Lots of comments and incredible videos in general chat. Looks like just one meteor that exploded in the atmosphere. The notion that the Russians shot it down are absurd.
I have seen “Earth grazers” before, but this was really something. Reportedly, the meteorite just about wiped out a large zinc factory.
“Looks like just one meteor that exploded in the atmosphere”
I don’t think it exploded or hit the ground — it looks like it entered the atmosphere and left it again — in an almost straight line. I’ll bet it was big, too. Perhaps ten meters in diameter.
A few miles closer, and it would have exploded or impacted.