‘Alien INVASION?’ Russian satellite spots bright blasts in atmosphere

But the ones captured by the Lomonosov satellite were above a clear sky, which would suggest they have nothing to do with the weather.

Mikhail Panasyuk, head of Moscow State University’s Research Institute of Nuclear Physics, said: “With the help of the telescope, we have obtained even more important results than we expected

“It looks like we have encountered new physical phenomena. We do not yet know their physical nature.

“For example, during Lomonosov’s flight at an altitude of several dozen kilometres, we have registered several times a very powerful ‘explosion’ of light.