Posted on 12/10/2009 5:06:18 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
A mysterious blue spiral light that appeared in the skies above Norway was likely the result of a failed test launch of a jinxed new Russian missile, the UK’s Mail Online reported.
Several newspapers in Moscow today ran a story explaining that the Bulava missile was test-fired from the Dmitry Donskoi submarine in the White Sea early on Wednesday but failed at the third stage.
However, earlier reports from Moscow denied a missile launch yesterday and even early today there was no formal confirmation from the Russian Defense Ministry.
Some speculators felt the lights were connected with the aurora borealis, or northern lights, the natural magnetic phenomena that can often be viewed in that part of the world.
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute was flooded with telephone calls after the light storm yesterday morning.
Totto Eriksen, from Tromsø, told VG Nett: “It spun and exploded in the sky.”
Witnesses described a blue light that seemed to soar up from behind a mountain in the north of the country and then stopped mid-air, before beginning to move in circles.
“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,” said Eriksen.
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I’m a little surprised. I was convinced it was a hoax of some kind - laser-lights or whatnot.
So I have to ask...Is Russia missing one of it’s nuclear subs now?
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it is absolutely amazing that the Russians admitted that it was a rocket failure. Usually they try to buy this sort of information.
What makes you think it was a failure?
If I wanted to evenly disburse biological, chemical or radiological agents over a wide area, I’d be very pleased with that spiral pattern.
Just sayin’...
Usuually tthe Russians do not own up. So why now? They may be developing a missle that can avoid the US intercept system by doing a wurlygig and then recovering.
We know that they are building a missile that is a piece of c#ap. Maybe we told one of their ambassadors to confess or we leak the news to the press
Sure am glad Obama hit that reset button!
Glad to see their failure, however, there they are testing away while Obama is destroying our forces and cutting funding as well as destroying future credit.
I love their failure stats!!!
Or maybe they are tying on leftist US Dept of State employees in Russia, and shootiong themoff. One can only hope, missile looked off balance.
Actually, the Bulava only makes very gentle maneuver, less than a g. Presumably it would fly inside a cloud of chaff and the maneuvers would confuse the tracking radar by making harder to separate the chaff from the missile.
I dunno. Looks like a weather balloon to me. /sarc
The Russian Armed Forces are rotting away because most of their scientists are gone to other countries.It is reported that hundreds of Russian scientists and technicians currently work in places like Iran and North Korea were they are paid well. So, you are having accidents of rocket failures.
Swamp Gas, yea that is what it is Swamp Gas!
so its a good news/bad news story....
I do not like at all what you just said....they are off to Iran? Someone needs to off Iran!
Most of the rocket and nuclear scientists have gone to Iran,Libya,Pakistan and North Korea. They get paid very well.
This is part of the reason why there are these gigantic “leaps” in WMD technology. Its because these Russian scientists reside in these countries.
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