You probably did not know about this, but the first mentions of UFOs over Kiev are found in the Tale of Bygone Years. Later on, aliens and flying saucers developed the warmest relations with the Ukrainian capital: they appeared abundantly and often in the Kiev sky. We tell about how UFOs contacted the people of Kiev throughout the history of the city.
Tale of unrecognized years
Ufology as a research discipline originated in the 1950s, after the famous "Accident in the Cascade Mountains" occurred in America in 1947. Businessman Kenneth Arnold, while on the plane, noticed nine strange objects in the air, flying from north to south at an incredibly high speed. After the message of Arnold, who became the star of the American media for a time, a wave of similar statements swept across the country: people began to claim that they also saw flying saucers. It became obvious that this phenomenon requires a separate study - and this is how ufology of varying degrees of seriousness arose, from “popular” (it is often speculated in the yellow press) to quite sound scientific research.
Despite the fact that the public started talking about this topic relatively recently, many ufologists dig into manuscripts of varying degrees of antiquity - and find in them "confirmation" of the existence of UFOs.
ENLONAUT OF ANCIENT RUSSIA
For example, Ukrainian ufologists have found hints of "unidentified objects" in the "Tale of Bygone Years" by Nestor the Chronicler. Their attention was attracted by this passage: “In the year 6573 (1065 AD) there was a sign in the west, a great star with rays like bloody. In the evening, she ascended to heaven after sunset, and this was for seven days. At the same time, the child was thrown to Setoml (there is an opinion that this river flowed near Kiev, through the meadows of Obolon, and, possibly, flowed into the Pochaina river), this child was pulled out by fishermen in a seine and examined him until evening and again thrown into the water … He was like that: on his face he had shameful parts, and nothing else can be said for shame. Before that time, the sun also changed and did not become bright, but it was like a month."
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In the 746 issue of the newspaper "Segodnya" (for December 23, 2000) in the article "The Second Millennium: Chronicle of Anomalous Phenomena", analyzing this excerpt from the "Story …" a dwarf enlonaut. Enlonauts are unidentifiable creatures and alleged "passengers" of UFOs, whose grainy images adorn the editorials of national newspapers ("the Kyshtym humanoid Alyosha, who was sheltered by a simple grandmother").
HEAVENLY SIGNS
In the same article of the Segodnya newspaper, other excerpts from the Tale of Bygone Years are also quoted: “[1091 AD] The sign was in the sun, as if it should have perished, and very little of it remained, like a month, became …
The author of the publication does not exclude that the fall of the "great serpent" is evidence not of a falling meteorite, but of the catastrophe of an alien spacecraft. As arguments, illustrations of the Radziwill Chronicle are cited, which supposedly depict this ship.
Another passage reads as follows: “There was a sign in the sky - like a great circle in the middle of the sky … A wonderful miracle appeared … At night there was a stamp, something groaned in the street, demons prowled like people. If someone left the house to look, he was immediately invisibly bruised by demons with an ulcer and from that he died … Then they began to appear on horses during the day, but they themselves were not visible, but their horses' hooves were visible …”. Here, of course, it is difficult not to succumb to the temptation to interpret the "invisible weapon" as the radiation exposure that aliens used to hit people from a flying saucer.
However, the matter is not limited to the Tale of Bygone Years. The Ipatiev Chronicle of the 12th century says: "[1144] There was a sign across the Dnieper River, not far from Kiev: it flew in the sky like a circle of fire and changed direction … but it was during the day." Historian Vadim Vilinbakhov comments on this entry in his article “Signs in Ancient Rus”: “[In 1144] there was a sign from the Dnieper to the Kiev volost. It flew across the sky to the earth like a circle of fire and left a trail in the form of a large serpent. The trail lasted for about an hour, and then disappeared."
CLOSE CONTACTS OF THE THIRD DEGREE
Historical studies of UFOs hovering over the Ukrainian capital show a rather large time gap. Kiev and the region are generally honored with rare paragraphs in books with titles in the spirit of "UFOs in Old Russian Chronicles", and even then, these references are mostly in the nature of astronomical observations. It all looks like this: a priest from some remote Ukrainian village or monastery observed this or that celestial phenomenon: light, fire, indescribable brightness, and so on. This maximally abstract evidence, of course, is very easy (if desired) to fit the existing UFO theories.
More or less modern observations of alien objects in the Kiev region by ordinary people begin as early as the 20th century. Most often, these testimonies (especially those dating from the first half of the 20th century) are labeled as “from the archives of the Ukrainian UFO Club“UFODOS”or“a letter sent to UFODOS in the NNth year”. That is, there is no opportunity to check such information remotely - unless you personally contact the UFODOS organization or look for contacts of witnesses. And believe the word of honor.
What do such letters or records from archives look like?
ANGEL'S HAIR
Memories of Anna Kharitonovna, a pensioner Nerodenko, born in 1887, stored in the UFODOS archive (the date of sending the observation is not indicated):
Place of observation: the village of Malaya Bugaevka, Vasilkovsky district, Kiev region.
Time: 1913, summer, end of June ("after Trinity Day").
It is worth paying attention to these dates: "UFODOS" as an organization appeared through the efforts of the researcher of anomalous phenomena Yaroslav Sochka around the 1990s. That is, the message of Anna Kharitonovna (if it exists at all) at the time of its departure to UFODOS was about 80 years old.
