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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

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\".

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

I call shenanigans on Iran!

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.

Another article and more pictures here:

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

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

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.

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.

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.\"

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

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

a wizard did it.

Spock running from the Romulans again.

Someone under the influence using the Batman signal

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?

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

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

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. :)

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

Maybe it was infected by the PTMC virus.

SG1 is at it again. Them and their wormholes.

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

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

so whats the huge blue spiral ?

AceCombat wrote:so whats the huge blue spiral ?

click in TB's last link.

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

Duper wrote:

AceCombat wrote:so whats the huge blue spiral ?

click in TB's last link.

ahhh, i missed that

Someone just divided by zero.

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.)

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.

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.

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

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

???

WTF is that?

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.

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.

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

looks like some twisted and crusty bird poop

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?