Eyewitnesses across multiple southern Russian cities reported a brilliant flash lighting up the night sky—believed to be a small meteor disintegrating over the Black Sea.
Surveillance cameras captured the bright bolide between approximately 10:24 PM and 10:36 PM Moscow time. Notifications regarding this unusual event surfaced on Telegram channels in Novorossiysk, Anapa, and Rostov-on-Don.
Initial estimates suggest the object measured only a few dozen centimeters across, perhaps up to half a meter. Based on the nature of the flash and its fragmentation, it appears to have broken up within Earth’s atmosphere. However, experts have not ruled out the possibility that the observed object was man-made (technogenic) rather than a natural celestial body.
It is highly probable that the disintegration occurred straight above the Black Sea, meaning debris might not have reached land. Similar visible traces of the bolide could potentially have been caught on cameras in Krasnodar and other settlements located within a 100–200 km radius along the coast.
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