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OSLO, Norway, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A Russian rocket gone awry appears to be responsible for a mysterious spiraling white and blue light show seen over Norway, officials say.
Thousands of people in Norway reported seeing the unusual light Wednesday, The Christian Science Monitor reported Thursday. Before long, the Russian Defense Ministry disclosed the third stage engine of a Bulava rocket its personnel had fired from a submarine in the White Sea near the Norwegian coast proved "unstable."
The online newspaper said while the Russians didn't specify that their rocket caused the blue light special Norwegians witnessed, the two events appeared more than coincidental, given the powerful missile should have been high in the atmosphere when the problem occurred.
The Russian news agency Novosti said the test was at least the seventh failure of the Bulava against five successful launches.
"The first two stages functioned smoothly, but the flight faltered at the third stage," the Russian Defense Ministry said in its statement released after the spiral light show. "There was a technical failure in the third stage engines rendering them unstable."
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