On the morning of January 12th, village Rubezhka's local ranger, Paul Singilevtsev, was checking the area when he saw a clearing in the middle of the wide, entirely frozen and thick ice covered river Ural. The clearing was completely free of ice (its length was 100 meters, the width 6-10 meters) and in the center were huge piled up chunks of ice that, according to the witnesses, weighed approximately 200-300 kilos each.

Some of the chunks were scattered 10-20 meters from "the epicenter". According to the authors of the articles, in order to produce such an effect, one would require either a strong explosive or a serious blow with something heavy and quick. Also, the cracks had some sort of geometric consistency and were mostly even angled triangles. The outer edges of some of the ice chunks appeared to be "black", as if burned. There were traces of sand on some of the chunks, as if the water from the bottom had risen very quickly due to an impact.

All of this information indicates that it was probably a meteorite. The problem is that no one in the village nearby heard any loud sounds or explosions. They called local authorities who arrived with various types of equipment, performed checks for toxins, radiation, etc., and found nothing. Some of the locals had "fantastic" (sic) stories about the cause being from either 'little green men' or a fireball. With that, a local administrative head said that the person who saw the fireball was probably hungover (sic), because he saw it on 16th of January, and the incident happened on 12th.

And if it wasn't a meteorite (though such possibility can't be ruled out just yet), what was it? A UFO? Some other strange phenomena?

Tell us what you think!