The Cosmopoisk Association, which is engaged in the search for alien life, has summed up the results of its work over the past year.
Over the past year, the association's employees received 211 operational messages about unusual phenomena in the sky around the world. More than half of the messages came from Russia.
As noted in the organization, Karelia consistently occupies leading positions in the rating of regions that are popular with UFOs. So, last year "Kosmopoisk" received at least two messages about strange phenomena in the sky over Karelia.
On February 6, residents of Petrozavodsk saw strange objects, and on June 24, an unusual cylinder was observed in the sky over Lake Onega.
Every year the appearance of the observed UFOs changes. So, last year
the percentage of cigar-shaped, elliptical types of UFOs has increased. The number of disc-shaped objects continued to increase, and in 2016, according to the observed periodicity, their number (as well as triangular types of UFOs) will reach a maximum, after which it will slowly decline. The reason for all these cycles, detected by "Cosmopoisk", is still unclear, although several years after the discovery of the cyclicity, it allows calculating the approximate time and place of UFO sightings.
The percentage of cloud-like, rectangular, triangular, spherical types of UFOs has decreased. The number of objects that made landings also decreased; objects moving along strange (more often zigzag) trajectories; objects emitting rays of light.