This is a weird story. It really happened, but the response was off.
Google-translated from Norwegian:
“Any-UFO” frames weekend traffic
Paralyzed air traffic in a half hour – police in disarray
“No one knows yet for sure what it was that disrupted air traffic over the Oslo yesterday. But the consequences were great, and can be spread out over the weekend. Much of the air traffic in Norway was paralyzed between 16.00 and 17.30 yesterday afternoon, after an SAS pilot notified of an unidentified object in the skies that make the approach route to Oslo Airport Gardermoen. SAS plane was on its way up the west side of Oslo Fjord on board when the captain made visual contact with another vehicle that reflected sunlight back into the cockpit of the SAS plane. The distance should have only been a few hundred meters, in a slightly lower altitude. “The Master interpreted it as a glider that had been higher than they normally get to,” said information chief Knut Morten Johansen of SAS to VG Nett. Information Manager Jo Kobro at Oslo Airport Gardermoen projected to VG Nett that “between 60 and 90 aircraft movements (departures and arrivals) were affected as a result of the incident.”
“So far, however, no one really has been able to determine what was actually observed over the Oslo Fjord on Thursday afternoon. Police are connected into the matter, but so far without result. We have created an investigation and make right now a witness questioning. Most likely it was a glider that because of strong winds have come into the approach zone, “said guard manager Morten Undlien at Heathrow police station to the AP.” The second option is a hang glider, but the height is almost impossible to control, and the same goes for so-called ultralight, claims those who have heard of this.” The weather conditions were such that other objects from the ground may have come loose and been transported into the air by an upward air flow.”
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So an object was observed at the exact altitude that planes begin their final approach, but no one took a photo of it. No one videotaped it. That’s weird. People sneeze these days and someone with a cell phone youtubes it within seconds. No one could say exactly what it looked like. But it was observed by enough trained observers so a decision was made to close the airport and to divert hundreds of planes. That is a drastic action. There must be no doubt that an object was seen.
Further, the theories being posed as to exactly what the object is, are ridiculous. Gliders glide, they do not hover. In other news articles I’d read, the officials said that the object hovered for a full thirty minutes in the same spot. So gliders glide. Sail planes glide, whirl, and drift. And the last theory, that it as a piece of light trash was light enough to be lifted up romf the ground but then remained in the same spot for 30 minutes stretches credibility enough to actually be insulting. In one of the articles, the official said he regretted not sending a helicopter to investigate and then shoo it away. Yeah…duh.
Anyway, like I said, an interesting story. Just about as interesting as this one from the Daily Mail:
UFO frenzy goes into overdrive as three red lights hover over Colorado town…
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