Spiral UFO puts Norway in a spin

[Askilla]

Check out the pictures and the film footage via the link..

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/new...z0ZEDgXwSS

A MYSTERIOUS giant spiral of light that dominated the sky over Norway this morning has stunned experts — who believe the space spectacle is an entirely new astral phenomenon. Thousands of awe-struck Norwegians bombarded the Meteorological Institute to ask what the incredible light — that could be seen in the pre-dawn sky for hundreds of miles — could possibly be.
The phenomenon has been dubbed 'Star-Gate' — as the world's top scientists and the military lined up to admit they were baffled.


Theories ranging from a misfired Russian missile, meteor fireball, never-before-seen type of northern light, 'black hole' and even alien activity were all proposed.
Witnesses across Norway, who first glimpsed the space show at 8.45am, all described seeing a spinning 'Catherine wheel-style' spiral of white light, centred around a bright moon-like star.
A blue "streaming tail" appeared to anchor the spiral to earth, before the light "exploded" into a rotating ring of white fire.

The spiral spectacle — which lasted for two minutes — was seen by vast swathes of the Scandinavian country's almost five million population, with sightings as far north as Finnmark to Trondelag in the south.
Totto Eriksen, from Tromso, in northern Norway, was one of the thousands who bombarded Norwegian newspapers with sightings — after nearly crashing his car on spotting the spiral overhead.
He said: "I was driving my daughter to school when this light spun and exploded in the sky.
"We saw it from the Inner Harbour in Tromso. It looked like a rocket that spun around and around - and then went diagonally across the heavens.
"It looked like the moon was coming over the mountain - but then turned into something totally different.
People just stopped and stared on the pier - it was like something from a Hollywood movie." Axel Berg, from Alta, also in the north of the country, added: "It was like a giant spiral - a shooting star that spun around and around.
"I initially thought it was a projector but then the 'tail light' left and the spiral remained spinning still."
Norway's most celebrated astronomer, Knut Jorgen Roed Odegaard, said he had never seen anything like the spiral before.
said: "This was seen over an exceptionally large area of the country - in all of north Norway and the Trondelag. "My first thought was that it was a fireball meteor - but it lasted far too long.
"It may have been a missile from Russia - but I can't guarantee that is the answer.
"I rang the Air Traffic Control tower in Tromse. They said it was over in two minutes. To me, that is far too long for this to be an astronomical phenomenon.
"This spiral shape is unique. It is definitely not a variation of the aurora borealis - northern lights."
Chief Scientist Erik Tandberg, at the Norwegian Space Centre, said that he too was "totally amazed" by the spiral.
He agreed with many other experts that the spiral pattern could have been caused by a missile from Russia — something the Russian military have strongly denied.
 
Dr Tandberg said: "I agree with everyone in the science community that this light was the weirdest thing. I have never seen anything like this ever.
"It may have been anything from an exploding missile whose launch went wrong - to a comet or other celestial object that for some reason has been behaving strangely.
"If it was a missile - most likely from the launch base in Pletsevsk in Russia or one of the Russian submarines or even from the European Space Agency base in Kiruna - then we are talking about a rocket launch that has gone wrong.
"The spiral suggests the object came off course and balance and entered the spiral movement. Leaking rocket fuel could account for the blue light.
"But I know that the military have denied this explanation. So we could be looking at an entirely new natural phenomenon."

Meanwhile, Nick Pope, former UFO analyst for the Ministry of Defence, yesterday added that the Norwegian sighting was a "real mystery".
He said: "My first thought was this was a meteor, a fireball, or debris from an old satellite burning up in the earth's atmosphere.
"But the spiral motion makes this unlikely. This is truly bizarre. It's a real mystery.
"A meteor or a fireball would simply travel in a straight line but for something to spiral in this way appears to go against the laws of physics.
"Some may think it is the Northern Lights but they illuminate the sky with a green glow.
"This is completely different from any image of the Northern Lights that I have ever seen.
"It's ironic that something like this should happen the very week after the MoD terminated its UFO project. It just goes to show how wrong that decision was."

