Recently, in the Russian press, and not only in the Russian one, there have been more and more publications in which it is in all seriousness that the air defense soldiers of some countries had to engage in combat battles with unidentified flying objects, with aliens from other worlds … Are such statements justified?
So, about the most intriguing thing - about the facts, when "aliens from other planets" opened fire on earthlings. Here is the Hanoi story.
End of the 60s. The capital of North Vietnam is protected from air attacks by American aviation by the Air Defense Corps - nine anti-aircraft missile brigades equipped with the Cub missile system. In the corps, from commander to soldier, there are Soviet servicemen. The divisions are located at a distance of 25-30 kilometers from the city. On a July evening, a huge disc-shaped ship hovered over the position of one of the units. Its diameter was more than 300 meters, at least that is how the missilemen defined it.
The flying saucer appeared suddenly and completely silently at an altitude of about 10 kilometers. On the system of identification "friend or foe" a request was immediately sent. However, the object did not react to it. The brigade commander immediately contacted the corps command post and reported on an unusual air target - the Americans did not have such combat aircraft. From there, a few minutes later (apparently, a short meeting was held among the officers) an order came: open fire to kill. Of the five battalions of the brigade in the capture zone of which the space alien was, three opened fire, firing ten missiles. However, to the great chagrin and amazement of the military specialists, they all exploded with great undershoot. The rocketeers were seized by a feeling of anxiety, anxiety. At this time, a silvery disc directed a blue beam, thin as a needle, at one of the firing divisions. And the entire division - three launchers, tracking radars, missile guidance stations - was turned into a heap of molten metal. Almost the entire personnel died - about two hundred people. No more missiles, naturally, were fired at the formidable stranger. And he silently and quickly, as he appeared, disappeared into space.
So, or something like this, the battle of missilemen with UFOs near Hanoi is described. This story is considered the most reliable of the many other descriptions of the fights of rockets and fighters with unidentified flying objects.
This story was born several years ago. Its primary source was the New York newspaper Novoye Russkoe Slovo. She gave her pages to "a former Soviet officer who immigrated to the United States, Mark Steinberg, who had long had access to classified air defense documents."
Mark Steinberg notes that what happened near Hanoi is described in all details in the three-volume work of the former chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces, Marshal Matvey Zakharov, "The War in Southeast Asia." Say, the book, equipped with a high classification of secrecy, covers in detail all aspects of the fighting in Vietnam. In the same place, according to Steinberg, it is mentioned about a special directive of the commander-in-chief of the country's Air Defense Forces, which categorically prohibits the conduct of hostilities against unidentified spaceships, issued after the Hanoi emergency.
Overexposure is a lot. But first about the author. Steinberg in 1945 resigned as platoon commander of the 280th anti-aircraft artillery battalion. It is clear: he did not have access to any documents of a classified nature after the war. Could you hear something? Yes, it is possible, but nothing more. It was even more difficult for him to familiarize himself with the work of the Chief of the General Staff. However, none of them contains even the slightest hint of anti-aircraft combat with UFOs.
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I spoke with a dozen missilemen who were part of a group of Soviet military specialists in Vietnam from 1965 to 1970. Steinberg's story amused them, to put it mildly. Retired Lieutenant General Boris Stolnikov, who served as the senior group of Soviet military specialists from December 1968 to December 1970, said in an interview with me:
- Nothing like this happened in my presence, the battle with the UFO would be remembered for a lifetime, and in detail. If the story had happened earlier, then I would also know about it, because it is out of the ordinary. And then the death of people, about two hundred people … In Vietnam, the number of Soviet soldiers and officers did not die. The fight with the UFO is a pure invention.
What Stolnikov said is confirmed by the data given in the book “The secrecy label has been removed. Losses of the Armed Forces in Wars, Hostilities and Military Conflicts”, published by Voenizdat in 1993. In Vietnam, from July 1965 to December 1974, 16 people from the number of Soviet soldiers were killed, direct combat losses amounted to 13 people.
