[redshirtrob]

Want a uniquely Russian take on something like this? Check out "Roadside Picnic" by the Strugatsky brothers.

[13of40]

It actually reminds me a bit of this old sci fi story: https://abitofscififromthepast.wordpress.com/2018/04/29/the-...

Published during the cold war, so unlikely to be based on the real thing. (Also the spacecraft in this are re-entering rather than falling to ground during launch.)

[itronitron]

That story is included in J. G. Ballard's 1988 book, Memories of the Space Age >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memories_of_the_Space_Age

[kjs3]

"Roadside Picnic" is a uniquely haunting, very Russian view of the universe.

"What if the aliens came, and not only were we too insignificant to realize we existed, they shit on our planet".