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This section contains descriptions of unexplained facts provided by eyewitnesses or published in the media, as well as the results of their analysis by the group.

UFO. Afghanistan

ID	#1569515332
Added	Thu, 26/09/2019
Author	July N.
Sources	miger.ru ТАСС, 3 ноября ("Красная звезда", 4 ноября 1976 г.)
Phenomena	UFO
Status	Result
Resume	Метеор

Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness

Incident date:

29.10.1976

Location:

Afghanistan

Hundreds of residents of the city of Ghazni in the Southeast of Afghanistan witnessed the rare beauty of natural phenomena. The evening of 29 October in the sky at the same time, there were 7 large meteorites, luminous traces which stretches in the direction from South to North.

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Hypotheses

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Events

Rocket launches (from space.skyrocket.de)

Site: Plesetsk (NIIP-53, GIK-1, GNIIP) (USSR / Russia) Vehicle: Kosmos-3M Payload: Kosmos 864 (Parus #6)

Investigation

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Resume

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Meteor

Meteor, "shooting star" is a phenomenon that occurs when small meteor bodies (for example, fragments of comets or asteroids) burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. A similar phenomenon of greater intensity (brighter than magnitude -4) it's called a fireball.