Spiraling light phenomen in Norway

[paravolt2]

Obviously this light-display happened high up in the ionosphere ore something - it was observed from in a large area. From the pictures and the colour of the sky it seems the pictures are taken towards the east - towards the sunrise or Sweeden if you like.
The best video-images here from the National Stats Television News
http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/193809

[paravolt2]

This link has the best video-shot I have seen of this phenomen. Amazing. Its from the national television news tonight.

http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/193809

[junglelord]

Excellent video here too
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... -spin.html

[Grey Cloud]

It's a pity this didn't happen over Copehagen next week.
Absolutely nothing about it on the BBC website as its in full propaganda mode for Copenhagen.

[seanoz]

I think this looks like a completely natural aurora display and plasma column/plasma discharge, I would love to know however where it is pointing, it may be an emanation, but I think not, the play of perspective in some images is what is doing that I think as the videos seem to indicate it is actually quite small in the sky.

Any thoughts?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... orway.html

[paravolt2]

It turns out that this spiraling light phenomen was preceeded 8 days ago by another special light phenomen . A large glowing light in a twisted oval shape. It also lasted for 3-4 minutes

See here for a picture of that. http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/1.6844906

Translation of text on this page

Catrin Brokke works as a bus-driver i Hammerfest and tels that n she rose from bet at 4 am sunday. As usual she started the day with a coup of coffee while staring out of the window. Suddenly she caught the sight of a light on the dark sky - first as a spiral that grew bigger and bigger.

It was large as a full-moon and become larger and larger like a kind of explosion. I have never seen anything like that before - she tells. Brokke is also a photografer an ran inside an got her camera to get a picture of the phenomenom. She recon it lasted for 3 or 4 minutes before it was gone.

Some of you plasma scientist might want to go for a expedition to Northern Norway this winter.

[junglelord]

The latest from NASA SPACE WEATHER

STRANGE LIGHTS OVER NORWAY: This morning in arctic Norway, onlookers were stunned when a gigantic luminous spiral formed in the northern sky. "We are used to seeing lots of auroras here in Norway, but this was different," says Nick Banbury of Harstad who witnessed the phenomenon on his way to work "between 7:50 and 8:00 a.m. local time." Onlooker Jan Petter Jorgensen took this photo:





The first reaction of many readers when they see this picture is Photoshop! Surely this must be a fake. But no, many independent observers witnessed and phtotographed the apparition. It is real.

Banbury continues: "It consisted initially of a green beam of light similar in color 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 Earth. According to press reports, this could be seen all over northern Norway and must therefore have been very high up in the atmosphere to be seen hundreds of km apart."

UPDATE: Circumstantial evidence is mounting that the phenomenon was caused by a malfunctioning rocket, possibly an ICBM launched from a Russian submarine. A Navtex no-fly alert was issued for the White Sea on Dec. 9th, and photographers appear to have recorded the initial boost phase of a launch below the spiral (see inset). A rocket motor spinning out of control could indeed explain the spiral pattern, so this explanation seems plausible, although it has not yet been confirmed.

[The Great Dog]

The Great Dog retracts the Photoshopped theory in favor of the space junk hypothesis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx8i5EfmYU4

TGD

[seasmith]

Perhaps the norwegians have beaten them there?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldvi ... orway.html
You may need to scroll down the page, to blue light.
Kevin

Those are some incredible images !
An event last more than 10 minutes, there should be some longer videos than the one in the article ??

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[abaraba]

why is the plane of the white spiral disk parallel to the lense of the camera, while the blue beam is at some weird angle?

[Jeff99]

The space junk hypothesis seems possible, but it could very well be a genuine plasma phenomena.
Here’s some pictures of rock art spirals I found on the net. A couple show a beam projecting out of them. One of these and others I found also have the direction of the spiral the same as phenomena seen in Norway. It certainly is exciting to think we may have actually witnessed in modern times what our ancestors saw and recorded in ancient times. It’s easy to see how such a thing would provoke numinous feelings. I can almost get that just from the picture.
-Jeff

[solrey]

Similar spiral seen in China.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixLE3ius ... r_embedded

I'm not sure if a rocket could withstand the torque of spiraling out of control for that long without breaking up, or someone initiating a self destruct. I entertain the possibility, although I'm not convinced that it's a rocket at this point considering the event in China and a few other similar events that have been reported as well.
It's either the same model of bunk rockets spinning out of control, or an atmospheric glow discharge phenomena perhaps related to ball lightning.

[StefanR]

Looking at this trail back down to earth, does make more and more a rocket to me
http://spaceweather.com/swpod2009/09dec ... 23rg1rqdb5

[tayga]

The best video yet is carried on the BBC website.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8404991.stm

[redeye]

This is very strange.

The first image posted looks fake. Not saying that the event never happened, maybe the image was created to show what people were seeing. The other strange thing (that makes me think hoax) is that every video and image is from the same viewpoint, shouldn't people in different areas be seeing the event from different perspectives?

Cheers!