Rocket launch spiral

Casually checking out my all-sky camera, I caught a strange phenomena.

Going outside it turned out to be a mesmirizing spiral that crossed the sky from NNW towards E in about 15 minutes, around 21 MET.

My son Warre Verheyden could capture it on the phone camera:

Most likely a Falcon 9 rocket stage with a fuel cloud spiral, generated by the tolling stage. The launch was 18.48 MET on Cape Canaveral SLC-40


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