On February 28, 1984, by decision of Academician B. N. Laskorin (Chairman of the Committee on Environmental Problems of the All-Union Council of Scientific and Technical Societies of the USSR), the Commission on Anomalous Phenomena in the Natural Environment (KAYA) was formed, which existed until 1990. Over the years, the KAYA branches in Moscow, Leningrad, Gorky, Kiev and Novosibirsk have received about 13 thousand messages about anomalous phenomena. However, a full-fledged representation on the territory of the Byelorussian SSR did not work, so letters with eyewitness accounts were sent mainly to the Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev regional divisions. Formally, the Byelorussian SSR was "assigned" to the Moscow mission, headed by AB Petukhov. In Moscow, where the bulk of letters flocked,correspondence was redistributed by the members of the RYA between the divisions. According to A. B. Petukhov, if the envelope had a Leningrad or Ukrainian address, then it was not even opened and registered, but immediately sent to colleagues - A. I. Mordvin-Shchodro and I. S. Kuznetsova, respectively. If a Belarusian address was indicated on the envelope, the Moscow division left it in its archives. But, it is quite admissible that a person living at that moment in Kiev or Leningrad could observe a UFO in Belarus. Therefore, not all letters about UFO sightings on the territory of the BSSR were at the disposal of the Moscow group, and were somewhat unevenly distributed among the other three units of the KAYA.and immediately sent to colleagues - A. I. Mordvin-Schodro and I. S. Kuznetsova, respectively. If a Belarusian address was indicated on the envelope, the Moscow division left it in its archives. But, it is quite admissible that a person living at that moment in Kiev or Leningrad could observe a UFO in Belarus. Therefore, not all letters about UFO sightings on the territory of the BSSR were at the disposal of the Moscow group, and were somewhat unevenly distributed among the other three units of the KAYA.and immediately sent to colleagues - A. I. Mordvin-Schodro and I. S. Kuznetsova, respectively. If a Belarusian address was indicated on the envelope, the Moscow division left it in its archives. But, it is quite admissible that a person living at that moment in Kiev or Leningrad could observe a UFO in Belarus. Therefore, not all letters about UFO sightings on the territory of the BSSR were at the disposal of the Moscow group, and were somewhat unevenly distributed among the other three units of the KAYA. Therefore, not all letters about UFO sightings on the territory of the BSSR were at the disposal of the Moscow group, and were somewhat unevenly distributed among the other three units of the KAY. Therefore, not all letters about UFO sightings on the territory of the BSSR were at the disposal of the Moscow group, and were somewhat unevenly distributed among the other three units of the KAYA.
Until now, little was known about these unique archival documents. Since 2011, Ufokom has been collecting these messages, which required trips to Kiev, St. Petersburg and Moscow. Today we will finally talk about these letters, most of which have never been published before.
The main purpose of the RYA was to collect information about anomalous aerospace phenomena (AAF) and anomalous aerospace phenomena (AAP) on the territory of the USSR. Due to the fact that some of the messages were only evidence of missile launches, artificial satellites, experiments with barium, sodium and other artificial luminous clouds (IRS), they were often filtered out as insignificant for ufological research. Letters could be rejected for other reasons, when it was possible to establish that what was described was not an anomalous, but an earthly phenomenon, uninformative letters, letters from "contactees", letters with questions and a desire to enter into correspondence, etc. For comparison: out of 3.6 thousand. messages that were at the disposal of the Moscow office of the KAYA in the final work were included a little more than 700. All this led to the fact thatthat part of the messages from the BSSR was also screened out and, as a result, to date, only 17 of them have survived from the Moscow archive of the KAYA, from the Leningrad one - 7 (of which two letters are questionable as having to do with the KAYA archive) and from the Kiev one - 6 (one of the messages is 4 letters from one person with whom the members of RYA entered into correspondence). A total of 30 letters. Most likely, there were an order of magnitude more of them, and over time, some of these documentary evidence will still be found. From our point of view, the small number of letters can also be explained by the fact that the territory of Belarus is quite remote from the cosmodromes operating at that time, and therefore it was rather problematic to observe the launch effects here.from Leningradskoye - 7 (of which two letters are questionable as related specifically to the RYA archive) and from Kiev - 6 (one of the messages is 4 letters from one person with whom RYA members entered into correspondence). A total of 30 letters. Most