Very little was written about the crash of a giant UFO in the Tien Shan mountains in 1991 - probably because the information about this event was too scanty. And also, perhaps, because it happened in the days of the collapse of the USSR, when the public had no time for flying saucers …
Arising from the void
Events developed as follows. On August 28, 1991, at 04:42 am local time, the radars of the station on the Mangyshlak Peninsula registered a very large object in the airspace. On the screen, he appeared suddenly, as if emerging from the void. The object was 600 meters long, 110 meters in diameter and flew over the Caspian Sea from the north-west at an altitude of 6600 meters at a speed of 960 kilometers per hour. I did not answer any inquiries.
The appearance of the "alien" was immediately reported to the Caspian air defense unit. Two MiG-29 patrol fighters headed to intercept; two more cars raised the alarm from the airfield K. The pilots were given the task of landing the object on the airfield. In case of disobedience: open fire on the stranger and destroy.
The meeting took place exactly at the calculated time, at 05:12. The pilots observed the object visually and on radar screens.
It looked like a giant airship without any protruding parts, only on the sides in its head there were two round windows with a diameter of one-sixth of the height.
The operation to intercept the "airship" ended faster than the pilots expected. When trying to open fire, the weapons systems of all fighters failed, and when approaching the object at 500-600 meters, interruptions in engine operation began. The object itself suddenly increased its speed rapidly: in a minute it reached 6800 kilometers per hour.
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At 05:27, in the area of Lake Issyk-Kul, the UFO disappeared from the line of sight and disappeared from the radar screens.
However, all this is only the beginning of the story about the "Russian Roswell", as it was dubbed in the West.
At the end of September 1991, rumors reached the population of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek that a large UFO had crashed in the mountains east of the city of Przhevalsk (now Karakol), in the Shaitan-Mazar tract. A group of local enthusiasts headed by the famous ufologist E. Bachurin immediately went to the disaster area. However, the hastily assembled expedition had to turn back due to bad weather conditions, an abundance of snow and the difficulty of moving through the mountains.
Around the same time, a helicopter was sent to the disaster area to establish the exact site of the UFO crash, but for unknown reasons the helicopter fell in the mountains, and its entire crew died.
Alma-Ata became interested in reports of a crashed UFO. Unlike the Bishkek ufologists, the residents of Almaty prepared for the campaign thoroughly. The expedition was led by an experienced pilot, retired colonel Nikolai Svechkov. He gathered a team of not just specialists in different fields of knowledge, but people with good physical and psychological preparation, who possessed the skills of mountaineering, passed tests for compatibility and behavior in extreme situations. The group had various equipment, video and cameras: the Kazakh government allocated two helicopters to the enthusiasts.
On June 12, 1992 N. Svechkov's expedition was delivered to the supposed site of the disaster. As the weather turned bad, the helicopters had to land away from it, at the foot of the ridge; here and set up a base camp. The Shaitan-Mazar tract (by the way, this place has long enjoyed a bad reputation among the surrounding residents, hence the name, which translates as "Devil's Tomb") was located four kilometers from the target, on the other side of the mountains. The next morning, without waiting for the weather to improve, the search party began; climbing.
The object was seen as soon as they crossed the ridge. Even from a distance of one and a half kilometers, the huge ship, broken in two, made an amazing impression. Its height was not less than the pyramid of Cheops; its rounded steel-gray sides gleamed in the hazy mist. After the amazed researchers approached the mysterious object, everyone's discomfort increased: - fear, someone - headache, nausea, or just weakness. Approximately 800 meters from the UFO, people's hair stood on end, "and the instruments registered the strongest" excess "static electricity. Magnetometers also behaved very strangely, indicating an almost complete absence of a magnetic field. Even the rocks taken for a sample from a distance of 800, 600 and 400 meters from the UFO (closer, by general agreement, the researchers decided not to approach) were completely demagnetized. All electronic watches showed zeros on their dials. Six mechanical clocks showed different times. Neither video nor photography gave any results. The film in the devices simply lit up.
Face to face with an alien
The members of the expedition asked themselves: what happened here? Probably, the object, flying at high speed, caught on the rock with the lower part of the fuselage. After the impact, it began to slide along the horizontal mountain platform, leaving a deep trail behind it. The explosion took place inside the central part of the ship (as indicated by the nature of the damage), and it split into two almost equal parts. Several decks and supporting structures were visible inside the ship.
The researchers had two sealed radiation protection suits, equipped with helmets and air tanks. It was decided to send people who already had experience in such suits on the ship. They had to penetrate one of the halves of the crashed UFO and check if there was a crew on the ship (who may need help).
The situation was complicated by the fact that the radio was out of order. The daredevils who find themselves aboard the UFO will have no connection with the main group. However, they decided to take a chance.
Apparently, the protective suits were not reliable enough: both researchers then received a lethal dose of radiation. One died of radiation sickness three months later, the second - Alexei Romanovsky - lived another five years and died in Moscow at the age of 31. He signed up to be silent about what he saw on board the UFO, but before his death he still told one of the Moscow ufologists about his visit to the alien ship.
“We entered the right half, because there was a passage in it among the structures destroyed by the explosion,” said Alexey. “In the corridor … it was light, but there were no light sources anywhere. All surrounding surfaces seemed to emit light. We came across several branches leading upward, but we decided not to turn off. We walked the corridor almost to the end and found ourselves in an oval room. All the walls and ceiling in it were occupied by curved pipes of different diameters and coil-type structures. The pilot sat in a chair in front of the balloon-like instrument. He looked like a man, only very tall; if he stood up, he would be much taller than us. He was wearing a tight-fitting suit in dark gray and a mask that looked like a gas mask. He sat sideways to us. When we began to approach him, he turned his head towards us. A great fear washed over me. My friend fellI grabbed him and dragged him out into the corridor ….
The veil of secrecy
Over the next several years, ufologists collected all possible information about this UFO, looked for money for the next expedition, made requests for space photography of the Shaitan-Mazar tract. However, the Kazakh and Russian authorities now got off with formal replies or silence, or even deliberately obstructed the researchers.
Only in 1998, a new expedition led by the Moscow ufologist Nikolai Subbotin was finally able to go to the mountains. They managed to get only one helicopter - the group rented it with great difficulty from a private company. We arrived at the crash site on 23 August. But the UFO is gone! The researchers found a 20-meter crater formed from the explosion, and nothing more. The impression was that someone had carefully leveled everything and covered it up, destroying the traces of the 1991 disaster. The instruments did not register any anomalies reported by the previous expedition. Subbotin surveyed the surroundings from a height. On a nearby hill, strange lines were found, reminiscent of landing strips at airfields. At the end of these lanes there were flat areas with a diameter of 20-25 meters, on which helicopters could land. Quite possibly,that the military visited there and removed the wreckage of the UFO, not forgetting to destroy the traces of his stay here.
As a result, N. Subbotin's expedition did not really find out anything. There were no remains of the ship, no obvious signs of its fall. Conversations with pilots of helicopters and airplanes who flew in the area also yielded nothing. Something, however, was reported by the local population. It turns out that in the period from 1992 to 1996 there was a noticeable revival: helicopters flew, cars drove … It seems, as in the case of the UFO disaster in the American Roswell, in the former USSR they are also doing everything to question the evidence of disastrous starships with other planets. Meanwhile, somewhere in secret laboratories, experiments are underway …
Magazine: Secrets of the 20th century №38. Author: Igor Voloznev
