Pictures of it look like something out of a sci-fi comic bookâenormous white ripples with a lasery blue beam shooting out of the center. However, the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom among other media outlets, is reporting that the strange spiral seen over the sky in Norway a few nights back was not the UFO some Scandinavians hoped for (or feared), but rather the smoky entrails of a malfunctioning Russian missile. The Daily Mail writes: