An amazing video on YouTube shows streaking fireballs bursting through the atmosphere and striking the ground somewhere in Russia.
The video, designated as a UFO sighting by the channel owner, includes the rarest of moments, when an apparent meteor becomes a meteorite by actually striking the Earth.
Two amazed Russians, in the right place, at the right time and armed with a good video camera, stand in awe as the streaking fireballs appear in the morning sky and plummet through the atmosphere.
Although their amazed exclamations are uttered in Russian, what they must be saying can be understood in any language. They obviously can't believe their good fortune at the privilege of witnessing one of Nature's most awesome spectacles.
Set to some appropriately eerie music, the beautiful scene is enough to induce wonder in even the chilliest soul. Calling this a UFO sighting is a bit of a stretch, since there's no way, at this point, to verify what is actually caught on video.
If nothing else, it's a scene that truly justifies the term "unidentified flying object".
Here's the video:
What do you think?
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Comments: 7
Second, you assume that UFOs have the same characteristics that allow them to be filmed as other aerial objects. Researchers who have spent decades interviewing witnesses of the phenomenon will attest that these objects certainly exhibit characteristics that make them difficult to capture on film. Some of those characteristics can include: electrical or magnetic interference with the video equipment itself, distance from the observer, size and speed of the object, short duration of the observation, and just the simple fact that most people aren’t walking around either in the day or the night with their heads up in the air looking for such objects to appear. Most observers are poorly prepared to shoot video of such objects that may disappear in the blink of an eye. The rarity of bolide or meteoroid videos such as this one from Russia illustrates the point quite well. While hundreds if not thousands hit the atmosphere every year - few are filmed in action. Why not? People are ill prepared to shoot such an event. Videos of planes breaking the sound barrier are more prevalent than UFO videos - or are they? - because the videographer is preparing for such an event.
Third, if one assumes that these objects are intelligently controlled, are not known terrestrial objects, and therefore must originate outside our solar system - then it must also be reasonably assumed that the entities controlling such objects must by default be thousands of years in advance of our own technology to allow them to travel such vast distances with which they originate to get here. If that is the case? Then it may be simply that they don’t want to be observed. Certainly such an advanced race would be capable of such strategic maneuvers.
If there is no way to verify what was caught flying on video then it is a UFO, unidentified flying object. So it wouldn't be a stretch to address it as such.