likely, there were an order of magnitude more of them, and over time, some of these documentary evidence will still be found. From our point of view, the small number of letters can also be explained by the fact that the territory of Belarus is quite remote from the cosmodromes operating at that time, and therefore it was rather problematic to observe the launch effects here.from Leningradskoye - 7 (of which two letters are questionable as related specifically to the RYA archive) and from Kiev - 6 (one of the messages is 4 letters from one person with whom RYA members entered into correspondence). A total of 30 letters. Most likely, there were an order of magnitude more of them, and over time, some of these documentary evidence will still be found. From our point of view, the small number of letters can also be explained by the fact that the territory of Belarus is quite remote from the cosmodromes operating at that time, and therefore it was rather problematic to observe the launch effects here.there were an order of magnitude more of them, and over time, some of these documentary evidence will still be found. From our point of view, the small number of letters can also be explained by the fact that the territory of Belarus is quite remote from the cosmodromes operating at that time, and therefore it was rather problematic to observe the launch effects here.there were an order of magnitude more of them, and over time, some of these documentary evidence will still be found. From our point of view, the small number of letters can also be explained by the fact that the territory of Belarus is quite remote from the cosmodromes operating at that time, and therefore it was rather problematic to observe the launch effects here.
As for the verification of messages, it was difficult in the BSSR due to the absence of a stationary group here, or insufficient awareness of the presence of one. The most common way to clarify details from letters was additional correspondence with witnesses, but these letters have not survived (with the exception of one episode in the Brest region). Therefore, even today, some of the evidence received in 1984-1990 can be investigated by initiative groups on the ground. It is also worth noting that statistical processing of the information array is carried out to this day [2].
The work on fixing letters was carried out extremely competently: each letter received its own identification number and was entered in the registration log (each subdivision had its own letter: MKA - the Moscow archive of KAYA, KKAYA - the Kiev archive of KAYA, LKAYA - the Leningrad archive of KAYA). Alas, when the letters were converted into electronic form, the numbers from the Leningrad office of the KAYA were lost, and the messages from the Kiev office fell into our hands only in the form of cards with brief information on them and the address of an eyewitness. The need for such cards arose to simplify the work with a large amount of data. Further in the text we will refer to this number (if any).
Messages from the BSSR were distributed by regions as follows: from Mogilev and Gomel - 8 each, from Minsk and Vitebsk - 4 each, from Brest - 3. Noteworthy is the complete absence of letters from Grodno region. In 3 cases, the region was not indicated. Most of the letters refer to the early - mid 1980s, only one of them describes the events of the early 1940s. Many of the messages are observations of some kind of emitting structures.
Distribution of messages from the KAYA archive over the territory of the BSSR
The earliest message was found in the archives of the LKAYA (number lost) and conditionally refers to 1941. "Before the war" in the village of Pesochnya, Mogilev region. local residents observed in the sky some huge luminous object, which approached one of them (grandfather Ignat) in jerks: now to the right, then to the left. Grandfather Ignat got scared and ran, but this object overtook him and began to increase even more in size, taking the form of a box. Then he began to tremble and something jumped and knocked inside him. Then, releasing a green cloud, the "box" rushed towards the village of Pnevshina …
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Most of the authors in one way or another cite or mention in their letters an article from the Trud newspaper - "Exactly at 4.10", dedicated to the hit on September 7, 1984 of civilian pilots under the beam, which appeared, in all likelihood, during experiments with ISO [1]. For example, A. Kruzhennikova (Krupenkova?) Described a similar phenomenon that she witnessed in 1968. At that time she lived on one of the farms in the Zhlobin district of the Gomel region. and went to school on the neighboring bank of the Dnieper (letter No. 0646 M). One winter day A. Kruzhennikova (Krupenkova?) And her sister were heading to school on skis, when suddenly she was illuminated by a ray of light. It looked like a huge spotlight shining from above. The girls saw lighting ahead, seemingly in a circle, about 1 km. Then they ran forward and stopped after 500 meters. The searchlight suddenly appeared, so suddenly it disappeared.
