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Helene Solberg glanced out her window on a dark wintry afternoon earlier this week and saw something she won't soon forget. Luckily, her family's video camera was close at hand.


Solberg, who lives in a village with the same name in Asker, west of Oslo, first called her husband while marveling at the comet-like flying object that soared through the late afternoon sky.
It was just after 2pm, when dusk already starts settling over southern Norway at this tiime of year, when Solberg noticed the object with a long, bright tail. She excitedly called her husband Stig Solberg, who reminded her that their video camera was lying on a table in the living room. Just the night before, the couple had tried to capture video of the Leonid meteor shower.

Helene Solberg then grabbed the video camera and started shooting. The entire episode lasted about eight minutes, with three minutes of it captured on tape, before the unidentified flying object disappeared from view.

"Can I explain what it was? Absolutely not," Stig Solheim told Aftenposten's Internet edition Thursday night after sharing the video.

He said he determined that the comet-like object came out of the west and disappeared to the south. He also sent the video to the astrophysics department at the University of Oslo, where a professor thought the object might have been a plane.

Solheim disagrees. "It absolutely did not look like a plane," he said. "When we look out the window in the other direction, we sometimes see planes. But we have never seen a plane in the direction where my wife was filming."

From the actual filming, it looks like a meteor. Wasn't this taken during the lenoid meteor shower? Shoot, I can't remember what date that was...

I'm not sure when it was taken.. But it looked to be traveling way too slow to be a Meteor... Don't really know...??

It was taken around the time of the Leonids....

I have seen a meteor go by only a few hundred feet directly above me. It was pretty cool watching all the little sparkles and crap trailing it...and yes..it seemed slow compared to others I have seen. I thought for sure it would crash into something before it hit the ocean (less than 20 miles from my house) and there would be something on the news. Oh well.

Nice video though.

wow.. that is amazing.

I wouldn't think a meteor would move that slowly would it?

Interesting what happens when it goes by the trees. Watch the branches.

Very Interesting!!

Is that not called a meteor?

Originally posted by Mysticj
Very Interesting!!

Is that not called a meteor?


I've never seen a Meteor travel so slow..

It did look as if it were going to crash or something, was there any reports after? During the first few seconds, it looks as if it's going alot faster than during the rest of the film, too.