UFO. Russia

Vladimir Andreevich Tyutkin (head of the department of the Design Institute) tells.

In the middle of August 1975 or 1976, at about 19 o'clock (the sun had just disappeared behind Mount Beshtau) I walked from the institute along Rostovskaya Street, then crossed to the other side of Kalinin Avenue. At some point, I felt the need to look up at the sky, and noticed high in the sky, somewhat away from the top of Mount Mashuk, a disk that looked like an inverted plate (height at least 5 km, size about 50 m - 2 times larger than an airplane at the same height). After a series of maneuvers, the disk hovered motionless above and to the west of the Mashuk peak. The upper part of the disk looked darker, the lower part seemed to glow and looked like a highly shiny metal surface in the sun.

As soon as the disk hovered, a "ray" immediately turned on, resembling a flashlight beam or a ray of sunlight in a haze among clouds (the weather was quite clear, but there was a haze in the air). The beam was initially vertical, then began to slide along the western foot of Mount Mashuk (the disk was stationary all the time), approximately along the line: village. Energetik is the place of Lermontov's duel-the White Daisy, where he turned off.

When this ray was close, it seemed that either dust or haze was moving up along it from below.

When the beam came out at me, I physically felt that some rays were penetrating the foam through and at that time I experienced a strong excitement, very unusual and difficult to transmit, which passed only 2 hours later without any consequences.

I was in the range of the beam for about 10 seconds. I did not experience any pain or other sensations either at that moment or later. When the beam illuminated me, I looked up and saw, as it were, a tunnel filled with luminous fog, the light coming out as if from a single source - the entire surface of the lower part of the disk. The beam noticeably, although slightly expanded downward, the diameter of the illuminated spot did not exceed 100 m. In addition to the described sensations, there was also the impression that the ray seemed to suck information out of me and carry it upwards. After the beam turned off, the disk disappeared at high speed in an easterly direction, before it disappeared from view for a moment. The total observation time is 1.5-2 minutes or more.

Being in the beam area, I did not pay attention to what was happening around me - I was completely absorbed in watching the beam and the disk. for some time after the departure of the disk, I felt some kind of detachment from my surroundings.