Damascus-Sana
The Syrian Astronomical Society announced that the bright object that some Damascus residents saw yesterday in the sky was the burning of part of the first stage of the launch of the Russian Saiuz spacecraft, and it had no effect on the Earth.
The head of the Syrian Astronomical Society, Dr. Muhammad al-Asiri, explained in a statement to SANA that the bright object that some residents of Damascus saw yesterday and believed that it was a meteor could not be so because the meteor makes a strong sound and causes great damage if it falls to the ground, but rather it is the burning part of the first stage of the process The launch of the Russian Saiuz spacecraft.
Al-Asiri stated that the society followed the launch of the Russian Saiuz spacecraft to the International Space Station at eleven o'clock Moscow time, and the flight took three hours, and this bright part that was spotted in the sky of Damascus came as a result of the burning of part of the first stage of the launch of the Saiuz spacecraft, and this is normal when it is The docking with the International Space Station on one line with Syria and thus you see the parts of the craft burning and not affecting the earth at all, but burning in the earth's atmosphere and causing such a bright ball that the people of Damascus saw.