Alien Battle? Mysterious Bubble Leaves Stargazers Puzzled

Thursday, 30 June 2011 | by Pat's Picks

Was it a battle between rival spaceships? The opening up of a portal to another dimension? No one is quite sure what they saw yesterday, after an observatory in Hawaii caught a “bubble-like burst of light” on film. The Daily Mail describes the footage as a “glowing sphere,” which expands to fill almost the whole screen before vanishing completely. The incident was filmed by a webcam mounted on top of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea. Speculation has run the gamut but one of the more plausible explanations is that the bubble was formed after the Air Force launched a missile from one of its bases in California.

Below is a time-lapse video of the sphere:

Atmospheric flare from a minuteman III ICBM missile from Kanoa on Vimeo.