William Atkins
Thursday, 10 December 2009 21:02
Science -
Space
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On Wednesday morning, December 9, 2009, people in Norway looked up to see a strange sight: a "gigantic luminous spiral forming in the northern sky." Some people thought it was an UFO, others a meteor. However, the real story is more earth-like than alien.
Whatever was up there in the sky over Norway, its people were, needless to say, worried that something was very much amiss.
According to
SpaceWeather.com,
“Veteran observers accustomed to the appearance of Northern Lights say they have never seen anything like it. It was neither a meteor nor any known form of atmospheric optics.”
Check out the
http://spaceweather.com/ website for dramatic images of the event.
SpaceWeather.com reported the following
on Wednesday:
“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 photographed the apparition. It is real.”
Nick Banbury, of Harstad, Norway witnessed the phenomenon. He is quoted within the SpaceWeather.com article as saying
“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."
The Fox News story “
Norway UFO Was Out-Of-Control Russian Rocket” reported that the rotating spiral over the sky of Norway was thought to have been caused by
“… a meteor, the Northern Lights or even aliens.”
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