Some cases of UFO sightings are of considerable interest, but the eyewitness himself cannot accurately identify the place where he was at that moment. Among these are the messages of RN Yaremchuk and AA Sorokin, who indicated only an approximate route along which they were moving at that moment, without specifying the settlement.
Message No. 3396K, which was sent to KAYA by RN Yaremchuk from the Ternopil region (Ukraine), concerned his observation of a strange phenomenon in the high sky on the Vilnius-Minsk route. It was also somewhat reminiscent of that described in Truda, although it differed in that it took the forms of various geometric shapes. Everything happened on April 10, 1978, in the evening. A. A. Sorokin (candidate of technical sciences, member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR, head of the Petrozavodsk section of the KAYA), in turn, announced that on the Minsk-Krasnodar highway on January 30, 1985, he observed a silvery object, which, as it initially seemed, was on the ground, and then suddenly appeared in the air and disappeared with great speed (No. 3066K). The author attached to the letter a schematic drawing of what he saw, which, unfortunately, has not survived. One of the messages (no. 5556K) was not signed by an eyewitness,and the place of observation is designated only as "a village in Belarus". In 1970 or 1971, on a summer evening, this anonymous author observed a star that moved in leaps and bounds "a great distance from its original position." Such behavior in near-earth space is not typical for space technology.
The letter could have indicated the place, but the year was not indicated (letter No. 1514M). V. A. Travkina writes, according to the husband of a nurse, O. P. Mozhonok, that once in the Beshenkovichi district of the Vitebsk region. he and his friends were fishing on the lake at night with the "forbidden method." And suddenly they noticed that a quadrangular object appeared above the lake, which turned on the beam-searchlight. The lake was lit up with a bright light. It became clear as in the daytime in good weather. Frightened that they were found, the husband and his comrades rushed in all directions. Then this quadrangular object disappeared and the ray disappeared. This subject, as the men later discussed, did not resemble any air vehicle. VA Travkina, according to the same nurse, talks about her observation in the village. Bocheikovo, Beshenkovichi district, a huge yellow ball. In this case, the year is already known - 1983 - as you know,that this happened in the winter at about 9 am.
V. V. Daderko from Vitebsk wrote that in 1983, when he worked as a shift supervisor of the Dolomit VPO in the Vitebsk region, one day, at 4 am, he noticed a luminous object or apparatus flying at a low altitude from the Polotsk (letter No. 1116M). Two beams downward and two upward departed from this luminous apparatus, and in general it looked like a "fish". This "fish" was also observed by workers of the VPO "Dolomit". Suddenly there was a strong explosion, and where the apparatus was, a large black cloud was formed. Then, a few minutes later, eyewitnesses saw that a luminous object, but without fins, flew back towards Polotsk. In addition, V. V. Daderko reports that at the same time, which was cited in the article by V. Vostrukhin (that is, September 7, 1984) T. Puzikov, working the night shift, at st. Pridvinskaya in the g / p Duba, Vitebsk regionobserved with his fellow locksmiths in the southwest a luminous star, but of a large size.
