Awesomely bizarre light show freaks out Norway

I'm in Norway, not freaked out.

Altho I enjoyed Adam Curry's crackpot theory on it being related to the large hadron collider and the Obama visit.

I'm in Norway and not freaked out either, but I'm mildly entertained by the news coverage:

- The TV2 news' only comment from the locals, paraphrased as "What the fuck was that?" ("Ka i hælvete va det?")

- UFOologists claiming that "this defies physics as we know it".

- Russian Military Official A claiming that this was definitely a missile, while Russian Political Official B claiming that this was definitely not a missile.

The rocket/missile explanation was the first thing I thought of. It looks pretty much the same as some U.S. military missile tests I saw in southern California. (Those ones didn't malfunction and spiral, but they left the same sort of glowing trails in the evening sky.)

Much discusson: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986967

Also lunk to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986075

didn't russia already cop to this being a failed test?

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/12/10/world/internationa...