The glowing balls that appeared mysteriously in the sky of Russia had been mistaken for alien invasion, but the speculation turned out to be untrue.
ScienceLovers - A giant ball is seen in the sky of Salekhard, a city in Russia on October 27 night. Photographs that circulate widely in social media raises speculation that the object is related to the invasion of aliens or aliens.
The glowing balls that appeared mysteriously finally identified. The object is the impact of an intercontinental ballistic missile test.
The glowing balls appeared deep in the northern region of the Arctic. They coat the amazing light of the aurora that used to appear there. The photographers who happened to be "hunting" aurora, managed to capture the emergence of the giant glowing balls.
"These objects are missile tests," says Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "Four ballistic missiles were launched and at least one of them was widely seen. There is no doubt about the identification of these observations with missile tests. "
Witnesses told the Siberia Times that the ball first appeared as a solid ball, before it expanded and eventually disappeared.
"I went out to smoke and thought it was the end of the world," said eyewitness Vasily Zubkov to the media.
Similar fears are expressed by netizens in social media.
Russia's defense minister told local media they were releasing an intercontinental Topol ballistic missile from the western region of Plesetsk to a far east test area on the Kamchatka peninsula. Topol missiles are capable of carrying nuclear weapons, although the missiles are reportedly uncharged when launched.
The Russian military does this strategic exercise every year. In 2009, a test launch that failed to show up in Norway, featured even more bizarre performances.
The witness saw the spiral light appear and continued to grow until it disappeared. While its appearance confuses many people, the defense ministry then ensures that the pattern occurs due to rocket destruction.
