1908-06-30; Siberia, Russia Tunguska meteor impact A mysterious explosion rocked the Jenissei portion of the Siberian forest. People living in the area observed a huge fireball that rose up high in the sky. Russian scientist Kazantsev researched what he described as the Tunguska blast, going so far as trailblazing through the area in search of an impact crater that was never found. Trees in the area, though, were knocked to the ground from an epicenter which, unlike normal blasts, was more elliptical than spherical, following the original object's trajectory. The witnesses who observed the fireball later succumbed to a deadly sickness very much resembling radiation poisoning. Many theories have been suggested as to what caused the blast. Most prevalent among those have been microscopic black hole impact with the Earth, collision with a comet and a nuclear powered extraterrestrial vehicle losing control and crashing.
1908-06-30; Kansk, Russia A traveler on the Trans-Sibrian Railway who had set up his camera to get a picture of the train during a relief stop, suddenly spotted a brilliantly luminous flying object in the sky. He was barely able to move the camera and adjust the setting in time to get one poor picture on tintype before the craft was gone. The UFO was headed in an easterly direction, moving right and left, leaving a bright trail behind it. The Tunguska explosion occurred the same day.
1923-07-??; Sosnovka, Russia Sailing to his village, via steamship along the Vyatka River, comrade M. Volosnikov noticed that an object was trailing his boat. The body resembled a flying crescent moon that flew on a set course for approximately three minutes in the dawn sky. Veering to the right, the craft disappeared from view. Finding that several others had witnessed the same mysterious object, they discussed the possibility of it being an "evil spirit."
1933-08-00; Kranye Chetay, Russia The boy, V.N. Bronyukov, and his friends looked up from their play to see a star move across the day-time sky. It moved at a quick pace changing heading to the northwest. The children watched the craft for about 10 minutes before telling their parents.
1935-08-??; Moscow, Russia In the evening hours near Petroskiy Gate, comrade A. Ignatveya observed a luminous sphere flying only a few feet above ground. Silently, the craft quickly flew from the north to the south in an almost perfect straight line.
1948-06-18; Baskuschak, Russia Test pilot Arkady Apraskin followed closely behind trying to get within firing range. He had been ordered to down the banana shaped object he had been chasing. However, just before entering range, the UFO emitted a beam of light that temporarily blinded Apraskin and knocked his electrical systems out. Fortunately, the pilot managed to glide safely in for a landing.
1949-09-??; Suzdal, Russi At first, the villagers of Suzdal thought that the strange light hovering just above the ground was an automobile headlight. However, when the light began to rise and spin in the air, they knew it wasn't a car. Comrade G. A. Podoshivin and two others attempted to get close to the yellow, glowing object. The light vanished then reappeared 10 minutes later at a farther location. The object did this repeatedly through the night.
