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On the night of 24 September I was fishing by the Kuduminskye 15-20 seconds, the "ground rumbling" began... Islands [5-6 km below Mama on the River Vitim]. The sky was Vera Semionova and Lidia Berezan, security workers at the completely clouded over and it was spitting with rain. I was fish - airport, went out onto the field around 1.50 am and saw lights ing together with my wife. Suddenly it turned bright, fully as shining at the ends of the fence posts around the weather station. bright as day. Then out of the clouds came an object. It seemed The lights shone for a second or a second and a half. Mama was, already to be flying low. It was giving off light like from welding, incidentally, still dozens of kilometres from the flight path of the but you could look at it without your eyes hurting. The angular terminator. dimensions of the disc were less than the full moon. The sphere As the terminator sphere was a powerful electromagnetic was crumbling (scattering sparks). During the flight we could structure, it produced a humming noise like the crackling of high- hear a sound (there was some kind of "rustling"). It wasn't com - voltage power lines. Many witnesses recalled that as the bolide ing towards me, but passed close by (to the south). The object passed they heard a distinctive "noise", "hum" or "rustling". The flew over the Vitim and disappeared behind a mountain to the energy level was so high that it produced an electrophonic effect northeast (the bearing of the "departure point" was 30-40 (generating an audible noise when in flight) and left a rainbow degrees). The light disappeared after the object was hidden trail from which sparks flew. behind the mountains. A minute or a minute and a half later there was a resounding crash, like thunder, that rang out twice. There Meteorite Destruction was no blast wave or tremor. After the first strike, which shifted This witness sketched the flying the meteorite's course away from sphere wih avail ; After the first strike, which inhabited places, the other erming. alentina Leontyeva works as a . . or spheres" closed in and began guard at the Lenzoloto gold-mining shifted the meteorite's course methodically destroying the remnants enterprise and was on duty that night. away from inhabited places, of the intruder from space. That is She noted: " . " why there were bangs from several ..At two o'clock something fell. A the other terminator spheres collisions. round-shaped body rushed across the closed in and began methodically Olga Ponomareva, an operator at sky. A tail stretched out behind it. I the telephone exchange, noted: thought "Is that a star?", but it was destroying the remnants of the ..1 was on duty. I had just lain way too big. After 10 seconds there i down. First there was a rumble; all was an explosion, then a second. The intruder from space. the windows rattled. I thought door to my office even burst open... someone was trying to get through on The Vitim case provided plenty of the switchboard. I answered, "Yes?" evidence of the electromagnetic nature of the terminator spheres No reply. "Who's there?" I asked. Then the light appeared, and their powerful effect on the environment. bright as day. There and gone. And the windows kept rattling. I In the town of Mama, in the area of the flight path, there was a — thought it was an earthquake, but then why was it light? When power cut that night. At the moment the terminators appeared, the rattling began it was five to two. The glow lasted a matter of the light-bulbs suddenly lit up (dimly, at half strength)! The seconds, but the rattling seemed to me to go on for another five explanation that specialist physicists came up with is that "the minutes. I went outside, too, to see who was knocking. And it was flight caused a powerful disturbance in the Earth's magnetic field, still rattling. There was a roar like a jet plane in flight. and the change in it led to current appearing in a closed circuit". First the roar, then the bang. That means there was a roar, then Additionally, the coronal discharge known as St Elmo's fire— the glow (while the noise still continued), and then the bang (like small glowing balls—appeared on pointed objects. That phenom- at Sasovo). enon is also associated with changes in electrical field, but this Yevgeny Chechikov reported: time in the atmosphere. We were spending the night on the river... When the glow Georgy Kaurtsev, on the staff at the Mama airport, reported: appeared, it was so scary that we dropped to the ground. Then .. That night there was no electricity. The settlement was with - _ when the glow stopped, we heard sounds from an explosion. We out power. I woke up and saw a flash of light outside. The chan - heard an explosion, then two more small ones, quiet, almost with - delier that was turned off started glowing half-strength. After out any gap... 15-20 seconds, the "ground rumbling" began... Vera Semionova and Lidia Berezan, security workers at the airport, went out onto the field around 1.50 am and saw lights shining at the ends of the fence posts around the weather station. The lights shone for a second or a second and a half. Mama was, incidentally, still dozens of kilometres from the flight path of the terminator. As the terminator sphere was a powerful electromagnetic structure, it produced a humming noise like the crackling of high- voltage power lines. Many witnesses recalled that as the bolide passed they heard a distinctive "noise", "hum" or "rustling". The energy level was so high that it produced an electrophonic effect (generating an audible noise when in flight) and left a rainbow trail from which sparks flew. 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