Norway Spiral Video: Mysterious Norway Spiral Baffles Scientists, Possible Explanation

Oslo, Norway - The mysterious Norway Spiral on the eve of Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize receiving ceremony continues to baffle common man and scientists alike.
The giant, glowing white “Norway spiral” (see video) was visible all over northern Norway between about 6:45 to 7 GMT on 9th December. It initially consisted of a green beam of light similar in colour to the aurora* with a mysterious rotating spiral at one end, according to eye witness Nick Banbury of Harstad reports Spaceweather.com. “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.”

There was initial speculation that it might be a bright meteor but that dismissed because the Norway Spiral lasted for too long to be a meteor. Current suspicion by scientist Jonathan McDowell (as mentioned to New Scientist), an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is that it is an out-of-control Russian missile (blame it on Russians, eh?). However Russian authorities haven’t yet confirmed it. This speculation also looks questionable to me simple because who has seen such a spectacle before from wayward missiles before?

Speculations are abound at this point with no conclusive answers. Obviously UFOlogists will seize this opportunity to expound on the possibility of alien cause. However it can be safely said at this point that this really happened (not an hallucination or drug-induced effect on few) as it was observed by far too many people in Norway and that it is unlike anything the world has seen before. It is fortuitous that Norway spiral was seen just the day before President Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech in Norway.

*Note: Auroras ( Aurora Borealis ), also known as northern and southern (polar) lights, are natural light displays in the sky, usually observed at night, particularly in the polar regions. They typically occur in the ionosphere due to the result of the emissions of photons in the Earth’s upper atmosphere.