
Update Jun. 10, 2012 22.20 GMT
A mysterious luminous object appeared over north Lebanon, Marjaayoun, the Bekaa and the Syrian-Turkish border, as well as over Iran on Jun. 7 evening.
Although according to some sources the luminous object was the result of a large meteorite that exploded leaving a visible train of dust, the object, which gave off light and was followed by a seemingly smoke trail, has not been clearly identified and some astronomers believe that it was not a meteor.
The sort-of UFO was also filmed over Lökbatan, a settlement in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Dr. Yigal Pat-El, the chairman of the Israeli Astronomical Association and Givataim observatory in central Israel, who spoke to the Ynetnews, said:
“It looked like a small body that suddenly started to grow and make spiral-like movements,” he said. “After a while, it turned into a cloud….it looked like an object flying high above ground and then disintegrating.”
Image credit: LBC International
Others said that the shape of the object/light could be similar to that generated by an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile reentry vehicle. In the following days, it was revealed that on Jun. 7, Russia has test-fired a new Topol-M series missile code-named RS-12. However, the test reportedly took place at 09.39 Moscow Time whereas the object was spotted later in the evening.
Eventually, it was confirmed that the mysterious light was caused by a Russian missile test, althought the actual type of weapon was not disclosed.
Image credit: U.S. Air Force
In 2009 similar reports were received in Norway, following a failed Russian SLBM RSM-56 Bulava missile test that generated a weird visual effect consisting of a blue beam of light with a greyish spiral emanating from one end of it.
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Russia’ test-fires intercontinental ballistic missile…
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4239819,00.html
I don’t know… It isn’t exactly like the ICBM re-entry videos I could find in YouTube, then again those concentrate on the last seconds to impact and this is apparently much higher in the atmosphere. What we’d need is bearings from multiple locations combined with when those were observed so we could attempt to reconstruct the trajectory. That could answer at least whether the object originated from our planet or from outer space.
I think it was a daring missile test intercepted by various defence networks enroute. Nice show of force for both sides with countermeasurements, penetration aids, etc. I wonder if something interesting heard on HF (HF-GCS & UVB-76) yesterday night?
we saw the same thing at the same date happen at tehran, iran!
how surprising is that!