Run. We're not joking. The end is nigh.

Well it might be, after this massive swirling light appeared over Norway on Tuesday leaving thousands of residents of the country baffled and probably, pretty scared.

People from the towns of Trøndelag and Finnmark reported seeing a white light appear from behind a mountain and soar into the sky, before stopping dead and beginning to coil, sending out a white cloud of swirls in the night sky. Suddenly a blue beam of light appeared from the the middle of the cloud shooting towards the ground.

After the light storm, The Norwegian Meteorological Institute was flooded with telephone calls from confused witnesses. Astronomers have said the light storm does not appear to have been connected to the aurora, or Northern Lights, commonly seen in Norwary.

Totto Eriksen from Tromsø saw it as he walked his daughter to school, he told VG Nett, "'It spun and exploded in the sky,

"We saw it from the Inner Harbor in Tromsø. It was absolutely fantastic. It almost looked like a rocket that spun around and around and then went diagonally down the heavens. It looked like the moon was coming over the mountain, but then came something completely different."

Astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard told VG Nett: "My first thought was that it was a fireball meteor, but it has lasted far too long. It may have been a missile in Russia, but I can not guarantee that it is the answer."

See video footage and photos after the break.

Spiral light storm spotted over Norway



Scary much?