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This section contains descriptions of unexplained facts provided by eyewitnesses or published in the media, as well as the results of their analysis by the group.

UFO. Latvia

ID	#1708700764
Added	Fri, 23/02/2024
Author	July N.
Sources	ufology-news.com
Phenomena	UFO
Status	Hypothesis

Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness

Incident date:

12.1944 22:00

Location:

Валмиера

Latvia

Ozolins O.A. writes to the Commission on:

Responding to the publication in the newspaper "Trud" No24 of this year, I can describe three similar observations, exactly what I have imprinted in my memory.

1. It was in 1944 at the beginning of December. I don't remember the number. The place is the city of Valmiera of the Latvian SSR. The time is about 22 hours. Then the lessons at the only surviving school in the city ended. We high school students were walking home and suddenly someone shouted: "Look! The air!"

The sky in the west-north direction, about 35-40 degrees above the horizon, was illuminated by a green light. Suddenly, a fiery snake slowly crawled on the surface of the illuminated clouds. It lasted 2-3 minutes.

Then everything stopped at one point, sparkling with yellow light. A large cloud of " smoke " formed all around. The cloud released a "tail" vertically down and then everything started to go out and disappeared, only a green light like the northern lights was visible for 15 minutes in a wide band above the clouds.

The soldiers of the anti-aircraft unit located near the school also observed this phenomenon and said that they had seen it for the first time in their lives.

The phenomenon left a huge impression. For me personally, for the rest of my life.

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Type:

Sketch

Phenomena:

UFO

Source:

ufology-news.com

Hypotheses

List of versions containing features matching the eyewitness descriptions or material evidence

Booster, the rocket and tracks

For UFOs often take stages of rockets, parts of space ships burning in the atmosphere, the launches of various missile technology for military purposes, etc., and traces from them. They attract attention mostly in the dark, but in the day time have a greater aura of mystery.

Formation of the track of the launch vehicle occurs in the tropopause (the layer between the troposphere and stratosphere), which sharply reduced the vertical temperature gradient. The emergence of the so-called "jellyfish" influenced by water vapor, which are subject to enhanced condensation.