In some cases, the observations turned out to be rather compactly grouped in time. Characteristic in this respect is the series of events that took place from January 25 to February 5, 1985. V. Skidanov from the city of Soligorsk, Minsk region. January 25, 1985 went to the village of Virkov, Klichevsky district, Mogilev region. (letter No. 0332M). Getting off the train and heading from the station to the village, he suddenly noticed that the sky became "cloudy" and a luminous dot appeared on it, and after a while a bright ray illuminated the wooden building of the local post office. The beam again illuminated the building, near which the eyewitness stopped to light a cigarette. It seemed that the appearance of this ray was accompanied by a sound similar to the sound "like the blade of a hacksaw or the blade of a good knife breaks." January 26, two seventh grade students from the Gomel region. (Sergey and Gena),at about 19:00 we saw a mysterious flying object (letter No. 2790M). One of them (Sergei) skated that evening in Gomel itself. His attention was attracted by a "dark yellow color" flying across the sky, and "from this color there were two rays." Then the boy noticed another object that was flying towards the first. When they met, the beams immediately went out, and the two "colors" flew together. At the same time, another eyewitness (Gena) saw this or another object from the village at a distance of about 3 km from the city: it looked like a yellow spot from which two rays also escaped. A day later, on January 28, a similar incident occurred with D. Novikov from Mogilev (letter No. 0635M). On this day, he and his comrades walked in the evening from a ski track somewhere in the vicinity of the city. Suddenly, a light appeared behind them: as if with a sword, without noise, he struck the field. On January 29, O. I. Brikel saw in the sky in g. Mogilev is a certain "figure". The "figure" shone with a beautiful bluish-greenish light and seemed motionless (letter No. 2675M). It seemed that she was just hanging in the air. The contemplation of the unknown lasted about 15–20 minutes, until the strange construction disappeared (see picture).
Drawing by O. I. Brickel
Perhaps the silvery object that A. A. Sorokin saw on January 30, 1985 (letter No. 3066K) was also related to this series of observations, or, perhaps, their massiveness in these months was caused by the fact that the publication in Truda came out January 31, 1985 and most of the eyewitnesses reported events that happened recently (January - February 1985). Be that as it may, one more ray structures were also noted by the already mentioned D. Novikov in Mogilev on February 2, 1985 (letter No. 0635M). At about 6 a.m., he got up to drink some water, but as soon as he turned on the tap, the kitchen was as bright as if a fire had started. An eyewitness ran to the window and saw a ray streaming from the sky. He walked through the house, then over the store. D. Novikov looked up and saw a yellowish-green cloud, inside which was a small ball (see figure). Communication No. 4305K from the Kiev branch of the KAYA is devoted to the observation of A. Savitsky from the city of Osipovichi, Mogilev region. At about 7:30 am on February 4, 1985, he saw a bright sudden flash in the sky that reminded him of a photographic flash (lasted about 3 seconds). This event is somewhat reminiscent of modern flares of satellites of the Iridium constellation (the first of which was launched in 1997), and, possibly, is also something similar (for example, the reflection of sunlight from the panels of a satellite or space station). This event is somewhat reminiscent of modern flares of satellites of the Iridium constellation (the first of which was launched in 1997), and, possibly, is also something similar (for example, the reflection of sunlight from the panels of a satellite or space station). This event is somewhat reminiscent of modern flares of satellites of the Iridium constellation (the first of which was launched in 1997), and, possibly, is also something similar (for example, the reflection of sunlight from the panels of a satellite or space station).
Drawing by D. Novikov
And finally, on February 5, 1985, T. L. Zaruba, who lives on Pushkin Avenue in Minsk, at 09:25 pm sharp, noticed a strange cloud (letter No. 1955M). It was very long, narrow, and went like a strip. When it disappeared, some strange "beams-searchlights" began to break through to the ground. The upper outlines of these rays were located as if in one line, moreover, there were exactly three of them side by side. One is wide, the second is narrow, thin, like a laser beam, the third is of medium size. The narrow one was located between the other two, in the middle. This lasted for about two minutes, and then the "searchlights" seemed to turn off. However, after some time, everything repeated itself, and at about 21.45, on the left side of this place, another beam stretched down, and on the right - two beams, like laser (narrow).
The same series of strange events, for sure, can be attributed to what AI Gubareva wrote about (letter No. 1408M). It happened in January 1985 in the city of Molodechno, Minsk region, but the exact date is unknown. Waking up at night because it suddenly became light in the apartment, the woman was very frightened. Indeed, it was not clear where a certain yellowish glow was coming from, which, moreover, illuminated the factory and the street outside the window. It lasted all 5 minutes, maybe a little longer, "then the light began to disappear, but not like turning off the light bulb, but began to leave faster." Something similar happened in the town of Molodechno and a year earlier - on the evening of January 8, 1984. Dmitry Zhiznevsky saw a UFO when he was in his class, together with a teacher and other children (letter No. 1742M). The object was shaped like a horseshoe and was "like two suns" in size. The UFO was pouring out white rays. After a while, leaving the school, the children and the teacher saw the glow again, but in a different direction. Then "the object flinched and flew immediately down a little, and then shuddered and headed up." He flew at high speed, and a fiery tail glowed behind him. Then the "flying horseshoe" began to decrease little by little and then abruptly disappeared.
