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Giant Mysterious Spiral Takes Over the Skies of Norway
Gizmodo.com ^ | 12/09/09 | Jesus Diaz

Posted on 12/09/2009 10:49:42 AM PST by Reaganesque

People are freaking out all over Norway because of what you are seeing here. According to Norwegian news outlets, the spooky giant spiral was seen, photographed, and recorded on video from all over the country. Updated with video.

Could it all be a hoax? Maybe it's a massive joke, but all kinds of Norwegian news sites are reporting on it. According to NKR—Norway's national TV channel—it could be related to a rocket fired from a Russian submarine in the White Sea. The Russians are denying any part on it at this at the moment. Nick Banbury, a witness located at Harstad, described how it all happened:

We are used to seeing lots of auroras here in Arctic Norway, but on my way to work this morning I saw something completely unexpected. Between 7:50 and 8:00 a.m. local time, there was a strange light in the sky. It consisted initially of a green beam of light similar in colour to the aurora with a mysterious rotating spiral at one end. This spiral then got bigger and bigger until it turned into a huge halo in the sky with the green beam extending down to the earth.

As hard as it is to believe, you can't dispute the fact that the strange spiral was witnessed and recorded by thousands of people from hundreds of miles away, which means that the phenomenon occurred at a very high altitude. Even Phil Plait from Bad Astronomy agrees that this is real, and says that it was probably a rocket out of control.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: aerospace; aluminiumoxide; aviation; boom; bulava; bulavamissile; failuretolaunch; hopenosisinaction; icbm; missile; missiletest; mystery; norway; oops; russia; sapphire; skies; solidrocketbooster; spiral
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To: La Lydia

I look forward to all of the new Ole, Lena and Dalek jokes.


41 posted on 12/09/2009 11:10:32 AM PST by Reaganesque ("And thou shalt do it with all humility, trusting in me, reviling not against revilers.")
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To: Nevadan

re: Personally, I think this is a sign that Cinnabun is going to take over the world.
Sounds good to me. I would far rather have Cinnabun take over the world than Obama. Cinnabun is at least benevolent.

I for one welcome our Cinnabun Overloads.

Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.


42 posted on 12/09/2009 11:11:26 AM PST by MrNeutron1962
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To: Reaganesque

The folks at HAARP and the Haydron Collider were doing a bit of duelling banjos.


43 posted on 12/09/2009 11:12:27 AM PST by Sax
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To: Reaganesque


Step one complete (connect waste pipe), I'm afraid of step two.
44 posted on 12/09/2009 11:13:06 AM PST by RockyMtnMan
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To: Brett66

You can believe what you want. Just keep in mind that algore was seen playing in the backyard with his shiny new blue flashlight.


45 posted on 12/09/2009 11:13:18 AM PST by An Old Man (Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, or Do without.)
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To: Reaganesque

Pretty neat.. I wonder how they did it.


46 posted on 12/09/2009 11:13:31 AM PST by divine_moment_of_facts
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To: Reaganesque
They crossed the rays.


47 posted on 12/09/2009 11:14:18 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: Reaganesque
bukaroo Pictures, Images and Photos
48 posted on 12/09/2009 11:14:22 AM PST by redstateconfidential (`)
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To: divine_moment_of_facts

It was done by a Hugh projector. I series.


49 posted on 12/09/2009 11:14:53 AM PST by Drill Thrawl (Another day, another injury, another step closer.)
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To: catman67

ROVE! You magnificent Bastard!!!!!


50 posted on 12/09/2009 11:15:31 AM PST by redstateconfidential (`)
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To: Drill Thrawl

Figures.. That would explain the light beam from the ground.


51 posted on 12/09/2009 11:16:15 AM PST by divine_moment_of_facts
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To: La Lydia
Norwegian Time Lords named Trond and Sven will have some splainin’ to do.

If Sven told you he was a Lord, he was lying to you. He's really just a self-important fashion model.

52 posted on 12/09/2009 11:18:17 AM PST by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: Reaganesque

53 posted on 12/09/2009 11:18:19 AM PST by Dumpster Baby (Truth is called hate by those who hate the truth.)
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To: Reaganesque

I’ve seen rockets fired from arab-occupied territories that do this when something goes wrong, like a bent stabilizer.

The spiral really isn’t a spiral, it’s a circling rocket and looks like a spiral because the rocket is either moving toward you or away from you in an even “cork screw” pattern, laid on it’s side.

Crappy Iranian rockets, crappy Russian rockets, same result, just bigger.


54 posted on 12/09/2009 11:20:56 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: redstateconfidential
Dr. Lizardo from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Love that movie.
55 posted on 12/09/2009 11:23:29 AM PST by delacoert
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To: catman67; Roscoe Karns
"It’s the Cheney-Halliburton mind/weather control machine!"

Sorry about that. We blew a vacuum tube while producing the latest mid-west snowstorm. Luckily one of our musically inclined techs had an old Fender tube amp around to come to our rescue. The bad news is this new fangled daisy printer is shot.

56 posted on 12/09/2009 11:24:08 AM PST by Liberty Valance (This is my box of Kleenex. There are many like it but this one is mine. Ahhh-Choo!)
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To: delacoert

I hated that when it first came out. I saw it again and it was cute, then again and funny. The more I see it, the more I like it. Had the same experience with A Christmas Story.


57 posted on 12/09/2009 11:30:16 AM PST by Drill Thrawl (Another day, another injury, another step closer.)
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To: farlander
I think someone in Black Mesa fired up the accelerator. Headcrabs and Vortigons next... Where’s my crowbar ?

It's the Cidadel, it's about to blow...


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

58 posted on 12/09/2009 11:30:39 AM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: JoeProBono

I’m getting sleeeeeeeppppeeeeeee...

THUD!


59 posted on 12/09/2009 11:31:36 AM PST by DoughtyOne (A MELTING POT not a potters wheel. Join us. Don't try to turn this nation into the one you fled.)
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To: Reaganesque

“Phil Plait from Bad Astronomy”

Just remember, there is a reason they call him the ‘Bad Astronomer’.

He use to (and may still be) tow the line on AGW.

(Anthropomorphic Gorbull Warming for those of you in Pooler)


60 posted on 12/09/2009 11:32:11 AM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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