Anxious Russians have been bombarding Twitter today with fears about an ominous green cloud looming over Moscow.
Having awoken to the bizarrely tinged skies talk of chemical spills and ash clouds soon dominated the site, while some even connected the unusual scenes to today's anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl.
But as suggestions of evacuations emerged and thousands of nervy phone calls reached the capital's bosses it appears there is no need to panic.
Because far from paranormal or the onset of war, according to officials in Moscow, it is nothing but pollen.
As people around the capital began to gawk at the seemingly ashy substance and reported being covered in what was thought to be dust, Twitter came alive with conspiracy theories.
Prior to the announcement users like GadgetExpert took to Twitter to say 'What the hell Is this giant green cloud in Moscow? Something highly strange is going on.'
Even the city's tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda ran the headline 'Green clouds are coming toward Moscow, could it be that the apocalypse is upon us?'
Pictures and videos soon littered the internet, some showing green film covering windows in the city centre.
But following growing speculation Russia's Interfax news agency reported they had word from government sources who said: 'High heat, which came to the Moscow region with an intense wind, caused the formation of a large amount of pollen, which, mixing and moving in the air, can form such a cloud,'
Later reports suggest, more specifically, that it is in fact being caused by birch pollen.
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