UFO. Mozambique

Thousands of inhabitants of the Mozambican city of Beira, the second largest population in the country, February 11 for three hours, looked at the sky. The object was first noticed about 15 hours local time. According to eyewitnesses, it was a body of irregular shape resembling a parachute. UFO for some time hung motionless at an altitude of about three kilometers, and after 18 hours, slowly moving in a southerly direction, disappeared from sight.

Two operators of a local station of the weather service was able to closely examine an object in a strong pair of binoculars define its height and even to photograph.

The operator Octavio Simondo claims that the object is continuously rotated around its axis. His mark was observed also on the radar screen.

However, the most interesting information about the mysterious object gave the commander "the Boeing-737" airlines of Mozambique "Lam" of Simplicio Pinto.

According to the commander of the Boeing, he noticed a strange object even before landing when approaching Beira. The pilot ordered the copilot to request the airport does not run just any balloon. The Manager said that the probe would not start and that they see the object and accompany it with a radar. The distance is about 125 km away.

The plane landed safely, and thirty minutes later the commander requested approval for takeoff from the control tower. They asked whether he intended to take off, "before that thing hanging up there." "Why not?" - said the pilot. The plane took off and headed towards Maputo. The object, meanwhile, also moved South... ??

Says Simplicio Pinto:

"As soon as I gained altitude, we were able to examine it closely. Doubt I have more does not remain: it is not a plane, not a probe and not a parachute. In 22 years of flying I anything similar did not meet. We continued to go South to see the UFO a little better and find out what kind of camera. It was 18 hours and 40 minutes. On the ground, already beginning to darken. However, as you climb at this time in the cockpit all the time brightens, returns day. The height grew, the sun was on my right and not interfere with nablyudeniem. The course is South-West. the Object was huge and did not seem moved. I gained an altitude of 11 thousand feet or 3300 meters. Had to take right as the lights of the object were so bright that it blinded me. It had three lights, arranged in the shape of a triangle. Their light is reminiscent of the light of fluorescent lamps, was so intense that it was impossible to define distance. Our flight attendant Isabel, standing behind me, could not take his eyes from the window...

Passengers we did not report on Board were 114 people could begin to panic. I decided to light 2 spotlights, located on the left side of our plane, and to see the reaction of the object".

The commander of the "Boeing" was told further that all the time tried to go on top of a mysterious camera, but he did not succeed - he also gained height:

"I told you to call flight attendants, that they witnessed the events, and then twice turned on and turned off the floodlights of the plane. Suddenly the object began to rise vertically. The farther from us the light of his spotlight became increasingly weaker".

It was dark, but the triangular floodlights of the object still was clearly visible in the distance. They went missing when the plane entered a zone of dense clouds.

Throughout the incident C. Pinto maintained contact with the command tower of the airport Beira and reported their maneuvers so that all actions of the pilot were registered. The story is confirmed by other crew members.

The next day, the plane S. Pinto almost at the same time passed over the same location, heading to Harare. "I was looking for the UFO, the pilot was referring - but there was nothing."

Nikolay Zherebtsov, head. the APN office in Mozambique, Maputo.

("Companion", 1988, No. 14)

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UFO OVER BEIRA

MAPUTO, 15. Thousands of people in the Mozambican city of Beira for more than three hours watching last Thursday, an unidentified flying object. This was reported coming in Beira newspaper "Diario di Mozambique".

An unknown object appeared in the sky over Beira 11 February, at about 15.00 local time and hung at height about three thousand metres. The staff of a local meteorological station told reporters that watched through the binoculars the object looked like a parachute and had two powerful light source. All the time, while monitored, it is continuously rotated around its axis.

UFO seen up close the crew of a passenger plane of Mozambican airlines LAM, carrying out flight on a route Quelimane - Maputo. When the plane gained altitude after takeoff in Beira, the pilot noticed at the rate of unknown glowing object. After the crew turned on additional lights, light sluchivsheesya object went out. UFO rose higher, missing the plane by myself, and then once again started to glow.

The subject left the airspace over the Beira at about 18.00, having escaped to the South.

TASS ("the Leningrad Pravda", February 16, 1988)

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MYSTERY IN THE SKY

MAPUTO. (Sob. correspondent of "Izvestia")

On Thursday, I was returning to the Mozambican capital city of Beira on the plane.

We took off in seventeen hours. The weather was clear, from time to time I looked out the window. Looking again, noticed an unusual dark object. He was at a considerable distance from the aircraft and clearly stood out in the lobby of the blue sky and sparse white clouds. In the cross section of this object resembled an oblong bar, which seemed to be hovering in the sky.

- Look, a flying saucer, - I touched the sleeve of his companion, the correspondent of NPA in Mozambique. Together we watched the mysterious "bar", until it suddenly rolled to the side and disappeared from sight.

- Here's the UFO, he said.

Together we laughed.

Already upon arrival in Maputo, I read in the national newspaper "Noticias" next message: "an Unidentified luminous object fixed in the sky over Beira about eighteen hours on Thursday. It was observed at the local meteorological station."

What was it? Unusual atmospheric phenomenon, launched by someone a balloon or something else? While there is no answer.

B. PILECKI

(Izvestia, 18 February, 1988)

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UFO SHONE

After I handed in "Izvestia" (№ 49) the message about the mysterious object that was seen in the sky from the aircraft departed from Beira, came published in the city newspaper "Diario di Mozambique". They published three photos of UFOs and the story of how it was observed by many residents of this city.

Observation at the meteorological station was carried out in binoculars, but naked eye was visible, glowing object, still hovering over the Beira. According to local station, it was not a satellite and not a probe. Oblong had two "heads" and two bright "eyes".

As the commander of a passenger plane "Boeing-737" national airline LAM, he saw from the pilot cockpit glowing UFO and included aircraft lights, as if drawing his attention.

In response, both the "eyes" of the mysterious object had gone out, and he rolled to the side, quickly disappearing from view in a southerly direction.

The photographs in "Diario di Mozambique" sealed three points "maneuver" UFOs. However, the poor quality makes it impossible to clearly see it on photos.

In Beira there is a General Consulate of the USSR, and its employees confirmed the story of a bright luminous object in the sky, which about an hour was fixed, and then flew away.

B. PILECKI, Maputo.

(Izvestia, 28 Feb 1988)

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