But how did the story of the UFO near Hanoi come about? I believe that the story that Mark Steinberg heard somewhere seemed reliable, and he decided to make public the information about the "actions of the Soviet Armed Forces on the interplanetary front" from the "secret Soviet archives."
The basis for the birth of sensational stories were examples from numerous combat battles between US aviation and air defense forces. As you know, in Vietnam, the Americans actively used radar interference. There were frequent cases when the operators on the radar indicators took the mark from the interference for the mark from the target, and the missilemen then fired. The shelling of the "false", they were called "flying saucers".
For example, in April 1967, one battalion in the Haiphong area fired twice on a decoy target. On the screen of the indicator of the missile guidance station, only a mark was observed from the interference, but not from the target. On April 24, the division fired one missile at a range of 15 km. After meeting with the "target", she self-destructed. At this time, a group of aircraft approached the object and struck at it.
Perhaps, Mark Steinberg is close to the truth only in that part of the story he made public, which mentions a special directive of the commander-in-chief of the country's Air Defense Forces, categorically prohibiting the conduct of hostilities against unidentified spaceships. No specific directive has been issued. But all the directive documents of the Soviet Air Defense Forces unambiguously prohibited opening fire on a target if it was not identified. And this is logical: suddenly a civilian plane is in the air. The goal, regardless of its form, was first required to be identified, to establish its affiliation, intentions, and only then to make the appropriate decision.
And now the analysis of combat battles - real. The emergence of many "irrefutable facts" of battles with "aliens" is connected, in my opinion, with the military rivalry that unfolded after the Second World War between the two largest powers - the USSR and the USA. The Americans believed that UFOs were the secret weapon of the Russians; in the Soviet Union, similar suspicions were raised against the Americans. And this conclusion is very serious.
On January 7, 1948, the US Air Force ground air defense received an unusual report from Captain Thomas Mantell, who flew from an airfield in Kentucky to intercept an unidentified target. “I see an object. It seems as if it is made of metal, it is huge, it starts to move upward. He's above me. Climbing to a height of six and a half thousand. If I fail to get closer to him, I will stop pursuing …”Soon the connection was cut off. A fighter attacking an unidentified flying object went into a tailspin, the pilot was killed.
However, the Soviet high-altitude aircraft of that time did not cause the death of Captain Mantell. The point is different. In those years, one of the American intelligence programs - "Mobi-dik" provided for the launch of high-altitude balloons equipped with automatic cameras and other spy equipment. Later, dozens of these cylinders flew into the airspace of the USSR. So, on January 7, 1948, the special services in the United States tested, in the strictest secrecy, high-altitude balloons intended to be sent to distant Russia. Mantell met one of these "gifts" for Russia. Of course, the Air Force captain knew nothing about Operation Mobi-Dick and mistook the balloon for an unidentified object. In pursuit of him, he climbed to a great height and, without an oxygen mask, lost consciousness.
Several similar attacks were carried out in the fifties by Soviet fighter pilots. Anti-aircraft gunners opened fire, as it was in July 1957 on the Kuril Islands. Result? The targets went away intact. Soviet military experts also believed they were dealing with unidentified flying objects. But only until such time as information was leaked to the press that the American special services had made a "ghost" plane and were conducting reconnaissance around the world. Yes, we are talking about the U-2 "Lockheed". Only in the last two or three years did the general Russian public become aware that this aircraft with a small reflective surface at a height unattainable for anti-aircraft artillery and fighters was flying with impunity over the USSR. He plowed with equal success both the skies of the Baltics and Siberia and the Far East. The black monoplane was considered a "ghost" until 0853 hours on May 1, 1960, when it was shot down by the Soviet S-75 anti-aircraft missile system near Sverdlovsk.
The reader may have a question: did not the “visual image” of the U-2 say that the air defense soldiers were facing an airplane before May Day 1960? He did, but not always. By the way, tests of the latest technology, air reconnaissance operations were often accompanied by outbreaks of information about UFOs. So it happened with the operations and use of the U-2 "Lockheed". They were carried out in the strictest confidence.
