Basically...WTF? A genuine...WTF!?

Nightshade · Post by **Nightshade** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 5:44 pm

A mysterious light display appearing over Norway last night has left thousands of residents in the north of the country baffled.

Witnesses from Trøndelag to Finnmark compared the amazing sight to anything from a Russian rocket to a meteor or a shock wave - although no one appears to have mentioned UFOs yet.

The phenomenon began when what appeared to be a blue light seemed to soar up from behind a mountain. It stopped mid-air, then began to circulate.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... orway.html

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 5:59 pm

Does look like a missile gone haywire in the videos. What baffles me is the picture above, that's not a casual shot -- this kind of pic requires carefull setup (tripod & exposure testing.) Someone may have been out & about to take long exposure shots when that happened, but it captures the whole event -- given the rest in the pic (boring subject, pic frames the event perfect) it seems very unlikely that this pic was taken \"by accident\".

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 6:12 pm

Hmm.. Those my initial thoughts too Gren; but watch the vids. Very curious. whatever it is, I want one!

I call shenanigans on Iran!

Nightshade · Post by **Nightshade** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 6:13 pm

A compilation of videos here:

Freaky hoax if it is one. Pretty amazing display of a high power projector perhaps?

It seems to be coming from the ground or hitting the ground on the horizon. One of the two.

Nightshade · Post by **Nightshade** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 6:25 pm

Another article and more pictures here:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... z0ZDVmmhRP

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 6:41 pm

Judging by the shaky video and lack of focus, it was clearly aliens.

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 6:41 pm

It's the ori super gate!

Ufo believers have got to be going nuts over this and this
It's the year of the ufo hoax.

Nightshade · Post by **Nightshade** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 6:49 pm

Most rational theory yet:

http://gizmodo.com/5422792/this-is-how- ... l-happened

Definitely an object in space, but most likely a shoddy Russian piece of junk.

NUMBERZero · Post by **NUMBERZero** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 9:19 pm

Maybe we should ask the Russians if it fell out of orbit or something. \"Hey, I think you dropped something. Were you tracking it, right?\" Screw the political meetings and time wasters that are likely to happen, get the prime minister on the cell and ask him \"Wazzzzaaaaaapppp?!?\"

An out of control missile seems a little far fetched. If it was out of fuel, where is the blue vapor coming from? Plus what the fudge is that spirally thing? Is that a real photo?
Something just doesn't seem right about any of the speculations.

In the mean time, I will put my money on a bad case of swamp-gas.

I might go aliens, but I wouldn't bet on that.

\"It was a weather balloon.\"

Xamindar · Post by **Xamindar** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 9:33 pm

Apparently, it was just a rocketthat went out of control.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 9:44 pm

lol, reminds me of the epilogue story of CoD4. ;D

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 10:05 pm

a wizard did it.

Will Robinson · Post by **Will Robinson** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 10:55 pm

Spock running from the Romulans again.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:11 am

Someone under the influence using the Batman signal

flip · Post by **flip** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:28 am

Well whatever it is it looks like it starts from the ground up. Concentrated at the ground and diffuses in the sky. Definitely spinning to. A kaleidoscope of high intensity lasers heating the air and causing a mist?

Scoundrl · Post by **Scoundrl** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:18 am

Look like the KILN's warm up pattern for the fusion cannon and see the shot right outa the center???

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:08 pm

Damn! That's the wierdest and coolest looking thing I've ever seen!

Burlyman · Post by **Burlyman** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:40 pm

Topher wrote:Judging by the shaky video and lack of focus, it was clearly aliens.

dang... he beat me to it :(

I call shenanigans on the aliens. :)

Alter-Fox · Post by **Alter-Fox** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:04 pm

NUMBERZero wrote:An out of control missile seems a little far fetched.

Maybe it was infected by the PTMC virus.

Insurrectionist · Post by **Insurrectionist** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 3:08 pm

SG1 is at it again. Them and their wormholes.

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 4:58 pm

It's funny how, what puzzles me the most is their crappy explanation lol.

AlphaDoG · Post by **AlphaDoG** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 6:22 pm

It's clearly a missile launch gone awry. The rocket thruster is highlighting the exhaust contrail.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 7:21 pm

so whats the huge blue spiral ?

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 8:20 pm

AceCombat wrote:so whats the huge blue spiral ?

click in TB's last link.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:35 am

Scoundrl wrote:Look like the KILN's warm up pattern for the fusion cannon and see the shot right outa the center???

haha. god those were painful

BTW, how ya doin scoundrl? LTNS

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 8:25 am

Duper wrote:
AceCombat wrote:so whats the huge blue spiral ?
click in TB's last link.

ahhh, i missed that

Stroodles · Post by **Stroodles** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:48 am

Someone just divided by zero.

AlphaDoG · Post by **AlphaDoG** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:53 am

AceCombat wrote:so whats the huge blue spiral ?

I suspect it would look like a corkscrew if seen from another angle (on edge for example.)

Hunter · Post by **Hunter** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:51 pm

Freakily the missile somehow ended up spinning on it's axis. The chances of that happening are pretty low, but hey, everything can and does happen.

ZappaFan · Post by **ZappaFan** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 6:53 am

PJB wrote:Freakily the missile somehow ended up spinning on it's axis. The chances of that happening are pretty low, but hey, everything can and does happen.

It's not unusual for a rocket to go out of control and tumble like that. Once a rocket starts tumbling it's all over but the crying.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 1:52 pm

Russia got quite skilled at making rockets do that during the cold war.

Pandora · Post by **Pandora** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 3:49 pm

what about this: google street view
http://maps.google.com/maps?source=embe ... 97589&z=19

???

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 3:58 pm

WTF is that?

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:44 pm

Interesting, Pandora. Those \"street views\" are multiple pics stitched together, which is why that particular \"WTF\" looks like it's \"cut off\" on two edges. I'd guess that it's smoke from something that passed while that part of the image was being taken. Truck exhaust, maybe?

Edit: That same thing appears if you navigate to the next two points to the southwest (left arrow when looking toward it). That tells me it's something stuck on the camera. I'm now guessing it's a piece of a branch from the low-hanging pine trees on that street.

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:49 pm

It's a twig sitting on the camera apparatus.

Scroll down the street a couple clicks to see it in front of a power pole. It's obviously quite close to the camera.

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:51 pm

D'oh, Lothar beat me to it. (His post came before my edit.)

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:35 pm

looks like some twisted and crusty bird poop

Pandora · Post by **Pandora** » Wed Dec 23, 2009 1:28 pm

nice detective work Lothar and Foil. This one really made me wonder.

Isn't it annoying that real explanations are usually much more boring than the mysteries?

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