Russia Admits Failed Missile Launch Caused 'UFO' Lights In Norway

tpmlivewire ^ | December 10, 2009, | Jillian Rayfield

[JoeProBono]

Turns out they're not "out there" after all. Those UFO sighting in Norway this morning weren't actually UFOs -- just a Russian missile test gone wrong.

The Russian Defense Ministry admitted today that its Bulava intercontinental missile failed a test launch, following reports of unusual lights in Norway that caused an influx of UFO sightings.

Russia's submarine-based Bulava (Mace), which is designed to carry multiple warheads up to 5,000 miles, failed its 13th test launch, something Alexander Khramchikhin, chief analyst at the Institute of Military and Political Analysis in Moscow, called "a catastrophe."

"Billions of dollars have been flushed down the drain," he reportedly said.

A Defense Ministry spokesman said in a statement that the missile failed in its third stage, which caused an odd swirling light to appear to Norwegian scientists observing the area near the White Sea.

Truls Lynne Hansen, head of Troms Geophysical Observatory in Norway, said that missile launches are commonly observed from Russia, but "normally we see the second stage of the rocket burning then it disappears. This was something very unusual."

Tandberg also commented on the influx of calls claiming a UFO sighting: "I think it was clear to most people that it was not a UFO, as most people define a UFO. Of course everything is a UFO until you know what it is. But most people think about UFOs as aliens and things like that, that was something that came up very early but not later."

[JoeProBono]

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

So, the blue-green light is a laser tracker iliuminated in the debris trail?

[sodpoodle]

It were mahty purty;)

[Brett66]

Crazy Ruskies, blowing up rockets for light shows. Just use lasers like we do!

[null and void]

If one were trying to spread a biological agent one could scarcely do a better job of evenly distributing it than that spiral.

Just sayin'...

[I still care]

What I thought was funny was the line in the articles that stated that the Russians denied shooting off a missile, so people couldn't figure out what it was.

Explains perfectly why people are continually surprised over Obama. It's like Madelaine Albright out in front of the Clinton White House saying, “The president has assured me that the sexual allegations are all false”.

There's a line in the old Cary Grant film Charade referring to a senior diplomat that goes, “Well, if I bluffed the old man out of the pot with a pair of deuces, what are the Russians doing to him?”

[Check6]

BEE ESS

[JoeProBono]

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[Talisker]

This is a good visual model and description of what actually happened.

[Star Traveler]

Ummm..., I would still check it out, Scully and Mulder... :-)

[sodpoodle]

110,000+ views on youtube - zero comments.

That works for me;)

thx

[JoeProBono]

"This is a good visual model and description of what actually happened."

[TheThirdRuffian]

It appears you were correct.

[Jewbacca]

Truth on FR first!

[The Comedian]

Uh, um...

Can someone explain the physics to me (citing an equation or two would be fine) of how that background spiral vortex was created by the failure of the missle whose perpendicular cork screw "contrail" is presumably but inexplicably illuminated in blue?

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[JoeProBono]

"Can someone explain the physics to me"

Sure. It's sorta like animal magnetism

[Quix]

Yeah. I’m still skeptical.

Not convinced by any of fhe explanations so far.