Let's give the floor to retired Colonel-General Yuri Votintsev:
- In 1955, after graduating from the Military Academy of the General Staff, I was appointed deputy commander of the Air Defense Army. Parts of it were equipped with the S-25 anti-aircraft missile system, now withdrawn from service. In addition to it, the association included early warning radar, perfect for that time. They were then 200 kilometers from the capital. And in August 1957, one of the early warning nodes east of Minsk at an altitude of about 20 thousand meters gave a mark from the target. The target moved through Minsk to Moscow. Several tens of kilometers before the zone of destruction of anti-aircraft missile systems, it turned around and went west.
The specialists faced a difficult task - to identify the target. The amazing thing is that it kind of "fell through" - it disappeared at times when it shouldn't disappear, as they say, out of the blue. Confused and the speed, which in some areas sharply differed from the cruising aircraft and reached the speed of a bird. Experts believed: if the plane, then it should fall at that moment. At the same time, the target could not be a flock of birds - birds do not fly at such a height. A natural phenomenon? A balloon-probe, which at that time was often launched by Western intelligence services? But how then to understand that the mark has reached a certain point, and then began to move in the opposite direction - to the west? There are more questions than answers. In a word, the goal is "invisibility". There was no aviation either in the Air Force or in the Navy, capable of operating at an altitude of 20 thousand meters;
However, I still had to meet with the "invisibles". In May 1959, I headed the separate Turkestan Air Defense Corps - later the Turk VO Air Defense Corps. And so, when he got acquainted with the corps units, in one aviation regiment, the commander, Lieutenant Colonel Goryunov, told a mysterious story. 3-4 months before my appointment, the modern P-30 station at that time, the only one in the unit, by the way, detected an air target at an altitude of about 20 thousand. meters. The squadron commander, an experienced pilot, was raised to intercept it on a MiG-19 aircraft - the ceiling of this machine was 15.5 thousand meters. He managed to disperse the MiG-19 and, due to the dynamic slide, reached a height of about 17, 5 thousand meters. He reported that he saw a plane above him 3-4 thousand higher. But at an altitude of 17.5 thousand meters, he held out for several seconds and began to fall. It is clear, lost sight of the target. Lost it soon and the locator. When the pilot landed, reported the results of his observation. He drew an airplane, the one he saw: cruciform, large wings, small flaps. They reported to Moscow, to the General Headquarters of the country's Air Defense Forces. From there, the commander of the fighter aviation, Colonel-General of Aviation Yevgeny Savitsky, soon arrived with a group of specialists. The arrivals talked for a long time with the pilot, analyzed the data obtained. The result of the commission's work puzzled the entire regiment - the observations of the pilot ascending to intercept the "invisible" target were called into question. Savitsky said: the pilot invented that he was observing the target, they say, he wanted to distinguish himself, to earn an award. The impression was that the commission was firmly convinced that such aircraft had not yet been created that could stay at an altitude of 20 thousand meters for several hours. When the pilot landed, reported the results of his observation. He drew an airplane, the one that he saw: cruciform, large wings, small flaps. They reported to Moscow, to the General Headquarters of the country's Air Defense Forces. From there, the commander of the fighter aviation, Colonel-General of Aviation Yevgeny Savitsky, soon arrived with a group of specialists. The arrivals talked for a long time with the pilot, analyzed the data obtained. The result of the commission's work puzzled the entire regiment - the observations of the pilot ascending to intercept the "invisible" target were called into question. Savitsky said: the pilot invented that he was observing the target, they say, he wanted to distinguish himself, to earn an award. The impression was that the commission was firmly convinced that such aircraft had not yet been created that could stay at an altitude of 20 thousand meters for several hours. When the pilot landed, reported the results of his observation. He drew an airplane, the one he saw: cruciform, large wings, small flaps. They reported to Moscow, to the General Headquarters of the country's Air Defense Forces. From there, the commander of the fighter aviation, Colonel-General of Aviation Yevgeny Savitsky, soon arrived with a group of specialists. The arrivals talked for a long time with the pilot, analyzed the data obtained. The result of the commission's work puzzled the entire regiment - the observations of the pilot ascending to intercept the "invisible" target were called into