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| Meteor, space junk or rocket? Mysterious flash alarms eastern Siberian residents (VIDEO) | Meteor, space junk or rocket? Mysterious flash alarms eastern Siberian residents (VIDEO) |
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| People in eastern Siberia have been left mystified by a flash that illuminated the sky with green light, resembling the famous Chelyabinsk meteor of 2013. The event has become a hot topic for discussion, with people suggesting the flash could have been anything from a meteor to space junk or even a rocket. | People in eastern Siberia have been left mystified by a flash that illuminated the sky with green light, resembling the famous Chelyabinsk meteor of 2013. The event has become a hot topic for discussion, with people suggesting the flash could have been anything from a meteor to space junk or even a rocket. |
| The phenomenon was observed by residents of Irkutsk Region and Buryatia Republic in eastern Siberia on Tuesday, local media reported. | The phenomenon was observed by residents of Irkutsk Region and Buryatia Republic in eastern Siberia on Tuesday, local media reported. |
| According to local witnesses, the sky was illuminated by a green light, before an object resembling a comet fell from the sky. Some locals claimed that the object was moving towards Lake Baikal, the deepest lake on Earth. | |
| “A meteorite has just fallen. It was as bright as day for five or six seconds! Sensation!” one person wrote in Russian social network VKontakte (In Contact). | |
| “Was it a comet or a meteor?” asked another person, while one more wrote: “Looked like a comet with a tail.” | |
| Some people went further and ironically suggested that extraterrestrial organisms have arrived to captured Earth. | |
| “Maybe aliens?”, “Soon there will be reports about mutants”, “mystery in the Baikal area,” were some of the sarcastic comments. | |
| One theory has it that the ‘mysterious object’ was in fact an RS-18 ballistic missile launched on Tuesday. The test was conducted at midday from a site near the town of Yasny, Orenburg Region in the southern Urals, and reached the Kura test range in Kamchatka in Russia’s Far East. | |
| Similar flashes were also reported in the Urals and even in Lipetsk Region in western Russia. | |
| Irkutsk Observatory hasn’t recorded any space body on Tuesday, director Pavel Nikiforov told local Vostok Infrom newspaper. | |
| “It is difficult to say if it was a meteorite or an artificial body…No monitoring website showed that a celestial body fell to the ground,” he said. | |
| The video of the flash which has been uploaded on YouTube on Tuesday has been viewed more than 75,000 times so far. |