Before veteran UFO researcher and author Wendy Connors retired from her work, she searched out and accumulated a wealth of UFO-related audio recordings for her "Faded Discs" project. This enormous, time-consuming task involved listening to hundreds of hours of audio from old TV and radio programs, UFO witness interviews, military accounts and the like, and she carefully converted each reel-to-reel tape, audiocassette, record album, transcription disc, wire recording and whatever other format came her way to digital format, thus preserving deteriorating recorded history for posterity. Sometimes, she literally had to wash the dirt off old recorded media using a special cleaning solution, patience and tender loving care in order to restore clarity.
It was truly my pleasure a few years ago to review some of her copyrighted digital conquests for Errol Bruce-Knapp's informative "UFO Updates" section of the Virtually Strange Network (see link and check out the "UFO Updates" section daily, where current contributor messages update continuously under the "100 latest messages" category in the Archive area), and despite auditioning hours and hours of incredible historical UFO audio for those reviews, I was impressed particularly by one gem, an interview conducted with a man claiming to be a Navy pilot who flew missions for the CIA in the 1970s. Tucked inconspicuously among a host of no less important audio entries, this is pure, apparently authenticated, UFO history gold.
What really strikes one about this particular interview is that the witness had provided personal information to establish his sincerity. Major identifying info was removed, for obvious reasons, long before I was given the opportunity to hear the recording, but based upon other factors its veracity appeared plausible. Having been in the military, I'm more than a little familiar with the term, "military bearing," and the voice on the recording reflected this. Also, for well over a year in the early seventies I operated my own hospital clinic at an Air Force pilot training base and spoke with pilots every day -- remarkable people conditioned to remain calm, cool and rational through almost any threatening situation. The recorded voice I heard remained very much in this vein, though, understandably, immensely curious about the UFO experience.
I'm going to share a transcript of the incident with you today. I've gone on to edit out some conversation having no bearing on the incident itself, but the major portions are here. I did have difficulty hearing some words because tape, even when digitalized, can have limitations due to its age (and my age!), and there remained some minor electrical "hum" caused by original recording equipment and old telephone lines -- so I've indicated spots where words were unclear to me. My transcript is mostly word-by-word accurate, but in some instances I had to choose the best guess (again, little to deter meaning here). If any words appear to contradict others, that's probably due to my inability to get a clear reading of the sound. I'm only human (or reasonably so!).
Of considerable interest -- the pilot's mention of a "sponge rubber" appearance to the object's surface may seem unusual, but the thing is that there were similar descriptions offered by other UFO witnesses -- not many at first, but they were out there. In fact, also from 1977, Wendy's collection included a report where the pilot and co-pilot of a Lear 35 jet encountered a huge object that followed their aircraft for 10 to 15 minutes, and the object's surface looked like "porous foam rubber."
This astounding account would be a nail-biter if featured in a movie script, and just when you might say to yourself, well, it might have involved a secret military device, the pilot's description of radar confirmation will blow rational thought right out of your head. This is creepy, fascinating stuff.
And so follows the incredible account offered by a man introducing himself as a Navy pilot, talented and trusted enough to conduct CIA missions, who literally claims to have just returned from an extraordinary UFO encounter. If he is who he purports to be, and if he is still with us, we might say thank you, Sir, both for your service and for your report, memorialized for the archives instead of disappearing into the dust of time, thanks to the concern and skill of Wendy Connors.
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(The conversation is between the pilot and Robert Gribble, who operated the original National UFO Reporting Center out of Seattle, and occurs in 1977.)
I fly for the CIA. I'm a reconnaissance pilot.and I just came from Tokyo. I just landed about ten minutes ago. At a level 5-1-0 and at about halfway in a straight line between Tokyo and Hawaii, I was about halfway, I'm not sure. I was out of radar contact, just on my own, alone there, but I still had radio contact. I don't know if there was a full moon or not, but it was very bright out there on the ocean, and this thing came up to me. No wings, about double the length of my airplane -- I was flying a Phantom F-411 -- but double the length, which would be about 45 feet, round-shaped, not circular, more triangular, but no bottom and no top. All equidistant sides of a triangle. They weren't sharp, they were sort of rounded-off edges, and the ends of it were flat and no noise, no wings, no thrust, no windows, no, you know, nothing which would give it a reason to fly.
