Voronezh, Russia, September 27, 1989. Local residents, including several local school children, are said to have observed the landing of a UFO in a local park In Voronezh on September 27th, 1989. Not only was a UFO seen to land in the park but its occupants were also observed. The ‘aliens’ were said to be extremely tall, perhaps as much as 7 feet, and were accompanied by some kind of robot-like creature. After departing this UFO left marks in the ground and a huge controversy as well.
Eyewitness sketch of the robot-like creature. (photo 1)
The Dalnegorsk UFO crash. A UFO is said to have crashed into the mountains known as Height 611 near Dalnegorsk at around 8.00 pm on January 29th, l986. A spherical object is reported to have hit the mountain and set the hill on fire. The fire lasted for approximately one and a half hours and the incident was witnessed by many local residents. At first they suspected it was some kind of missile that had gone astray but checks with the Russian military revealed that no such rockets were being tested in that area. A few days after the initial crash a team lead by Professor Dvuzhilin climbed Height 611 and reached the impact site. There, the Professor and his team recovered a number of metal fragments. These fragments were later scientifically tested and the results were inconclusive but nonetheless very puzzling to those involved.
Height 611, scene of the alleged UFO crash (photo 2)
Soviet-built flying Saucers
Last year news reached western UFO researchers via the Russian media claiming that they had built there own UFOs back in the l950’s. An unnamed former Russian Air Force officer stated that he had observed the building of flying saucers by the Soviet military. They were definitely man-made and had nothing to do with aliens. These machines were allegedly test-flown on a remote Island off the coast of Norway.
Artist impression of the alleged Russian made flying saucer. (photo 3)
Crop Circles Mystify Russian Farmers. On June 24th 2000 crop circles appeared in a field in Southern Russia puzzling the local farmers. Russian TV reported that a farmer from the village of Yuzhnoye in the Stavropol region called in local officials to report an act of vandalism, after finding that his field of barley had been damaged. Close inspection of the field four distinct circles, one was 20 meters in diameter and the three others were 5-7 meters in diameter. The barley had been smoothed down in a clockwise direction. The local security services apparently ruled out human intervention. According to Russian TV officials located eyewitnesses in a neighbouring village who said they had seen a UFO landing in the field. Both local farmers and the security services were convinced this was no man-made hoax but rather the marks left by a landed UFO.
Photograph of the crop circles as they appeared on Russian TV. (photo 4)
Cosmonaut Major General Vladimir Kovalyonok. Major Kovalyonok was a cosmonaut aboard the Saljut VI mission in l981. It was ten years before he would speak of his UFO sighting made during that space mission. The sighting happened on May 5th 1981 at around 6.0 pm. At the time the Saljut spacecraft was over in orbit over South Africa moving towards the Indian Ocean. The Major had just completed some exercises when he saw an object through the spacecrafts porthole that he could not identify. It was impossible to gage the distance this object was from them but it was elliptical in shape and changed shape and rotated that were beyond the laws of physics according to the Major. Two bright explosions occurred and two more spheres appeared. They were said to golden in colour and very beautiful. The two spheres were lost from view as the Saljut spacecraft entered the darkness cast by the earth’s shadow.
Photo of Major General Vladimir Kovalyonok.(photo 5)
The Tunguska Explosion. The most famous of all incidents of this type in Russia is undoubtedly the Tunguska explosion. This took place at around 8.00 am on June 30th l908 near the Podkamennaya Tunguska river. The explosion carried an energy blast of 10 to 20 megatons on TNT, 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during the Second World War. It felled an estimated 80 million trees over 2,150 square kilometres (830 square miles). The Tunguska event is the largest impact in recent history. A modern event could potentially devastate a large city. Many theories have been put forward to try and account for the event ranging from an asteroid or comet, a black hole, antimatter, and of course the crash of a UFO. The event was not investigated until several years later with an expedition lead by Professor Leonid Kulik. Kulik’s expedition took the first photograph of the devastation and recorded eyewitness testimony of what happened: Testimony of Mr S.Semenov: “ At breakfast time I was sitting by the house at Vanavara trading post (65 kilometres south of the explosion), facing north. I suddenly saw that directly to the north, over Onkoul’s Tunguska road, the sky split into two and fire appeared high and wide over the forest. The split in the sky grew larger and the entire northern side was covered with fire. At that moment I became so hot that I couldn’t bear it, as if my shirt was on fire. I wanted to tear off my shirt but then the sky shut closed, and a thump sounded and I was thrown back a few meters. I lost my senses for a moment, but then my wife ran out and led me to the house. After that noise the earth shook. Later we saw that many windows were shattered and in the bard an iron lock had snapped.”
It is easy to imagine if such an explosion were to happen today over a modern city. Research continues into the Tunguska explosion and debate surrounding exactly what caused it continues also.
Tunguska photo taken by Leonid Kulik’s expedition on the l927. (photo 6)
Tunguska photo taken in more modern times: (photo 7)
