On the night of December 9, 2009, an unusual phenomenon was observed in the sky over Norway (later it was given the name of the Norwegian spiral anomaly) – an object consisting of an elongated spiral blue glowing cloud with a white rotating spiral at the end. For some time, the spiral expanded in size, and then turned into an incredibly large halo with a green ray located in the center. The duration of the phenomenon (GMT) is from 6-45 to 7-00.
The light was observed not only from anywhere in the Trøndelag region, but also in each of the three northern provinces of the country that make up Northern Norway.
As a consequence of the incident, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute received an incredible number of calls asking to explain this phenomenon.
The version about the connection between the phenomenon and the aurora was almost immediately rejected by astronomers. The topic became the subject of public discussion. All sorts of assumptions have been put forward from the black hole and the intrigues of aliens to the Day of Judgment.
Later, the Russian Ministry of Defense made an official statement about the unsuccessful launch on December 9 of the RSM-56 Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile, launched from a submerged position from the Dmitry Donskoy submarine missile carrier, which at that time was in the White Sea. According to the telemetry data, only two stages of the rocket worked in the normal mode. At the third stage of the flight trajectory, a technical failure was recorded.
This coincidence formed the basis for the version about the appearance of an anomaly as a consequence of an unsuccessful rocket launch.