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[Richard]

It does look interesting.

[William]

Dont we have here on the forum a video of something like this? We have a vid of a wormhole then a ship coming out of it?

[RockNRollHippie]

I was just coming here to post this. I think it is more than coincidence that the Hadron Collider smashed photons not 9 hours earlier...

[Mercy Now]

Whatever this is.. it's creepy!

[Askilla]

My favourite comment from the news sites is 'Someone's misplaced the Bat signal again!'

Simplest explanation is it's a rocket test gone wrong - we have no real idea how far military technology on this planet has come along. I remember on youTube that someone mentioned that Russia had launched a rocket.

I'd be worried if it was a worm hole created by the CERN project because it would be akin to a baby playing with a nuclear bomb.

[Tyson]

i dont think its so simple as a rocket test gone wrong. i dont know what it could be. raises questions on every forum but oddly not here on canadian news :S

[Anu-021413]

Hmmm. Today I read,via AP, that Russia now says it was a failed missile test. Launched from a sub in the White Sea. This is a backtrack on the first statement. I've never heard of the Russians, denying a weapons test, and then confirming it later. It's a rare occurrence, in my view. So then, for them to suddenly do so may mean that there was some sort of pressure to do so. Possibly from "someone" who knows what it really was, and wishes to hell, it was something else.
Second, where was/is the debris that would have been spread over No Norway from the "explosion?" I've seen footage of failed rocket/missile tests, and it looks nothing like this. Nor do "explosions" not create a flash and flaming falling debris. Nor to the trails from the exhaust appear as a blue streak. Nor do explosions seem to open into a blackhole, and close in on themselves as shown on the clip above. I don't know what it was, but it was pretty neat.

They'd have been better off saying it was a "weather Balloon," or swamp gas. Maybe even a runaway float from the Macy's parade or something.

[Breaking News Breaking News]

Another 'UFO' from Russia

Posted: Friday, December 11, 2009 4:38 PM by Alan Boyle

Just a day after a Russian rocket launch set off a spate of UFO sightings in Norway, yet another missile test created a similar sky show over the heart of Russia.

Like Wednesday's launch of the submarine-based Bulava missile from the White Sea, Thursday's launch of the land-based Topol ballistic missile from the Kapustin Yar missile range on the lower Volga River sparked plenty of sightings. Reports came in from Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, Ufa and other cities, said NBC News space analyst James Oberg.

The rocket plume created a spiral pattern in the sky, though the pattern wasn't as striking as the one seen over Norway earlier in the week. "The difference in sunlight conditions from pre-dawn northern Norway may account for much of the visual differences," Oberg said.

Russia's Itar-Tass news agency said the test launch was successful, and the missile came down to earth in the Sary Shagan military reservation in eastern Kazakhstan. Oberg said the spiral plume doesn't necessarily mean anything was amiss, even though that was seen as a tip-off that the White Sea launch was a failure.

"I continue to get suggestions that the third-stage spin is a 'feature,' not a malfunction, and may be associated with guidance, or decoy deploy, or enhancing hardness against U.S. boost-phase antimissile weapons," he wrote in an e-mail. The latest space spin suggests that the spiral plume patterns seen over Norway aren't all that unusual, a view that Jeffrey Lewis confirms at ArmsControlWonk.com.

"The first rocket UFO was so much fun, the Russians fired off another one as an encore!" Oberg wrote. "Actually, the timing of the two tests is almost certainly accidental."

Check out the Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces blog for more about the post-START missile test, and check out this  roundup for video and imagery showing the rocket's glare:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2...50063.aspx

[Anu-021413]

So now we're expected to believe the Russian Millitary is channeling Pee-Wee Herman, and they "meant to do that." OKay, so then what were they testing on the Kursk that they meant to do, for example?