Post by Joanna on Jul 6, 2015 22:37:23 GMT -5
Russians Probe Possible UFO Crash
Student Ana Zhmaeva was convinced she had just seen a mid-air plane crash when she began to record the incident in the air over the western city of St. Petersburg, where Russia's president was born. Zhmaeva immediately reported the unexplained incident to police, but they have since been unable to locate any crashed objects and no plane collisions were reported at the time.
The footage, which is now in the hand of the authorities, appears to show two objects collide with a bright flash before one of them plunges to the ground with fragments seen scattering in the cloud. Zhmaeva said: "When I started filming, the UFOs [Unidentified Flying Objects] disappeared like they had exploded or crashed into each other."
The mystery incident sparked heated debate online with Russian news website NevNov suggesting the "UFOs" could have been planes that crashed could have run into difficulties while performing in an air show reportedly held in the vicinity that day. However traffic controllers denied there had been any issues and one of the organizers of the event said: "There were no incidents in the air show." Police also confirmed they had no official report of an incident related to the air show, adding they had seen the video. "We are carrying out further research into this case to find out what really happened,” a police spokesperson said.
Source: Jon Austin, The Daily Express, July 6, 2015.