UFO, meteorite, rocket? The Russians scared strange trail in the sky

Today, on the night of June 17, the residents of Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, Samara, Yaroslavl and other cities have seen an unusual celestial phenomenon which seriously alarmed them. Across the sky at an incredible speed flying glowing object left a clear trail.

Eye-witnesses literally, "peppered" Network of photos and videos, depicting an unknown object, thereby sowing panic among the population, part of which took the phenomenon for alien intervention. The bulk of the pictures published by the residents of Yaroslavl, who saw it, as at this time ended with a festive ceremony dedicated to the 55th anniversary of flight of Valentina Tereshkova in space.

The Russians scared strange trail in the sky, and they began to put forward the version, intended to explain its origin, among the most popular turned out to be a UFO, a meteorite, or rocket, which insisted supporters of scientific hypotheses. However, all the doubts and fears of citizens of the Russian Federation, which nearly began to prepare to repel the aliens, dispelled the statement of the representative of the Ministry of defence of the country.

As it turned out, June 17, at 00 hours 46 minutes at the State test cosmodrome "Plesetsk", located on the territory of the Arkhangelsk region, Space forces VKS managed to organize a successful launch a special rocket called "Soyuz-2.1 B". It belongs to the category of space rockets of the middle class, while with her the flight went navigation spacecraft "GLONASS-M", which the Russians mistook for a UFO.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»