NO APPENDAGES OF ANY KIND?
No, none. On the sides of the Phantom, I don't know if you're familiar with (THE BASE?)) but we do have very high-intensity spotlights which (ARE BUILT INTO?) the fuselage (UNCLEAR) side of an aircraft that are used to, when you are unloading bombs at night at the runway you turn them on so the guys can see (UNCLEAR) with the bombs underneath them. And so I turned on the lights on the sides (AND HAD A VERY CLEAR PICTURE OF IT?))...and it was there, it wasn't my imagination.
DID THE LIGHT ACTUALLY REFLECT OFF THIS THING OR ILLUMINATE IT?
It didn't reflect, it was a porous material, probably. It looked like sponge rubber, that's what it looked like. But it was not metallic. It (UNCLEAR), it couldn't be porous. It looked like maybe asphalt would look from a distance, something like that.
I MEAN, WAS THAT LIGHT ACTUALLY ILLUMINATED?
No, It just sort of went ahead and hit it. (UNCLEAR)
HOW CLOSE DID THIS THING GET?
The closest it got was about 70 feet from the wing. Now, I have radar, and it was on radar and the image wasn't like that close, but it got up to about 50 feet from the left wing and then as far as about 200 feet and stayed there for about a half an hour. This was at Mach 2.2, roughly, you know, 1900 miles an hour.
DID YOU SEE THIS AS IT WAS COMING IN TOWARDS YOU?
I didn't see him come up on me, no, I just sort of looked over and it was there, and then I just looked and looked and looked and thought it was a shadow or something, so then I turned on all the lights and then I saw it. It was definitely there. I could see the dimensions, I could see the top and the bottom and the ends of it. The dimensions of the height, I would say, were, oh, I would say about 10 feet -- 10 feet by 10 feet.
WAS THIS THING LAYING FLAT OR WITH THE APEX UP?
It always had the apex up, but it would slowly rotate on the apex and in all the time it was there it started from the apex being up, to the apex completely rotating around and took about 15 minutes to do it. It would move a little bit and stop, move a little bit and stop and move a little bit and stop. It didn't look like that was necessary for flight. I think it was just turning for -- I don't know why but it wasn't necessary for flight, you could tell that.
AND DID IT MAINTAIN THE SAME POSITION IN RELATION TO YOU WHILE IT WAS DOING THIS?
More or less, I would say. But it didn't stay close for very long, it only stayed at 50 feet for about a couple of minutes, and it stayed just out of real good sight most of the time. It sounds like I'm crazy, but they seemed to know what was good sight and what wasn't for me. I have perfect vision, 20/20 and I'm a captain in Naval intelligence by the way, and I've been with the CIA for about two years.
OKAY. DID YOU GET ANY BUFFETING OFF OF THIS?
No, none. No buffeting, no turbulence, nothing.
HOW ABOUT INSTRUMENT INTERFERENCE?
No, perfect.
WERE YOU IN CONTACT WITH ANY GROUND STATIONS FOR A RADAR CHECK?
There is no radar in that area. I tried three times to see if I was in communication with somebody and ask if there was aircraft in my area that was, you know, maybe a little off course and they said no, the closest aircraft was (HE SAYS EITHER 40 OR 400) miles away, they said, and I said are you positive and they said yeah, and there was two radar ships, they were both out of range, and oddly enough, he disappeared right after this guy said I would be in range in about three minutes and about a minute after that this guy pulled away.
DID YOU GET THE IMPRESSION YOU WERE BEING OBSERVED?
I think they were more interested in the airplane than they were in me, but I did have that impression, yeah. I also had the impression that they knew what was going on. I know it sounds a little nutty, but no one else seems to care about it. I've been flying all my life and I know what an airplane is and what it isn't. There's not too many airplanes that can go as fast as that at that altitude, first of all, and 2.2 is pretty fast.