Peter K. also woke up from an unusual light in the middle of the night (letter No. 2801M). It happened in the city of Mogilev. At the end of August 1984, Peter noticed "a huge glow" outside the window, "as if dawn was breaking, such a gray light, although there were more than two hours before dawn." According to an eyewitness, in the same days a certain UFO landed near Mogilev, in the area of the village of Slobodka. At about 12 o'clock at night, a huge "fiery mountain" at a height of several tens of meters burned and blinked above the forest. Then the whole neighborhood lit up with a bright flash. The phenomenon lasted for several minutes, then everything disappeared.
Some observed objects disintegrated into their component parts, taking the form of various geometric shapes. For example, Irina from the village of Domanovichi, Minsk region. said that on the night of August 26-27, 1983, she saw a strange group of asterisks "winking" among themselves (the correspondence number from LCA was lost). Then one of them began to disappear and then reappear, and then turned into many small dots that also blinked. She got the impression that she was watching fireworks, but not multi-colored. The shiny dots shimmered as if someone had scattered them and seemed silvery. 5-7 minutes passed, the fireworks suddenly disappeared, but when the surprised Irina was about to enter the house, she saw another fireworks: this time it formed in place of a star that was to the left of the moon. In its place, shiny dots appeared,who also began to "wink" with each other. The observation of A. M. Korkhov from the city of Chechersk, Gomel Region, is similar to this. (number of correspondence from LCA lost). Having woken up, the eyewitness began to observe the sky through the window, which was clear and starry. Near one of the big stars, 12 small ones are located, forming a figure in the shape of a "cucumber". This figure was motionless for 4–5 minutes, then began to slowly move parallel to the horizon (to the right and slightly down) to the northeast, gradually picking up the pace of movement and suddenly everything went out at once.forming a "cucumber" shape. This figure was motionless for 4–5 minutes, then began to slowly move parallel to the horizon (to the right and slightly down) to the northeast, gradually picking up the pace of movement and suddenly everything went out at once.forming a "cucumber" shape. This figure was motionless for 4–5 minutes, then began to slowly move parallel to the horizon (to the right and slightly down) to the northeast, gradually picking up the pace of movement and suddenly everything went out at once.
Another curious UFO shape is triangular, which later even formed the basis for tracking entire traces of such objects. In 1981, on September 13, V. V. Ochkovsky, a student of the Zhytomyr Music College, was in the village of Malye Sharipy, Goretsky District, Mogilev Region, BSSR (letter No. 603 / 506K). At about 2:30 in the morning, he noticed a motionless triangular object with an opaque center. The object disappeared only at dawn, the total observation time, according to an eyewitness, ranged from 60 to 90 minutes.
From the city of Gorki, Mogilev region. there was also one letter (No. 2230M). NI Tarasenko said that on a clear night on September 12, 1985 at 21.30-21.45 she saw a luminous body of indefinite shape at a low altitude (somewhere about one kilometer). A rainbow cone stretched from it to the ground (see figure). The body was seen to be moving. Within 1–2 minutes, it seemed to fly away and turned its back. The body was no longer visible, but a "tail" stretched behind it, like from a comet. Everything happened in complete silence. The same phenomenon was observed by the acquaintances of NI Tarasenko, who were in the village of Teleshovka, Goretsky district.
