Posted on 12/09/2009 10:41:11 PM PST by Swordmaker
What's blue and white, squiggly and suddenly appears in the sky?
If you know the answer, pop it on a postcard and send it to the people of Norway, where this mysterious light display baffled residents yesterday.
Curiously, it appears to be unconnected with the aurora borealis, or northern lights, the natural magnetic phenomena that can often be viewed in that part of the world.
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The mystery began when a blue light seemed to soar up from behind a mountain in the north of the country. It stopped mid-air, then began to move in circles. Within seconds a giant spiral had covered the entire sky. Then a green-blue beam of light shot out from its centre - lasting for ten to 12 minutes before disappearing completely.
Onlookers describing it as 'like a big fireball that went around, with a great light around it' and 'a shooting star that spun around and around'.
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute was flooded with telephone calls after the light storm.
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Totto Eriksen, from Tromsø, told VG Nett: 'It spun and exploded in the sky,'
He spotted the lights as he walked his daughter Amalie to school.
He said: 'We saw it from the Inner Harbor in Tromsø. It was absolutely fantastic.
'It almost looked like a rocket that spun around and around and then went diagonally down the heavens.
'It looked like the moon was coming over the mountain, but then came something completely different.'
Celebrity astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard said he had never seen anything like the lights.
He said: 'My first thought was that it was a fireball meteor, but it has lasted far too long.
'It may have been a missile in Russia, but I can not guarantee that it is the answer.'
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Wow! That’s interesting!
PS: I’m so sick of reading about Romney on every dammed thread I click on. Is there an option to turn that crap off? It’s beginning to border on spam, IMO.
I never have liked Romney at all, I don’t need to be constantly reminded why.
It’s Algore’s mothership. Please take him back.
Calling Scully and Mulder... :-)
PS: I’m so sick of reading about Romney on every dammed thread I click on. Is there an option to turn that crap off? It’s beginning to border on spam, IMO.
I never have liked Romney at all, I don’t need to be constantly reminded why.
Ummmm..., if you ping "Jim Robinson" -- I'm sure he'll tell you... :-)
Or, it was some side effect of the Large hadron collider.
Or, it was a sign to the Norweigans similar to the Star of Bethlehem signaling Obama's arrival.
Yep. A big blue screw coming out of a hypnotist's disc...
Good question.
Looks like an extremely high powered laser on a conical scanner. But with a duration of 15 minutes, well, that is unimaginable!
1. It was a small black hole caused by turning on that atom-smasher :)
OR
2. It was a test of a Russian missile with some new type of antimissile countermeasure.
OR
3. It was a very powerful blue-green laser show projecting onto a fogbank or ice crystal fog. But I’ve never seen a system that could actually project an image onto a plane (which this seemed to do). It’s possible that it could be done with interference (of the optical kind).
In any case, it was pretty spectacular from the pictures and videos I’ve seen.
Apparently Romney is hanging out with Mike Savage.
With any luck it will move over to Copenhagen and suck up all the participants at the Climage Change summit.
All curse and spit on Satan’s name
Let demons cower in fear
Bring forth the One Ring, all men to enslave
And kill each soul as a game.
/rant off
I, for one, welcome our new Phi overlords.
It's either that, or the the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. It probably best if everyone's on the lookout for this guy...
I think near surface ore bodies have a distortion effect on the magnetic field. Other disturbances may apply, but without knowing anything about where the blue spiral is pointing, it is really tough to say.
Someone might have a really neat laser lightshow setup, too...
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