IRKUTSK, Aug. 30 A bright fireball flew over the Irkutsk region and burned up in the atmosphere, its flight was recorded by a video camera, said Sergey Yazev, director of the ISU astronomical laboratory, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
A bright meteor was accidentally filmed by an intercom camera in Angarsk.
«A bright bolide flew by and burned out. A video camera accidentally filmed it in Angarsk, it flew about two hundred kilometers from Angarsk. Maybe for three hundred. They are very far visible. This is a pebble that flew into the atmosphere great speed and burned up in the atmosphere. It is unlikely that it reached the Earth,» Yazev said.
It is known that the meteor was also seen on Lake Baikal, in the region of Enkhaluk. Eyewitnesses reported on social media that the spectacle was «noble, like in a movie.»