News & Politics

ufosweden

http://www.examiner.com/x-5182-Dallas-Weather-Examiner~y2009m12d9-Strange-spiral-in-sky-over-Norway-UFO Digital image processing is so advanced these days that it would be easy to dismiss the above picture as simply having been Photo-shopped, but this is not the case. According to spaceweather.com (as well as several Norwegian-language news sources which do this author little good!) ,sky-watchers throughout northern Norway spotted this amazing phenomenon in the heavens on the night of Dec 8-9, 2009. No one knows for sure what it was, but here is the account from Nick Banbury, who witnessed the event from Harstad, Norway: It consisted initially of a green beam of light similar in color to the aurora with a mysterious rotating spiral at one end.this spiral then got bigger and bigger until it turned into a huge halo in the sky with the green beam extending down to the earth. According to the press, this could be seen all over northern Norway and must therefore have been very high up in the atmosphere to be seen hundreds of km apart Some say it my have been a Russian rocket careening out of control, but the tight-lipped Russians deny this at present. I'll be keeping an eye on this story for further developments. But it is still a mystery as to what created this fantastic sight. If you're a SETI kind of person, perhaps the aliens have at last arrived, but I don't recommend gambling on that in Vegas. -:)

Science & Technology

unmannedspaceflight

This is a set of rendered views using 3DS Max to produce a coarse simulation of what may have occured to produce the beautiful formation in the sky over Norway earlier today. Not an 'official' answer Comments closed to avoid people posting missinformation and conspiracist junk- please see http://www.bautforum.com/space-astronomy-questions-answers/97857-strange-things-happening-sky.html to discuss the video. Currently - it is believe this was caused by a Chinese Long March 2D vehicle launched earlier on the same day, from China, on a polar orbit.

Education

ebief76

Between 7 and 9 o clock in the morning, december 9, 2009 this strange thing happened in the skies 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvN2b4SWg88&feature=player_embedded UPDATE: Similar thing in China: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixLE3iuszbU if you look closely, the rotation is clockwise, than later it stops and goes counterclockwise 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/ Private Bloggers reporting: http://wiklund.blogg.no/1260343942_hvem_s_spiralen_p_him.html http://hough.blogg.no/