Kolkata: A mysterious light spotted in the sky over West Bengal on Thursday left locals puzzled and guessing its source. People captured videos and clicked photographs of the light and posted over social media, which appeared at around 5:55 pm.
Those who witnessed it claimed that the light was visible for around three minutes and its intensity was very high. Some termed it resembled a massive searchlight while others claimed that it was visible for only a few seconds. Some also claimed that it was a comet while others said it could be a meteorite.
Incidentally, the light was spotted amid India successfully testing its Agni-V Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) for an extended range beyond 5,500 km. The test-firing of the missile from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha coast came amid India's lingering border row with China.
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In this context, Nikhilesh Pal, a former professor of Birla Planetarium, Kolkata, said, "Such mysterious light is common in space as always different activity keeps going on, probably because of that the light has appeared. But it's a matter of research and only then we can talk about the source."
