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Chernobyl Post-Explosion Fiery-Object Report
April 26, 1986, approximately three hours after the reactor explosionChernobyl Nuclear Power Station, Kyiv Oblast / Ukrainian SSR (1986), Ukraine
Appendix B reproduces later reports of a fiery ball near the damaged Chernobyl reactor several hours after the explosion, including claims of crimson beams toward Unit 4. Claims that radiation levels fell because of the object are not independently established by the cited material.
Claims are displayed with the source wording, locator, relationship and verification state. Competing claims remain separate rather than being averaged into a single answer.
SRC-002102 · Rubtsov Chernobyl account; uploaded PDF pages 612-612
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“A 2002 Pravda article quoted Mikhail Varitsky describing a six-to-eight-meter fiery ball roughly 300 meters from Unit 4, with two crimson rays directed toward the reactor.”
“Rubtsov’s account says radiation at the observers’ position was measured at about 3000 milliroentgens per hour before the sighting and about 800 afterward.”
“Hastings explicitly states that Appendix B is a short, far-from-complete compilation and that his own research had been exclusively devoted to nuclear weapons sites rather than commercial nuclear plants.”