DID YOU HAVE ANY UNUSUAL PHYSICAL OR MENTAL SENSATIONS WHILE ALL OF THIS WAS GOING ON?
No. The only thing that sort of bothered me was that I haven't slept for about 30 hours, but that's not any big deal for me, I've done it a lot before. I was just coming from two other missions and I just hadn't had a chance to sleep and just wanted to get home, so -- I've been flying a long time but I can say I've done that a lot so it was nothing and I've been able to do that before, so...
OKAY. AND YOU DEFINITELY SAY THAT THE TEXTURE OF THE SURFACE WAS PITTED?
Yeah, not big holes, but it was rough. It wasn't metallic.
WHAT WAS YOUR ALTITUDE?
Flight level was 5-1-0. I did climb a little bit to see what sort of, I was curious, I climbed to 60,000 feet and almost instantly(UNCLEAR)...are you a pilot?
NO SIR.
Well, that plane can climb very fast, one of the best planes we have. The actual (UNCLEAR) is classified, but anyway I gave it full power and put the nose up (AT ? FEET?), and there's only maybe eight or ten other aircraft in the whole world that can keep up with that -- and this thing kept up with no strain at all. It made no effort at all to get right next to me. He started to move almost instantly when I did (AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT?)) allowed him to do that.
IT MOVED RIGHT ALONG WITH YOU?
Yeah, no problem at all. When he left me, I (UNCLEAR) stayed there for a little while and put into a dive to see if I could outrun him, and from 50,000 feet to about 49 I kept up to about three point something Mach, which is really moving and he stayed right up with me with no problem at all. And then the guy said, well, you'll be within radar range within about three or four minutes -- and about a minute after that he pulled away from me, going forward at at least triple the speed with no effort at all, I mean with no acceleration. He was just there and then he was a speck and then he was gone at the same altitude.
DO YOU REMEMBER THE TIME ON THAT?
Well, this was about, I'd say, 12 hours ago, no, about ten hours ago.
HOW LONG DID THAT WHOLE EVENT TAKE PLACE?
I'd say all together about a half an hour -- 20 minutes or a half an hour. I did get the time but the time was Korean time. I can't remember whether I...it would be an hour off if I gave you that time. It was just, I can't remember if it was four a.m. or four p.m., it was one or the other in Korean time. I can't remember if I reset the clock or not after I left Korea.
OKAY.
But the main thing I want to tell you is that this thing had no...you know, I can sort of tell if an aircraft is really working to keep up with you speed-wise and it sort of has characteristics. But this had no effort at all keeping up with me. There was no lag. They could accelerate easily as fast as they want to, go up and down as fast as they want to. It defied all the laws of aerodynamics. There was no reason for it to fly.
OKAY. WHEN THIS THING PULLED AWAY FROM YOU WAS IT AT HIGH SPEED?
Yeah, it was next to me and within 10 seconds it was a speck on the radar. The radar screen I have has about a 150 mile range. I could (UNCLEAR) it exactly. It took it less than 10 seconds to get out of radar range, less than 10 seconds to go 150 miles. I saw it going across the radar range. On the radar there is three modes. There is 150 miles, there is 250 miles and 500 miles. So to see it on the 500 mile range I upped the range from 150 to 500, and in the time it took me to flip the switch was another three seconds, and he had already gone past the 500 mile range. It wasn't on the radar anymore, which means it had already gone through that other range. You can imagine a circle, a 500 mile circle around you, that's what it's like. We have intelligence radar which is the best you can get. You can pick up a skydiver (SAID EITHER 40 OR 400) miles away, a free-falling skydiver will pick up on radar.
DID THIS THING LEAVE ANY TRAIL ONCE IT TOOK OFF?
