UFO. Russia

Yuri Naumov, an employee of the Kizhi Museum-Reserve, writes to the Commission on AI:

We were on an expedition on the eastern shore of Lake Onega and on the night of August 27-28, 1979, we sat around the campfire for a long time. Suddenly Zhenya Vakhrameev said that he saw something strange. We all looked in the same direction he was facing and saw IT. The fire had already burned down by that time, the sky was clear in the dome, only clouds stretched on the horizon.

After Zhenya shouted "UFO!", we saw a trail, intense and deep, saturated, colors like a full moon on a frosty night. By the way, the color of the sky was dark blue. The trail was about half the length of the moon, with a glowing dot moving in front of it. The movement was slightly fluctuating and directed slightly downward. The angle of the place was about 45 degrees. no, more precisely, it was the angle of the trajectory downward.

It was coming quite quickly, but it did not increase in size; the picture, in general, did not develop or developed very slowly. Then, during the discussion, we all agreed that it was a point the size of a star of medium intensity. The stars themselves were faintly visible. Since it all started at 3:18 a.m., the sky was, in general, pre-dawn.

Then the actual phenomenon began. A light blob of the same color appeared on the trajectory. Everyone said later that the figure of a square (black) appeared at the head of the trail, but I have poor eyesight and I cannot say this. the point increased slightly and about a minute after its appearance, radial rays appeared around it, first short, then long: in the last stage of this phase, the rays were less frequent: they were divergent, 4 coordinate rays began to grow among them - I would say, a laser type; a kind of "cross" appeared, which in size occupied the There are approximately 3 wild moons in the sky.

I ran to the bus to get my camera, but when I started shooting, the "cross" had already disappeared. I have a Kiev-3 camera, I took it by hand, without a tripod, I set the shutter speed by hand - 2 or 3 seconds, at full aperture, with a film of 65 units, black and white; the camera is serviceable, before that I took it all the time for a month; it was stored in a case. The lens is wide-angle.

It should be clarified that the square began to take shape after the appearance of the "cross", and not vice versa.

I took pictures for about an hour. Moon-colored traces appeared. What struck me was that the trajectory of the body was, in general, straight, and the trail was scattered in patterns all over the sky.

We measured the azimuths by compass in the morning: the beginning of the phenomenon is 60 degrees, the end is 70-75 degrees. No one heard a sound, no smell was felt. There was no color change, but there was a color difference between the actual object and the footprint: the object was yellowish in color, and the footprint was lunar.

The wind was from the south, weak, we could tell by the clouds, they were coming from the south.

A second dot appeared in z-58 - from the same azimuth, but slightly below the first one. It also went down from 55 degrees, but the slope of the trajectory was in the other direction. Within 1 minute, the dot went, like the first one, behind the cloud and disappeared without appearing from behind it. The dot was the same, but its footprint was thinner, closer to the footprint of a jet plane. The trail would have dragged behind her, then the "curlicues" began to appear again. Then gradually everything resolved.

Also according to the time layout. the first point: appeared at 3-18, went behind the cloud at 3-22 and disappeared; the pattern of traces took shape by 3-34. At 4-40 the whitish trail was still visible.

I shot 3 films.