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	Norwegian rocket incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The rocket, which carried equipment to study the aurora borealis over Svalbard, flew on a high northbound trajectory, eventually reaching an altitude of 1,453 km (908 miles).
		As the rocket climbed, it was detected by the Olenegorsk early warning radar station in Russia.
		To the radar operators, the rocket appeared similar in speed and flight pattern to a U.S. submarine-launched Trident missile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident (291 words)

	PROJECT 1947: Sweden - Ghost Rocket Reports, 1946
		The incident has [awakened] a certain [sense of eeriness] and it is to be hoped that what happened can be explained.
		The Swedish defense staff is now in possession of a piece of the rocket projectile which for the past three months is thought to have been shot across Scandinavia.
		At two places metal fragments of the rocket have been found, but the defense staff wishes to say nothing about the worth of this find as a means to judge the rocket's characteristics.
	www.project1947.com /fig/1946a.htm (4512 words)

	Norwegian Rocket Incident Settled
		According to the report, Norwegians initially thought it could be the matter of testing Russian combat readiness with their rocket.
		The ungrounded incident was caused by an incorrect description of the Norwegian rocket as a military missile by a Russian news agency (not ITAR-TASS).
		The agency reported that the rocket was allegedly shot down by the Russian forces who watched the rocket flight, and the West alarmed.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/russia/1995/950127_01.htm (317 words)

	Norwegian troops cleared in controversial dog-shooting incident in Kosovo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		An internal military probe has found that Norwegian soldiers shown on video tape shooting dogs in Kosovo, an incident that caused public outcry here when the tape was aired, were not guilty of any wrong-doing.
		The military report pointed out that the Norwegian troops based in Kosovo had been ordered in 2001 to help the civilian population put down a large number of sick and dangerous wild dogs.
		According to Norwegian veterinarians' estimates, the Norwegian troops shot and killed approximately 1,500 dogs in 2002.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040520192050.myzo8xbu.html (292 words)

	Incident shows hair-triggers to a nuclear war still cocked (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The rocket was designed to study the Northern Lights, but when it rose above the horizon, it turned into another kind of experiment -- a test of the hair-trigger posture that still dominates the control of U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons.
		The rocket was detected by Russian early warning radars.
		Although the Norwegian rocket fell into the ocean, it triggered a heightened level of alert throughout the Russian strategic forces, according to testimony to the U.S. Congress, and other sources.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/98/03/16/russia-nukes.2-0.html (1125 words)

	The Avalon Project : The U-2 Incident 1960
		This Government had sincerely hoped and continues to hope that in the coming meeting of the Heads of Government in Paris Chairman Khrushchev would be prepared to cooperate in agreeing to effective measures which would remove this fear of sudden mass destruction from the minds of people everywhere.
		Far from being damaging to the forthcoming meeting in Paris, this incident should serve to underline the importance to the world of an earnest attempt there to achieve agreed and effective safeguards against surprise attack and aggression.
		Upon examination by experts of all data at the disposal of the Soviet side, it was incontrovertibly established that the intruder aircraft belonged to the United States of America, was permanently based in Turkey and was sent through Pakistan into the Soviet Union with hostile purposes.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/u2.htm (3043 words)

	BREITBART.COM - Russian trawler holding Norwegian inspectors reached Russian waters
		A Russian trawler which took flight with two Norwegian inspectors on board after refusing to obey orders to halt, crossed into Russian waters and was on its way to the northern port of Murmansk, Russian fleet officials said.
		The Electron took off with two Norwegian inspectors, who had stopped the vessel to investigate it for illegal fishing in the Barents Sea, on Saturday, and had been fleeing the Norwegian coast guard since then.
		Norwegian and Russian authorities have been in contact several times over the issue and Oslo has stressed that there is no diplomatic tension between the two neighbours.
	www.breitbart.com /news/na/051019072557.4vkzau8e.html (347 words)

