The streaking fireball cutting through the sky has been witnessed by hundreds of people, across several countries
This “scary but beautiful UFO” has been spotted buzzing above a branch of IKEA and left residents puzzled.
The streaking fireball cutting through the sky has been witnessed by hundreds of people, across several countries.
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This footage was taken from a car showing the odd light floating in the sky above the furniture stores warehouse in the city of Omsk in western Siberia.
UFO: The odd sight was spotted buzzing above IKEA
But it was also seen on Tuesday evening in the cities of Tyumen, Tomsk and Novosibirsk, as well as the Kazakstan capital of Astana.
Local astronomers have ruled out a comet, and played down suggestions it was a meteor.
Light: The odd sight was caught on camera
One theory is that it was a test firing ordered by Vladimir Putin launching from the Kapustin Yar cosmodrome in southern Russia.
Astronomers at the planetarium of the Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies in Novosibirsk said of the sightings: “It is definitely not a comet.”
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They suggested “the object was the second stage of intercontinental ballistic missile Topol launched at 15:12 Moscow time from Kapustin Yar cosmodrome in Astrakhan region,” according to The Siberian Times.
IKEA: The UFO was spotted above the furniture store
In Omsk, planetarium head Vladimir Krupko suggested it could have been instead an unreported launch from Plesetsk, a spaceport in northern Russia.