Baku, Azerbaijan, Mar. 15
By Umid Niayesh - Trend:
Iran's air defense base was continuously monitoring an unknown space object's fall, which was visible in the skies of the country's northern cities on March 12 morning, the base commander, Brigadier General Farzad Esmaeili said.
The space object, as Esmaeili said, fell outside the Islamic Republic's borders, Iran's Fars news agency reported on March 15.
The object was seen in Rudsar, Tonekabon, Mahmoudabad, Babolsar, Larim, and Amir Abad cities in the northern province of Mazandaran.
Earlier, the commander of the city of Babolsar, Mazandaran province's IRGC, Mousa Hosseini Nejad said the luminous object that appeared in the region's skies was probably the Soyuz spacecraft landing in Kazakhstan.
The military commander also rejected the possibility of any drone, spy aircraft, or ballistic missile having appeared around the Caspian Sea.
Earlier, NASA said on its website that the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft, carrying three crew members of the International Space Station (ISS), touched down March 12 southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan.
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