The Road to Area 51 - Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/la-mag-april052009-backstory,0,786384.story

Here are a few of their best stories—for the record:

What's blue and white, squiggly and suddenly appears in the sky? If you know the answer, pop it on a postcard and send it to the people of Norway, where this mysterious light display baffled residents yesterday. Speculation was increasing today that the display was the result of an embarrassing failed test launch of a jinxed new Russian missile. The Bulava missile was test-fired from the Dmitry Donskoi submarine in the White Sea early on Wednesday but failed at the third stage, say newspapers in Moscow today. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html#ixzz0ZHhBv6N7

What's blue and white, squiggly and suddenly appears in the sky?

Hubble finds unidentified object in space. Nerds all over say "cooooool" http://bit.ly/d6k7V6

Hubble: Hubble Finds Unidentified Object in Space, Scientists Puzzled

The headline and story made me think of Bruce Willis in Armageddon when he says, "You're NASA, you've always got a backup plan. You've probably got a team somewhere else thinking up ideas" because it's surprising that they can't even guess as to what this is.

[I]n a paper published last week in the Astrophysical Journal, scientists detail the discovery of a new unidentified object in the middle of nowhere.

Spooky.

Un pixel sin explicación en una imagen enviada por el Hubble. Una fuente de luz que apareció de repente y unos días después despareció.

This is exactly why we send astronauts to risk their life to service Hubble in a paper published last week