Over Bashkiria flew a large meteorite

Inhabitants of Bashkiria were able to observe a strange phenomenon - unidentified flying object with a blue-green tail crossed the sky in the early morning. He slowly flew from West to South, and then flashed brightly and disappeared. Similar option on the night of November 20, happened in the United States.

Early on the morning of 20 November, the inhabitants of blagovarsky region of Bashkortostan have witnessed an unusual phenomenon in the sky flashed strange object, unlike any aircraft 1. It flew from West to South, leaving a blue-green trail, and soon disappeared. This was told to Dinar Galimov, 1 from local inhabitants.

"Now in the morning saw the sky flashed something similar to a meteor, as in the American insurgents - the size was little more than a plane, I guess. The tail of the object was blue-green, with white interspersed. Was flying slowly from West to South. Then a bright flash and went out. His trail remained visible somewhere for 10 minutes, then disappeared", - quotes Galimov "Komsomolskaya Pravda".

In the planetarium of the city of Ufa imply that the unusual natural phenomenon is due to the movement of a meteor shower "Leonid". A "particle stream hit the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of 72 kilometers per second, forming an extremely fast bright meteors with green traces. In the current quarter, the flow is expected to be modest at about 20 meteors per hour", - told the workers of the planetarium.

Let us add that a similar natural phenomenon was observed on the night of November 20 in the US. In social networks inhabitants of the several States told that witnessed the fall of the meteorite. Some of them have even heard the booming sound of an explosion.

"About 20 minutes ago I heard the sound of an explosion, and now this? And helicopters...What's happening?" - perplexed citizen of the United States, which managed to take a picture the flash lit up the sky, approximately, after the fall of the meteorite. The details of the incident are established.

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