In this message, the pensioner recalls that it was a cloudy and windy day, and at some point, "pieces of a jelly-like mass resembling jellied meat" began to fall from the clouds to the village of Malaya Bugaevka and its surroundings. This abnormal jelly was greenish-gray in color, and there was a lot of it. Anna Kharitonovna's mother wrapped several pieces of "jellied meat" in linen and hid them in a chest, but the next day she did not find a trace of this strange mass there, even the linen remained completely dry.
The archives of "UFODOS" also contain information that in 1927 in the Kiev region, the fall of jelly-like precipitation was again registered (it was not indicated by whom and how), which, as in the case of pensioner Anna Kharitonovna, quickly disappeared.
And this is not an invention of Ukrainian researchers: the name "angel hair" was invented by American ufologists. It is generally accepted that this jelly is a kind of ectoplasm, which after a few hours from a solid state turns into a gaseous state - and therefore leaves no traces.
THE RADIANCE WILL CRASH DOWN
Another popular pattern that combines UFO evidence over Kiev, stored in the UFODOS archive, is flaming or bright yellow objects in the sky.
“[Source unknown] My comrade Alexander Vaschenko and I watched something … in the fall of 1959, while on Goloseevskaya Square. At 9 o'clock in the evening, at a high altitude, we saw a fireball, which flew at low speed towards the Goloseevsky forest and disappeared."
Nikolay Matyukha in a letter to the magazine "Knowledge and pratsya" for 1967 notes: "Above the village of Baryshevka (town in the Kiev region), I observed in the evening strange flying celestial bodies. There were about 10 of them, round in shape, of different sizes, orange. During their flight, crackling and noise were clearly heard. The speed was the same as that of a helicopter."
In 1990, the newspaper Pravda Ukrainy published the testimony of L. S. Stegny from the village of Ulyaniki, Kagarlyk district, Kiev region (a few kilometers from the coast of the Kanev storage facility): “October 19, 1988] At ten o'clock in the evening I walked from work, carefully bypassing the dirt on the road. A glow appeared that made me look up. I looked - a ball. The ball was the color of the heat in the oven. I flew slowly."
O. I. Lerman, from the UFODOS archive: “[June 30, 1989]: Between 9 and 10 pm my wife Anna Nikolaevna and I saw an oval over Lake Raduga (within Kiev) at an altitude of 0.5-1 km. body of fire … The flame went out, a silvery-white balloon was moving. Our movements became somewhat slower, although our consciousness remained clear."
There are many similar reports about fireballs, as well as completely everyday observations of "flying saucers" over Andreevsky Descent and other objects of unusual design that floated in the sky or hung in the air for several minutes.
It is extremely rare for the people of Kiev to meet directly the aliens themselves. A pensioner Vera Prokofievna told the editorial board of the Pravda Ukrainy newspaper about one such case that happened on July 4, 1989 with her, her friend and her friend's daughter: “Dusk was beginning. We approached the Dnieper channel and saw a boat without sails, oars and an engine, and there were three in it. They wore collarless, silver-colored clothing, sewn like nightgowns. Extremely pale and absolutely identical, like twins, faces. Long wavy light brown hair. Large radiant eyes. We asked, “Are you tourists? Where from? " And they answered us in Russian with a strange accent: “We came from another planet. Where is our planet, it is incomprehensible to your mind. When you are like us, you will find out. Every day we take one person from Earth to us. And we'll take you too. Here is our ship, we will show it to you."
For Vera Prokofievna and her companions, this chilling story eventually ended with a happy ending: after the women tearfully begged the aliens not to take them with them, they took pity on them and decided that they would find others.
In the new, XXI century, the evidence of UFOs did not differ much. Someone again saw flying saucers, someone came across a more original phenomenon - light columns. A triangle hanging in the sky in Brovary, a disc-shaped object over Troyeshchina, and so on.
If we analyze these messages, then UFOs, as a rule, were seen by completely ordinary people of Kiev under the most everyday circumstances - flying saucers disappeared without a trace, causing no harm and in no way influencing the observers. Except, of course, the episode with a luminous plate over Batu Mountain, which Yevgenia Shevchenko saw in 2000. In her letter to UFODOS, the woman noted that this vision later discouraged her from smoking, and thus she got rid of the 20-year-old nicotine addiction that was choking her.
None of those who noticed the alien objects, according to them, took nothing, did not drink, did not smoke.
THIS IS OUR CHEMICAL HOUSE
Like any other quasi-science, ufology is often not limited only to the objects of its specialization. People who believe (or have seen) flying saucers often try to interpret other historical events and phenomena in a UFO sense. For example, one of the popular conspiracy theories related to UFOs and new Ukrainian history concerns Chernobyl.
Jerry Washington, former director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), in 1997 recalled a lecture by Vladimir Rubtsov at the MUFON symposium in 1994. In particular, Washington cited the words of Rubtsov, who reported that a month before the Chernobyl disaster in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant area, the number of UFO sightings had increased. A group of nuclear specialists on the night of the Chernobyl accident, about 3 hours after the explosion, saw a copper-colored fireball in the sky above the station, located at a distance of about 300 meters from the burning block 4. Witnesses claim that they clearly saw how two bright red beams extended from this ball to the reactor - and this continued for about three minutes. Then the rays went out, and the ball slowly floated away towards Belarus.
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