Take a look at this page: 
http://www.eiscat.se/raw/schedule/co...=0700&End=1000 . They scheduled an experiment to "look at the polar wintertime mesophere through the transient caused by (scattered) sunrise around 8 UT." on 2009 12 09 0700 - 2009 12 09 1000.
So between 7am and 10am they were very active on the same day of the spiral. Is this not proof or what?
So whyare they not coming out about this? Why are the russians covering them??