more here…

It's the daily mail. ffs.

it's being reported globally… I just linked to the Dailymail 🙄

A very cool light display whatever it is!

Apparently it was a failed missile launch from a Russian Sub

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3238877&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

Impressive none the less

what was it aiming at? 😯

Some local MTBer has probably bought a Magicshine / Trout 🙂

. I just linked to the Dailymail

I just assume it's all made up!

that's what they want you to think

i for one welcome our dimensonal overlords

See that photo at the top? That's very well made. As someone who's done a lot of night shots, I can tell you it's hard to get the exposure just right. And the exposure on that picture is grade A perfect. Seriously impressive when you consider the 'spiralling missile' would have been unexpected.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8404991.stm

Looks like a very high powered projector at bottom right to me.

Samuri, I do think it looks a little 'too good'… as you say getting a shot like that would require a tripod for sure, and somone just happened to have one set up (and pointing in the right direction) for the few seconds this phenomenon occured… does seem a bit sus…

The video's look a bit different to the pictures, they look much more real?

it apparently lasted 10 or 12 minutes. is that not enough time to set up your gear?

There's a couple of photos from different sources on the mail site, and a video, so unlikely to be faked- obviously they've picked the most dramatic and best exposed pic to lead with.

I agree with alpin, FWIW. It appears to be a projection onto the clouds from a source on the ground.

If it's a "russian missile" it's a pretty strange sort, and while extraterrestrials move in mysterious ways, landing in Norway for the purposes of staging a light show would be pretty odd behaviour. 🙂

My money is on it being a stunt organised by the PR guys from either a brand of Vodka or an energy drink.

Boo… why's it never aliens? 🙁

another Daily Mail link…

Seems a little disconcerting to me that something like this still goes on in absolute secrecy – "…it has a range of 5,000 miles and could carry ten nuclear weapons bound for separate targets…" good to see we still need these things tested…

there's video footage on the Beeb.