Spiral UFO over Norway (Amazing Pics)...

[Tecnos]

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.

He 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."

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[Constantine]

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Here's a video of it. Well we had a nice run guys. *high fives all around* I await the eventual alien/demon invasion.

[holeg2212]

Its rather impressive, but i get the feeling this is just some kind of projection from an Earthly source. Perhaps some kind of energy output, laser show or something. OR... it could be swamp gas, trapped in a weather balloon, reflecting the light from Venus!

[BURNING MAN]

Failed Russian missile visible over Northern Norway

UPDATED: This unique photo taken in Northern Norway shows a Russian intercontinental missile flying into a spiral before it exploded in the atmosphare early Wednesday morning. The missile was most likely yet another failed test launch of a Bulava missile from the Typhoon submarine "Dmitri Donskoy" in the White Sea area.

The giant spiral shaped light that could be seen in the eastern sky for several minutes on Wednesday morning was probably caused by a failed missile launch from the White Sea, several Norwegian space and defense experts believe.

Interviewed by the Norwegian TV2, an anonymous Russian military source says it was failed launch of a Bulava missile from a submarine in the White Sea Wednesday morning.

Researcher at the Tromsø Geophysical Observatory Truls Lynne Hansen is certain that the light was caused by a missile launch:

- The missile has probably come out of control and exploded. The peculiar spiral shaped light pattern comes from reflection of the sun in the leaking fuel, he said to Aftenposten.

Spokesman in the Norwegian Defense Jon Espen Lien says that the Norwegian Defense does not know for sure what the light was, but that it probably was a Russian missile:

- It is quite normal that Russia uses the White Sea and the Barents Sea as testing grounds for weapons.

The failed missile launch that was visible over large areas in Northern Norway are now making headlines world-wide. The Russian TV-internet site Russia Today had a news storry late Wednesday evening under the headline "UFO-show in Norway sky welcomes Obama for Nobel Prize ceremony."

According to NRK, Arkhangelsk Radio sent out an advance warning about several missile launches from the White Sea in the period December 7-10.The warning included launches on the night to Wednesday. An anonymous source in the Northern Fleet told Norwegian news paper VG that they had no information about the incident. Press Attaché at Russia’s Embassy in Oslo Vladimir Isupov did neither have any that could explain the light phenomenon over Northern Norway.

On the morning of November 1, another strange light phenomenon was visible in the sky from large areas of the northern parts of Norway. This incident also caused commotion and many creative explanations to the light were given on different discussion boards. The light was caused by a launch of a Sineva missile from the nuclear submarine “Bryansk” in White Sea, as reported by BarentsObserver.

According to a warning about rocket launching in the White Sea, navigation is prohibited in the southern parts of the sea until December 15.

The Bulava missile test Wednesday morning has been rescheduled several times. Last Bulava test from the submarine "Dmitri Donskoy" on July 15. That test failed and the missile self-destructed soon after launch due to a defective steering system in its first stage. Next test -launch was slated for November 24, as reported by BarentsObserver, but was then postponded.

- Because of the need for coordination of several questions – including technical questions, between the producers and the Russian Ministry of Defence, the test-launch will only be conducted at the end of the year, a source told RIA Novosti. The test was then re-scheduled to the end of December. But then, the test took place on Wednesday December 9th.

With the population of Northern Norway as eyewitnesses, Wednesday's test was the seventh failed launch out of 13.

The Bulava missile is designed for the “Borei” class submarines, the fourth generation nuclear subs, the first of which are now being tested in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast. The vessel “Yury Dolgoruky” will be the flagship in the Russian submarine fleet. Another two vessels of the kind is under construction in the yard.


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[Tecnos]

Is the dis-information machine rolling, are they all now spreading the same old crap or is it the truth for a change?

According to many news sources including Reuters and The Daily Mail, the Norway 'Stragate' was a failed test of a Bulava Missile....

Speculation was increasing today that the display was the result of an embarrassing failed test launch of a jinxed new Russian missile.

The Bulava missile was test-fired from the Dmitry Donskoi submarine in the White Sea early on Wednesday but failed at the third stage, say newspapers in Moscow today.

BurningMan was simply passing on what he read.....

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[Bicofborg]

This isn?t a missile, look at those weird gravity waves.

Be interesting to see if the SOHO satellite caught any heightened solar activity.
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[vr_don]

Missile my ass - I say it's a rip in the space time continuum.

[vr_don]

Click this: Norway Cloud Spiral - Simulation of possible explanation

[Clifurd2]

The would know 100% if it was they're failed missile or not. I've yet to actually hear weather or not it as man-caused or a cosmic event. What I say is it probably wasn't a missile if they haven't actually stated that it was in fact a failed launch.

[BURNING MAN]

Norwegian 'wormhole' in the sky was actually exploding Russian ballistic missile

MOSCOW - Was it a bird, a UFO or a manifestation of the northern lights? Residents of Tromso, a northern Norwegian town, who witnessed the strange spiral of light over the Arctic skies on Wednesday morning were not sure.

Through gritted teeth yesterday, Defence Ministry officials in Moscow admitted that it was instead the exploding trail of the country's latest intercontinental ballistic missile. The navy's new high-tech toy, codenamed Bulava, had gone up in smoke.

Norwegian television pictures on Wednesday had shown a long blue trail on the horizon, prompting excited reports of strange, possibly extra-terrestrial, phenomena. Within a day however, the truth was out: fired from a nuclear submarine, the missile had exploded shortly after launch. It was the seventh failure in 12 test launches.

The ministry said that the weapon was released underwater from the DmitrI Donskoi submarine, but developed an engine malfunction. "The first two stages functioned smoothly, but the flight faltered at the third stage," it said. The Bulava is intended to become Russia's main sea-launched intercontinental missile and is seen as critical to its nuclear deterrent. But its repeated failures have placed a serious mark over its deployment, and the Kremlin's strategy for modernising the ailing Soviet-era navy.

Any decision to abandon Bulava would have expensive repercussions for a new class of nuclear submarine, the Borei (Arctic Wind) being built to house the 37-tonne missile. The first vessel, the Yuri Dolgoruky, is having sea trials, and two more are under construction, each capable of firing 12 missiles. The Kremlin has said that the Bulava can breach any missile-defence system. Each can launch up to ten warheads, and has a range of 8,000 kilometres (5,000 miles).

"This is a catastrophe...Huge funds were siphoned from Russia's moribund navy for the Bulava project. In fact, billions of dollars have been flushed down the drain," said Alexander Khramchikhin, chief analyst at the Moscows Institute of Military and Political Analysis. Critics say that Bulava is unnecessary, because the Soviet-era Sineva submarine-launched missile continues to function well. They have also attacked the decision to award the project to the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology, which has never built submarine missiles. The institute's director, Yuri Solomonov, was forced to resign after the previous failure in July. Vladimir Popovkin, the Deputy Defence Minister, insisted there was nothing wrong with the design, and blamed defects in parts supplied by 650 subcontractors.

Some analysts argue that the ministry has staked so much of its budget on the Bulava that it cannot back out. They say that the production difficulties expose the scale of decline in Russia's technological capabilities since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Pavel Felgenhauer, a defence analyst, said that the failed test had "made some nice fireworks for the Norwegians" but also undermined the Kremlin's efforts to sustain Russia's nuclear deterrent. "By 2030, Russia could lose its position as a global nuclear power if the problems are not solved. And it could be that these missiles will never fly properly," he said.

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