Last week, over the Middle East, people were shocked to see a bright fan of light moving across the sky, which suddenly turned into a gigantic glowing spiral! This is not just some uncorroborated eyewitness story; there's video:
[embed width="610"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqifhg8NU8A[/embed]
Pretty cool, huh? People are claiming it's a spaceship... and they're right. But it's not an alien spaceship. It's from Russia.
This has been positively identified
as a Russian rocket booster, a Topol ICBM. In fact, this isn't even the first time a Topol has been seen doing this! The last one
was in December 2009, over Russia itself. And it happened even before then, a day before, over Norway, when a ginormous spiral lit up the sky and freaked the hell out of people
(and the Internet). A SpaceX Falcon 9 booster did the same thing over Australia
in June 2010, for that matter. Basically, the booster is in ...
