On September 1, at about 11 pm yesterday an incredible event took place in the Nikolaev area. According to eyewitnesses, somewhere near the administrative border of Odessa and Nikolaev regions, a "fireball" fell to the ground, after which an explosion occurred. Also, according to eyewitnesses, the ball fell to the ground in a spiral trajectory. Today the scene of the incident is cordoned off by the military, helicopters are flying over the place where the fireball fell
One of the users of the “Odessa Forum” Vadim 2040 reports that “It happened near Alekseevka, Nikolaevsky district, Odessa region, namely in Novoukrainka, but I don’t know for sure. Parents say that the first thought was an explosion at the Konstantinovskaya AES, but neighbors said they saw a burning ball falling in a spiral trajectory and heard a stunning explosion, so the evacuation stopped immediately. Onlookers are not allowed there, there is a lot of police and patrols everywhere on the way to the scene."
Another "forum member" under the nickname Krokodil writes: "One of my acquaintances said that his sister, who lives in a village in the Odessa region, said that on the night of 2011-01-09 to 2011-02-09 she saw something like fireball flying down. After a while, an explosion thundered, that in her quart the curtains were blown out by the wind, and somewhere even the glass took out. In the morning, allegedly, where something fell, the police cordoned off everything, they do not give any comments, everyone is freezing."
Another user of the kerchanin forum writes: “There is information that the object was TWO. One fell, the other burned out in flight. And it happened as if in the Nikolaev region - near the village of Novopavlovka (border with the Odessa region)."
This version is confirmed by another source, the site of ufologists "Ukraine is abnormal": on September 1 at 21.30 in the villages adjacent to the village of Nikolaevka in the Odessa region (on the border with the Nikolaev region) an explosion thundered and the earth was shaken! Those who saw the fireball and the trail that followed it realized that a meteorite had fallen and, apparently, not small!
Volodymyr Gritsaev, who promptly reported the incident to "Ukraine Anomalous", says that he interviewed residents of the nearby villages of Stryukovo, Viktorovka and Berezovka, and they confirmed the fall from the sky of a bright ball, as well as the alleged area of fall - the village of Nikolaevka. Also, according to rumors, the police set up a cordon at the alleged crash site.
“Unfortunately, I myself did not have the opportunity to look for a meteorite or follow the unfolding events,” Vadim regrets, “the work was pressing. It is also not clear why this news went unnoticed. The meteorite, it seems, is not small, and such an event does not happen so often."
But still, more comprehensive information about what is happening was prepared by the journalists of the Odessa Daily: “A meteorite fell in the Nikolaevsky district of the Odessa region. At least, eyewitnesses think so.
According to a resident of the village. Nikolayevka Nikolay, on Friday, around ten o'clock in the evening, he saw how a luminous ball with a tail merged with the horizon.
“I went out to smoke and saw a meteorite falling, while it became as bright as day on the street, and then it darkened again, I even sat down from fright,” he said. - He fell in the direction of the village of Sofiyivka.
Another resident of the village. - Varvara noted that the next day she saw helicopters circling over the crash site.
The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine in the Odessa region does not know anything about the incident.
“I don't know anything,” Sergei Didkovsky replied to the Odessa Daily correspondent.
In the Odessa Astronomical Observatory, the fact of the fall of the meteorite was also not confirmed.
“We don't know anything yet, but it might not have been a meteor. In addition, exhausted satellites or parts of rockets often fall to the ground, and people mistake them for a meteorite, "explained Sergei Andrievsky, director of the Astronomical Observatory Research Institute of the Odessa I. I. Mechnikov University."
Since scientists do not confirm the version of the giant meteorite, 048.ua puts forward a new one: what if the Ukrainian air defenses calculated a real UFO and shot it down, thereby preventing a possible alien attack on the inhabitants of the Nikolaev district? Not so skeptical, but more interesting.