The flaring objects that fell on a remote part of Russia in what officials believe was a meteor shower produced some captivating video from people in the area.
One video showed the a flaming object zooming toward earth and seemingly in the direction of the moving vehicle whose occupant was filming it. The object then struck the earth, causing a big explosion.
Another video, taken from a vehicle moving along a city street, shows a burst of blinding light followed by a tail of flaming debris.
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It could not immediately be determined whether the two videos captured the same object.
As Ellen Barry, The Times’s Moscow bureau chief, reports, Russian authorities have tentatively identified the debris as fragments of a meteorite, and that it shattered windows and left some buildings damaged. Emergency officials in the city of Chelyabinsk reported that at least four people were injured by broken glass in a school, she reported.