question. Savitsky said: the pilot invented that he was observing the target, they say, he wanted to distinguish himself, to earn an award. The impression was that the commission was firmly convinced that such aircraft had not yet been created that could stay at an altitude of 20 thousand meters for several hours. He drew an airplane, the one he saw: cruciform, large wings, small flaps. They reported to Moscow, to the General Headquarters of the country's Air Defense Forces. From there, the commander of the fighter aviation, Colonel-General of Aviation Yevgeny Savitsky, soon arrived with a group of specialists. The arrivals talked for a long time with the pilot, analyzed the data obtained. The result of the commission's work puzzled the entire regiment - the observations of the pilot ascending to intercept the "invisible" target were called into question. Savitsky said: the pilot invented that he was observing the target, they say, he wanted to distinguish himself, to earn an award. The impression was that the commission was firmly convinced that such aircraft had not yet been created that could stay at an altitude of 20 thousand meters for several hours. He drew an airplane, the one he saw: cruciform, large wings, small flaps. They reported to Moscow, to the General Headquarters of the country's Air Defense Forces. From there, the commander of the fighter aviation, Colonel-General of Aviation Yevgeny Savitsky, soon arrived with a group of specialists. The arrivals talked for a long time with the pilot, analyzed the data obtained. The result of the commission's work puzzled the entire regiment - the observations of the pilot ascending to intercept the "invisible" target were called into question. Savitsky said: the pilot invented that he was observing the target, they say, he wanted to distinguish himself, to earn an award. The impression was that the commission was firmly convinced that such aircraft had not yet been created that could stay at an altitude of 20 thousand meters for several hours.to the main headquarters of the country's Air Defense Forces. From there, the commander of the fighter aviation, Colonel-General of Aviation Yevgeny Savitsky, soon arrived with a group of specialists. The arrivals talked for a long time with the pilot, analyzed the data obtained. The result of the commission's work puzzled the entire regiment - the observations of the pilot ascending to intercept the "invisible" target were called into question. Savitsky said: the pilot invented that he was observing the target, they say, he wanted to distinguish himself, to earn an award. The impression was that the commission was firmly convinced that such aircraft had not yet been created that could stay at an altitude of 20 thousand meters for several hours.to the Main Headquarters of the Air Defense Forces of the country. From there, the commander of the fighter aviation, Colonel-General of Aviation Yevgeny Savitsky, soon arrived with a group of specialists. The arrivals talked for a long time with the pilot, analyzed the data obtained. The result of the commission's work puzzled the entire regiment - the observations of the pilot ascending to intercept the "invisible" target were called into question. Savitsky said: the pilot invented that he was observing the target, they say, he wanted to distinguish himself, to earn an award. The impression was that the commission was firmly convinced that such aircraft had not yet been created that could stay at an altitude of 20 thousand meters for several hours. The result of the commission's work puzzled the entire regiment - the observations of the pilot ascending to intercept the "invisible" target were called into question. Savitsky said: the pilot invented that he was observing the target, they say, he wanted to distinguish himself, to earn an award. The impression was that the commission was firmly convinced that such aircraft had not yet been created that could stay at an altitude of 20 thousand meters for several hours. The result of the commission's work puzzled the entire regiment - the observations of the pilot ascending to intercept the "invisible" target were called into question. Savitsky said: the pilot invented that he was observing the target, they say, he wanted to distinguish himself, to earn an award. The impression was that the commission was firmly convinced that such aircraft had not yet been created that could stay at an altitude of 20 thousand meters for several hours.
So, is there a "ghost" in the sky of TurkVO? No, a miracle plane, a work of human mind and hands from the Lockheed company. The U-2 began to fly over the USSR in 1956. The first was carried out on an aircraft of the production series 56-6680. Starting in Dasbaden (FRG) on July 4, 1956, the pilot passed over Moscow and Leningrad, “over two seriously defended regions of the world,” and returned to his airfield through the Baltic states. The pilot reported that parts of the Soviet air defense system did not open fire. for four years (from 1956 to 1960) about 30 flights were performed over the USSR.
