Many people interested in ufology or the paranormal have heard of the UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico. The more savvy know about the Kexburgh incident in Pennsylvania.
But there are still many cases in other places when something unusual fell from the sky and this event was so quickly classified that only crumbs of information leaked into the press. Or nothing significant could be found at the scene.
Incident in Dalnegorsk
On the evening of January 29, 1986, a strange red ball suddenly flew in front of many eyewitnesses over the small mining town of Dalnegorsk in the Primorsky Territory of Russia (then the USSR).
Suddenly, the balloon began to fall and fell in the area of a mountain called Hill 611. Witnesses heard a violent explosion and saw flames from a fire in the area of the disaster. The next day, when people went to that place, they saw only charred trees at the site of the alleged crash, but no remains of anything.
Nevertheless, at the site of the alleged accident, strange stones were found, similar to pieces of incomprehensible metal. These stones came to the ufologist Valery Dvuzhilny and when they were examined under a microscope, tiny pieces of metal fibers with gold and quartz were found in the stones.
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However, these incomprehensible tiny pebbles and trees burned at the scene are essentially all that could be found there. It is believed that the crashed UFO was quickly repaired by its pilots and they flew away on it before people came to the mountain.
The case in Salta
On the afternoon of August 17, 1995, dozens of people from the Argentine city of Salta saw a large silver disc fall from the sky with a terrible crash. Upon contact with the ground, such a strong explosion was heard that the entire area was immediately covered with thick black smoke, and seismographs even seemed to record the shaking of the earth.
Fortunately, the disc fell not in the city itself, but in the wastelands next to it. One of the eyewitnesses - civil aviation pilot Tony Galvano at that moment was in the hotel and saw a falling disc, and after hearing an explosion, he rushed to his small plane and took off towards the scene.
True, due to the thick black smoke, he could not see anything significant, but two days later he flew there again. He did not see the disk itself, that he examined the place of the wreck, where there were many uprooted and burned trees.
Later, Galvano repeatedly tried to return there, but all the paths there were already blocked by people in black uniforms. Galvano even tried to force his way into the crash zone, but he was rudely stopped and advised to "Forget it."
Case in Megas Platanas
On September 2, 1990, in the picturesque and sunny town of Megas Platanos in Greece, at 3 a.m., eyewitnesses noticed six bright lights flying across the sky. Suddenly, one light began to move erratically, and then broke and fell down.
The shepherd Trantos Karatranjos saw an unidentified object fall to the ground literally 500 meters away, after which a fire broke out. During this, the remaining 5 lights hovered over the crash site and watched him. Suddenly two of them dropped sharply and began to "help" the fallen ship. He stopped burning, and then began to make attempts to rise.
The rest of the night the ship went up and down again, and only by dawn was it repaired so that it and other objects flew away. Local residents who arrived in the morning found only scorched bushes and earth, but then they found pieces of incomprehensible wires and metal.
Later, the entire area was cordoned off by the military, who told everyone that a Soviet satellite had simply fallen here.
Lesotho incident
The Kingdom of Lesotho borders South Africa and on September 19, 1995, a UFO probably crashed near this border. Farmer Peter Lachasa at about 9.15 pm heard a strange sound above his head, and his cows suddenly became restless. And then there was an explosion.
Lachasa ran into the street in the direction where the explosion was and his other neighbors also ran there. One of them claimed that he saw something fall from the sky and emitted "bright flashes" when it exploded. When people ran to a field where something was burning, they could not come closer because of the intense heat.
It seemed to Lachas that there was someone alive in the flames and he ran to call the authorities to send help and an ambulance. He thought the plane had fallen. Then, together with the police, he again returned to the scene of the accident, and by that time the fire had gone out. and on the field stood an incomprehensible ship, seemingly not in the least damaged.
Due to the fact that the field was privately owned, the police could not approach it without contacting the owner, and later the military arrived here and cordoned off everything. According to them, they have an order from the Kingdom of Lesotho to take the ship. By morning, the strange ship was no longer there and where it was taken is also unknown.
The incident in Cool
Information about this incident leaked to the west after the collapse of the USSR, and it happened on August 10, 1989, near the town of Prokhladny in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic. At about 11 am, a squadron of MIG-25 helicopters was sent to intercept an unidentified flying object flying directly over the city.
Someone in the military thought it was an enemy spy plane and was ordered to shoot it down with a surface-to-air missile. The downed object fell somewhere in the mountains. A Mi-8 helicopter was sent to search for the remains, and it discovered the crash site near the village of Nizhniy Chegem. It turned out to be not an airplane, but a disc-shaped object.
To transport the object to the Mozdok airbase, a special team was sent, which blocked all entrances to the crash site and, in strict secrecy, accompanied by KGB officers, the disk was delivered to a safe place. Later, the bodies of three aliens were found in the remains of the disk, two of which were already dead, and the third was alive, but died soon after, despite attempts to revive him.
According to the Western press of those years, all three bodies were then transported to the secret Kapustin Yar training ground.