The foreign press cited a number of explosions of unidentified flying objects. The most famous occurred in 1957 over the coast of Ubatubo, near Sao Paulo (Brazil), and it was reported, in particular, in the newspaper "Soviet Culture" (1988 January 16). It is characteristic that this explosion is listed in the Encyclopedia Britannica, which does not allow itself to publish unverified facts. This explosion in 1957 was described in detail in the Brazilian newspaper Globo.
A group of fishermen on the coast of Ubatubo saw a shiny disk flying at high speed, which then began to fall into the ocean. When the disk almost touched the water, it suddenly stopped, rose 100 m, swayed, burst into flames and exploded, crumbling into thousands of small pieces. Despite the clear day, these pieces glowed like fireworks.
Most of the debris fell into the ocean, and some fell onto the beach, and the locals managed to collect them. The material from which they were made was light as paper with a rough surface. Spectral analysis of these fragments, carried out in a number of Brazilian laboratories, showed that they consisted of magnesium with a special crystal structure, which is practically impossible to obtain under terrestrial conditions. Metallographic and microscopic analysis of one of the debris, carried out in the metallurgical laboratory of the Dow Chemical Company, showed an unusual content of strontium in it, which is not present in ordinary magnesium.
At the same time, no traces of calcium were found in it, which necessarily remains during the purification of magnesium using the existing technology. Based on a 1969 structural analysis of the wreckage by Dr. Robert Johnson of the Advanced Materials Division of Material Research Corporation, it was concluded that it could have been manufactured using a directional metal build-up method that was still unknown in 1957. Explosions of unknown objects over US territory were observed in 1953 and 1957. in Montana (15, 61), in 1962 in Utah, and in 1965 in Maryland. There are reports of UFO explosions in other countries: in 1960 in Mozambique, in 1968 in Colombia and in 1971 in Peru.
A description of the UFO explosion with unusual consequences was published in the French magazine "Lumieres dans la nuit" (1978. December). On May 6, 1978, several hundred residents of the mining village of LaMamora, located in the province of Tarija (Bolivia), observed a flying brightly luminous object in the form of a cylinder 6 m long and 4 m in diameter with a tapered front part. There were no portholes or hatches to be seen, and bluish flames erupted from the rear. The object flew at an altitude of 90 m at a speed of 350 km / h, emitting a high-pitched whistle. Some eyewitnesses claimed that a second object was flying after him.
The first object hit the rocky slope of Mount El Tayre, and at the moment of impact there was an extremely bright flash of light, illuminated the area within a radius of 150 km, and a monstrous roar was heard. The air wave broke glass within a radius of 70 km, and the tremors from the explosion were felt even on the territory of neighboring Argentina. A huge crater 1500 m long, 500 m wide and 400 m deep (!) Formed on the mountainside, photographs of which were published in the Bolivian and Argentine press. (For comparison, we can say that the depth of the crater formed during a ground nuclear explosion of a nuclear charge with a capacity of 1 MGt is only 80 m.) The area of Mount El-Tayre was cordoned off by troops and declared a prohibited zone, and a special commission was created to find out the reasons for this phenomenon.which discovered a cylindrical object with a deformed body on the slope of Mount El Tayre. He was taken by helicopters on ropes to the Bolivian airport, from where he was sent to the United States by a Hercules-130 military transport aircraft.
No conclusions of the commission about the nature of this explosion were published, just as no explanation was given about the connection of this explosion with the surviving object: either one object exploded, and a second one was found on the ground, damaged by this explosion, or there was only one object, who caused this super-powerful explosion, but himself survived. In the American press, various reports about the discovery of UFO debris have repeatedly slipped.
Pentagon adviser Professor Salkin at one time confirmed that the US Department of Defense has UFO wreckage. The American organization "Ground Saucer Watch" ("Ground observation of" flying saucers "), which opened a lawsuit against the CIA in 1978, demanded, in particular, the handover of 57 items found at UFO crash sites and held by the CIA. In our country, a description of a strange fragment the size of a fist found on the banks of the Bashka River near the village of Ertom (Komi ASSR), published in Socialist Industry (1985, January 21), aroused great interest.
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When examining this fragment, experts came to the conclusion that it, apparently, is part of a part that had the shape of a ring, sphere or cylinder with a diameter of about 1.2 m. It seemed strange that it sparked strongly when trying to hold it with a hacksaw. As a result of careful research in a number of research institutes, it was found that the fragment consists of rare earth elements (67% zirconium, 11% lanthanum, 9% neodymium, etc.). This means that it is of artificial origin, since these elements are contained in terrestrial rocks in a very scattered form.
The second proof of its artificial origin was the increased content of pure uranium (140 times higher than the norm) and the complete absence of uranium decay products. The ideal purity of its constituent elements, which cannot be achieved by existing technology, was also striking. And during his spectral analysis, it turned out that none of the lines obtained resemble the lines characteristic of known alloys and compounds.
Hence, it was concluded that it was made from a mixture of powders of these elements with different crystal structures, which could presumably be obtained by cold pressing under a pressure of tens of thousands of atmospheres. However, there is still no equipment on earth capable of pressing parts of this size and pressure. Based on these data, it has been suggested that the debris may be part of an exploded UFO.
No less interesting results of the study of the remains of an unknown object discovered in the area of the village of Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Territory, were published in the newspaper "Socialist Industry" (1988, July 10; 1989. July 9), as well as in "Truda" (1989. September 16) and in the magazines "Young Communist" (1989. 9) and "Nature and Man" (1989. 12). On January 29, 1966, a luminous ball with a diameter of 2 m, moving by leaps, was observed flying at a speed of about 500 km / h, which then fell to a height of 611, followed by two flares, and a fire began, which lasted for an hour, and the brightness of the flame was comparable to that of electric welding.
