Friday 24 January 2020

Telekinetic Chelyabinsk Meteorite

A strange piece of CCTV footage has emerged from a museum housing a fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteor. The meteor struck the earth on the 15th of February 2013 and burst apart above the city of Chelyabinsk in the Southern Urals region of Russia. The explosion was 0.8 megatons, more powerful than most nuclear bombs, but luckily it happened very high up, at an altitude of 90,000 feet, so the shockwave only broke a few windows. Some people had to be treated for cuts from flying glass, but there were no serious injuries. The pieces of the meteor scattered over a wide area and some were recovered, including the piece in question. It is in a display cabinet at the State History Museum in Chelyabinsk which consists of a table where the fragment is placed, covered by a pyramid of glass. In the footage the pyramid slowly rises into the air. It hovers for a few minutes and then descends back into place. This happens very slowly, over a number of minutes; in fact the footage has been speeded up so we can see it. There is currently no explanation for how this happened. This has sometimes been reported as a "levitation", IE the lid rising into the air with nothing to support it; but it was not. There is an electric mechanism for lifting the lid, but it was deactivated; so this is almost as mysterious as if it were a true levitation. The museum's curator Vladimir Bogdanovsky said: "We spoke to all our specialists in electronics and wiring who said unanimously that it was impossible to have it opening by itself." What's more the cabinet has an alarm that sounds whenever the cover is lifted unless it is deactivated by a special key that only the staff have. Source: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/meteorite-mysteriously-moves-itself-scaring-21117972. One explanation is that this was an attempted theft, probably an inside job involving an accomplice on the staff who could have raised the lid and deactivated the alarm. There is a lucrative black market trade in stolen meteorites, see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1324361.stm. However in this case it makes no sense. The incident happened in the middle of the day when the museum was full of people. If it had taken place at night when the museum was closed I could have believed that solution. Some people have claimed that the fragment on display at the museum is actually part of a flying saucer, but it clearly is not. It is a true meteorite, a natural lump of space rock. However, could there be something special about this particular meteorite that might interest intelligences beyond this world? Entities that have the means to hack lifting mechanisms and alarms? Could the Chelyabinsk meteorites be hot property for the extraterrestrial equivalent of mineral prospectors? We shall see if there are any other weird incidents involving that museum piece.

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