<em>UPDATE 3: </em>OK, forget that last explanation, here's the TRUTH from <a href="http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner%7Ey2009m12d12-Two-researchers-attribute-Norway-light-to-HAARP-antiET-spacebased-weapon-of-mass-destruction" target="_blank">exopolitics.com</a>:

'... two researchers have independently posited that HAARP, a space-based weapon of mass destruction one of whose antenna fields is close to the site of the Norwegian spiral light ...part of Project Blue Beam.

One of the alleged purposes of Project Blue Beam is the use of advanced electromagnetic imaging such as that produced by HAARP and exhibited in the Norway spiral light as a psychological mass conditioning device in aid of the implementation of a global corporate new world order.'

<em>UPDATE 2:</em> 'Currently - it is believe this [sic] was caused by a Chinese Long March 2D vehicle launched earlier on the same day, from China, on a polar orbit.'

This information from the same people who bring us the following video explanation – clearly a disinformation source and not to be trusted. Further's own reliable informants tell us that we are about to be invaded by the spiral beings from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzumaki" target="_blank"><em>Uzumaki</em></a>...

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One of many videos shot on 8 December all over Norway's northwestern coastline. It appears to show a swirling spiral of light, apparently projected from a single light source.

There are some more very striking photographs (that I'm not reproducing for copyright reasons) <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html" target="_blank">here</a>.

It looks artificial, and some have speculated that it might be some kind of weapons test (perhaps a giant hypno-ray?). The White and Barents Seas are regularly used as launching grounds for Russsian missiles, though there has been no comment from their Defence Ministry as yet.

<em>UPDATE:</em> The Russians are now saying that it was a failed missile test – presumably one that accidentally opened a gateway into another dimension. Really, just what sort of missile <em>was</em> that?!

Thanks Gnat Ward!