The Main Special Control Center of the State Space Agency of Ukraine called the flash over Kiev on Wednesday night a “high-energy acoustic event” and suggested that a meteorite had fallen.
“On April 19, 2023 at 21:57 Kiev time by infrasound means of the SCSC on the territory of Ukraine recorded a high-energy acoustic event. The calculated place of the epicenter of the explosion is in the Kiev region,” – said in a message on the page of the Center in Facebook.
Scientists suggested that the event is associated with the entry of a space body in the dense layers of the atmosphere. The Center added that the information is being clarified.
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