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October 20 1982 : Petropavolvsk-1 Airport. An Ilushin-62 Airliner, tail number 86457, of the 206th Flight Detatchment, Domodedovo Aviation Association en-route from Moscow to Magadan made an unscheduled stop at Petropavolvsk Airport due to poor weather conditions at their scheduled destination. As they were approaching to land the "crew observed a shining object flying at head on and parallel headings and various speeds and flight levels". Both the Captain and several members of the crew watched the object for over twelve minutes, although neither they, or the Air Traffic Control crew on the ground were able to detect the object on their radar screens. A transcript of part of the radio conversation between Mr S.A.Karikov (K) and Captain Vasilievyh (V) reads: V: We are observing flashes but there is nothing on the radar, but the light flashes with a ten second period. K: Roger. V: It is some alien flying object. K. Say again. V: It is some alien flying object. K: Roger that. It is clear that in the semantic context of the rest of the documentation received on this specific case it would seem that the word alien means `out of place` rather than necessarily `extra-terrestrial`. Eight minutes after the aircraft landed, "Mr Karikov saw due north exactly along the projection of the runway a burst of light resembling the flasher of an aircraft. Mr Karikov observed six bursts during three minutes; the colour of the bursts varied from pink-red to pink", first in the western and then in the north western direction. In a statement made to Mr S.A.Karikov, the Air Traffic Controller at Petropavolvsk - 1 Airport, Captain Vasilievyh reported: "At a flight level of about 7200 metres I caught sight of two intermingling, bright light-blue lights, 45° to the port and below us. I thought that it was an incoming plane and flashed the lamps for it and then reported the air controller that there was an incoming plane below me. The controller told me that the zone was clear and that no planes were present. After that I saw the shining object several times, but that time it was of a light yellow colour burning from 25-30 seconds (.....) First the object was moving towards me from the port, then it stopped and started moving away to the port at 80° off our heading"... Although statements like "The object movement was not accompanied by noise of any kind. No target bursts were observed on radar scopes", are what we have come to expect from these KGB papers, a statement like "No adverse effects on personnel, hardware or environment were registered", implies, that on other occasions "adverse effects" on personnel, hardware or the environment had been registered. A final postscript to these events was that five days later a routine examination of the aircraft found serious damage to the engine of the `plane and it has to be remembered that mysterious equipment failures have been reported in conjunction with UFO reports across the world.
May 23, 1985 "I report that on May 23rd 1985, during the scheduled flights of the 277th bomber regiment (the airfield of Hurba, Komsomolsk region, Khabarovsk krai), an unidentified flying object the shape of an ellipsoid was observed at 22.35 local in the vicinity of the airfield. The pale orange UFO was moving from the west to the east with a speed of 500-600 km/hour and at an altitude of 2000-3000 m. A glow in the form of a halo was visible around the ellipsoid. The object movement was not accompanied by noise of any kind. No target bursts were observed on radar scopes. No adverse effects on personnel, kardware or environment were registered. According to the witnesses they had been observing the object for thirteen minutes, its movement was interrupted by periodic descents and hovering over the ground". The incident at Khabaravosk krai on May 23 1985, bears even more resemblance to the happenings at Rendlesham Forest in December 1980, because as in Suffolk, a similar event took place the next day.. "The next day at 00.40 an analogous phenomenon was observed for 10-12 minutes at the Litovoko bombing range, (Komsomolsk region, Khabarovsk krai), by the (deleted) regiment senior navigator programmer MAJ V.V. Kudriavtsev and metereological section engineer Sen. LT V.V. Maltsev. The ellipsoid object with light beams leaving it upwards and downwards was of a dull white colour. The intensity of the lower beam was much greater than that of the upper one. The object was moving at a high altitude and a high speed....." It seems certain from these reports, and others in our files that the phenomena that have been reported from the countries in the west have been mirrored behind what Winston Churchill first described as `The Iron Curtain`. From the evidence we have presented so far it appears that the Soviet authorities were as perplexed by the events described as havve been their counterparts in the west. In the second part of this article, next issue, we shall delve further into the KGB UFO files and discover more, and somewhat disturbing paralells between UFOlogy in east and west! The ultimate irony of all of this is that it proves that despite a `Cold War` lasting half a century, the differences between East and West are far less significant than we were led to believe. At the beginning of the second world war, Winston Churchill described the Soviet Union as "A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma". In the years following the collapse of the former USSR, western scholars have managed to obtain hitherto unknown documents which have filled gaps in our knowledge of Soviet history and culture. In every case, however, Churchill`s dictum has proved valid. When one starts to examine the history of UFO activity in the former Soviet Union, Churchill`s epigram seems almost an understatement!
