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Mystery as spiral blue light display

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  1. texson66

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    Bizarre!
     
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    At first i thought it was just a K-Mart "blue Light" special advert in Norway!
     
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    What an odd thing. o_O Reminds me of some sort of Photoshop effect.
     
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    It's only Santa Claus testing his new supersonic sledge for Christmas.
    He has replaced the reindeers with a rocket...:eek:
     
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    I was suspecting that this was the aftermath of Santa's "rig" breaking light speed in a trial run under the lighter load expected this year.
     
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    Over at 1.Jma they linked to a BBC article indicating it was a failed Russian missile test.
     
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    The Russians have taken all the "mystery" out of it, no doubt much to the dismay of the UFO crowd.

    MOSCOW (AFP)Russia's new nuclear-capable missile suffered another failed test launch, the defence ministry said Thursday, solving the mystery of a spectacular plume of white light that appeared over Norway.

    The Bulava missile was test-fired from the submarine Dmitry Donskoi in the White Sea early Wednesday but failed at the third stage, the defence ministry said in a statement.

    The pre-dawn morning launch coincided with the appearance of an extraordinary light over northern Norway that captivated observers.
    Images of the light that appeared in the sky above the Norwegian city of Tromso and elsewhere prompted explanations ranging from a meteor, northern lights, a failed missile or even a UFO.

    Describing the latest failure of the Bulava as a major embarrassment for the military, leading Russian defence analyst Pavel Felgenhauer said the images were consistent with a missile failure.

    "Such lights and clouds appear from time to time when a missile fails in the upper layers of the atmosphere and have been reported before," he told AFP. "At least this failed test made some nice fireworks for the Norwegians," he joked.

    See:

    New Russian missile failure sparks UFO frenzy - Yahoo! News

     

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