Many people now believe in the reality of UFOs, but not all. One of the reasons is that for many years the special services - both foreign and ours - have classified the most reliable reports of contacts with flying saucers, namely: official reports of military and civilian pilots, as well as workers of aviation ground services. And first of all, this concerned those cases when contact with a UFO led to dire consequences.
True, after many years the secrecy label was removed from some of the documents mentioned, and people learned about the events described in them from media reports. Today we also introduce our readers to several such events.
Air-to-ground retaliation
In 1964, a war broke out in Indochina between socialist North Vietnam and capitalist South Vietnam. The USSR (on the side of the northerners) and the USA (on the side of the southerners) actively participated in this war. After the outbreak of hostilities around the capital of North Vietnam - Hanoi, to protect against possible raids by American aviation, an air defense corps was deployed, which was armed with the latest anti-aircraft missile systems. All equipment and all personnel of the corps were Soviet.
On a quiet summer evening in 1965, a huge disc-shaped object with a diameter of at least 300 meters suddenly and completely silently appeared over the positions of the rocket launchers of one of the brigades and hovered motionless at an altitude of about 10 kilometers.
The incident was reported to the brigade commander, who ordered a request to be sent to the stranger using the "friend or foe" system. There was no response to the request. The mysterious object did not react in any way to the demand to land immediately.
The brigade commander informed the corps commander about what was happening and received the order: "Fire and shoot down!" The execution of the order was entrusted to three of the brigade's five divisions, which fired nine missiles at the target.
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All of them, before reaching the object, exploded at a considerable distance from it. And after that, a silvery disk sent a beam of light, thin as a needle, to the location of one of the firing battalions, and in a moment three rocket launchers, a radar station, missile guidance system equipment and other equipment turned into shapeless piles of molten metal. Almost all of the service personnel were also killed - about 200 people.
After the terrible retaliatory strike, not a single missile was fired again, and the formidable UFO disappeared from the eyes as suddenly and silently as it had appeared.
This tragic incident was reported on the pages of the Polish magazine Czas UFO No. 12 for 2000 by the journalist Bronislav Rzhepetskiy, who pointed out as a source of information the book of the former chief of staff of the Soviet armed forces Marshal Zakharov "War in Southeast Asia".
In a three-volume work, which at one time had the highest degree of secrecy, the marshal covers in detail the course of hostilities in Vietnam, he also mentions a special order from the USSR Air Defense Command, which categorically prohibits opening fire on unidentified space objects and taking any coercive actions against them.
Unfortunately, this order was issued after the tragic events described, however, it is known that attempts to take military action
Tragedy in the American sky
The first tragic UFO encounter, which ended in the death of the pilot, occurred on January 7, 1948, when Captain Thomas Mantell's Mustang P-51 from Godman Air Force Base in Kentucky began pursuing a UFO spotted by ground-based radars.
Having reached an altitude of 4500 meters, Mantell transmitted that he saw a UFO, but at the same moment communication with him was interrupted in mid-sentence, and then the plane crashed to the ground about 220 kilometers from the airbase. In an official statement on behalf of the Air Force, Major Jeremy Boggs reported that Captain Mantell died, most likely due to loss of consciousness from a lack of oxygen during a sharp climb, when he "chased the planet Venus."
Major James Dewsler also participated in the investigation of the disaster. In 1995, he reported some of the circumstances of that tragedy, kept in the strictest confidence. After the fall, Mantell's plane remained almost intact and lay on a narrow clearing among intact trees.
It looked like the plane had been dropped vertically from top to bottom by someone. There were no traces of blood in the cockpit, and upon autopsy of Mantell's body, it was found that all his internal organs and even bones turned into a homogeneous jelly-like mass.
The death and disappearance of fighters
On June 25, 1953, the US Air Force Intelligence Directorate received the following urgent telegram: “On June 24, at 11:30 pm, American Air Lines and Eastern Airlines pilots reported that they were observing unknown objects in the air.
Raised from Kwon Set Point airbase, two jet fighters approached the mentioned objects, after which, engulfed in flames, crashed to the ground 15 miles west of the airbase. Airliner pilots who report a UFO will be seconded to testify at the Air Force Intelligence Directorate headquarters.
On November 23, 1953, an F-89C Scorpion jet fighter was raised in the air at Kinross Air Force Base on an alert to intercept a UFO detected by radar over the town of Sow Locks, Michigan. The fighter, which was piloted by two lieutenants - Monkla and Wilson, began to pursue the object at a speed of 750 kilometers per hour.
About nine minutes later, the ground intercept operator informed the pilots that they should already be observing the target visually. But then two marks on the radar screen - an airplane and a UFO - suddenly merged into one, and a moment later disappeared. Despite careful searches, no traces of the accident or missing pilots could be found.
Vertical landing "mailer"
In the summer of 1961, the An-2P aircraft, with seven people and mail on board, flew from Sverdlovsk to Kurgan. When he moved away from Sverdlovsk at a distance of about 140 kilometers, he suddenly disappeared from the radar screens.
After a long search, the plane was found completely unscathed in the taiga. There is no way the pilot could safely land the plane at such a location. It could only be gently and gently lowered to this place from top to bottom, strictly vertically.
There was no damage inside the plane either, but no traces of the crew or passengers could be found. When the mechanics who were in the search group tried to start the engine, it started up "with a half turn." Approximately 100 meters from the plane, the search engines found a clearing on which, in a clearly delineated 30-meter circle, the grass was burnt out and the earth seemed to be rammed.
Employees of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI), who took part in the search for the missing An-2P, add that a few seconds before the disappearance of the aircraft, a mark from an unidentified object appeared on the radar screens and strange radio signals were received.
What actually happened there remains unknown.
Undesirable contactee
On June 16, 1948, test pilot Arkady Ivanovich Apraksin flew on a prototype jet aircraft near the airbase near the town of Kapustin Yar, about 100 kilometers east of Stalingrad. Suddenly, he saw in the distance a strange object, similar to a huge cucumber. From the base he was told that they also see the object on the radar screens, and the commander ordered to get close to him and force him to land.
Apraksin approached the UFO, and it began to descend. When the distance between the aircraft and the UFO was reduced to 10 kilometers, the latter released a bright cone-shaped beam of light, which then expanded in the form of a fan and suddenly hit the aircraft cockpit.
For some time, Apraksin went blind, and when his vision returned to him, he realized that all navigation devices were out of order and none of the aircraft control systems was working normally. Despite this, the experienced pilot managed to land the virtually uncontrollable vehicle safely.
However, soon Apraksin began to be regularly interrogated by officers from counterintelligence, and the command began to transfer him from one aviation unit to another.
When Apraksin met a UFO in the air for the second time - on May 6, 1949 - and, as expected, reported this meeting, he was placed in the psychiatric ward of a military hospital, where for more than half a year he was forcibly treated with the use of potent drugs and shock therapy. In January 1950, the medical commission declared him unfit for further service and assigned him the I group of disability.
Over the next year, Apraksin unsuccessfully tried to convince his superiors, up to the Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, that he was mentally and physically completely healthy. The ace pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, holder of many orders became a burden and a dangerous obstacle for the country's air force.
Vadim Ilyin