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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. Russia

ID #1716749166
Added Sun, 26/05/2024
Author July N.
Sources
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Status
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Initial data

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Incident date: 
02.01.1917 17:40
Location: 
Александро-Невская лавра
Санкт-Петербург
Leningradskaya oblast
Russia

On January 2, 1917, at 5:40 p.m., a large luminous object appeared from the Gulf of Finland, rapidly sweeping over Nevsky Prospekt.

The Stock Exchange Gazette of January 10, 1917 considered the subject to be a German observation probe. However, the estimated speed by Zhernovsky was about 150 fathoms (320.04 m per second) and could not be achieved by any of the known aircraft. 

Zhernovsky, probably for the first time, noted the psychic effect of UFOs: in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, over which the projectile descended, two monks of the bell ringers lost their memory for a short time, while others considered the event a divine sign.

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Meteor, "shooting star" is a phenomenon that occurs when small meteor bodies (for example, fragments of comets or asteroids) burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. A similar phenomenon of greater intensity (brighter than magnitude -4) it's called a fireball.

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