UFO. Russia

Viktor Ivanovich Mitin, a lawyer, writes to the Commission on AI:

I read the article in the newspaper about UFOs with great interest and decided to respond to your request.

It was in the month of August 1977, unfortunately, I cannot tell you the exact date, because many years have passed. At that time, as the commander of the student detachment, I was in the detachment camp about 3 km from the small village of Koza in the Pervomaisky district of the Yaroslavl region.

One night around 24 o'clock, maybe a little earlier, I got out of the trailer to check the camp grounds. A vague uneasiness seized me, looking around, I saw that an elliptical light body with vague outlines was "hanging" over the village.

At first, I did not attach any importance to this, but after looking more closely, I realized that I had never seen such a thing before.

I couldn't even determine the true distance to the "body" approximately. I had a feeling that it wasn't very far away. I would say that it was not even a body, but a cloud of light, only not very bright with fuzzy edges.

The cloud "hung" for a long time, about 20 minutes, during which time it increased in size and decreased several times. I noticed that

Flashes of yellow light burst out of the cloud two or three times. This cloud disappeared almost instantly, as if it had melted.

The next day I asked the villagers about the "cloud of light", but no one saw anything.

Yes, I almost forgot, when I saw the "cloud of light", I woke up almost the entire squad. So many people can confirm my words.

Unfortunately, I cannot tell you what size the "cloud of light" was, because I do not know the distance to it from the camp of our SSO.

I will be glad if my information is useful to you in any way.