On Friday, July 20, 2018, at 11:30 AM local time and lasting for about three hours, a massive cloud of unknown substance reported as “bigger than the British Isles” turned day to pitch black darkness for several hours. The region is so far north that normally in July there is 24-hour-bright light. A local town official in Nizhne-Bytantaisky told The Siberian Times, “At first it looked like it was a strong thunderstorm coming. The air went dark, and got darker and darker, but this time unlike anything else we have seen before the darkness had a rich yellow undertone.”
Some people began coughing and found it hard to breathe. Was it a secret Russian weapons test? Did a large meteorite explode in the atmosphere? Was a toxic fire burning somewhere? Something unidentified blocked sunlight long enough for Arctic temperatures in almost all districts of the Yakutia region of far Eastern Russia to drop as darkness fell in the middle of the day.
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