So why was U-2 “invisible” until May 1, 1960, when it was shot down near Sverdlovsk? There are several reasons, but the main one is the high tactical and technical characteristics of the aircraft, ahead of its time.
First of all, military specialists were struck by the height. Already in the first hour of flight, the U-2 gained altitude 68 thousand feet (about 20 thousand meters), and in the seventh hour - 74 thousand feet (25 thousand meters). If the locators at such heights could still detect it, then steadily accompanying it could not. But only with stable tracking it is possible to establish the characteristics of the target and determine that this is an aircraft, and not some natural phenomenon, not a balloon probe. In a word, it did not come to the conclusion that there are planes flying well above 20 kilometers.
On April 9, 1960, the American special services are conducting another intelligence operation. At 6 hours 48 minutes U-2 was in Soviet airspace, from a height of 20 thousand meters it "looked" at top-secret objects - the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, the anti-aircraft missile test site near Sary-Shagan, the Tyura-Tam missile range (Baikonur cosmodrome). Air defense locating means detected it, identified the target as an aircraft (it was not possible to shoot it down). Even then, our specialists had many unclear questions.
At a meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU in April 1960, using the wiring data, the chairman of the State Committee on Aviation, Minister of the USSR Pyotr Dementyev and General Designer Artem Mikoyan said: there are no planes in the world that could fly 6 hours 48 minutes at an altitude of 20 thousand meters and above … They did not rule out that this plane periodically climbed, but then it would certainly descend. This means that with those air defense systems that were available in the south of the country, it should have been destroyed.
Where did Dementyev and Mikoyan proceed when making such a statement? You can only make an assumption. Referring, say, to the peculiarities of the Pratt Whitney turbojet engine installed on U-2, which could operate in the stratosphere, where there is practically no oxygen, at a low speed of the monoplane. By that time, our planes of Pavel Sukhoi also rose above 20 thousand meters, but their engines worked thanks to the influx of oxygen supplied at the expense of great speed. The engine of the U-2 could work not just at low speed, but at an extremely low speed - up to 150 km per hour (indicated speed), while the minimum cruising speed of the aircraft, it was believed, should not be less than 400 km per hour. Not only the excellent performance characteristics of the Pratt Whitney engine, but also the fact thatthat designer Clarence Johnson designed the plane as a glider with an unusually large wingspan of 30 meters, with an aircraft length of 15 meters. Affected by the excellent quality of the skin, the slicked shape of the fuselage.
Taken together, the U-2 made it possible to navigate the Soviet sky almost "invisibly", flying over top secret objects. He invaded the Soviet Union, as the analysis shows, in those areas where there was no continuous radar field, and where it was, under the cover of other aircraft. Therefore, in the future, if it was detected by radars, it was qualified not as a border violator, but as an unidentified target (this experience, by the way, was used by Rust). Moreover, while descending, in the atmosphere, the U-2 could fly with the engine off, like a glider. At that moment, it was not perceived as an airplane at all - a low mark, flying at the speed of a flock of birds in a spiral, a rapid climb.
Contributed to the emergence of "battles with aliens" and related confrontation secrecy. Would the same Captain Mantell have launched an attack in January 1948 if he had known about the secret program with the "Mobi-Dick" balloons? Or here's another typical example. The press has repeatedly reported that, they say, Soviet fighter aircraft attacked UFOs. They were based on rumors, and the ground for them was. Our pilots from time to time had to intercept the balloons launched by the American special services, which have already been mentioned. Information about this was not always brought to the attention of the media, and "ducks" flew out. As soon as the supposed secrets were abandoned, the sensational waves on the newspaper pages stopped turning into storms.
Now let's turn to the facts that cannot be explained, as they say, unambiguously. One of them dates back to the Great Patriotic War and was considered by ufologists to be the first encounter with a UFO.
On February 25, 1942, residents of American towns near Los Angeles shuddered from volleys of anti-aircraft guns. The panic began. The conclusion was quite definite - war had come to the North American continent. Only the next day, radio and newspapers reported: the roar of guns did not mean an attack by Japanese or German troops on the United States, it was an undeclared alien war. An armada of flying saucers appeared 120 kilometers from the city. Observers recorded 20-25 strangely shaped aircraft. Anti-aircraft artillery units stationed in California opened fire on uninvited guests. However, the disc-shaped apparatus went away intact.
