Not long ago, we had a red dust storm that made Australia look like Mars or something.
Then, sometime after that, we had a weird ring like cloud over Moscow which seemed like something out of the movie Independence Day.

Now this. A giant sky spiral light that appeared over Norway!

A good year for conspiracy theorists it seems.

Stuff like that nowadays won’t happen without people taking pictures and videos, since those are everywhere.

Very beautiful effect to watch, if you’re not among the people who went totally bananas running from the alien invasion or something.

Here are some amateur video captures:

An explanation came right after: Seems it’s a “failed Bulava missile launched from a nuclear submarine in the White Sea” – a Russian submarine that had previously alerted Norwegian defense about the test.

There’s even a video explanation of what happened:

Anyways, if this is your thing, you can add all those strange phenomena that are happening recently and put them in your list of signs that the world is really ending in 2012… I’ll just go make me some dinner.

Sources: Gizmodo, Gizmodo and TechEBlog