	Weekly Incident Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A Shell spokesman declined to say whether the incident, which was also accompanied by a small fire, had affected any production units at the 412,000 bpd refinery, but said: "There was a leakage in a steam line, which allowed a lot of steam and pressure to escape, creating a strong noise.
		According to police sources, some fishermen found a 4.5 feet long rocket with Russian markings in the sea while they were fishing and sold it to a scrap dealer who gave it to his welder.
		The incident happened on the eastbound carriageway between junctions 16 and 17 Police said it was necessary to shut the motorway because of the potential danger to the public.
	www.saunalahti.fi /~ility/Pi0603.htm (4968 words)

	SHAPE News: Norwegian ISAF soldier killed in rocket attack - 24 May 2004
		May 23, three rockets, believed to be rocket-propelled grenades were fired at a Norwegian patrol of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
		One Norwegian soldier was killed in the attack.
		A hand grenade and a rocket grenade were recovered at the firing point.
	www.nato.int /shape/news/2004/05/i040524c.htm (516 words)

	Norwegian Rocket Incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The rocket fell to earth as planned near Spitzbergen 24 minutes after launch.
		It should be noted that no warning was given to the populace that there was any problem.
		It was reported in the news over a week after the incident.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/The_Norwegian_Rocket_Incident (385 words)

	Norwegian peacekeeper killed in Kabul attack - May 25, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		KABUL -- A Norwegian soldier was killed and one injured when their convoy was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades in the Afghan capital in the most serious strike against NATO-led peacekeepers here in months.
		Sunday night's incident, the first against peacekeepers using grenades, was the third deadly strike on the force in Kabul this year.
		The body of the deceased, the first Norwegian soldier to be killed in Afghanistan, would be transferred to Norway as soon as possible, he said.
	www.inq7.net /wnw/2004/may/25/wnw_6-1.htm (566 words)

	Fjordman: Is Swedish Democracy Collapsing?
		Norwegian celebrity evangelist preacher Runar Søgaard, in a sermon at Filadelfia church in Stockholm on March 20, repeated claims that Muhammad was "a confused pedophile" since his wives included a girl aged nine years old.
		Such as a recent incident in Malmö, where three schools were put on fire during one night.
		Norwegian journalist and member of Human Rights Service Hege Storhaug puts it this way: "Is Swedish culture worth keeping?" I put this question to Lise Bergh, the Swedish government representative of immigration policies, on the Nordic conference on immigration in Stavanger [Norwegian city] April 7th.
	fjordman.blogspot.com /2005/05/is-swedish-democracy-collapsing.html#... (12394 words)

	RTE News - Norwegian peacekeeper killed in Kabul
		A Norwegian peacekeeper was killed and another slightly injured in the Afghan capital Kabul when the vehicle they were travelling in was struck by a grenade.
		It is the third time a peacekeeper has been killed this year in Afghanistan, after the deaths of Canadian and British soldiers in separate suicide attacks since January.
		The latest incident occurred last night when what is believed to be a rocket-propelled grenade struck a vehicle carrying five troops who were patrolling Kabul at the time.
	www.rte.ie /news/2004/0524/afghanistan.html (116 words)

	Long prison sentences in Norwegian neo-Nazi murder trial
		On January 17, the murderers of the 15-year-old dark-skinned Norwegian, Benjamin Hermansen—son of a Norwegian mother and a father from Ghana—were sentenced to 16, 15 and 3 years imprisonment.
		During the trial they stated that in their opinion “Norway should be kept for white Norwegians” and “We hate foreigners.” The flat where they worked themselves up with “White Power” music before the attack was adorned with swastikas and other Nazi symbols.
		The genuine disgust of a large segment of the Norwegian population concerning this patently racist murder expressed itself on February 1 in the greatest protest demonstration since the Second World War.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/jan2002/norw-j29.shtml (1155 words)

