Long famous for its legends and traditions, the Ural Territory also serves as a place of attraction for unidentified flying objects. Numerous eyewitnesses become witnesses of their appearance almost every month.
Curious chronicle
In 2010 alone, residents of settlements, as well as Ural air defense tracking stations, noted 48 cases of unusual objects flying and hovering in the sky. The peak of the frequency of such phenomena occurred in May and August last year. UFOs were repeatedly spotted over Zlatoust, Nizhny Tagil, Sterlitamak, Krasnoturinsk and Ivdel.
A resident of Chelyabinsk, Dmitry Fedorovich Marushev, who has been studying the Ural UFO phenomenon for the last quarter of a century, has compiled an interesting chronicle of the visits of space guests to the Urals over the past 100 years. According to Marushev's data, the most fruitful years for these visits were 1941 (autumn winter), 1958-1959, 1963 and 201O. After analyzing the situation, Dmitry Fedorovich linked such events to the fact that: in 1941, the construction of numerous evacuated enterprises began in the Urals; in 1958-1959, Soviet nuclear weapons were tested; in 1963 a series of earthquakes occurred in the south of the region. Something similar to the activation of UFOs, as follows from the historical chronicles, was also happening in the 18th century, when the mining business began to vigorously develop in the Urals. So, by 1720 the clerk of the mine in Verkhoturye,a certain Ivan Zalomov wrote to the office of the mining district about the appearance of fireballs over the mines entrusted to him, which "extremely confuse the working people." In 1748, St. Petersburg had to report to the mayor of Tobolsk, whose inhabitants, worried about flying "fire demons", almost started a riot.
The revival of UFO flights in 2010 is attributed by Marushev to the increase in the geological activity of the Ural Mountains. But the researcher believes that the famous Stone Belt has entered the next phase of growth, which will cause powerful earthquakes - they should be expected soon.
Restless XXI century
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According to Dmitry Marushev, the activation of UFOs in the region began in 2001. This ego is confirmed by the numerous testimonies of local residents. So, on New Year's Eve 2001, heavenly visitors were seen at once in three settlements of the Urals. In particular, for more than half an hour, a black disc-shaped object roamed the sky over Irbit, in the Sverdlovsk region, making intricate maneuvers and emitting short light pulses. Above the settlement of Sibirka in the Chelyabinsk region, the rotating "star" for 15 minutes either approached the ground or receded, turning into a point shimmering with greenish light. On the same night, a cigar-shaped object was hanging over Nizhniy Tagil for several hours, flashing with multi-colored lights.
In the summer of 2002, a resident of the village of Molebka, located in the famous Perm anomalous zone, Vladislav L., with a video camera, went into the forest to shoot the only cedar tree in that area. While filming, he noticed some movement nearby. Moving his gaze, Vladislav saw a large black sphere hanging one and a half meters above the ground. When the man tried to fix the object on a video camera, the sphere disappeared, and after a few seconds it appeared at a farther distance. Vladislav went in the direction of the object that interested him, but suddenly he ran into an invisible wall, something did not allow him to take another step. At that moment, the young man suddenly felt such a severe headache that it darkened in his eyes. When Vladislav came to his senses, the mysterious sphere in the forest was gone.
A very strange incident happened in 2007 with Nikolai T., who worked in one of the farms near Krasnoturyinsk. One of the August evenings, he guarded the harvesters in the field. Around midnight, about 10 meters from Nikolai, a milky-white disc quickly descended. Following this, the man suddenly saw that he was in an unfamiliar place. Dead people lay around on the gray earth - men, women and children, twisted and blue. Among the corpses walked tall - under two and a half meters - creatures in silvery suits, putting some pills into the mouths of the dead. One of the terrible strangers approached Nikolai, who in the next instant lost consciousness …
Waking up only in the morning, Nikolai saw on the field a huge - 30 meters in diameter - round burnt spot. Later, the man found burn marks on his shoulder …
Military and UFO
Perhaps more often than civilians, servicemen of units stationed in the Urals encounter unidentified flying objects. For example, on May 11, 2002 at two hours and five minutes, the radars of the Russian Air Force base located near the city of Serovo detected the appearance of two large groups of UFOs in the sky. On alarm, a link of interceptor fighters was raised, the crews of which, despite the data from electronic location, could not visually detect the intruders. In February 2004, the locator of one of the air defense units near Kachkanar, during one night, 14 times noted the appearance of numerous groups of unidentified objects moving north from the border with Kazakhstan. However, the most mysterious event was the disaster that occurred in the Urals in 1980.
It began with the fact that at about midnight on April 14, the radars of the air defense battery of the Fourth Separate Ural Army recorded aerial objects making strange maneuvers over a strategically important area. There was a part of the Strategic Missile Forces and the closed town of Sverdlovsk-45, in which there was an enterprise for the assembly of nuclear warheads. High-altitude fighters MiG-25 PDS flew on the mission, the crews of which were instructed to detect the intruders and force them to land at a military airfield. Soon the pilots saw two brightly glowing objects, one in the form of a cigar, and the other - a disc-shaped one, which easily evaded pursuit. Having received the order to destroy the objects, one of the fighters fired two homing missiles, one of which hit the target.
The incident was immediately reported to the Central Command Post of the USSR Air Defense Forces. On the same day, a Tu-134 laboratory plane with a special commission flew from Moscow to Sverdlovsk …
One of the participants in that secret search operation recalled that in the taiga, 20 kilometers south of the Verkhoturye regional center, they found a huge disc-shaped apparatus, which after inspection was evacuated by helicopters in an unknown direction …
Extraterrestrial anomalies
Some researchers of the Urals believe that most of the legends about dead or unusual places are associated with unidentified flying objects. So, not far from the village of Krivoye Lake rises a mountain, popularly called the Devil's Settlement. Before the revolution, the locals believed that there were demons who often dance at night. Nowadays, many claim that they often see moving lights on the flat top of the mountain, which either soar into the sky, then go up the mountain.