No. We have a (HAWKEYE?) heat-sensing missile and the heat sensing missile has a computer which can track the exhaust of a jet. The exhaust of a jet stays in the sky the same way the wake from the water stays in the water, and you can track it the same way. Well, that computer was on, too, and there was no thrust, no heat, no energy coming from it. This thing will sense heat up to 20 miles away at altitude and there was no heat coming out of it, and that's very sensitive also. You can start up a gasoline engine in a car 20 miles away from this thing and turn on the missile, and it will find the heat and then blow it up. That's how accurate it is.
DID YOU GET A GOOD, SOLID RETURN ON YOUR RADAR?
Perfect, yeah. I don't know if it will help any to tell you this, but the people at Approach Control in the Navy, they didn't seem to care. I wanted to speed up and get around him, too, to see what the other side of this thing looked like, but I could not outrun him, he could slow down and speed up as fast as I could. A Phantom can go from 2.2 Mach to 50 miles an hour in about 10 seconds, that's how fast and you couldn't slow down if you wanted to, and I tried that and he was still just as fast. There are very few airplanes that can keep up with a Phantom. There's no Russian airplane that can. So either it's one of ours or it's someone else and, like I said, there's no reason for it to fly and had no energy coming out of it, no heat, no power source, nothing.
END OF RELEVANT INTERVIEW PORTION
HELLO, WELCOME TO BARF STEW. AS YOU MIGHT KNOW, BARF STEW `GREW' OUT OF SEVERAL NEAR DAILY BLOGS THAT I ALREADY HAD - ONE, A PAGE ON SQUIDOO ABOUT ANOMALIES - AND ONE ON BLOGSPOT ABOUT POLITICS. IT ALSO IS AN OUTGROWTH OF MY `ORIGINAL' ESOTERIC BLOG TOO - AND PERHAPS - TODAY'S POST BELONGS THERE - AS WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SPECULATE IS INDEED, THE HEAVY STUFF - BUT - BECAUSE IT IS CONJECTURE AND SPECULATION OF MYSELF ONLY - PERHAPS, IT IS BARF. I'LL LET THAT UP TO YOU.
TODAY'S POST BEGAN THE OTHER DAY WHEN LON STRICKLER DROPPED ME A HELLO ON MY SQUIDOO PAGE. NOW, AS YOU AGAIN MAY BE AWARE, LON RUNS A GREAT `ANOMALY' WEBSITE (THAT I OFTEN FEATURE LINKS TO) - AND HAS HIMSELF HAD VARIOUS NON-ORDINARY REALITY SITUATIONS OCCUR TO HIM AND AROUND HIM (ALMOST LIKE ALL `ANOMALY' WEBSITE EDITORS IT SEEMS). AND, WHILE I HAD READ SOME OF LON'S PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES/PERCEPTIONS - I WANTED HIM TO SHARE WITH ME HIS BIGFOOT EXPERIENCE - TO WHICH, HE SENT ME THE LINK HE WROTE YEARS AGO. HTTP://NATURALPLANE.BLOGSPOT.COM/2007/10/MY-BIGFOOT-ENCOUNTER-SPRING-1981.HTML
AND, IMMEDIATELY AFTER READING LON'S LINK, I HAD A REALIZATION TO MY PSYCHE - `"IS IT ALL ABOUT PORTALS"?'
I WILL EXPLAIN.
IF YOU READ LON'S STORY - AND THE FOLLOW UP STORY - YOU WILL FIND THAT `THE FEDS' SHOWED UP VERY QUICKLY AND REPLACED `THE LOCALS' FOR SECURITY OF THE AREA. AS DID `THOSE HELICOPTERS' WE OFTEN SEEM TO HEAR ABOUT WHEN SOMETHING `WEIRD' `ANOMALOUS' HAPPENS (USUALLY WITH UFO'S). AND, WHILE THE FOLLOW UP STORY SUGGESTS THAT THE FEDS MUST HAVE CAPTURED OR KILLED WHAT LON SAW -- I HAVE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TAKEAWAY. (BTW, THE REPORTS OF UFO'S AND BIGFOOTS - TOGETHER - IS NOT UNPRECEDENTED.)
