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Mysterious Moving Blue Spiral in Norway Sky - 9 Dec 2009

submitted by EDD

1 decade 5 years 1 week ago

Between 7 and 9 o clock in the morning, december 9, 2009 this strange thing happened in the sky above Norway. Thousands of people saw this, took photos and filmed it and posted to their blogs. It appeared in the east, moving westwards.

It was described as a spiral moving light, completely silent. After about 1 minute or so, the light disappeared and seemed to dissolve, leaving a grey mist/halo expanding, then dissolving. The green/blue lighttrail remained for hours. People describing it as frightening/exciting and beautiful.

Norwegian defence say they dont know what it is. Russians say they have not launched any rockets, neither have the Norwegian Andøya rocketsite.

It is not Aurora borealis, and not a meteor since it remained in the skies for more than 2 minutes. Russian, Swedish and Norwegian rocket sites report they have not fired any rockets. Nobody knows what this is.

English google translation for newslink:
http://tinyurl.com/yl5kejz

Videolinks:
http://www.vgtv.no/?id=27553
http://www.vgtv.no/?id=27558&category=1
http://www.vgtv.no/?id=27559&category=1

http://www.nordlys.no/nyheter/article4749996.ece

Newslink with pictures:
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/vaer/artikkel.php?artid=596369
http://najs.no/2009/12/09/lhc-creates-light-phenomena-in-norway/

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Here's a nice summary via the Something Awful forums: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3238877

Hit the link for some delicious HQ pics. WTF this phenomenon is, beats me. I genuinely wish it were some aliens.

Cthulu opening his maw of course. As they say, the simplest explanation tends to be the best.

So it turns out it was a missile after all: http://www.videosift.com/talk/Weird-Light-Phenomenon-over-Norwegian-Skies?loadcomm=1#comment-913690

^ Yup. See also the excellent writeup on Bad Astronomy.

Not to mention Almanildo's video on the matter: http://www.videosift.com/video/How-the-mysterious-Norwegian-sky-spiral-might-have-formed

nah, it was the side effect of that one time that everyone pointed their laser pointer at the moon simultaneously...

Here is a good quality video of the event.

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