“Are we being bombed?”: something burning in the sky scared the Russians

Residents of the Far East filmed the flight of a strange luminous object in the sky

Photo: Still from video

Residents of the Khabarovsk Territory report the appearance of an unidentified flying object in the sky. According to eyewitnesses, the luminous ball was noticeable after 19:00 local time in Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Svobodny.

According to recorded videos, at first the object resembled a comet — a long “fiery light” stretched behind the bright front part » tail. After some time, the object began to either shed excess or fall apart.

Versions of what happened are multiplying on social networks. Some reasonably suggest that it could have been the passage of a rocket, which either discarded its stages, or suffered an accident and disintegrated in the atmosphere. However, there has been no information about accidents during space launches in the last few hours.

Another version is a meteorite. At the same time, the regional website dvnovosti.ru writes that “at the same moment, residents of Komsomolsk shared a video of a similar object taking off in their city.” Perhaps there was no “take-off”, but an optical illusion due to the tilt of the camera.

Some social network users were very scared that an apocalypse or war had begun. «Are we being bombed?» — individual citizens ask.