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I kept looking at that picture and wondering how that happened. Solution found.
UPDATE (12/11/09): Turns out not to be so! I investigated more and had some email correspondence with the experimental scientist who was actually running the EISCAT system at the time of the spiral (actually, his experiment started 10 minutes after the spiral). His name is Antti Kero (from Finland; and has a co-experimenter named Markus Rapp from Germany). It turns out that Antti was as surprised as anyone about what happened.
EISCAT does have the capabilities to launch rockets as part of their experiments with the antenna arrays and atmospheric "heater" array. But there were no rockets used in Antti's experiment. And he says that EISCAT can't generate any visuals that the naked eye can see. So it turns out that a failed Russian missile launch was a "deer in the headlights" for all the world to watch. They were just more interested in believing in an alien invasion!
So the picture was the work of some combination of luck and skill after all!
UPDATE (12/11/09): Turns out not to be so! I investigated more and had some email correspondence with the experimental scientist who was actually running the EISCAT system at the time of the spiral (actually, his experiment started 10 minutes after the spiral). His name is Antti Kero (from Finland; and has a co-experimenter named Markus Rapp from Germany). It turns out that Antti was as surprised as anyone about what happened.
EISCAT does have the capabilities to launch rockets as part of their experiments with the antenna arrays and atmospheric "heater" array. But there were no rockets used in Antti's experiment. And he says that EISCAT can't generate any visuals that the naked eye can see. So it turns out that a failed Russian missile launch was a "deer in the headlights" for all the world to watch. They were just more interested in believing in an alien invasion!
So the picture was the work of some combination of luck and skill after all!
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