The Siberian Times reports: Reports of spectacular UFO – a giant glowing ball lighting the sky – in Siberia
Fears from locals of ‘aliens arriving’, but there is a surprising explanation and, yes, there was an unusual object in the sky.
The illuminated ball looming over the forest was seen clearly in the town of Salekhard right on the Arctic Circle, but was also visible over a swathe of northern Siberia in the night sky.
Residents from Yamalo-Nenets region reported ‘shivers down their spines’ and the social media went alive with claims of aliens arriving in an awesome UFO.
The ball began to turn into an arc and gradually dissipated.’
After the multi-coloured light show was over he went home.
‘Kids (5-6 years old) walking in the yard emotionally began to tell me about an unusual phenomenon, using the words ‘aliens’, ‘the portal to another dimension’ and the like….’
This was the launch of a Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile from Plesetsk cosmodrome aimed at the Kura testing range in Kamchatka on the country’s Pacific coast. Picture: The Siberian Times
Another photographer Alexey Yakovlev spotted the spectacle at Strezhevoi, in the north of Tomsk region, some 840 kilometres away.
‘And at first I thought – it is such a radiance of such an unusual form – round in shape.
‘But gradually the ball began to expand, it became clear that this is not some radiance … and it became scary …
‘It’s a gap in the space-time continuum.’
‘It’s good that I was not alone… they made it clear that the group of people cannot hallucinate.’
‘This is such a vision!’
Anastasia Boldyreva posted simply: ‘Aliens arrived.’
Vasily Zubkov said: ‘I went out to smoke a cigarette and thought it was the end of the world.’
‘I went out to smoke a cigarette and thought it was the end of the world.’ Pictures: Vkontakte
Another local Nurgazy Taabaldiev said: ‘It’s a gap in the space-time continuum.’
In fact the reason photographers were out watching the sky was an amazing show of northern lights – or Aurora Borealis – but there was an extra dimension too.
This was the launch of a Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile from Plesetsk cosmodrome aimed at the Kura testing range in Kamchatka on the country’s Pacific coast.
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Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!
I don’t see any evidence of fire.
Aw give Griff this one, it was a good Comment.
And there was fire, actually: light source.
Griff just got his +1
I surmise that after the boost phase was done the remaining fuel, which must have been liquid, was dumped into space producing an expanding gas cloud. Something like that happened several times during the 1970-ies after launches in one of the post-Apollo programs. I saw it twice from my native Netherlsnds and once from South America.
If it was not propelled by liquid fuel, perhaps the thing blew up and the test was a failure?
Whatever model is was supposed to be does not demonstrate that this weird looking “cloud” was in fact the trail of a missile launch of any kind.
This is about as credible a righting it off as being sunlight reflected off meteo helium balloon .
Having no knowledge of the appearance of a time-space portal I’ll have to defer judgement on that and other wild ideas but some needs to explain how a missile could produce this rather than just saying “because missile”.
“because missile”
OK, that clears that one up then, thanks a lot.
OK, 99.9% of this thread seems to be OT politics diatribes. I guess there’s no point in expecting scientific discussion any more.
I agree, I would have liked an explanation of how the rocket caused this effect. The article didn’t say and the comments were irrelevant.
Well, it’s simply vortices.
If you smoke, or ever seen a smoker, especially exhaling by sun rays, you’d not be questioning why you see what you do.
And not everything has been politics. There’s been jokes, E.T. discussions, economic discussions… and since this actually involves geopolitics (ICBMs) of course political.
Off topic is discussing The Wiggles.
Now that you mention them, I have been wondering about those Wiggles…
The fat little twirp in North Korea is threatening the US/et al, with an airburst test of an H-bomb over the South Pacific. The news of this was posted a couple of days ago.
He had one big BOOM! on Sept. 22, an underground test which was recorded as a 6.3M quake on a USGS seismic network set up to detect these things. There were also two landslides on the mountain where he does his nuke bomb testing.
The guesstimate was that it was a 500 Kiloton detonation, outperforming his previous explosions.
So when his prime minister stool pigeon says ‘take it seriously’, I think we should. It could explain why Putin authorized this particular test, and why he’s built a lovely mansion on the Black Sea with an entrance that implies it’s a fallout shelter.
