UFO. Russia

Natalia V. Tretyakova, Head of the Department of Thermal Engineering Measurements at the Karelian Laboratory of State Supervision of Standards and Measuring Equipment, writes to the Commission on:

Description of the event I observed in the sky on October 17, 1978 in Petrozavodsk.

On October 17, at about 18 o'clock, I was walking along Antonov Street towards Lake Onega. My attention was attracted by a glowing object on the horizon above the opposite shore of the lake. The object was a glowing ball of red-orange color with a diameter of about 1/4 the diameter of the disk of the Moon, which rose at the same place on the horizon later. At the beginning of the observation, I did not observe any noticeable movements of the object for 1.5-2 minutes. then the object began to move to the right and up along a somewhat curved trajectory (for about 3 minutes) and stopped at a point 45 degrees horizontally and 45 degrees vertically from the original one.

The red-orange color of the object remained for 1-2 path lengths, then the color changed to a shining white. for about 1 \ 3 of the trajectory, a white plume appeared behind the object, the width of the diameter of the object. Some time after the object stopped, 4 beams appeared, resembling the rays of a searchlight, emanating from the object at an angle of 90 degrees to each other. The beam length was approximately 4 diameters of the object. I observed the object with the rays for 2-3 minutes. then the object suddenly disappeared.

During the observation (from 17-57 to 18-05), the sky in the observation area of the object was cloudless and blue.