A real pilgrimage began to the place where one of the meteorite fragments fell in Lake Chebarkul. In the city, meanwhile, they see a direct connection between the unknown alien and the second day of the blinding sun.
- The sun is actually some kind of abnormally bright, - agrees the Chelyabinsk resident Fyodor Spiridonov. - Until lunchtime I was busy in the yard with the rabbitry, now my face and hands are baking straight. This is what happens when skiing in the highlands.
The trees and roofs of houses, still covered with snow, are now bare. The exploded car at once shook off the houses not only snow, but also icicles that had grown over the winter months.
Residents of the city note the ailments of their pets. In the Chelyabinsk Zoo, animal-watching veterinarians preferred to stay with their wards on Sundays.
Even on the eve of the meteorite attack, experts noticed oddities in the behavior of animals. In the "home" zoo, goats were restlessly rushing about the pen, rams, without ceasing, bleated in their stalls.
A bright flash and an eerie roar from the car on February 15 made the poor fellows even jump on the walls. The wolves screamed the surroundings all night. And the brown bears, which hibernated, got out of the makeshift den. Zoologists urgently began to prepare food for the toptygins.
And Lake Chebarkul, where one of the largest fragments of the car fell, has already become a place of pilgrimage.
A day ago, the guard stationed on the shore did not let strangers onto the ice. Now several paths have been laid from different banks to the melted 8-meter ice-hole. The divers who examined the wormwood did not find anything.
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“And it’s not surprising,” says local resident Ivan Sheikin. - There is a good three meters of silt deposits at the bottom. - This fragment of a meteorite could consist mostly of ice, and once it got into the lane (as the locals call the gully formed in the ice. - Author), it could melt completely.
One day, residents of the tiny town of Chebarkul found themselves in the center of a world sensation.
- I was going to the post office, suddenly I see - from the direction of Miass an orange - white ball is approaching, there is a rumble on the rise, - says Lyudmila Kalugina. - Well, I think the military at the test site unwittingly launched a rocket. But there was a long, horizontal black trail behind the glowing ball. A ball of fire with a hiss flew right over the rooftops and dived into the lake. A smoky trail in the form of two eights remained in the air, and then these loops melted away.
Residents of the town of Chebarkul believe that the meteorite landed on their land for a reason.
“We have a significant place: on the shore of Lake Emelyan Pugachev executed and pardoned people, recently they dug up and began to restore the most ancient settlement here,” says Ivan Sheikin. - And we all over the world recently put the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Lord on the mountain.
It is a good two kilometers from the coast to the place where the meteorite fragment fell. There have already been found enterprising citizens who, for a couple of hundred rubles, take the curious on snowmobiles to the very hole. True, the very place of the fall is still surrounded by a red ribbon. There is a guard at the fence. You will not be able to rinse your hands in the water where the alien body has darted.
- And rightly so, - Ivan Petrovich agrees. “Otherwise, there would have been about three dozen divers from all over Russia diving here now.
Local residents fear that now their cozy, secluded lake will attract all kinds of adventurers - meteorite hunters. The inhabitants of Chebarkul took drinking water from the lake.
- As the car fell, there was talk about radiation, in stores they bought all the mineral water at once, - says Valentina Sheikina.
In Chelyabinsk, I often heard the fears of local residents that a meteorite that exploded over the city could bring microbes alien to the human body to the ground. This was said by the inhabitants of the industrial center, where the pipes of the electrometallurgical, pipe-rolling, tractor, paint and varnish, zinc plant “exhale” various gray - yellow - green fumes every day.
Meanwhile, the story of the meteorite falling is acquiring new fantastic details. In these frames, a burning car, which, as they say, broke out, eyewitnesses immediately after the dynamic wave. Some now seriously believe that the celestial body possessed superpowers.
On Lake Chebarkul, where the meteorite supposedly fell, now everyone who is attracted by the mysterious and unknown flocks. Locals vying with each other tell incredible stories. Someone clearly saw a fireball in the sky, others heard that a flying object made sounds similar to the roar of a powerful engine.
mk.ru, 5-tv.ru
