The Butterfly Net

Spiraling Lights in the Sky

Posted in Uncategorized by bderwest on December 11, 2009

The answer to the mystery of Norway’s spiral light display: Was it a failed Russian Bulava missile test?

New evidence emerged today that a mysterious spiral light display which appeared in the dark skies over Norway yesterday morning was caused by an embarrassing failed test launch of a jinxed Russian missile.

The Bulava missile was test-fired from the Dmitry Donskoi submarine in the White Sea early on Wednesday but failed at the third stage, the Russian military confirmed today.


I don’t know how I missed hearing about this, but holy “Cloverfield,” Batman! And this wasn’t even a hoax!

My question is, why were Russians test-firing submarine-borne missiles? Someone should tell them this isn’t “The Hunt For Red October”…

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  1. Easy and Elegant Life said, on December 25, 2009 at 10:43 pm

    Not sure if that posted. So here goes again. I believe this to be a lead in to the new nuclear arms treaty talks which produced nothing. Incidentally, the Russians, or at least the Soviets if I remember my research correctly, did not fully comply with a single treaty into which they entered.


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