Are we alone?

[sam76]

WTF is this????

http://www.news.com.au/world/norway...aim-ufo-watchers/story-e6frfkyi-1225808892785

awesome photos here: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...-UFO-puts-Norway-in-a-spin.html#ixzz0ZEDgXwSS

 

[Wysiwyg]

Shame they only released a few photos. In this modern day and age the photogs. could have ripped hundreds of shots off and numerous videos.

Add > it doesn't look technically intelligent either.

 

[CapnBirdseye]

Someone has built a rail gun. Unreal Tournament anyone?

 

[derty]

It is being postulated a misfiring Russian rocket or missile may be the cause.

Circumstantial evidence is mounting that the phenomenon was caused by a malfunctioning suborbital rocket, possibly a Bulava ICBM launched from a Russian submarine in the White Sea. A Navtex no-fly alert was issued for the White Sea on Dec. 9th, and photographers have recorded what appears to be the initial boost phase of a launch beneath the spiral (see inset). A rocket motor spinning out of control could indeed explain the spiral pattern, as shown in this video of a Trident II missile launched from a US submarine in 2007. The Russian rocket hypothesis is plausible, but it has not yet been confirmed.

http://spaceweather.com/

 

[johnnyg]

Some interesting comments from the Sun's Website -

Google images: black hole.

Stephen Hawking predicted that due to Hawking Radiation, black holes below a certain size must feed or evaporate. What you have just witnessed is the aborted birth of a black hole. Blazar and all.

The LHC broke a new record just hours before this appeared, i would theorize that it spawned a black hole, which traveled through the earth, feeding, before it emerged into our atmosphere, still feeding, and evaporated when it reached the void of space and no longer had matter within the radius of it event horizon to feed upon.

Shut the thing down and bury it, NOW.

Bon_The_One
Hmmm, this is worrying. Last night boffins fired up the LHC for a surprize 2.36 TEV particle collision (ahead of schedule). This might sound like a big number, in this is only ticking over.
We've been told that it's perfectly safe, but the might the turn it up, Norway gets weird effects in the sky?
Keep watching this space as they say!

 

[Ato]

Failed rocket.

Norwegian astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard says it's 99.9% safe to say that it's a rocket out of control, while some newspapers and TV channels are quoting Russian military sources, confirming that this is a failed Bulava missile launched from a nuclear submarine in the White Sea.

http://gizmodo.com/5422792/this-is-how-the-mysterious-giant-spiral-happened

 

[condog]

imo Its a digitized hoax you suckers
forgot to put my sunnies on in case its harmful to the eyes

 

[sam76]

A giant light spiral in the sky has stunned onlookers in Norway, raising fears of an alien attack and forcing scientists to admit they are baffled by the phenomenon.

The unprecedented display could be seen for hundreds of kilometres in the dark morning sky, prompting thousands of Norwegians to bombard local media with reports of sightings.....

Top astronomer Knut Jorgen Roed Odegaard said he had never seen anything like it before.

"My first thought was that it was a fireball meteor but it lasted too long," he said.

"I rang the air traffic control tower in Tromse (and) they said it was over in two minutes … that is far too long to be an astronomical phenomenon."

He added that the event was not related to aurora borealis ”” the famous northern lights ”” and speculated that the light could have been an out-of-control rocket fired out of neighbouring Russia.

This theory has been embraced by other experts, although Russian authorities strongly deny any involvement.

 

[condog]

CBS news have released details it is now a confirmed failed Russian missile

I tried to past youtube code. if it doesnt work try the link...view external link at own risk...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mUXBqJbQKg&feature=player_embedded

 

[Tink]

We had something like this a few years ago in Melbourne

All these people were ringing the radio station in the morning saying they saw blue colourful lights in the sky out in the West

I dont know what came of it.

 

[johnnyg]

CBS news have released details it is now a confirmed failed Russian missile

I don't buy it. Don't want to create fear and panic with the public so the propaganda begins.

 

[sam76]

I don't buy it either....

gotta keep the masses under control...

 

[jono1887]

One word - photoshop

 

[Sdajii]

When I saw the footage a few hours after it happened, I immediately thought "It looks like a rocket which is misfiring, its gyroscope has failed or something". The next day it was 'confirmed' as a failed Russian missile.

On Saturday night I was having dinner with a group of friends, one of whom is (yes, literally) a rocket scientist. He said there was no way at all that a rocket could do what that UFO was doing. In his entire career he has never heard of a rocket flying in a perfect circle, let alone spinning in a stable circular pattern for multiple turns. Even if it was going to fly in perfect circles because of its shape etc, the g force would destroy it before it completed one turn. Also, if it was a failed launch whoever launched it would hit the kill switch well before it started putting on such a spectacular display in the sky for thousands of people to see (if you wanted to secretly launch a rocket you wouldn't want the publicity this thing got, and apparently no one would ever make a rocket anything remotely as big as that without a kill switch/self destruct).

So, I have gone from thinking "Yeah, some idiot military project went wrong" to "I have no idea". I'm certainly not suggesting it is of alien origin, but the rocket-propelled missile idea doesn't sound at all plausible. It is quite a mystery.

 

[MS+Tradesim]

Yep, I don't buy the rocket theory. The spirals are too perfect. I also wouldn't think alien. If I had to guess, I'd say some sort of laser array or focused energy. New weapon or light show?

 

[MRC & Co]

JohnnyG, is that Hawking quote in relation to this specific event?

 

[johnnyg]

JohnnyG, is that Hawking quote in relation to this specific event?

Nup MRC, just a comment off a website in relations to the above pictures.

There is more on the subject here http://www.universetoday.com/2008/02/13/synthetic-black-hole-event-horizon-created-in-uk-laboratory/ and here http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/black-holes/hawking-radiation/

 

[spooly74]

In his entire career he has never heard of a rocket flying in a perfect circle, let alone spinning in a stable circular pattern for multiple turns. Even if it was going to fly in perfect circles because of its shape etc, the g force would destroy it before it completed one turn.

Doesn't have to be the rocket trail/path itself.
According to reports, the 3rd stage failed. Some leaking/ejected fuel from a rocket could produce a pattern like that, easily.
Apparently six of thirteen previous tests had failed, that's pretty embarassing for the Ruskies.

 

[Mr J]

Bit of a bummer if it was only the Ruskies. Nothing exciting has happened for a year now.

 

[sam76]

looks like this has been swept well under the carpet....