RUSSIA has been hit by a wave of reports of a giant UFO in the sky last night — with spectacular pictures of a giant glowing ball illuminating northern Siberia.Social media erupted with claims of "aliens arriving" and locals in far flung parts of Vladimir Putin's empire told of "shivers down their spines".
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| A bright ball of mystery light was spotted over northern Siberia last night |
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| Witnesses were left in awe at the spectacle of light - but some feared it was an alien invasion |
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| The astounding ball of light was witnessed for hundreds of miles |
"The glowing ball rose from behind the trees and moved in my direction.
"My first thought was about the most powerful searchlight, but the
speed of changing everything around changed the idea of what was
happening.
"The ball began to turn into an arc and gradually dissipated."
After the multi-coloured light show was over he went home to find
local children as young as five in the yard babbling about "aliens" and
"the portal to another dimension", he said.
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| Eyewitnesses took to social media to speak of their shock at the stunning display |
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| The ball of light was later said to be the result of missile tests |
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| The light display took place at the same time as the aurora borealis
Some 520 miles further east, another photographer Alexey Yakovlev
admitted to feeling scared as he witnessed the UFO spectacle at
Strezhevoi, in the north of Tomsk region, reported The Siberian Times.
"At first I thought - it is such a radiance of such an unusual form, round in shape.
"But gradually the ball began to expand, it became clear that this is not some radiance .... and it became scary ...
"It's good that I was not alone....a group of people cannot hallucinate."
On social media, Anastasia Boldyreva posted simply: "Aliens arrived."
The were many similar messages.
Nurgazy Taabaldiev claimed: "It's a gap in the space-time continuum."
In fact local experts suggest there were two clear but most unusual reasons for the eerie spectacle in the Siberian night sky.
The first was that a vivid display of the Northern Lights - or Aurora Borealis - was underway.
This is why photographers were out watching the sky when the suspected UFO appeared.
But the second is that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin had chosen
this moment to frighten the West with grandiose military exercises by
his strategic nuclear forces.
Missiles tests were underway from submarines and aircraft last night,
and the exercises included the launch of a super-powerful Topol rocket
from Plesetsk cosmodrome, 550 miles north of Moscow.
From a mobile launcher, it was successfully aimed at the Kura testing range in Kamchatka on the country's Pacific coast.
It was the the trace of this rocket - capable of carrying nuclear
missiles - that caused this extraordinary phenomenon in the night sky,
say the Russian media.
As photographer Yakovlev accurately guessed: "It seems I accidentally shot the launch of a secret space rocket from Plesetsk".
The launch was then confirmed by the defence ministry in Moscow.
Other missiles were launched from a submarine and aircraft.
Will Stewart
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