The highest estimate I saw was “in excess of 300 kT”. That’s still pretty big and clearly thermonuclear.
The fireball from a 300 kT detonation is about a mile in diameter. Thus, in order to minimize fallout from incorporating seawater into the fireball, the detonation height would have to be at least half a mile above the surface.
If both the missile and H-bomb work, then Kim will indeed pose a grave threat both of EMP and of devastating explosive power against US, Korean and Japanese civilian and military targets. And to the whole world, since Kim will sell his WMDs to anyone with hard currency.
China appears unwilling and/or unable to rein in its client. Diplomacy looks to fail. Choosing to live with Nork nukes or to go to war are both bad choices. But maybe preparing for war will encourage a diplomatic solution, one hopes better than Clinton’s of 1994.
1) Evacuate ten million people from northern Seoul and its suburbs, those in range of Nork artillery and rockets.
2) Evacuate foreign civilians, such as US service members’ families.
3) Call up RoK’s two million or more reservists.
4) Activate at least six US Army National Guard brigades.
5) Reconstitute the armored brigade of the 2nd Infantry Division, downsized in 2015.
6) Move its other two brigades from Ft. Lewis, WA to Korea.
7) Get all 1200 most advanced M1 tanks headed toward the peninsula as brigade equipment sets afloat.
8) Keep at least two carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups off each coast.
9) Let Kim know that nukes make him more vulnerable, not less. Assure him that he is about to be vaporized if he doesn’t end his program and consent to international monitoring.
10) If he still says no, then let there be war. It needn’t be nuclear, given US precision conventional weaponry.
“There were also two landslides on the mountain where he does his nuke bomb testing.”
The Chinese are telling Rocket Man to stop using his nuclear test facility. They are afraid he is going to blow the top off the mountain and contaminate the area. The North Korean test site is only 50 miles from the Chinese border.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/27/chinese-scientists-tell-kim-jong-un-to-move-his-nuclear-test-site-before-disaster-strikes/
Includes a map of the six test sites in that general location. It’s also fairly close to Russia. The locale might partially have been selected to keep the US from attacking it and risking ticking off China and Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_North_Korean_nuclear_test
Same with their missile test launch sites.
Vasily Zubkov said: ‘I went out to smoke a cigarette and thought it was the end of the world.’
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Even in Russia, you can’t smoke inside ?
What is this world coming too ? 🙂
Ironically I just commented about smokers.
The smell is grotesque and it yellows the walls (and inside cars, lingers). And smoking outside is more enjoyable than being cooped up inside staring into the T.V. like a zombie!
Thanks Vicus, I always wonder if anyone actually reads my comments 🙂
Whether an ICBM mission is a failure or a success, you’re always in for a great show!
I did search of this post to see if anyone mentions Rocket Man’s potential for an EMP attack as reported earlier this week.
Just get over the idea of a conventional nuclear attack and now you have to worry about an electro magnetic pulse. yikes
In the current state of affairs, (see below) I would rather see a Russian alliance … on certain matters…
“North Korean EMP Attack Would Cause Mass U.S. Starvation, Says Congressional Report”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2017/10/23/north-korea-emp-attack-would-cause-mass-u-s-starvation-says-congressional-report/#736b1339740a
The North Korean Axis of Middle East Proliferation
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450997/un-report-north-korea-syria-iran-relationship-extensive-long-standing
Norks involved in the Middle Eastern region, two chemical weapons shipments found headed for Syria in the last 6 months. Axis of Evil Iran, N. Korea, Syria. Should include Egypt as there was a weapons shipment bound for them as well from N. Korea. Collusion with other N. African countries too, go figure…
The largest anti-sematic groups in the world are of Middle Eastern descent, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran…etc…
The rise of the center-right and far-right in Europe and America…..
BEYOND THE CALIPHATE:
Foreign Fighters and the Threat of Returnees
RICHARD BARRETT
OCTOBER 2017
http://thesoufancenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Beyond-the-Caliphate-Foreign-Fighters-and-the-Threat-of-Returnees-TSC-Report-October-2017.pdf
Tunnels at the U.S. Mexican border, over 200 found since 1990’s.
