[FPSPACE] Kosmos-2427 de-orbit Aug 23 causes Russian jet invasion scare in Georgia (Caucasus)??

[Jim Oberg]

This is a very preliminary notification of an interesting story
coming out. A number of 'space sleuths' are nibbling 
at its edges.

Russian news source (in Russian)
http://www.gazeta.ru:80/social/2007/08/27/2096464.shtml
reports that Kobalt-class recce sat Kosmos2427 was
deorbited routinely after 76 days, last August 23.

That appears to coincide with the sighting of a flaming object
crossing the Black Sea and the Abkhazia region of Georgia,
where anti-aircraft guns opened fire thinking it was a Russian
military jet. 

There remain some unresolved garbles of timing of these events.

Russian space officials denied there were any satellite
entries over the area that day -- but that probably refers
only to expected natural decays, and they may not
have been notified of the deliberate de-orbit of 2427
that day.

(to be continued)

background on August 23 claims and counterclaims
http://eng.primenewsonline.com/news/121/ARTICLE/14853/2007-08-25.html
http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=15673
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/13049