The Askania-Nova steppe has become home to almost four thousand animals: deer, bison, zebras, donkeys, ostriches, buffaloes … Every year thousands of tourists come to admire the living, untouched by mankind nature. On one of such excursions, the story was told that in Askania-Nova animals began to disappear without a trace - no remains were found. But in the reserve there are no wolves or poachers …
- We were with the guys in the reserve at the end of autumn and, of course, took pictures of animals. When we started looking at the pictures, we noticed that a strange object hovered over the herd of Przewalski's horses, - told the "Komsomolskaya Pravda" the head of the tourist club "Romance", which organizes excursions in Askania, Aleksey Andryushchenko. - They decided to show the pictures to specialists in anomalous phenomena. Zaporozhye ufologists immediately said that it was an elliptical UFO and that these strange objects could be associated with the disappearance of animals.
- In America, we managed to shoot something hovering over a horse, and after a few seconds the animal began to suck into an unidentified object. It is more possible that the same story is repeating in our country, - says ufologist Vladislav Kanyuka.
But the head of the laboratory for the conservation of the diversity of wild animals of Askania-Nova, Alexander Mezinov, has a different opinion:
- We find the remains of dead animals on the territory of the reserve. Although over the past two and a half decades, more than a hundred deer have disappeared without a trace. In the 80s we released them into the open steppe, and almost none of them remained. The reason for their disappearance is quite understandable: some were killed by poachers, some deer migrated to the right bank of the Dnieper. As for UFOs, I think we would have noticed such guests in our reserve.