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NASA-funded experiment perplexes Norway locals, one said it looked like an 'alien attack'

April 9, 2019

A NASA-funded research experiment in Norway had some wondering whether UFOs were touching down.

The US space agency's AZURE programme launched two rockets on Friday (Saturday NZT) from the Andøya Space Center which released tracer materials designed to glow in the atmosphere.

The resulting aerial phenomena was then measured and tracked to help scientists understand the movements of materials in the highest part of Earth's atmosphere - the ionosphere.

The ionosphere is where phenomena such as the well-known aurora take place.

Norwegian news website VOL reported that many calls were received by local police about the lights.

Videographer Michael Theusner was on a ship at the time of the launch and witnessed it coincidentally, he wrote on YouTube.

"We saw two orange dots rise into the sky and disappear," he said.

"A short while later strange lights and colourful, expanding clouds appeared I first did not have an explanation for.

"It looked like an alien attack ;)."

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