Motorists driving down a dark and creepy Russian road had their path briefly illuminated for them recently (no, Putin didn’t suddenly install street lights).

A blaze of orange was filmed lighting up the night sky above the Sverdlovsk region in central Russia for a few seconds.

UFO? Comet? Strange super-future weapons testing?

Despite several motorists capturing the strange event with dashboard cameras, scientists and officials have been unable to explain the light

Viktor Grokhovsky, a member of the meteorites committee of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said: ‘It looks like a falling bolide (meteorite). Due to the low cloud cover it burned up above the clouds and lit up the whole sky.’

One young cameraman must have thought the apocalypse was upon him as he appeared to be directly beneath the glow when it appeared.