UFO. Russia

I have read A. Taktashkin's material "The Riddle in the Sky" in the "Mystery" and I want to support him with my own testimony.

On June 19, at about 23 o'clock in the clear blue sky, over the "Shovels" area, on the border with the Preduralie nature reserve, I observed an interesting sight. About a kilometer above the ground and four kilometers away from us (and at that moment we were at the Sylva Kishert store), two grapefruit-sized balls hung at a distance of the diameter of the ball between them, connected by a barely discernible strip; in general, the appearance of the object resembled a dumbbell.

The balls of extraordinary whiteness seemed to radiate light, but did not dazzle the eyes like the sun. Literally a minute later, they began to converge and merged into a single shining ball.

Gradually, the object, without changing its location in the evening sky, began to decrease (there was a feeling that it was moving away) to the size of a small star and disappeared. In its place, a matte disk was traced for some moments.

The whole observation lasted about 4-5 minutes. We stood mesmerized by what we saw. Next to me was my neighbor, the driver Andrey Vatolin, and two business travelers who drove up on a UAZ from Perm. They also told us that, they say, they did not have time to come to Kishert and look around, as the first thing they saw was a UFO: how many times we travel around the country, they added, they ask everywhere about your famous "alien" places, now we have something to answer…

For a long time, probably, what we have seen will scroll in our memory, impressive in grace, beauty, obscurity: either created by our native mother nature, or completely unknown, unearthly.

V. GRUZDEV,

chief forester of the Kishert mekhleskhoz.