"I was smoking outside the door when I looked up at the sky and suddenly the sky lit up with a bright light and something that looked like the sun fell somewhere to the south of Yekaterinburg, " wrote Sergei Bobunets, quoted by AFP news agency.

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Ask if performers who live sedate private lives jump at the chance to cut loose on stage or on camera, and Ms. Harris's tone, up to this point sitcom light, becomes something else entirely.

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His eyes would light up and he'd smile that big smile when he heard me wrestle with something.

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Each picture was shifted slightly in a direction opposite to the one in which the researchers thought the fragments would be moving so that if something were there, the light subliminally registered from it in several pictures would fall in the same place and would add up to something visible.

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