Russian spaceship burns up over Dubai
- 7 years ago
Extraordinary video has emerged of parts of an unmanned Russian spaceship burning over Dubai.
In video filmed on Monday evening (October 16) by Dublin-based IT professional Mikhail Pozdeyev from the Dubai Mall at the foot of the mega-tall Burj Khalifa skyscraper, a meteor-like object can be seen burning through the sky.
Pozdeyev writes: "My first thought that it was a plane, but shortly afterwards I doubted that as it was crossing the sky faster and leaving a glare - I told my wife that it must be a nuclear rocket.
"People around were also a bit shocked looking at this object crossing the sky. For a minute after the video I seriously thought that we should expect a sound blast coming our way and see a mushroom-like cloud on the horizon, so I rushed to ask for the bill.
"Fortunately, none of this happened and later in the evening I have googled this and confirmed that it was a blunt angle meteor entering the atmosphere."
The Progress MS-07 had previously delivered supplies to astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
At first local government officials had said the object was a meteor, according to agency reports.
Pozdeyev was only able to see the remarkable event because his scheduled flight home to Dublin was cancelled due to Storm Ophelia.
He had been on his honeymoon with his wife in Mauritius making a connecting flight in Dubai when the flight got cancelled.
In video filmed on Monday evening (October 16) by Dublin-based IT professional Mikhail Pozdeyev from the Dubai Mall at the foot of the mega-tall Burj Khalifa skyscraper, a meteor-like object can be seen burning through the sky.
Pozdeyev writes: "My first thought that it was a plane, but shortly afterwards I doubted that as it was crossing the sky faster and leaving a glare - I told my wife that it must be a nuclear rocket.
"People around were also a bit shocked looking at this object crossing the sky. For a minute after the video I seriously thought that we should expect a sound blast coming our way and see a mushroom-like cloud on the horizon, so I rushed to ask for the bill.
"Fortunately, none of this happened and later in the evening I have googled this and confirmed that it was a blunt angle meteor entering the atmosphere."
The Progress MS-07 had previously delivered supplies to astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
At first local government officials had said the object was a meteor, according to agency reports.
Pozdeyev was only able to see the remarkable event because his scheduled flight home to Dublin was cancelled due to Storm Ophelia.
He had been on his honeymoon with his wife in Mauritius making a connecting flight in Dubai when the flight got cancelled.