcon Heavy, the world's most powerful rocket. Hundreds gathered to watch the historic event at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday Spectators at Cocoa Beach, Florida, looked up in amazement at the Falcon Heavy launch on Tuesday from the Kennedy Space Center SpaceX's successful Falcon Heavy launch might have been impressive, but the firm lost one of the enormous rocket's reusable boosters, CEO Elon Musk has confirmed. Tesla founder Elon Musk previously released an animation revealing how he would fire his car toward Mars aboard the world's most powerful rocket The billionaire said the firm's Falcon Heavy spacecraft would carry his 2008 cherry red Tesla Roadster on a billion-year journey through space 'if it doesn't explode into tiny pieces'. Pictured is an artist's impression of the car strapped into the rocket's main module Once Falcon Heavy entered space, two of the 70-metre- long craft's booster rockets separated off and returned to Earth at Cape Canaveral in controlled landings A photo of its unusual cargo - Musk's cherry red 2008 Tesla Roadster - was first released last month.

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