	Norwegian Homefleet WW II - D/S Austri
		Though the aircraft no longer had any rockets left, the the 20 mm guns and the machine guns had a devastating effect on the people in the crowded ship, with terrible scenes ensuing among the mutilated people in the inferno of flames and steam.
		After this incident the Norwegian pilots at Banff talked about going on strike, though they knew full well this would be impossible.
		Several notes were exchanged between the 2 governments (the Norwegian government was in exile in London) and an explanation was demanded.
	www.warsailors.com /homefleetsingles/austri.html (2026 words)

	Chapter 11 Rocket Firing Beaus; Germany Revisited; Flying Freight Cars
		The actual results of your own rockets are rather hard to see because you have to break away so quickly.
		Despite flak from the ship and the shore they attacked with rockets and cannon and the last crew to leave saw a large white explosion, followed by a dull red glow amidships.
		Gordon, of Kulin (W.A.), navigator in a Beaufighter which scored rocket and cannon strikes on a merchant vessel in a narrow fjord, beat out a fire in the aircraft with his hands, enabling it to reach base safely.
	www.diggerhistory2.info /raaf/1945/chapter11.htm (7627 words)

	Interview with Alan Phillips
		The Norwegians, in cooperation with an American research team, were launching a rocket to explore the upper atmosphere regarding the aurora.
		The rockets when they are at full flight travel at eight kilometres a second, so it takes a few minutes to go a thousand kilometres.
		To get the salvo landing simultaneously on all the targets, the different rockets would have to be fired at different times, strictly coordinated with one another, over a period of some two or three minutes.
	www.web.net /~cnanw/nolowinterview.htm (7221 words)

	The Roswell Incident
		The Roswell Incident was a physics experiment from Alamogordo that went awry, says the president of New Mexicans for Science and Reason.
		Time-of-flight analyses were performed on the volcanic rumbles for several different cities, and it turned out that the sound waves must have traveled in very cold air -- such as can be found 50,000 feet up, between the troposphere (the lower atmosphere, where we live) and the stratosphere (the upper atmosphere).
		It definitely was not part of an aircraft, nor a missile or a rocket.
	www.nmsr.org /roswell.htm (2879 words)

	SaabCentral Forums - The Norwegian flying moose
		A leisurely Sunday drive came to an abrupt halt for a couple in southern Norway over the weekend, when a fully grown moose suddenly landed on the roof of their car.
		He and his wife were cruising along the two-lane Highway 405 in their little red Mazda.
		Now they've lost their car as well, and were hoping for a sympathetic meeting with their insurance agent on Monday.
	www.saabcentral.com /forums/showthread.php?t=30931 (885 words)

	Norwegian Homefleet - Ships starting with V
		This webiste says she was in service on the coast of Norway during the war, and was sunk by a British (as opposed to Russian) submarine east of Berlevåg on Jan. 19-1942.
		It adds that the Norwegian vessel was carrying 304 tons of benzine and oil to Kirkenes from Narvik, and was still on fire 2 hours later.
		The Norwegian text says that 7 crew died (as opposed to 4 in some other sources), as well as 28 Norwegian passengers and 2 Germans.
	www.warsailors.com /homefleet/shipsv.html (10262 words)

	Norwegian and Russian Row Over Rocket Launch
		He dismissed as "not corresponding to reality" information from a number of media that the Norwegian side had warned Russia's Foreign Ministry about the forthcoming missile launch, however, the foreign department had failed to tell the Russian military about that.
		He recalled that "in late December, Norwegians sent to all embassies in Oslo a note where they specified the precise coordinates of the possible sites of their missile's splash down." "The Norwegian side reported that it planned to launch three missiles in the period from January 15 to 10.
		In other words, the Norwegian side gave the period during which launchings will be accomplished rather than precise launch dates," Fokin said.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/russia/1995/950130_01.htm (376 words)

