Norway in a Spin
If I woke up in the middle of the night and saw this outside my window, I would be inclined to think the worst and expect aliens at my door any minute. This caused quite a stir for a few hours. According to spaceweather.com, sky-watchers throughout northern Norway spotted this amazing phenomenon in the heavens on the night of Dec 8-9, 2009. The phenomenon appeared as a spinning spiral of white light, entered around a bright star-like object. A bright blue tail streamed from the center of the object down towards earth. The phenomenon was visible for over two minutes, could be seen for hundreds of miles, and was witnessed by thousands of individuals. It could have been another dimension crossing over into our world……But no such luck. This was not a portal to another universe, a time warp, Star-Gate or even Sylvia Browne’s Final Tour light show. Nope. Russia revealed that its latest test-firing of its new intercontinental missile ended in failure. Bummer.
Defense analyst Pavel Felgenhauersaidthe images seen over Norway were consistent with a missile failure. “Such lights and clouds appear from time to time when a missile fails in the upper layers of the atmosphere and have been reported before,” he said. “At least this failed test made some nice fireworks for the Norwegians.”
The Time Tunnel, remember?
I’m a bit surprised that the international UFO community hasn’t gone through the roof on this one. Although UFO’sare not my speciality, one would think magical conspiracy theories would be sprouting up like weeds after such a magnificent display of astral pyrotechnics. So far, all I could dredge up were that some Russian with his finger on The Button sent up a missile and it had to be aborted and the Russian/missile connection. Then the woo started gathering momentum: Enter PROJECT HESSDALEN:
According to Norway’s “scientists” (my quotes here), it is now clear that the phenomena is not UFO-related, but are luminous balls containing some form of energy.
“Norwegian scientists now believe they are nearing a solution to the Hessdalen UFO-mystery which has puzzled experts for more than 25 years. The so-called Hessdalen lights have been seen ever since the 1940’s and have since 1984 been monitored by volunteers. Hessdalen is a small valley in the central part of Norway. At the end of 1981 through 1984, residents of the Valley became concerned and alarmed about strange, unexplained lights that appeared at many locations throughout the Valley. Hundreds of lights were observed. At the peak of activity there were about 20 reports a week. Project Hessdalen was established in the summer of 1983. A field investigation was carried out between 21st of January and 26th of February 1984. Fifty-three light observations were made during the field investigation.”
Hessdalen Lights
Here’s some quotes from their site:
We know the light phenomena produces considerable luminous energy. Can a study of the Hessdalenphenomenon lead us to a new clean energy source? Today’s mystery may be tomorrows technology.
Hessdalenphenomenon? Uh huh. Well, maybe that’s so. But I remain skeptical. My cynical guess is that the tiny valley of Hessdalen needs some serious tourist trade. I’m sure they will be getting some real soon. Their website: www.hessdalen.org boasts quite an array of wild theories. Unfortunately none are scientifically validated by anyone yet. They are begging for scientists to help them understand this “phenomena.” Their “Guided Tour” page isn’t up yet. Expect to see it and more in the coming weeks.
This is prime territory for a conspiracy movement. If I had the time, money and manpower; I would be hard at work setting up the Mother of All Hoaxes – maybe I’m too late.
Ahhh well, better luck next time...
Dear Mark,
I think that a team of ufo-skeptics should head up to Hessdalen to spend at least 2 weeks with their own equipment to capture the “phenomena” themselves if possible and meet up with the Project Hessdalen folks.
I live in France and I am in touch with some of the members of the Project Hessdalen and also the ICPH-CIPH in Italy (one of their partner & sponsor).
If you are interested in planning a trip up there, I could be your coordinator. Here in France, I am also in touch with the French ufo-skeptics and I know that they would be interested into going there as well.
A US-French skeptic team could do the job.
Take care.
Buck
you can only blaspheme if there is there is actually a “god” or “gods”. Since the concept of a “god” or “gods” is a artificial construct made up in the mind of man it is in fact impossible to blaspheme against fiction, there’s nothing to blaspheme against.
Obviously, what really happened was that the Russians shot down a UFO, and covered it up by calling it a failed missile launch.
Those yellow streaks of light remind me of the sort of images you get when photographing at night with very long exposure times and someone walks along with a flashlight. I like the blue spirals with the yellowish spiral at the end. :)
The conspiracy nuts are loving this one. Everything from the NWO, UFO’s to project Bluebeam. Because the beam is blue. Those agents at the NWO are so damn literal!
I’ve seen several instances of this getting tied in with the HAARP conspiracy ™ too…
what I’ve found that is particularly funny is it really looks like a failed missile when you look at the video and the reason that photo looks so impressive is the extended exposure. its amazing what leaving a shutter open for about 30 seconds can accomplish.
Now had the video matched the photo, i might have been inclined to think something freaky deaky was going on. Alas, no.
So Mark,
did you meet up with Buckwild and head to Norway to meet with the scientists…?
I’m skeptical you could be bothered…
People of Hessdalen is typical Norwegian farmers. And the webpage is not updated for years- as they dont raelly want a tourist to visit this- when you have the fjords..
They have been reporting this phenomena for years- and it goes back even centuries.
It is an illuminating thing that behaves very strange. Most likely its a natural phenomena- as it occurse same area year after year.
It has declined during the last years- but its still many observations each year. Its registrated on radear to move severeral thousand km/h. we do also know now what it contains (using same equipment astronoms use to determing what stars are made up of).
So far they have come to the conclusion that is a “ministar” in progress, to put it short. A very nice lab- and most likely very natural. There is no doubt in the scientific community that this is real. They do trust their equipments.
However- there is also discovered that it contains scandium- a solid light weight mass-and not just a plasme burnig phenomena- and combined with the fact that there is also people who claim that this is surely a veichle of some kind- it can make you wonder.
Also there is no doubt that this contains a great deal of energy.