Spiral of light seen over the Middle East confirmed to be Russian ballistic missile test

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On June 7, 2012 people across the Middle East region reported seeing a swirling spiral of light. In several videos from Israel, Syria, Iran and other Middle East, the object started out looking somewhat like a comet and then started spiraling.

The strange sight has been confirmed to be a Russian ballistic missile test of the Topol ICBM from the Kapustin Yar firing range near Astrakhan in southern Russia. The Voice of Russia reported that the country’s Strategic Missile Forces conducted a test of the Topol ICBM from the Kapustin Yar firing range near Astrakhan in southern Russia on Thursday. Such a launch could theoretically be seen from areas of the Middle East and the Caucasus.The Topol’s third-stage spin is a feature, not a malfunction, and may be associated with guidance, or decoy deploy, or enhancing hardness against U.S. boost-phase antimissile weapons according to space analyst Jim Oberg.

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Oberg also noted a few other “coincidences” of why this particular missile test was seen while other similar tests haven’t been viewed. If the Russians were testing the associated warhead’s penetration aids to frustrate tracking and targeting by U.S. anti-missile systems, this would result in a trajectory that was higher than normal, allowing it to be seen from a greater distance. Another contributing factor is that we are in month of June, near the time of the ‘midnight sun’ in northern latitudes. That means sunlight is streaming over the pole, throughout the night. Something in the northern sky above the atmosphere over Kazakhstan would be backlit by that sunlight.

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Sources: Cosmic Log, Universe Today, YnetNews

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  1. Well, this is a magnetic field that accelerates energy. The spiral. Not to worry about war, will not happen. Weather will rule at end of 2012 and end hubristic manipulations.

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