Moscow, Apr 14 (IANS/RIA Novosti): Search teams in Russia's Siberia region have been put on alert after witnesses said they saw an unidentified flying object crash there in the early hours of Friday.
The mayor of Irkutsk region and emergency expert groups set out for the scene of the sighting near Vitim village, but a severe snowstorm impeded the search operation, an official said.
A spokesman for the Mamsko-Chuisky district administration said the object might have been a meteorite.