People are saying it’s fake because it’s too perfect. A perfect spiral of that magnitude and scale would have to be how many miles high, especially in order to reflect sunlight over the curvature of the earth? Storm clouds here that are “luminescent” at or after sunset are 60,000 feet or so.
Also, at that altitude, the perfect spiral would likely never form, let alone hold that form. High winds would distort it in very short order.
Whatever it is, has a terrestrial source. It certainly looks projected, as some have noted. I’m not buying the explanation of an exploding rocket, with fuel particles reflecting sunlight. What exploded, if not the fuel itself?
It’s something else. What, I have no idea. But, it appears to be coming from the light on the ground, just to the other side of the mountain in the photo posted. What’s there?
Then the military should try to grab them.
I agree, this looks like a light show to me too.
The other thread on it had a link that had about 16 photos of it. Different angles, could see different things at various times. A blue cloud, a contrail in the background, a black spot with the blue spiral, etc. Pretty interesting. This spiral was the weirdest and most awesome of all of the photos.
It’s a real, failed rocket launch.
See maps:
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Tr%C3%B8ndelag_kart.PNG
(it was seen from the dark blue area and all the way north)
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:EUR_location_NOR.PNG
This thing had some serious altitude.
It’s not a rocket that exploded, it’s a rocket that malfunctioned during launch. It started flying in a tight circle, and the “spiral” is the fumes from the exhaust, as seen in a long-exposure picture. The illumination came from the flare of the rocket motor itself. The blue trail is the initial launch plume, and the way the whole thing disappears into a “hole” is the range-safety package exploding the rocket and hiding everything in a dark cloud. It was apparently a very calm early morning, with little wind, so the thing stayed intact long enough to form a pretty startling structure.
The word is it’s a Russian rocket launch gone awry — hence the “corkscrew” pattern as the rocket spins. The spiral is much more ragged in the videos.
