There was a indeed a medium size solar flare causing an extremely intense solar radio burst
exactly at the time and with the same temporal behaviour as the radar disturbances in Sweden.
I am a professor in Space Physics in Sweden and lead an independent scientific evaluation of the
solar event, which is confirmed both by my colleagues at NASA, and leading solar Scientists in Switzerland, France, Belgium and Ireland. The news about Russian cyberattacks are wrong and at best reflect the chaos everybody was in during the days immediately after the event when we had not yet enough time to analyse our data properly.
We are preparing a scientific publication, which will be published when the Swedish air
authorities have finished their report. We are in constant contact with LFV, and they agree with our conclusions and our data agrees with their disturbance pattern.
We have also informed Eurocontrol in Brussels and given presentations at
scientific meetings like e.g in a keynote lecture at the European Space Weather Week in Oostende in Nov 2015. SO far we have not found one single expert who would contradict our observations and findings after we presented all the data available.
However I agree that the Swedish authorities are unduly late in publishing their report, thus inviting
conspiracy theory completely without reason. The reason for the delay is unexplained to me.
Best regards, Hermann Opgenoorth , Prof in Space Physics, Uppsala Sweden
Biting the hand that feeds IT