What could it be? Some experts believe that American air defense systems are faced with such a phenomenon as a radar mirage. Here it is appropriate to refer to the studies carried out by the American astrophysicist Menzel. About 80 percent of reports of flying saucers are associated with the observation of planes, balloons, kites, bright fireballs. The rest of the observations are explained by various phenomena in atmospheric optics.
So, radar hoax? But there were versions of this kind: the attack of flying saucers can be attributed to the fantastic, hitherto unknown projects of opponents - Japan, for example. Germany was not excluded then. They referred to the fact that the "father" of the V-1 and V-2 missiles, Wernher von Braun, offered the Fuehrer a new missile system (modification A9 / A10) for shelling New York.
Some facts of the day are also ambiguous. The cases in question occurred almost simultaneously, but in different parts of the planet - near Moscow, near the Yaroslavl highway, and in Belgium. First, about the "attack" on the UFO, which was carried out by a Soviet fighter-interceptor.
On March 21, 1990, in the evening from the observation posts of the air defense units, signals began to come in about the appearance of a UFO, more precisely, an object with white lights moving at a speed much exceeding the speed of an aircraft. An interceptor fighter was raised. From the explanatory note of Lieutenant Colonel A. Semenchenko:
“At 21.38 I received the command to take off. In the air, I received the task: in the Pereslavl-Zalessky area to detect and identify a target at an altitude of 2 thousand meters. At 22.05 … visually detected a target indicated by two white flashing lights. The target changed the altitude within 1000 meters and the direction of flight. With the permission of the KP, I switched on the sight for radiation, checking the weapon was turned off. Observed the target on the screen. The target did not respond to the request “I am mine”. On command, KP made a turn. Observed in the north and north-west a light phenomenon, reminiscent of the northern lights of weak intensity. Completed the rendezvous with the target up to a range of about 500-600 meters. I went above the goal, trying to determine its nature. Observed only two bright white flashing lights. Against the background of the illuminated city, I briefly saw the silhouette of the target. It is difficult to determine the nature and affiliation due to limited illumination. At the command of the KP stopped the task."
Why did the pilot not go for further rapprochement, another reader will ask? In the General Headquarters of the Air Defense Forces, officials answered questions from journalists, including the author of these notes: the flight safety rules do not allow one to approach another object closer than half a kilometer.
So, Lieutenant Colonel Semenchenko observed the "target" on the screen, but at the same time, the onboard recording equipment did not record the presence of the object. How did other technical means react to UFOs? The object was observed on the screens of several radar stations, but one locator did not fix the target, although the calculation was alerted number one in order to detect and identify the object.
Analyzing the behavior of the object when approaching it with the fighter, the data obtained from the calculations of ground-based radars, visual observations (dozens of eyewitness testimonies were collected from among the military personnel of the Moscow Air Defense District), experts from the General Staff of the Air Defense Forces came to the following conclusion. The UFO was a disc with a diameter of 100-200 meters with two pulsating lights. The speed of its flight depended on the flickering of the side lights: the more often the lights blinked, the higher the speed. Moreover, it was several times faster than the speed of a modern fighter. The UFO movement was not accompanied by any sounds. And the conclusion: the aircraft known in the world do not yet possess such capabilities, which means that it was a natural phenomenon. Air defense units do not intend to intercept natural phenomena.
And now about what happened in Belgium. Since November 1989, the country's Air Force responsible for air defense have experienced discomfort with private reports of unidentified flying objects. On the night of March 30, 1990, the military decided to carefully check the incoming signals. A NATO locator in Glons (southeast of Brussels) and a locator in Semerzakbe (southwest of the capital), which monitor civilian and military air traffic throughout Belgium, “caught” the reflected UFO signal.