November 3, 1985 Two civilian hunters experienced a UFO sighting which seems impossible to explain within the framework of recognised geomagnetic or metereological phenomena. Again, I quote directly from the testimonies presented in the English translations of the KGB UFO documents. "At 20.30 of November 3rd 1985, when the hunt was over I came up to my Dnepr motor boat equipped with a Vihr-30R motor. In about ten minutes I started the motor to warm it up. After the motor was started, (its operation was smooth with no misses) I caught sight of a UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) moving at high speed from the north to the south at an altitude greater than that of a plane. The UFO was a little bit larger than a star (Venus) and it had a search light beam leaving it at an angle of 5-10 degrees to the ground. (80°-85° from the ground). The weather was clear with the sky of stars and the above phenomenon was clearly seen against the sky. I indicated it to my father in law and we started to watch the UFO together. The light beam of the UFO (search light) covered about ¹/4 to ¹/5 of the distance from the object to the ground. It did not hit th ground due to scatter. When the UFO came closer the motor suddenly halted. I thought that maybe it had happened because the reverse lever had slipped due to jolting, and the motor stopped. It ran for about two minutes. I pulled the starter cord after I had checked the gas and opened the throttle. The motor started at once but as it was running I saw a glow coming out of the ignition coil sockets of the armoured high-voltage cables conneting the spark plugs of the upper and lower cylinders. The glow at the base of the upper ignition coil was greater than that of the lower one mounted under it. I have the automobile type metal coils installed. Having run for 5-7 seconds the motor stopped again. And it stopped abruptly without slowing down. The UFO at that time was right above us! After the UFO flew south in the direction of Vladivostok we sighted a sattelite above it. Relative to where we stayed the UFO and the satellite moved with the same speed and at the same direction. Having flown for some time more (it might be closely approaching Vladivostok) the search light was switched off and the UFO ceased to be visible...."
November 12th 1985 Primorski krai Hasan Kayumovich Rakhimov was on guard duty, in charge of a military outpost named only as `post seven`. I quote his official report in full: "A ball of yellow blue colour, the size of a soccer ball made a sudden appearance from behind building 40 at a distance of 30-40m to where I stood and the altitude of 10-15 metres. I made up my mind to come closer and to see what it was. I ran for 10-15 metres towards the building. I walked out to the platform to continue watching the object. And at that time the object appeared at an altitude of 5 to 6 metres, and having made 3 or 4 jumps of 50-100 metres long, moved towards the dog breeding quarters where it disappeared. Three or four minutes later I sighted the object again in the vicinity of Post 3, 100-150 metres short of the dog breeding quarters. The object made several jumps again. I did not manage to count them to move along the same route. On crossing the road to the second guardhouse, the object disappeared at the altitude of about 2 metres. In a minute and a half, I noticed a light on one of the drums laying around, like someone flashed a torch. I looked around and saw no light".
On September 22nd 1989 at Astrakhan half a dozen separate witnesses saw a red, glowing `drop shaped` object in the vicinity of Kochevaya Railway Station. Three other witnesses described the object as yellow in colour but it was seen clearly, though intermittently for between forty five and fifty minutes. Six days later there was another sighting in the same vicinity. This time two "luminous, violet and red dots nearly a metre in diameter" were seen by several witnesses near the runway of the local air-base. A month later, an object similar to the earlier one reported in the region was sighted by a large number of eye-witnesses, both civilian and military, near the village of Burkhala in the Yagodinski region of Magadan oblast.
The following is the exact duplication of a document, filed to NSA in 1993, released by the State Department in July 1997.
"The Russian Ministry of Defense publication of its "UFO Dossier" made news in Zagreb Feb. 23, 1993. According to
Copy of this transmission from the Ambassador in the US Embassy in Zagreb, was sent to;
Secretary of State, Washington
US Mission Geneva.
Secretary of Defense Washington DC.
US European Command.
Commander Sixth Fleet.
CINC US Air Force Europe - Ramstein.
CINC US Air Force Heidelberg GE.
CINC US Navy Europe, London.
US Embassy Vienna.
US Mission US-UN New York.
White House
US Mission US-Vienna
Joint Staff Washington.
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