Object exploded in a suburb of the Russian city of Chita

[Soheil_Esy]

09.04.2015

An unknown object exploded in a suburb of the Russian city of Chita, with some saying it fell out of the sky.

The incident took place in the Ugdan village earlier on Thursday. "I heard an explosion and saw a huge pillar of black smoke around 11 or 12 a.m.," Vladimir Milovanov told the local Altes TV channel. No one was injured in the explosion but a nearby building sustained minor damage.

Policemen collected scraps of metal from the crater left by the blast and sent them for testing.

"The object could not be identified. It does not resemble anything. One of the theories [of what happened] – gas balloon explosion," the press service of the Regional Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/art_living/20150409/1020668380.html#ixzz3X72x2LKo

 

[fsci123]

Can't be trusted... There are no pictures of such an event coming out of the city and no other news sources are reporting it. The related articles involve ufo abductions and weapons testing so...

 

[Urwumpe]

Can't be trusted... There are no pictures of such an event coming out of the city and no other news sources are reporting it. The related articles involve ufo abductions and weapons testing so...

Sputnik is usually half-way reliable, if you allow some large amount of bias. I don't like their reporting style, but they often have some facts right.

Chita is a medium sized city with a military airbase nearby. The province of Tabaykalsky is also bordering to China and Mongolia.

So... there are quite many worldly factors around to suggest that this story might maybe not be the full truth, but not a full lie either.

the primary source of the news is http://www.chita.ru/

---------- Post added at 09:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:19 PM ----------

Also, the official origin of the exploded item is "military":

http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://news.chita.ru/72177/