From New Scientist, the reason it was such a perfect spiral is because it was a three stage rocket, of which stages 1 & 2 probably went fine, putting it close t

From New Scientist, the reason it was such a perfect spiral is because it was a three stage rocket, of which stages 1 & 2 probably went fine, putting it close to the edge of space: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18262-strange-norway-spiral-likely-an-outofcontrol-missile.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18262-strange-norway-s...