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 Mysterious spiral blue light hovers above Norway 
#11619586 - 12/09/09 09:23 PM (8 months, 19 days ago) |
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I try not to get too excited about these kind of things as they usually have a mundane explanation but seriously wtf?
(Looks like this may not format correctly here so apologies if not).
"What's blue and white, squiggly and suddenly appears in the sky?
If you know the answer, pop it on a postcard and send it to the people of Norway, where this mysterious light display baffled residents yesterday.
Curiously, it appears to be unconnected with the aurora borealis, or northern lights, the natural magnetic phenomena that can often be viewed in that part of the world.
The mystery began when a blue light seemed to soar up from behind a mountain in the north of the country. It stopped mid-air, then began to move in circles. Within seconds a giant spiral had covered the entire sky. Then a green-blue beam of light shot out from its centre - lasting for ten to 12 minutes before disappearing completely.
Onlookers describing it as 'like a big fireball that went around, with a great light around it' and 'a shooting star that spun around and around'.
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute was flooded with telephone calls after the light storm.
Totto Eriksen, from Tromsø, told VG Nett: 'It spun and exploded in the sky,'
He spotted the lights as he walked his daughter Amalie to school.
He said: 'We saw it from the Inner Harbor in Tromsø. It was absolutely fantastic.
'It almost looked like a rocket that spun around and around and then went diagonally down the heavens.
'It looked like the moon was coming over the mountain, but then came something completely different.'
Celebrity astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard said he had never seen anything like the lights.
He said: 'My first thought was that it was a fireball meteor, but it has lasted far too long.
'It may have been a missile in Russia, but I can not guarantee that it is the answer.'
Air traffic control in Tromsō claimed the light show lasted 'far too long to be an astronomical phenomenon'.
Norwegian defence spokesman Jon Espen Lien also said the lights were probably from a Russian missile test claiming it was normal for Russia to use the White Sea and the Barents Sea as a testing ground.
Tromsō Geophysical Observatory researcher Truls Lynne Hansen agreed, saying the missile had likely veered out of control and exploded, and the spiral was light reflecting on the leaking fuel.
But the mystery deepened last night as Russia denied it had been conducting missile tests in the area.
A Moscow news outlet quoted the Russian Navy as denying any rocket launches from the White Sea area.
Norway should be informed of such launches under international agreements, it was stressed.
The Russian Defence Ministry was unavailable for comment."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html
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 Re: Mysterious spiral blue light hovers above Norway [Re: zorbman]
#11619610 - 12/09/09 09:29 PM (8 months, 19 days ago) |
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Re: Mysterious spiral blue light hovers above Norway [Re: legallyhomeless]
#11619743 - 12/09/09 09:56 PM (8 months, 19 days ago) |
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Sorry if it was already posted in Science and Tech.
I had looked for one but didn't see it but I'll look some more for it and comment there if so.
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Re: Mysterious spiral blue light hovers above Norway [Re: zorbman]
#11620790 - 12/10/09 01:06 AM (8 months, 19 days ago) |
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Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a photoshopped image!
hehe.. just kidding..
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Re: Mysterious spiral blue light hovers above Norway [Re: frith]
#11621400 - 12/10/09 04:06 AM (8 months, 19 days ago) |
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Looks like some kind of plasmatic manifestation. Interesting indeed.
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Re: Mysterious spiral blue light hovers above Norway [Re: RationalEgo]
#11623854 - 12/10/09 04:46 PM (8 months, 18 days ago) |
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Judging by the scarce videos of this phenomenon, I'm going to stick to the Russian missile explanation. It makes sense to me.
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Re: Mysterious spiral blue light hovers above Norway [Re: koraks]
#11625143 - 12/10/09 07:48 PM (8 months, 18 days ago) |
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I hope there is some follow up on this matter in the near future. If it was a Russian Missile, the US would know about it, right? Not like that info is public knowledge but i'd still like a definitive answer on this
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Re: Mysterious spiral blue light hovers above Norway [Re: tak]
#11626649 - 12/10/09 11:55 PM (8 months, 18 days ago) |
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It was a Russian missle test, I was reading about this earlier. The Russians haven't said anything about it, but apparently it's some new submarine nuke they have been working on for years.
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Re: Mysterious spiral blue light hovers above Norway [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#11626655 - 12/10/09 11:56 PM (8 months, 18 days ago) |
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A spectacular spiral of light was seen over the north of the country on Wednesday, prompting theories it was caused by a meteor, the Northern Lights or even aliens.
But now Russia has revealed that its latest test-firing of its new intercontinental missile ended in failure — at the same time observers witnessed the early morning light show.
As well as signaling a major setback for the country’s armed forces, the revelation provided a possible explanation for the mysterious display in the skies.
Russia's defense ministry refuses to confirme that the lights were caused by its Bulava missile, which can be equipped with up to 10 individually targeted nuclear warheads and has a maximum range of 5,000 miles.
But defense analyst Pavel Felgenhauer said the images seen over Norway were consistent with a missile failure.
"Such lights and clouds appear from time to time when a missile fails in the upper layers of the atmosphere and have been reported before," he said. "At least this failed test made some nice fireworks for the Norwegians."
The botched launch was the twelfth test of the Bulava and its eighth failure, which deals another blow to Kremlin's hopes that the sea-based weapon would become a cornerstone of its nuclear arsenal.
"They will have to spend quite a long time trying to make it working," said Alexander Konovalov, the head of the Moscow-based Institute of Strategic Assessment. "That is fraught with very negative consequences, up to the loss of the sea-based component of the Russian nuclear forces," he said.
The ministry said that a government commission was looking into the possible reasons behind the test failure.
Technology Web site Gizmodo has created a computer simulation showing how a rocket spiralling out of control could create such a display:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2009/12/10/norway-ufo-control-russian-rocket/?test=latestnews
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Re: Mysterious spiral blue light hovers above Norway [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#11626719 - 12/11/09 12:08 AM (8 months, 18 days ago) |
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Re: Mysterious spiral blue light hovers above Norway [Re: iateshaggy]
#11643242 - 12/13/09 04:47 PM (8 months, 15 days ago) |
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I need one of those rockets for my next house party.
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