The remains found at the site of the fire were rather unusual. They included: - balls with holes leading inward, consisting of a lead alloy, which contained such rare transuranic elements as zirconium, lanthanum, yttrium, preseodymium, etc.; - balls of an alloy of iron with chromium, nickel, manganese and aluminum and the same balls of an alloy of iron with tungsten and cobalt, which had not a crystalline, but an amorphous structure, and one of them was covered with glass-like droplets, the composition of which has not yet been established; - strange particles called "meshes", which were a solid black glass-like mass with many holes.
The remains of this ball were studied at three academic centers and eleven research institutes. Scientists of the Tomsk Polytechnic Institute have established that these "grids" contain almost the entire periodic table and have a number of unusual properties; the grids did not dissolve in the strongest acids, in air the “grids” burned out without a trace at a temperature of 900 °, and in vacuum did not melt even at 2800 °, in the cold state they were non-conductive, and when heated in a vacuum they became conductors. Very thin quartz filaments 17 microns thick (three times thinner than a human hair) were found on the "nets". These threads were single or rolled into bundles, and in one of the threads the finest vein of gold was found.
But the most surprising was the disappearance and appearance of various chemical elements in the “nets”. It turns out that before heating, X-ray diffraction analysis showed the content of gold, silver, and nickel in the “nets”, and after heating these elements disappeared, but molybdenum and beryllium sulfide appeared, which were not there before.
Vysotsky, Doctor of Chemistry, who participated in the study of the nets, said: “There is no doubt that this is not a sample of natural or terrestrial origin, but a sign of very high technology.” But this technology is not feasible even with the modern development of technology. And another researcher, a carbon specialist at the Institute of Chemistry of the Far Eastern Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences A. Kulikov, said: “In general, it is impossible to understand what it is.”
The researchers of the Dalnegorsk phenomenon were also puzzled by the discovery of spots of magnetized silicon shales at the site of the ball's fall, although until now it was believed that silicon could not be magnetized. Detailed studies of the magnetic properties of silicon shale samples from a height of 611, carried out in 1989 at LO IZMIRAN by V. Gernik, Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, and E. Gorshkov, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, showed that they had undergone structural changes and actually turned out to be magnetized under by the influence of some artificial magnetic field, which is almost two orders of magnitude higher than that of the earth.
It is also surprising that particles of molten carbon in a glassy state were found on a burnt stump that turned out to be at the site of a fire at a height of 611, although a temperature of at least 3500 ° is required for melting.
And how to explain the repeated appearance of other unknown objects over the place where the strange ball fell? It turns out that eight days after this incident, two new objects appeared above the height of 611, which made four circles and disappeared. And on November 28, 1987, 32 objects of cylindrical, cigar-shaped and spherical shapes were observed over the eastern coast of Primorye, and four of them flew over a height of 611, three hovered over Dalnegorsk, and five fumbled with beams like beams of a searchlight around the surrounding area in two three kilometers from the height of 611.
However, there are skeptics who do not consider this data sufficient to recognize the extraterrestrial origin of the ball, but suggest that it was a foreign automatic probe that triggered a self-liquidator. And the version, expressed by Yu. Platov in the weekly Poisk (1989. 25), that it was an unsuccessful launch of a terrestrial rocket, looks completely unconvincing, because neither the flight characteristics of this object, nor its remnants have anything to do with terrestrial missiles.
Another explosion of an unknown flying object occurred in the fall of 1989 in Dushanbe. In the courtyard of the Imonovs' house, at a height of 2.5 m above the ground, a strange red-hot ball hovered. After hanging for about 40 seconds, he swiftly sank down and, touching the ground, exploded. After the explosion, its fragments remained. An employee of one research and production association A. Ocheldiev, who was studying these fragments, said that they consist of a substance resembling tuff and were burned, both outside and inside. By their shape, one can judge that the exploded object was really round. Suddenly, these debris began to crumble, losing their shape, but the substance from which they were made remained.
Of greatest interest are the reports of alleged UFO crashes, after which they found almost intact, but damaged objects, although such reports seem the least reliable. Over time, as a result of the leakage of information, a significant amount of testimony has accumulated from former Air Force officers, former employees of the CIA, the military police and the US military industry, who claimed to have seen not only UFO crash sites at their crash sites or in secret storage facilities, but allegedly even corpses crews. All these eyewitnesses were strictly warned about the non-disclosure of such information, but after their retirement and after a long time, they no longer considered themselves obliged to remain silent about what they had to see. These testimonies of individual eyewitnesses were summarized in the book by L. Stringfield's "UFO Crash Syndrome" and in the second ICUFON memorandum, which were issued in 1980, but since they were not documented, most people still viewed them with distrust.
And then an event occurred that became a sensation in the field of UFO research. In June 1987, at an international UFO symposium held in Washington, DC, a top secret document on Operation Majestic 12, drawn up in 1952 by the former first CIA director, Admiral Hillencotter, for the newly elected President Eisenhower was released. A copy of this document is included in the book by the English ufologist T. Goode, published in 1987, entitled "Top Secret"; one copy of this copy is at the disposal of the Leningrad Commission for the AY of the Geographical Society of the USSR (Appendix Yu). This white paper describes how an unknown object crashed in 1947 in New Mexico was discovered and initial results of its investigation, and also briefly reports on the second UFO crash in 1950 in Mexico.