What was mystery light in sky?

A car's dashboard camera captured the stunning footage - but strangely, did not pick up any sound coming from an explosion.

A car's dashboard camera captured the stunning footage - but strangely, did not pick up any sound coming from an explosion.

Published Nov 20, 2014

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London - A blazing, eerie ball of light in the darkening sky over Russia has triggered an explosion of speculation over its cause.

And the authorities have fuelled the theories flying around by refusing to comment on what happened.

What appeared to be a major explosion in mid-air lit up the sky near Yekaterinburg, in the Urals region, for 11 seconds.

“For a few moments night turned into dazzling day, then everything went dark again,” one witness told a local paper. The sky was brilliantly lit up by an orange light, followed by a pulsating yellow and white glow.

Images of the event, which took place on November 14, emerged online on Wednesday.

A car’s dashboard camera captured the stunning footage – but strangely, did not pick up any sound coming from an explosion. Such dashcams, which film the road continuously, are common in Russia. After an accident, the video can be used to work out who was at fault.

The Siberian Times reported: “Theories for the explosion included a missile or an object from space.”

The newspaper pointed out that the light “did not have the same shape or pattern” as the meteorite that fell over Chelyabinsk, also in the Urals, in February last year.

It added: “Inevitably, web [reports] claimed that it could have been caused by a UFO.”

The driver who posted the video asked internet users to help him explain what had happened.

He wrote: “On Friday (November 14, 2014 at 5.40pm) I observed a flash in the sky, on the road on the way to Rezh. I found nothing about it on the news. Did anyone else see it? What was it?”

The glow was also filmed by a group of teenagers from Yekaterinburg using a mobile phone camera.

Meteorologists and scientists are unable to explain the phenomenon, local television reported. A nearby observatory said nothing had fallen from the sky.

Russian officials did not seem anxious to shed light on the situation. The regional office of the emergencies ministry refused to comment. - Daily Mail

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