9 Mysterious Lights Seen In The Sky

The lack of information about a streak of light that was visible across the states of California, Nevada and Arizona led to a flurry of calls to law enforcement agencies and lit up social media as people posted photos and videos of the celestial sight. Many had thought—or had hoped—the light was a sighting of an unidentified flying object, or UFO.

Actually, the U.S. Navy fired an unarmed Trident missile from a submarine off the coast of southern California from the USS Kentucky, a ballistic missile submarine. Commander Ryan Perry said such launches were conducted on a frequent basis to ensure the continued reliability of the system and that information about them is classified before the launch.

The test was conducted in the Pacific Test Range, a vast area northwest of Los Angeles, where the Navy periodically test-fires Tomahawk and Standard cruise missiles from surface ships and submarines.

The Battle of Los Angeles is still thought by many to be one of the few “unexplained” UFO phenomena.

OpenMinds.tv investigative reporter Alejandro Rojas thinks he knows why: “Bright lights can sometimes be reflected in the lens of the camera. In particular, a tower light can be seen pulsing at the top of a tower on the ground. One of the red lights in the sky pulses in the same manner. However, it doesn’t pulse at the same time.”

The Hessdalen Lights regularly appear above the Hessdalen Valley in the municipality of Holtålen in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. Unlike some “phantom light” phenomena, they can’t be explained being just as headlights or passing planes. These lights form different shapes, including helixes. They often appear as rough ball shapes and sometimes spit out smaller balls that go zooming around the sky.

In 2009, people freaked out all over Norway because of the strange sight above. This spooky giant spiral was seen, photographed, and recorded on video from all over the country. Was it a portal to a parallel universe, perhaps?

Not quite. It was a rocket running out of fuel and spiraling out of control. The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that it launched a Bulava missile and that the missile’s third stage failed. The third stage’s nozzle, which directs the rocket’s exhaust plume, may have fallen off or been punctured, causing the exhaust to come out sideways instead of out the back.

In November 2015, people across Saskatchewan were surprised by a strange fireball that that streaked across the skies. Loud booms were heard as well.

It was a Taurid meteor that lit things up, and it was visible from Saskatoon to Weyburn. Martin Beech, an astronomer at the University of Regina’s Campion College, said chances are good some material got to the ground, but how much is hard to tell. The fact that people heard booms in the Kelvington area could mean material landed near there. “These are all indicators that material did get to the lower atmosphere,” Beech said. “Most of it would burn off in the upper atmosphere. That was the trail and the flash that people were seeing.”