UFO. Russia

Katya Mendeleeva - (16 years old) - graduate of 171 Moscow schools, then an applicant, now (April 82) - a student of the Chemical Faculty of Moscow State University.

Kuznetsov Ivan- (17 years old) - a graduate of 171 schools, now a student of the Moscow Art Institute. Mendeleev.

Kuznetsov Vova - (10 years old)- Vanya's younger brother, graduated from the third grade.

Ivan and everyone else have been interested in astronomy since March 1981, by the summer they had a homemade telescope of 20x magnification assembled from a high-power telephoto lens (F = 30 cm) and an eyepiece of two lenses, a 6x tube based on the Jupiter-1Z lens and theatrical binoculars. We observed the starry sky, acquired a certain observation skill, decently navigated the starry sky, photographed stars and planets.

These observations and sketches were recorded on the days of observations in a notebook, from which they were later reprinted. Moscow summer time is given everywhere.

June 27, 1981, 22-30.

Ivan was coming from the subway. In the direction of the north-northwest, I noticed a bright object-2 quite high (this one was slightly weaker than the previous one). He was at home at 22.32 and watched this from the balcony (Figure 3). 

Explanation of the picture: the "tail" is an antenna sticking out of the window of the 8th floor of his house, its horizontal

The crossbar has a height of 59° above the horizon relative to the observer. He was watching through a telescope with his hands. Neither duality nor the surrounding cloud was found.

I called Katya. After 8 minutes (22.40) Object-2 moved to the west and was visible like this (Figure 4).

Ivan began to watch from the stop. A bright spot (with a diameter of Jupiter, i.e. 44") was visible through the telescope, quickly

shifted to the west (faster than an airplane flying at high altitude). Then it started (Figure 5).

At the same time, the pipe was moving to the west. The disintegration occurred in about 5 minutes. I did not detect the time of the first (a-b) separation, everything happened very unexpectedly. To Vovkin's naked eye, the object ceased to be visible after the first separation.

8-10 seconds after the first separation, b broke up into 3 parts. and it stopped being visible a little earlier (for about 40 seconds) than b1,b2,b3. All this was happening in the Big Dipper, but not a single star was visible yet. The components were white (except for 2 - it was greenish). Then they all disappeared.

Generalizations:

It should be noted that we have never been able to observe the appearance of objects themselves, we noticed them when they were already calmly hanging in the sky. How they appeared is anyone's guess.

We did not photograph the objects. Due to the rapid and unpredictable movement of objects, as well as the fact that the background of the sky was too bright, photographing was pointless. In addition, there was only one long-focus lens and we preferred to observe visually with a large magnification rather than receive (or not receive) photos in which the size of the objects would be commensurate with the size of the grains on the film, or even more likely, the images of the objects would be smeared on half a frame.

Attention is drawn to the similarity in the behavior of objects, approximately the same observation time.

According to observations from points quite far from each other, it can be argued that the objects were at an altitude of about 10 kilometers, but it is very difficult to establish on the map the point above which it all happened.

Brightness, rapid movement in different directions, the presence of a cloud, a satellite and, finally, disintegration, followed by accelerated flight of the "fragments" upwards and a gradual decrease in their brightness until they completely merge with the background of the bright sky, indicate that the objects were unlikely to be an airplane, helicopter, balloon, rocket, or any other a celestial body (a star, comet, meteorite, and even more so a planet, such as Venus) because planets cannot be observed so far from the ecliptic, especially in a northerly direction.

Thus, their origin must be explained either by an unknown terrestrial object or phenomenon, or by an unknown object altogether.