	Pravda.RU Airbus incident in Azores islands
		Airbus has issued a statement to all airlines using this type of aircraft that this was the first incident involving this family of planes.
		The pilot stated that such incidents were not supposed to happen on trans-Atlantic flights but that he and his crew were trained for such events.
		What must be the penalty for a driver who run over a person that got as a result to hospital because of his leg's fracture.
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2001/09/01/13949.html (1379 words)

	Russia
		The most serious of those incidents were ultimately judged to be false alarms--caused by either human or mechanical errors--when the U.S. national command authority checked the raw data from its global early-warning sensors.
		Conversely, some Russian analysts have argued that the incident proves that their command and control system works, since they did not launch a nuclear strike.
		The perceived threat was presumably not that the missile's warhead would destroy Russian radars or command centers, since the rocket and all its discarded stages were moving away from Russian territory.
	www.nti.org /db/nisprofs/russia/fulltext/misc/cbowarn.htm (4905 words)

	CNN.com - Rocket launcher theory in MI6 attack - September 21, 2000
		LONDON, England -- Police investigating a missile attack on the headquarters of Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence service believe a rocket launcher was fired at the building from a distance of between 200 and 500 metres.
		The Foreign Office refused to comment on the incident, other than to say that security procedures had been tightened and an investigation launched.
		News reports suggested that an M16 agent left the laptop in a taxi after spending a night drinking at a bar near the agency's headquarters.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/09/21/London.explosion.03 (1113 words)

	Have there been accidents with nuclear weapons?
		During the incident overlapping radars that should have been available to confirm or disagree, were not in operation.
		This incident is included to illustrate that even now, when the Cold War has been over for years, errors can still cause concern.
		There is no way of telling what the actual level of risk was in these mishaps but if the chance of disaster in every one of the 20 incidents had been only 1 in 100, it is mathematical fact that the chance of surviving all 20 would have been 82%, i.e.
	www.web.net /~cnanw/a7.htm (4176 words)

	Pravda.RU Brazil: cold-blooded murder causes trans-Atlantic incident
		In the Portuguese newspapers, the angle given is that the crime took place in Brazil, whereas in Brazil, it is highlighted that the author of the crime was a Portuguese.
		Arne Rinnan, skipper of the Norwegian freighter Tampa said in an interview that the 'boat people', once rescued, refused to be taken to the nearest Indonesian port and forced the ship to sail towards Christmas Island.
		A Norwegian freighter rescued 400 illegal immigrants from a sinking Indonesian boat near the Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2001/08/27/13378.html (1869 words)

	NucNews - June 25, 2004
		Those incidents differed from the Cuban missile crisis in a significant way: They occurred when either the U.S. or Soviet or Russian leaders had to respond to false alarms from nuclear warning systems that malfunctioned or misinterpreted benign events.
		In three of the four incidents, the decision not to respond to the alarm was made when space-based early-warning sensors failed to show signs of massive nuclear attacks.
		The Norwegian rocket incident Early on the morning of January 25, 1995, Norwegian scientists and their American colleagues launched the largest sounding rocket ever from Andoya Island off the coast of Norway.
	nucnews.net /nucnews/2004nn/0406nn/040625nn.htm (21137 words)

	Boeing: Sea Launch Rocket Lost During Third Launch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Sea Launch rocket lifted off in a southeasterly direction from the company's mobile launch platform, approximately 230 miles from Kiritimati (Christmas) Island in the Pacific.
		Loss of the rocket and its payload occurred over the Pacific Ocean and the incident posed no known safety threat to populations.
		No Sea Launch personnel were injured and neither the ACS nor the launch platform sustained damage.
	www.boeing.com /news/releases/2000/news_release_000312s.html (324 words)

	frontline: russian roulette - a close call?: the norwegian rocket incident
		The decision to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike was averted; the Russian forces stood down.
		Hours later, the Russians learned that the unidentified object had been a scientific rocket launched from Norway to study the Northern lights.
		The Russian government had been notified weeks earlier the launch was coming, but no one told the radar crew
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/russia/closecall (313 words)

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