Exposing Pseudoastronomy

On December 9, 2009, a strange spiral anomaly appeared in the skies over Trondelag, Norway, and Northern Norway, a day before President Barack Obama arrived to accept his Nobel Peace Prize. As with other weird, unexplained events, this gigantic blue- and yellow/or/white-glowing spiral has become a pet example of many different fill-in-the-blank paranormal phenomena.