Cause of the 2009 Norwegian spiral UFO phenomenon

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Please have a look:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2764647/Spiral-UFO-puts-Norway-in-a-spin.html

It's strange isn't it? Anyone have an explanation?

Could it be man made?
 
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Apparently it was caused by a rocket which manfunctioned, going into a spiral. Effectively it's a spiral shaped contrail. It does however look very very cool. I saw a youtube video of it and especially liked the part where the trail starts to disperse. It looks almost exactly like the way sci-fi portrays a wormhole opening up.
 
More specifically, it was the third stage of a Russian missile that malfunctioned. They're trying to upgrade their missile fleet, and frankly aren't doing a great job. Does look really cool though :)


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091210/sc_afp/russianorwaymilitarymissile
 
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Daylight photo of what probably happened?

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Borg said:
Daylight photo of what probably happened?

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This has to be the strangest thing I have ever seen in the sky.