BUT, FIRST, LET'S BACK UP A BIT TO A MAN IN THE NEWS - A MAN CONNECTED TO THE FEDS - A MAN WHO INVESTIGATES `ANOMALOUS EVENTS INVOLVING ENTITIES' - AND A MAN WITH AN INTEREST IN PORTALS. YES, ROBERT BIGELOW. NIDS BACKER, MUFON BACKER, SKINWALKER RANCH OWNER, -- INDEED, THE `PORTAL' MAN HIMSELF.
AND, WITH THAT AS A BACKDROP - HERE'S MY CONJECTURE.
LET'S SAY `THE FEDS' - (REALLY THE WORLD'S GOVERNMENTS) - KNOW - THAT `THE ANOMALOUS' COMES IN SEVERAL `VARIETIES' OF EVENTS. AND, THAT ONE OF THEM - INVOLVES - `SOLID ENTITIES' (THAT HAVE COME THRU A `PORTAL') INSTEAD OF `QUALITATIVE ENTITIES' SUCH AS GHOSTS, SPIRITS, ETC. AND, THE `SOLID' ENTITIES - ARE THE ONES `THEY' NEED TO BE CONCERNED WITH - HENCE THE IMMEDIATE `CONTROL' OF AN AREA.
(TO ANSWER THE QUESTION - YES - I BELIEVE THERE ARE `SOLID ENTITIES' - SUCH AS ALIENS - THAT ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE `TIME-CONE' PORTALS.)
TO ME, IT'S OBVIOUS THAT `THE POWERS THAT BE' HAVE NO INTEREST IN AN `OPEN PORTAL' TO WHO KNOWS WHAT. AND, I BELIEVE IN SOME MANNER, THEIR ACTIONS DO INDEED `CLOSE' THE PORTALS. (PERHAPS SOME FREQUENCY BEING BLASTED INTO THE AREA BY THE HELICOPTERS?) PERHAPS IT IS NOTHING MORE THAN HAVING `INTENTIONALTIES' TO STOP THE EVENT - CLOSE THE PORTAL - EVEN IF PORTALS ARE TEMPORARY AND EVEN IF THE `CREATURES-ENTITIES-EVENTS' THAT COME THRU THE PORTAL ARE "LESS THAN REAL "IN SOME MANNER. ALMOST LIKE CLOSING A ZIPPER TO ANOTHER REALITY SO THAT IT DOESN'T INTRUDE IN OURS - OR - "RIP OUR REALITY APART."
SO, NOW WE KNOW THAT THE "HELICOPTER PHENOMENA" HAPPENS IN CASES "OTHER THAN UFO'S" IN AN AREA - "BIGFOOTS, CAN CALL FOR HELICOPTER ACTIONS TOO". AND, IT IS NOW MY BELIEF THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT OPEN PORTALS INTO OUR TIMECONE - THE GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW THAT ROBERT BIGELOW SEEMS MOST INTERESTED IN - (AND PERHAPS USING TO GO ELSEWHERE?).
FINALLY, I'M OF THE OPINION - OPPOSITE THE MAN IN THE FOLLOW-UP STORY - THAT NO `BIGFOOTS' WERE KILLED AT LON'S LOCATION THAT NIGHT ("OR ANY NIGHT") -- WHY - BECAUSE HUMANS TALK - AND THE `RUMORS' OF SUCH EVENTS OVER THE DECADES - "WOULD BE MUCH STRONGER THAN ANY THAT EXIST UP UNTIL TODAY". IT'S HUMANS NATURE.
