Some myths and misconceptions are distinguished by enviable constancy … One such myth, and a well-publicized one, boils down to the fact that “no professional astronomer has ever seen a 'flying saucer'!
"No one has any fundamentally new facts in favor of" flying saucers ". They are not seen by astronomers who carefully observe the sky day and night "(Pravda, February 29, 1968)." These mysterious visitors never appear in the field of view of professional astronomers. Judge for yourself. It was astronomers who discovered craters on the moon, planets and dozens of their satellites, rings on Saturn and its other brothers, hundreds of comets and thousands of asteroids, but we have never seen “flying saucers.” Just some kind of obsession! " - the astronomer V. Getman sneers.
However, back in the 60s, an astronomer was found who firmly stated: "I personally managed to observe a UFO in 1965, which, according to my calculations, had about a hundred meters in diameter."
It was Robert Vitolniek, head of the ionosphere radio observation station of the Radiophysical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR. “On July 26, 1965, we studied the ionosphere and noctilucent clouds at an observation station in the city of Ogre, Latvian SSR,” wrote Vitolniek. - At 21:35 we noticed an unusually bright "star" in the twilight, which was slowly moving westward. A small flat spot could be seen through binoculars with 8x magnification. The telescope showed the following picture. The body was a lenticular disk about 100 m in diameter. In the center, a thickening - a small sphere - was clearly visible. Near the disk, at a distance equal to approximately two of its diameters, three spheres were moving, similar to the one in the center. They slowly revolved around this disk. At the same time, this entire system was gradually decreasing, probably moving away from the Earth.15-20 minutes after the start of observation, the spheres began to move away from the disk, scattering in different directions. The sphere in the center of the disc also flew to the side. At 22 o'clock, all these bodies were already so far away from us, and we lost sight of them. They were matte greenish pearl. This phenomenon was observed at an altitude of about 100 kilometers at an angle of 60 degrees above the horizon in a northwest direction. At first we thought we were seeing a space rocket or an artificial Earth satellite, but they would move at a much higher speed than the observed object. In addition, a rocket or satellite is one object, not a collection of objects. "and we lost sight of them. They were matte greenish pearl. This phenomenon was observed at an altitude of about 100 kilometers at an angle of 60 degrees above the horizon in a northwest direction. At first we thought we were seeing a space rocket or an artificial Earth satellite, but they would move at a much higher speed than the observed object. In addition, a rocket or satellite is one object, not a collection of objects. "and we lost sight of them. They were matte greenish pearl. This phenomenon was observed at an altitude of about 100 kilometers at an angle of 60 degrees above the horizon in a northwest direction. At first we thought we were seeing a space rocket or an artificial Earth satellite, but they would move at a much higher speed than the observed object. In addition, a rocket or satellite is one object, not a collection of objects. "and not a collection of objects. "and not a collection of objects."
On July 18, 1967, the Pulkovo astronomer H. I. Potter from the territory of the Mountain Astrophysical Station of the USSR Academy of Sciences (near Kislovodsk) saw a strange flash that formed a reddish cloud-core and a wave of white aurora. Other astronomers told him that they had observed a red crescent object passing by several hours earlier. Less than a month later, another astronomer, A. A. Sazanov from the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation of the USSR Academy of Sciences, saw another sickle-shaped object there. This time, the UFO was accompanied by a star-like body flying ahead, at a distance of seven degrees. The mysterious "sickle" eventually shrank, turned into a small disk and disappeared.
The first statistical analysis of UFO sightings, published in 1979 by the Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, unambiguously testifies: 7.5 percent of eyewitnesses are astronomers! Astrophysicist Donatas Macijauskas said in an interview to reporters: “Why is there an opinion that most anomalous atmospheric phenomena are noticed by random people? World statistics tell a different story. Lithuanian scientists have repeatedly observed what they cannot explain to this day. I myself in the Moltesky Observatory photographed a “jumping” star with a special telescope, that is, on one photographic plate it is in one place, on the second - in another, and so on. It was not possible to explain this phenomenon by defects in photography. A riddle? Maybe. The signals of extraterrestrial civilizations reach us constantly. The time will come when these signals will be decoded."
Lithuanian scientists have had to deal with UFOs more than once. Doctor of Physics and Mathematics Vytautas Straizis back in 1978 published an article “Anomalous phenomena in the atmosphere and space”, in which he wrote: “Have you seen a UFO in Lithuania? The Vilnius Observatory received about thirty messages from different parts of the republic, which describe objects very similar to UFOs observed in other countries. The most interesting observation was made on the evening of August 20, 1974 from several places at once: from Raseiniai, Vilnius and Radviliskis. It was found that the 140-meter triangular object hung for half a day in almost one place north of Raseiniai at an altitude of about 20 kilometers! On the night of April 29-30, 1978, a yellow object resembling Venus was seen over the city of Rokiskis. He moved in zigzags, sometimes drawing loops and stopping. On the night of May 8-9, in the city of Molėtai, it was seen how a group of objects were flying across the sky, built in three in a line. This group was making sharp turns and regrouping.”So don’t believe those who tell you that“UFO astronomers do not observe”…