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Tsitaat:Moscow - Russia's new nuclear-capable Bulava missile has suffered another failure in testing, producing a spectacular plume of white light over Norway that sparked speculation of a UFO, reports said on Thursday.

The submarine-launched Bulava missile was test-fired from the Dmitry Donskoi submarine in the White Sea early on Wednesday but failed at the third stage, Russia's Kommersant and Vedomosti newspapers reported, quoting defence sources.

The pre-dawn morning launch coincided with the appearance of an extraordinary light over northern Norway that captivated observers.

Leading Russian defence analyst Pavel Felgenhauer said the reports of the failed missile test "were fully true" and the images seen over Norway were consistent with a missile failure.

"Such lights and clouds appear from time to time when a missile fails in the upper layers of the atmosphere and have been reported before," he told AFP.

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[Muudetud: 12-10-2009 alter]