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Mysterious object spotted during SpaceX launch

Rank
Ran
26h
Updated
5d ago
Final
Outlets
4
Regions
3
Countries
4
Languages
4

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INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International · Arabic 29 Sept, 18:48 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Español (1) · Português (1) · Română (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 4 after 27 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, 29 Sept, 18:48 UTC.
  2. Second region: Europe, with Adevărul.
  3. Second country: Argentina, with La Nación (AR).
  4. Last article: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

27 of 27 hours

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The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 50%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 25%
  • International 1 outlet · 25%

First movers

  1. INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed 29 Sept, 18:48 UTC
  2. Adevărul +4h 12m
  3. La Nación (AR) +25h 13m
  4. CNN Brasil +26h 31m

The figures

Coverage
4 outlets in 4 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 4 outlets, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Argentina, Brazil. Europe 1: Romania. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian.
Timeline
Earliest article Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, 29 Sept 2026, 18:48 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 18:50 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 21:19 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Science & health. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continued by Starship Flight 14: Alien mothership theories erupt over mystery object. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
30 Sept 2026 297 4.28 4 4 2 2 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 29 Sept, 18:50 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 21:19 UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Americas 2 outlets

  • CNN Brasil Brazil 30 Sept, 21:19 UTC
    Internautas apontam ‘OVNI’ em transmissão ao vivo no lançamento do foguete Starship, da SpaceX; assista
  • La Nación (AR) Argentina 30 Sept, 20:01 UTC
    Aseguran que apareció un OVNI en la transmisión en vivo de SpaceX: “¿Qué es esto, Elon Musk?”

Europe 1 outlet

  • Adevărul Romania 29 Sept, 23:00 UTC
    Obiect misterios surprins în transmisia SpaceX. Speculații despre o „navă-mamă” extraterestră

International 1 outlet

  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International 29 Sept, 18:48 UTC
    جسم غامض خلال رحلة "سبايس إكس" يشعل نظريات الكائنات الفضائية
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