On June 7, 2012, thousands of residents of the countries of the Middle East and the Caucasus watched the movement of a certain luminous object, which some immediately rushed to enroll in the category of flying saucers, while others considered it a natural phenomenon. Israeli astronomers said that the strange object has nothing to do with natural phenomena.
On the evening of June 7, 2012, Israeli emergency telephones literally heated up from a multitude of calls. People were frightened by an incomprehensible phenomenon. In the sky, north of the border with Lebanon, a luminous object was seen with a cone-shaped, spiraling train. The geography of the event turned out to be quite extensive. A strange UFO was observed almost simultaneously by residents of Bashkiria, the Astrakhan region, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, and the countries of the Middle East.
The next morning, representatives of the Israeli Air Force said that they also noticed the object, but they could not say what it was. No exercises or tests were conducted the night before. The military expressed the opinion that the phenomenon was of a natural nature. Perhaps it was a meteorite.
However, scientists did not agree with this. One of the Israeli sites cited the hypothesis of the director of the observatory, Yigal Petel, who believes that the glow in the sky was caused by the launch of a ballistic missile. Astrophysicist Gia Javakhishvili noted that such phenomena are not uncommon. But usually, in bright sunlight, they go unnoticed. The press persistently flashed the phrase "Russian trace".
On June 8, the press service of the Strategic Missile Forces announced that the night before, a test launch of the Topol ICBM was carried out from the Kapustin Yar test site in the Astrakhan Region. True, the rocket was launched in a completely different direction. However, according to the Russian military, everything that was supposed to fly flew as it should, where it was necessary and jumped where he was told. The representative of the Strategic Missile Forces said that the rocket has maneuverability and, in the process, can deviate from the course, but since the main parameters of the flight are classified, it is not possible to say whether it can be seen, for example, from the territory of Israel.
So what was it, a meteorite, aliens, or something - perhaps one of the separated stages of the Poplar - flew in the wrong place?
The analogy with another "natural phenomenon" is very clearly traced. On the morning of January 9, 2009, residents of the Norwegian city of Tromsø observed a luminous object in the sky. By coincidence, which can hardly be called accidental, at the same time, the Bulava sea ballistic missile was being tested in the Barents Sea. Later, many Russian bloggers wrote that the rocket launch was once again unsuccessful, and something flew again, where it was not asked. And the Norwegian media published comments from the military, who stated that the atmospheric phenomenon that took place was nothing more than the Russian Bulava missile that had gone out of control. By the way, residents of Yekaterinburg quite often observe such phenomena, and if it is differently, it is very interesting to have the Plesetsk cosmodrome nearby.
Well, apparently, the phenomenon clearly had an earthly origin, although no one is going to give 100% confirmation of this. So those who wish still have some space for a flight of imagination.
