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Mysterious light ablazes Norwegian sky
by Jaspreet Virk - December 10, 2009 - comments
Speculations are rife that the light was the result of a misfired Russian missile
New York, December 10 -- A swirl of blue light in the Norwegian sky mystified the people in arctic Norway Tuesday night.
Late Tuesday night, the Norwegian sky was alight with a mysterious luminous spiral.
Nick Banbury of Harstad had witnessed the giant spiral of light on his way to work at around 8:00 a.m. local time. He was quoted by spaceweather.com as saying, “We are used to seeing lots of auroras here in Norway, but this was different.”
Banbury continued saying that it was initially a green beam of light, which became bigger and bigger "until it turned into a huge halo in the sky with the green beam extending down to Earth”.
Other witnesses described the light as “a big firewall that went around”, and “Catherine wheel-style” spiral of light surrounding a bright moon-like star.
The green blue spiral of light lasted for about 12 minutes before disappearing completely.
Light display result of Russian Missile?
The light, which could be seen in the pre-dawn sky for hundreds of miles, have raised many speculations regarding what it could possibly be.
Speculations are rife that the light was result of misfired Russian missile. Newspapers in Moscow have reported that the Bulava ICBM missile, test fired from Dmitry Donskoi in the White Sea, has failed in its third stage. The spiral pattern could be the result of the rocket spinning out of control.
Tromso Geophysical Observatory researcher, Truls Lynne Hansen, agreed that swirling blue light was the result of Russian missile going out of control, and said that fuel leakage could have caused the spiral effect.
The Russian missile hypothesis is plausible, but there has been no confirmation from the Russian Defense Ministry.
Readers reactions
Many readers have also taken to blogs and forum to discuss the mysterious beam of light seen in the northern sky. The theories doing the round are many; that the mysterious spiral of light could be a UFO, a meteor falling, a black hole, or even an alien activity.
"That's undoubtedly it. The pin wheeling looks exactly like a rocket malfunction,” stated a reader named CoronaDischarge on huffingtonpost.com, believing it to be a rocket gone kaput.
A reader named Doug commented on Yahoo buzz, “Soon as they get the Super Collider operating in Bern this phenomenon occurs. Could it be the birth of a microscopic BLACK HOLE? Some scientists warned about the danger of creating a Black Hole.”
Another reader named Michelle stated on the same site that it could be UFO, or maybe some cosmic event.