Orders require Air Force duty forces to intercept all unidentified flying objects within the country. Therefore, at 00.05, two F-16 aircraft were ordered to take off and pursue the "stranger." The pilots did not take their eyes off their locators. Suddenly, on the radar screens of both aircraft, an unknown object appeared in the form of a moving point. He was instantly taken for auto escort. The locators held the target for 6 seconds.
The means of objective control revealed the following: the object, moving at a speed of 280 km / h, reached 1800 km / h in one second, while moving from an altitude of 3000 meters to 1700 meters. No fighter pilot could withstand such a fantastic acceleration. What else amazed the specialists? From an altitude of 1700 meters, the object quickly went down and at an altitude of less than 200 meters disappeared from the F-16 locators.
The impression was that the UFO crew knew the combat capabilities of the F-16 and was playing a show in the sky. So, he abruptly descended to a height where the F-16, due to the density of the air, cannot fly at its maximum speed, after which it soared up sharply. Then he went towards the twinkling lights of the suburbs of Brussels, merging with them.
It is clear that the questions began to arise: are the UFOs American stealth aircraft, are they undergoing test flights? However, the US Embassy in Brussels immediately made it clear to the Belgian authorities that "your UFOs are not our planes."
The specialists turned to the capabilities of the American stealth aircraft F-117A ("Stealth"). Its minimum speed is 287 km / h, while the speed of the UFO dropped to 40 km / h. The F-117A does not have propulsion jets that would allow it to fly so slowly. In addition, no aircraft is capable of flying at 1800 km / h so low above the ground without a sonic boom.
Of course, an assumption was made: electromagnetic interference is possible (amplification of waves at some points in space and attenuation at others, and dependence on the phase difference of interfering waves). But it is possible on the radar of one flying aircraft, not two. Moreover, the F-16s were at a distance of several kilometers from each other. We add that at the same time NATO ground radar reacted in much the same way. It is believed that three radars cannot immediately fall prey to the same interference. So, after all, there was a real terrestrial object in the air?
The following circumstances did not allow the Belgian specialists, as well as the Soviet ones, to agree with this conclusion. The described characteristics of the object did not in any way correspond to the earthly ideas about movers, about lifting force. The object (these means of objective control and eyewitness testimony) does not have wings - such as airplanes, no nozzles, no propellers, they are silent, or almost silent, move with great speed.
While Belgian and Soviet specialists made the assumption that there were no terrestrial aircraft with such capabilities yet, information about a new generation of aerospace technology began to penetrate the press. It looks like F-1 17A ("Stealth") aircraft are yesterday.
At the end of 1990, referring to specific eyewitnesses, the authoritative magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology reported that aircraft of unusual configuration appeared in the vicinity of a number of secret US military installations in the Nevada and Mojave deserts. It has been suggested that in the air there are prototypes of a new generation of military aircraft that are capable of speeds at least 10 times the speed of sound. In terms of their tactical and technical data, they are significantly superior to the F-117A stealth aircraft created using the latest Stealth technology.
How did eyewitnesses describe strange and mysterious flying machines? They have a flat triangular shape and look more like "flying saucers". Everyone is fascinated by the fact that, firstly, they "move almost silently in the air", and secondly, they have "an extremely large flight ceiling." The magazine also provided other evidence of the existence of a whole series of vehicles with unusual engines and aerodynamic shapes, which are currently not fully understood. And this recognition was forced to make the magazine, which, it would seem, would not be surprised by the unusual in aircraft and rocketry. According to the magazine, eyewitness testimony may indicate the implementation of a secret aviation project, code-named "Aurora" - it was mentioned in a number of lists of Pentagon budget allocations.
In a word, both Russian and Belgian cases can, apparently, also be explained by the deeds of "human hands." Years will pass and we may learn that there have been operations like the Mobi-dick. In the meantime, there are many mysteries, including for specialists. It is no coincidence, for example, during the preparation of the OSV-1 treaties, according to Western press reports, the Americans proposed to include in it a clause on the exchange of data on UFOs. The desire of the specialists is understandable. Numerous UFO sightings in the air can lead to irreparable consequences in our turbulent world. It is good when the air defense systems on duty are put on alert. And what if unidentified objects detect the radar systems of missile attack warning systems?