UFO. Russia

A man lives in Samara, who in those years managed to see mysterious objects in the sky at least a dozen (!) times. This is Sergey Markelov, Candidate of Technical Sciences, associate professor of the Samara Aerospace University, and at the same time-an analyst of the non-governmental research organization "Avesta".

Now I understand that almost all such phenomena that I have seen are explained either by natural causes or by man — made processes-for example, the passage of spacecraft through the Earth's atmosphere. I will explain this with two examples.

On February 1, 1977, at about 22 o'clock in the sky over Kuibyshev, as Samara was called at that time, I suddenly saw a huge shining circle of greenish color — the light seemed to diverge from one point. In the center of the circle, a glowing yellow ball was clearly observed. This lasted for about ten minutes, after which the ball disappeared as suddenly as it appeared, and the greenish circle slowly melted against the sky. There were no sound effects at the same time.

August 23, 1979. In the evening, being near the intersection of Chelyuskintsev Street and Lenin Avenue in Kuibyshev, I clearly saw a drop-shaped object hanging motionless in the sky. But it was impossible to determine the exact coordinates of the "drop" from my place. Later, when comparing my data with the data of another observer who was in another area of the city, I was able to calculate that the UFO was hanging at an altitude of 30 kilometers, and its length was at least 300 meters. The object was observed by many people for more than two hours.

In the opinion of an inexperienced person, both of the facts described above are typical cases of the appearance of alien "saucers"above the Earth. Meanwhile, the first of them can easily be explained by the destruction of a spacecraft created by earthlings in the atmosphere of the planet. In such cases, light circles are almost always formed in the air, the color of which can vary from white to red.

The situation is more complicated with the second incident, but on closer examination it is mathematically completely described by the so-called Mukhortov model. Imagine a cloud of dust particles hanging in the earth's atmosphere. From the friction of the incoming air flows, these particles are charged and begin to glow, and at certain points with the highest charge, the glow can be very bright and sharply differ from the background. Thus, spherical or teardrop-shaped objects with "windows" on the sides appear in the atmosphere, which can be perceived as UFOs from the Earth's surface.