“It is often a simple price-performance tradeoff. If the smuggler has a million pounds of drugs to move — or a million pounds of illegal aliens from Afghanistan — then a tunnel can be a low cost solution. If the contraband to be smuggled is of tremendous value — for example a key terrorist or a nuclear weapon — then a tunnel is probably the best choice.”
http://usborderpatrol.com/Border_Patrol725.htm
The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again
Under Putin, Russia doesn’t want an alliance with the US. Under Yeltsin, Russia was offered NATO membership, but rejected it, thanks to Clinton’s war against Serbia.
Putin not only doesn’t want to ally with the West. He wants to destroy America.
As for EMP, my garage is a Farraday cage.
Typo on the extra R.
One thing about it, if Kim Jung-un attacks the U.S. in any way, he will be committing suicide.
Yes. Unfortunately. It would be much better to capture him alive, hand over to Korean authorities for a fair trial for mass and serial murder, torture, kidnapping, theft on the grandest scale, serial rape, statutory rape, pedophilia, sexual abuse, treason, bribery and crimes against humanity, then be strung up by his heels, Mussolini-style, to be beaten to death with baseball bats by his victims’ families.
I think any attempt to capture Kim Jung-un would cause the North Koreans to launch their all-out attack, so the U.S. should assume it needs to wipe out Rocket Man’s entire military once the bullets start flying, even a little bit.
I doubt there will be any small-scale military actions that won’t lead to total war almost instantaneously.
We could try bombing North Korea’s nuclear and rocket test facilities, but should expect to have to launch a full-scale attack as soon as North Korea reacts militarily.
I personally would launch the all-out attack first. I wouldn’t give Kim the time to launch his attack. The less time he has, the fewer people will die. If we are going to hit him militarily, then we should hit him with everything we have as soon as the decision is made that Kim needs to go.
Perhaps China would seek to avoid this outcome by reigning in Kim, but if they don’t, Trump will eventually have to destroy North Korea’s abiility to make war.
As for North Korean test facilities being located close to Russian and Chinese territory as a means of deterring the U.S., both Russia and China know the U.S. is not going to attack them, and so they have no reason to commit suicide alongside Kim. If they do decide to commit suicide, the U.S. can oblige them, as we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy all of them, and will, if that becomes necessary.
Winter looks entrenched in these photos. Poor souls.
… my feeling too. How does a missile produce a round cloud? I need more details. Without knowing such details, this explanation is about as credible as my Al-Gore-belching-CO2-bubble-trapping-urban-heat theory.
A missile did it. Ah, okay, I know that a missile is a flying thingie, and that flying thingies often get confused for alien mother ships, and so I should believe this explanation because it’s about flying thingies that confuse people’s perceptions.
Not. I need more.
Three Carrier Groups in the Pacific. Could be planning a BBQ?
Three forward deployed could indicate planning a war.
But three in the Pacific could just mean one on station, one leaving station and one coming on station. Plus of course the one we have based in Japan.
That one was easy. That’s the the gaseous cloud left for a short time whenever a star ship goes to warp. See it every day on Star Trek.
From spaceweather.com:
RUSSIAN WAR GAMES SPARK ‘BLUE AURORAS’: Around the Arctic Circle, people see green auroras almost every night. It’s nothing to write home about. Blue auroras, on the other hand, are very unusual. That’s why this photo taken on Oct. 26th by Oliver Wright in Abisko, Sweden, is so remarkable:
http://www.spaceweather.com/images2017/27oct17/abiskoblue_strip.jpg
“It was totally blue,” says Wright, a veteran aurora tour guide who has witnessed hundreds of geomagnetic storms. “I’ve never seen anything quite like it!” In Tromso, Norway, Daniel Drelciuc saw it, too–“a big blue mass next to the classic green aurora,” he says.
In auroras, blue is a sign of nitrogen. Energetic particles striking ionized molecular nitrogen (N2+) at very high altitudes can produce a cold azure glow, most often seen during intense geomagnetic storms. On Oct. 26th, however, geomagnetic activity was not intense….
http://www.spaceweather.com/images2017/27oct17/russianblue_strip.jpg