UFO. Kazakhstan

In 1963, we spent a summer vacation in Issyk-Kul. Our camp was located on the shore of a lake on a farm, four kilometers from the village of Cholpon-Ata. In the first decade of August, around 23 o'clock (local time), we witnessed an unusual phenomenon. The Kungei-Alatau mountain range from the north began to be illuminated with yellowish light for a very long distance, about 40-60 kilometers, so that the contours of the mountains were clearly outlined against the dark, starry and cloudless sky (the black silhouettes of the mountains seemed to be cut out of cardboard). Then a yellow-orange glowing disk with a diameter slightly smaller than the disk of the moon, located at the zenith, slowly began to rise from behind the mountains. Having risen to a height of about 15-20 of its diameters above the peaks of the mountains, the disk hovered for 10-15 seconds, after which (it seemed to some of us that it shifted slightly to the right) it began to descend. The rate of ascent and descent was uniform and the same. After the disk disappeared behind the line of mountains, they were also illuminated again for 10-15 seconds.

The phenomenon we observed lasted a total of one and a half to two minutes. I noticed that the disk had very clear contours without any radiance around. The whole picture was very similar to the moonrise. The observed phenomenon was completely silent and windless.

the weather, the calm on the lake and the cloudless sky. It was a moonlit night and the moon had already risen quite high above the lake.

For many years (1960-1905, 1964, 1970, 1973, 1970, 1977 We spent the summer in Issyk-Kul (July - August) in tents on the very shore of the lake. We are all big lovers of nature and have been watching, photographing and admiring the beauty of the Tinshan Mountains, magnificent sunsets, moonrises, bizarre pictures of clouds, and the starry sky. Being in the center of the Issyk-Kul pit, we had an excellent overview. Nothing like the described phenomenon for

all the years of our stay in Issyk-Kul, we did not have to see. According to our assumptions, the "sunrise" of the disk occurred behind the first mountain ridge, no further than 50-60 kilometers from

us. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to see the silhouette of the first ridge so clearly.

We attach a map of the terrain of our camp and assume the area of the disk's appearance.

Together with us, this phenomenon was observed by: our children of high school age, K.P.Topornina - associate professor of the chemical faculty of TASHPI, L.D.Topornin - associate professor of the Faculty of Energy of TASHPI and

their children are a 3rd year student and a high school student (there were eight of us in total).

Associate Professor of the Department "Electric drive and automation of industrial installations" of the Tashkent Polytechnic Institute Vedrin E.N.