The Chelyabinsk meteor of 2013
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I'm one of those paranormal enthusiasts ... though I freely admit to be totally nonpracticing from an investigatory standpoint.
One of those television programs I enjoy is Paranormal Caught on Camera which discusses various clips of paranormal and extraterrestrial incidents caught internationally.
They had a clip about the February 15, 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor which exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia and injured some 1500 people, blew out windows, shook buildings, and shook up everybody otherwise.
This unexpected event happened mere hours before the anticipated closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid known as 2012 DA14.
The various clips included from concurrent camera feeds were shocking from a human standpoint and the damage to people and places was stupendous for such a brief event.
This particular piece was scary from the standpoint of empathy and the fact that it could have happened to me. I personally feel that Russia has a lot more of these ocurrences due to the size of the country more than anything else.
Reports of the Chelyabinsk meteor classified it as a small asteriod around the size of a 6 story building which then broke up over the city of Chelyabinsk in a blast said to be stronger than an nuclear explosion.
It triggered detections from monitoring equipment as far away as Antarctica.