UFO. Russia

 Dear Commission!

In the newspaper "Trud" for January 30, 85, a note was printed, which tells about UFOs.

The incident took place during the flight of a scheduled aircraft, there were many eyewitnesses, so it became public, and so it is unlikely...

The appearance of UFOs was observed by pilots, and this also mattered. I have served in aviation, I have flown and I know that a pilot must keep his composure in an extreme situation, really assess the situation and give an accurate description of the phenomenon, which took place.

In the comments to this article, an address was given to which you can send a description of eyewitnesses who observed such phenomena. I saw a UFO, so I decided to send you a description of this case.

I want to say beforehand that I think: UFOs are discharges of atmospheric electricity capable of creating visual images.

I observed a similar phenomenon in May 1977 on Lake Kemskoye, located forty kilometers northeast of the city of Vytegra, Vologda region.

It was the middle of May, around 6 p.m. in clear, cloudless weather, without the presence of any thunderstorm activity.

Being on a motorboat in the middle of the lake, I noticed a fireball right ahead, which was rising vertically up from behind the forest. The distance to it was a kilometer or more, since it was about a kilometer to the shore. The size of the ball was about a penny, set aside at arm's length.

The ball silently rose to a height of an angle of 30 degrees and "burst", as at the moment of its disappearance, fiery "splashes" were observed. Although it rose vertically upwards, but after it there was a smoky trail in the form of a spiral in one revolution.

The time from the moment of the ball's appearance to its disappearance took about a minute, but all this left a mark on the soul, and was the reason for writing poetic lines of the following content:

Spring and the lake in flood.

It's a fine evening, but it's light.

It's so quiet and beautiful all around.

And suddenly over the forest... UFO!

The shore where it rose,

He was only a kilometer away from us.

The motorboat plowed the water,

And I watched without taking my eyes off.

His father doesn't notice him,

He 's sitting with his back to him,

And I see everything, I notice,

even though I don't understand everything myself.

I decided that the launch was a rocket,

It went up so fast,

Then I asked myself: from where? . . . where is it?...

It's like the sun has risen!

IT SHONE BRIGHTLY AND NOTICEABLY,

The size is not very... but not small.

It was rushing up hastily.

It will take off in the "spray". I listened.

There was a trace like a cigarette,

Gray, vague smoke.

As a kind of ring, bent into a spiral...

That's all I could notice,

Everything was fast and without noise:

It took off, burst - everything in an instant.

But since then I have remained in the shower

That clear and beautiful view...

I called this poem "UFO", because I believe that it was, exactly, it, and not ball lightning, which, as a rule, appears during a thunderstorm, before or after it.

The weather conditions were completely different in this case.

The moment of disappearance (in the form of "splashes") suggests that the ball was hollow, i.e. there was only a luminous shell, which seemed to "burst" without sound, from which certain conclusions can also be drawn. But you should draw conclusions about this, and I wish you success in studying the anomalous phenomena of nature, which still carry the mystery of the unknown and promise the joy of discovery.

V. M. Urvanov