Observation in the town of Gorki, Mogilev region. Drawing by N. I. Tarasenko
On the same day, September 12, 1985, the same cone was observed by medical students from Vitebsk (letter No. 2234M). According to one of them, from the side of the village of Kanashkovo, Liozno district, Vitebsk region. at about 11:00 pm, they saw a light cone pointing towards the ground, moving upward. Then the cone, at the base of which there was a fluorescent spot, shifted along the ground and, giving the impression of movement, disappeared. The very same spot, pierced with clouds, lasted for at least an hour (see figure).
Drawing of a light cone from the words of medical school students
Some observations of the military (in particular, pilots) and scientists should be noted separately.
Some of the most interesting letters to the Kiev branch of KAYA were sent by A. G. Dushaev and his father G. V. Dushaev. The RYA members entered into correspondence with them, and in total we had at our disposal 4 cards with a summary of the contents of letters dedicated to the same observation (No. 1613 / 1570.1K, No. 1614 / 1570.2K, No. 1615 / 1572K and No. 1615D / 1572K). Everything happened in one of the military units in the Brest region. December 2, 1983 at about 21.49, plus or minus 3 minutes. As we managed to reconstruct the events of that evening, serviceman A. G. Dushaev noticed about 4 fiery mushroom-shaped objects that appeared over the horizon (see figure). The military designated the distance to the objects as 5 km, and the angular height at 90 degrees. The height is also high, since these objects were also observed from all the nearest border posts. The angle of deviation from the vertical at the moment when the object was closest to the observer (almost overhead) is 10-15 degrees. "Lights" flew from the direction of Poland. They were also not detected by the radar station, but signals about their observation came from several military districts (from the Carpathians to the Black Sea).
Objects observed by A. G. Dushaev in the Brest region
Lieutenant Commander A. Bulgakov from Severomorsk recalled that in July - August 1972, while in the lunch area on the Sozh River, near Gomel, he noticed a bright glowing dot. He found it difficult to determine the shape of the object, but he clearly remembered the silvery, shining surface, apparently reflecting the rays of the Sun. The object disappeared only after an hour and a half.
The group of observations of military pilots is also of interest. For example, one such case (which, however, could not be unambiguously correlated with the KYA archive, since its registration number was lost) was provided to us by researcher M. Gerstein. Pilot EI Nishta described that in 1974, flying over a military airfield in the vicinity of Baranovichi, Brest region, he saw a hovering red ball, similar in size and color to the moon. However, there was no moon at that time.
But, perhaps, the most interesting of all letters relating to the territory of the BSSR was sent to the KAYA by the military SS Volkov (letter No. 1943M). In 1952 or 1953, he served in one of the military units located near the city of Novopolotsk, Vitebsk region. Once he, together with the captain of the unit, went fishing. Until 9 o'clock there was no bite at all, but around was, as S. S. Volkov later clarified, an oppressive silence. We were about to go home, when, suddenly, the silence was broken by some clicks, and the military saw a huge object flying towards them, resembling an airship, which continuously “fired” at the trees (see picture). The trees instantly began to smoke and burst into flames. By that time, S. S. Volkov himself already had about 20 parachute jumps from balloons and airships and knew their structure very well. The flying object was different from those balloons that were produced at that time:it appeared to be metal, with welded seams, the object had no gondola, no visible hatches, no windows, no inscriptions, and was executed with such skill that it seemed to have just flew out of the pavilion of some exhibition. When he approached the eyewitnesses, a dust whirlwind 30–40 meters wide appeared in front of him (before that there was not a breath of wind at all). In order not to fall under the discharge that hit the trees, and the whirlwind, two military men fell to the ground and only felt a stream of air pass down their backs. When the "balloon" passed over them (approximately at a height of 10 meters), a terrible hiss was heard. S. S. Volkov carefully discerned the object up close and then, according to the known landmarks on the ground, even established its length - about 200 m. Unfortunately,all the details of this incident, even after years, cannot be published - the letter bears the corresponding mark of the head of the KAYA.
Mysterious "airship". Figure: S. S. Volkova
VI Tokarev, an employee of the Department of Quantum Electronics of the Research Institute of Physics of Leningrad State University, reported that approximately in 1962-1964, in the military town of Kozenki, near the town of Mozyr, Gomel Region. observed a glowing object of regular elliptical shape that appeared on the horizon, passed over the city and then disappeared. The object moved slowly, silently from east to west and was visible for 11 minutes. Symmetrically positioned windows were visible on it. Its angular dimensions were 5–10 degrees.