AND, HERE'S A BIGFOOT VIDEO FROM 2009:
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BILL SAXTON/NSF/AUI/NRAOIce that formed in the interstellar cloud that gave birth to the sun survived that process to fill our oceans.HALF OF EARTH'S WATER FORMED BEFORE THE SUN WAS BORN"Daniel is a deputy news editor forScience".Email DanielBy Daniel Clery 25 September 2014 3:15 pm 46 CommentsGood news for hunters of extraterrestrial life: Water may be more widespread in planetary systems than previously thought. A team of researchers studying the origin of the water in our solar system has concluded that up to half of it formed before the sun itself was born-that is, in the cloud of dust and gas that was the progenitor of our solar system. If water can form in abundance in such clouds, then it may be found everywhere.Our solar system is awash with water. Apart from Earth, water is found on the moon, Mars, Mercury, comets, and the icy moons of the giant planets. But where did it come from? Water is known to form in the clouds of gas and dust of the interstellar medium (ISM) from which planetary systems coalesce, but is it destroyed when the newly formed sun starts pumping out heat and light, only to be formed again later? Or does that primordial water survive star formation and remain around us today?To answer that question, a team led by astronomer L. Ilsedore Cleeves of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, focused on deuterium, a heavy form of hydrogen that was created in the big bang along with normal hydrogen. There are about 26 deuterium atoms for every million hydrogen atoms across the universe, but it is six times as prevalent in the water on Earth and in other solar system bodies. Scientists conclude that when the water formed, the reaction creating deuterium-rich "heavy water" was slightly faster than the one creating normal water, so the proportion of deuterium in water increased.But that enrichment of deuterium happens only under certain conditions: It has to be very cold (only a few tens of degrees above absolute zero), plus you need oxygen and some sort of ionizing radiation to get the reaction going. All of those things are available in the ISM. The ionizing radiation there is cosmic rays, particles from distant sources that zip through space at high speed. And astronomers have observed water in the ISM that is highly enriched in deuterium, so that could be source of the solar system's water.Still, there's a question mark over whether this interstellar water could survive the violence of the sun's birth. To find out, Cleeves and her colleagues sought to determine whether the same water-forming reactions could have occurred after the sun's formation, in the protoplanetary disk of gas and dust from which planets form. Such a disk would offer low temperatures and an oxygen supply just as the ISM does, but would there be enough ionizing radiation?The team constructed a detailed model of the chemical processes creating water in a protoplanetary disk. Much of the cosmic rays are fended off by the young star's magnetic field and particles streaming out from the star, but there are other sources of radiation: x-rays from the star and short-lived radionuclides in the disk. As the researchers report online today in "Science", those sources of radiation just don't produce heavy water fast enough. "We found that heavy water didn't form in any abundance over a million years," Cleeves says.In fact, the team estimates that as much as 50% of the water now on Earth may have existed since before the birth of the sun 4.5 billion years ago. And that's good news for other planetary systems. The conditions in the ISM are far more uniform across space than those in protoplanetary disks, so it's likely that there is water everywhere waiting for planets to form. "As the number of confirmed planetary systems increases, it's reassuring that... water is available," Cleeves says."This is a very interesting result. We've been debating this for years, whether or not the ices have an interstellar heritage," says astrophysicist Karen Willacy of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. She says that other groups have tried to model the collapse of clouds in the ISM into planetary systems to see if ice would survive, but "with various results, that don't always agree," Willacy says. "This is much more simple approach, just using the chemistry which is well understood."Posted in Earth, Physics, SpaceSource
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Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:
g ABODES - Some scientists have thought that the Earth's Ice Age conditions 12,900 years ago were triggered by a meteor or comet. But a recent study suggests that the evidence pointing to the ancient impact is nothing more than fungus and other matter. See article.
g LIFE - Scientists say they've discovered cookie-shaped fossils in Gabon that may represent the earliest-known multicellular life, dating back 2.1 billion years. But when you go that far back, claims about fossilized life get complicated. See article.
g MESSAGE - For almost half a decade, the SETI project has unsuccessfully searched for alien life. However, SETI may be looking for the wrong kind of signals from extraterrestrials, believe two researchers. See article.
g COSMICUS - The UK Space Agency has announced it will develop and launch a miniature satellite to be used for inexpensive science missions in low-Earth orbit. See article.
