As reported in yesterday’s Pravda, now that Spring is coming to Siberia the search is on for a meteorite that fell 700 mikes from Irkutsk in Siberia on September 25 of last year in or near the wildlife preserve of Vitimsky on the Vitim River. This was no typical meteorite fall. The illumination brightness of the incoming nighttime meteor was very high and even painful to look at according to eyewitnesses. Because of the clouds, there were virtually no sightings of the bolide itself along the path of its flight; only a few observations described a sphere with a tail. Witnesses at the nearby Mama airport reported that the filament lamps of the chandelier there glowed to half their intensity at the time of the bolide’s flight, although the entire settlement was devoid of electrical power supply that night. Others saw a bright luminescence at the upper ends of thin little wood poles of the fence surrounding the airport’s meteorological ground. All this was tens of kilometers from the flight path of the incoming meteorite. The explosion yield of the meteoroid was significant and the shock wave was felt up to 50 km away. Initial reports stated the path of the bolide was tracked by a US Air Force satellite (you can translate that here or just read it in English here), and this track will provide initial search pattern coordinates for the current search for the actual meteorite. Somehow an American spy satellite providing guidence for a Russian search in Siberia for an extraterrestrial object is perhaps the most unusual aspect of all in this story.