It is necessary to mention here the letter of a group of geologists (No. 1843M) under the supervision of the candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences V. E. Bordon from the Institute of Geochemistry and Geophysics of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, who on August 1, 1983 carried out exploration on the left bank of the river. Pripyat, near the town of Turov, Gomel region. In the evening, sitting by the fire, geologists noticed a luminous point in the sky, which hovered over a bridge under construction across the river. Much to the amazement of the audience, the luminous object “turned on the spotlight,” that is, everyone saw a suddenly emerging cone-shaped beam of light emanating from this object. At first, the beam was hanging vertically, but then it began to illuminate the bridge from several different angles. Then the object began to abruptly move away, before this "turning off the spotlight." The trajectory of its movement was at first straight, and then the object began to make zigzag movements without changing the height. Stopped again"Turned on the searchlight", illuminated the ground in the same way as the bridge, then once again described the broken path, illuminated the ground with a beam. All this action lasted about 20 minutes.
Some observations can be conditionally attributed to natural phenomena, however, it is not always possible to specifically state what a person saw. So, G. I. Polegshanova from the Kurgan village council of the Rogachev district of the Gomel region. told about her observation of "vertical searchlights" (letter No. 0277M). This happened on February 18, 1985. At about 21.00, white vertical beams of a searchlight appeared over one of the villages of the Kruglyanskiy village council. The beams didn't wobble. The beam heights were the same, and the light intensity was the same (see figure). At about 22:00 the same rays appeared, only slightly obliquely over the two-story buildings of the state farm. It can only be assumed that on a frosty February evening such a meteorological phenomenon as "pillars of light" was observed - a type of halo that appears under certain conditions around a light source.
Drawing of "vertical rays" made by G. I. Polegshanova
A similar description is contained in MN Antonov (letter No. 0620M). At night (after an hour) from 20 to 21 January 1984 he observed in the city of Svetlogorsk, Gomel region. the phenomenon, as it seemed to him, is similar to that described in the article "Exactly at 4.10". In the side of the forest, behind a residential building, there were three light columns of light (see picture). There were no flashes, like from welding, the light was even and of different brightness. It was impossible to determine the exact distance, but it looked like the light source was far away.
Light columns. Drawing by M. N. Antonov
V. A. Travkina from Beshenkovichi district, Vitebsk region. described her observation of a certain "circle in the sky the size of the moon, emitting a bright light", which she made on January 21, 1985 (letter No. 1514M). Most likely, it was a halo and members of the RYA made a note: "it is not of interest for research."
Some of the letters that have come tell about such incomprehensible incidents that it is difficult to classify them even approximately. For example, on April 12, 1985, at about 9 pm, children (about 10 people) were walking near a river in the vicinity of Pinsk. Suddenly they saw a red "boat" across the river, swaying in the fog. Then the "boat" floated on the water, and a cloud appeared over it. The "boat" changed colors, then turned into animal figures. The children got scared and ran home. Adults came running, but saw nothing.
Thus, although most of these episodes have not been properly investigated, they represent a slice of quality information, an order of magnitude higher than that published in many media outlets of the early 1990s, and which can be subjected to statistical processing even years later. At the same time, the accuracy of eyewitness assessments, due to their inexperience as observers, must also be taken into account. Let's hope that other messages, if any, will eventually also be at our disposal. In addition, we urge people who have encountered anomalous phenomena in the BSSR to write to us by e-mail [email protected]. The more such messages arrive, the more complete picture of UFO activity in Belarus will be before us and our descendants.
Literature
1. Vostrukhin, V. "Exactly at 4.10 …" / V. Vostrukhin // Labor. 1985.31 January. P. 3.
2. Petukhov, AB Study of ray structures with elements of statistics. Manuscript / A. B. Petukhov. M., 2017.66 p.
Author: Ilya Butov