rocket launch observed a bright light phenomenon was observed in the eastern finland on april at ut two people saw a bright luminous pillar shaped phenomenon in the low eastern horizont near mikkeli the head of the pillar was circular the lower part was a little winding it was like a monster they told they were little frightened soon the yellowish pillar became enlarged a bright spot like the sun was appeared in the middle of the phenomenon at last the light landed behind the nearby forest now there was only luminous trails in the sky which were visible till morning sunrise the same phenomenon was observed also by jaakko kokkonen in lappeenranta at ut he saw a luminous yellowish trail in the low northeastern horizont the altitude of the trail was only about degrees soon the trail began to grow taller a loop was appeared in the head of the trail it was like a spoon this lasted only seconds now the altitude was about five degress above horizont he noted a bright spot at the upper stage of loop the spot was at magnitude the loop became enlarged and the spot was now visible in the middle of the loop a cartwheel shaped trail was appeared round the bright spot after a minute the spot disappeared and only fuzzy trails were only visible in the low horizont luminous trails were still visible at ut in the morning sky the phenomenon was caused by a russian rocket i don t know if there were satellite launches in plesetsk cosmodrome near arkhangelsk but this may be a rocket experiment too since we have observed over rocket phenomena in finland most of these are rocket experiments military missile tests barium experiments and other chemical releases during these years we have observed satellite launches leo wikholm ursa astronomical association i phone satellite and rocket phenomena sect i fax laivanvarustajankatu c i bbs fin helsinki i inter leo wikholm compart fi finland i
