Had to share. Pretty Bizzare! (1 Viewer)

[CRyan]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2764647/Spiral-UFO-puts-Norway-in-a-spin.html

 

[cafink]

It must have been really something to see that in person!

The Bad Astronomer wrote about it yesterday, and concluded that it's almost certainly an out-of-control rocket:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/12/09/awesomely-bizarre-light-show-freaks-out-norway/

 

[Bob McLaughlin]

I'm thinking that's a re-entry of some man-made space junk or a missle test. I saw one of these light spirals 24 years ago when I was delivering papers at 5:00 AM. My brother also saw it and my English teacher mentioned seeing it on a morning walk. Within two days there was an article in the paper about it, and the government admitted they had been doing some missle testing and it had broken up in the upper atmosphere.

 

[Malcolm R]

Yep, according to MSNBC.com it was a Russian missle test.

 

[Steve_Tk]

If you watch the video it's pretty strange. The spiral opens up at the end and looks like a giant hole that gets pretty big. Don't believe the missile test propaganda, clearly it's aliens!

 

[RobertR]

Originally Posted by Malcolm R

Yep, according to MSNBC.com it was a Russian missle test.

I can almost hear the collective sigh of disappointment from the "I want something that science can't explain!" people.

 

[Sam Posten]

This is clearly Silica related...

 

[cafink]

Another sky-spiral appeared the next day. Looks like the Russians are testing more rockets. Again, Bad Astronomy has a write-up:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/12/12/another-russian-rocket-spiral-lights-up-the-sky/

 

[Sam Posten]

Now it's a silica conspiracy!