Strange spiral in Norway skys?

A mysterious giant spiral of light that dominated the sky over Norway on Wednesday has stunned experts — raising the possibility of an entirely new astral phenomenon.

Thousands of awe-struck Norwegians bombarded the Meteorological Institute to ask what the incredible light — which could be seen in the pre-dawn sky for hundreds of miles — could possibly be.

Theories have ranged from a misfired Russian missile, meteor fireball, never-before-seen type of northern light, black hole and even alien activity.

Witnesses across Norway all described seeing a spinning "Catherine wheel-style" spiral of white light, centered 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.

Sightings of the spiral spectacle, which lasted for two minutes, were reported as far north as Finnmark to Trondelag in the south.

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.




Another one was uploaded today from Norway, the spirals are this time white.

 

Honestly, it looks like a hoax to me.

 

How could that be faked?

 

Wow.. Cool stuff! and yeah... if alot of scientists and chief scientists saw it along with citizens of norway, I don't know how it could have been hoaxed.

 

Very, very easily.

I'm no astronomer, but it seems very unlikely to be real.

 

Like Give said, thousands of citizens of Norway saw it. It's not fake what so ever.

 

Alright, what do you propose it is?

I'm not saying it is fake, I said it would have been very easy for it to be faked on youtube.

It's interesting anyway, but it is probably a test of military technology, this kind of thing has happened before.

 

It wasn't just on youtube, it was all over the news. That's one reason explaining it's not fake.

I think it's just a Russian missile that burnt up there causing a spiral, but Russia denied launching any missiles at the time.

 

I don't think a denial from Russia (or any country) about a malfunction of secret technology is worth taking as fact.

And you're right, I posted here before I had checked up on the story as much as I should have.

 

Links not working for me?

 

What link?

 

A malfunctioning missile would have been seeable as it came back down, and no missile spins like that as it exists the atmosphere (it's a waste a of fuel).

I'd presume it was a hoax, possibly fireworks of some sort.

 

norway isnt the only 1 i saw it to...i live in sweden

 

Acctually that's where your wrong, please try to find some blue fireworks that spins arround for a good 10-12 minutes then just disapears like that? Good luck.

 

Well then professer, whats your diagnosis?

It's perfectly reasonable to think something which has never been seen in hundreds of years of astronomical observation is probably false.

Especially since no-one has offered a plausible explanation.

 

Oh i see it now o_0 that's strange.

 

Please try to find a rocket that does that. Even a malfunctioning rocket wouldn't do that.

It could have easily been some college kids who spent the past year inbetween physics and chemistry class to develop a firework that goes into the ionosphere and explodes, which (combined with the spherical shape of the earth) causes a seeming spiral effect as the lights expand around the mesosphere.

 

If it was something scientist/government didn't know about, they'd try to find out what it really was by using a expensive hi-tech telescope or send a satellite out into space to take pictures of it up close.

 

The Russian minister of defense admitted it as being a malfunctioning rocket.
I know that's a Norwegian source, but it's probably mentioned in English papers too if you look around.

http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=596546

 

Awh, Would've been cool if it was like a really fast active galaxy. Or something more interesting.