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Posted: November 7, 2008Date: November 6, 2008Time: Evening.Location of Sighting: Fort Erie.Number of witnesses: 1Number of objects: 2Shape of objects: Round.Full Description of event/sighting: As I was setting up my telescope I noticed in the south east sky two round lights which were extremely bright and very high in the sky. They were just sitting there as if they were observing and they were very close together. Then in a instant they were gone. I never have I seen something such as this.Thank you to the witness for their report.Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research and host of the Vike Report UFO Eyewitness radio show. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/ Just added, the Vike Report Radio Show Blog. You can check the blog out for archived radio shows and all the new and upcoming programs I do.http://thevikereport.blogspot.com/HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
SPIRAL UFO PUTS NORWAY IN A SPIN
A MYSTERIOUS giant spiral of light that dominated the sky over Norway this morning has stunned experts - who believe the space spectacle is an entirely new astral phenomenon.
Thousands of awe-struck Norwegians bombarded the Meteorological Institute to ask what the incredible light - that could be seen in the pre-dawn sky for hundreds of miles - could possibly be.
The phenomenon has been dubbed 'STAR-GATE' - as the world's top scientists and the military lined up to admit they were baffled.
THEORIES RANGING FROM A MISFIRED RUSSIAN MISSILE, METEOR FIREBALL, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN TYPE OF NORTHERN LIGHT, 'BLACK HOLE' AND EVEN ALIEN ACTIVITY WERE ALL PROPOSED.
Witnesses across Norway, who first glimpsed the space show at 8.45am, all described seeing a spinning 'Catherine wheel-style' spiral of white light, centred around a bright moon-like star.
A blue "streaming tail" appeared to anchor the spiral to earth, before the light "exploded" into a rotating ring of white fire.
The spiral spectacle - which lasted for two minutes - was seen by vast swathes of the Scandinavian country's almost five million population, with sightings as far north as Finnmark to Trondelag in the south.
Totto Eriksen, from Tromso, in northern Norway, was one of the thousands who bombarded Norwegian newspapers with sightings - after nearly crashing his car on spotting the spiral overhead.
He said: "I was driving my daughter to school when this light spun and exploded in the sky.
"We saw it from the Inner Harbour in Tromso. It looked like a rocket that spun around and around - and then went diagonally across the heavens.
"It looked like the moon was coming over the mountain - but then turned into something totally different.
"People just stopped and stared on the pier - it was like something from a Hollywood movie."
Axel Berg, from Alta, also in the north of the country, added: "It was like a giant spiral - a shooting star that spun around and around.
"I initially thought it was a projector but then the 'tail light' left and the spiral remained spinning still."
Norway's most celebrated astronomer, Knut Jorgen Roed Odegaard, said he had never seen anything like the spiral before.
He said: "This was seen over an exceptionally large area of the country - in all of north Norway and the Trondelag.
"My first thought was that it was a fireball meteor - but it lasted far too long.
"It may have been a missile from Russia - but I can't guarantee that is the answer.
"I rang the Air Traffic Control tower in Tromse. They said it was over in two minutes. To me, that is far too long for this to be an astronomical phenomenon.
"This spiral shape is unique. It is definitely not a variation of the aurora borealis - northern lights."
Chief Scientist Erik Tandberg, at the Norwegian Space Centre, said that he too was "totally amazed" by the spiral.
He agreed with many other experts that the spiral pattern could have been caused by a missile from Russia - something the Russian military have strongly denied.
Dr Tandberg said: "I agree with everyone in the science community that this light was the weirdest thing. I have never seen anything like this ever.
"It may have been anything from an exploding missile whose launch went wrong - to a comet or other celestial object that for some reason has been behaving strangely.
"If it was a missile - most likely from the launch base in Pletsevsk in Russia or one of the Russian submarines or even from the European Space Agency base in Kiruna - then we are talking about a rocket launch that has gone wrong.
"The spiral suggests the object came off course and balance and entered the spiral movement. Leaking rocket fuel could account for the blue light.
"But I know that the military have denied this explanation. So we could be looking at an entirely new natural phenomenon."
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