You can view original article in Danish, here. Translation in English by a SOTT Reader.



A blinding blue green flash on the night's sky followed by an enormous bang. Many people experienced such a phenomenon across much of Seeland, Lolland-Falster, Fyen, the eastern Jutland and Bornholm on Saturday night, around 8.15pm (local time).

Also parts of Southern and Western Sweden could see it, the site sydsvenskan.se reports.

Søren Østervig, a police chief, reports that at the police in southern Seeland and Lolland Falster police stations, the phone has been ringing continuously from worried citizens wanting to know what it was they had just experienced.

A strange light flash

A reader of dr.dk/nyheder, Kenneth Jensen from Horsens (East Jutland) tells how the sky suddenly lit up with a strange light flash:

"The light was at the beginning constant, after which it flashed violently like with lightning and then after a few seconds disappeared silently. I felt it was a most unusual event we experienced tonight."

A sound like a thunder bolt

Another reader, Leif Wriedt Jørgensen from Gedser, relates that a large area to the south was lit up for several seconds - perhaps around 10-15 seconds. After that he witnessed a very sharp light, that came crashing towards the ground.

"The sound that followed was like a thunder bolt and up towards five minutes between the light and the sound, which with the speed of sound would equate to about 100km, between the light and us", reports Leif Wriedt Jørgensen.

"We are probably talking about a meteor", is the explanation from Operative Kommando og Sydsjællands og Lolland- Falsters Politi. The duty officer from the Danish weather bureau agrees with this assessment and rejects weather phenomena such as lightning as being the cause of the intense light flash.