Continuing the USSR History...
First debate
1955. (Russia) A.P report from February 14th. Not long ago a number of people saw from various parts of Moscow a cigarr-shaped object at a great height which vanished after remaining still in the sky for some time. (Hobana/Weverbergh archives)
1955. On October 4th three US officials (Senator Richard Russell, Lieutenant Colonel E.U. Hathaway and Ruben Efron, committee consultant) travelling by train in Russia between Atjaty and Adzhijabul (Trans-Caucasus region) saw at 19:10 PM two round circular unconventional aircraft resembling discs or flying saucers taking off almost vertically one minute apart. Disc aircraft ascended near dusk with outer surface revolving slowly to right and with two lights stationary on top near middle part. Sparks and flames seen coming from aircraft. No pritrusion seen on aircraft which passed over observers’ train. Both flying disc aircraft ascended relativly slowly to about 6000 feet, then speed increased sharply in horizontal flight both on northerly heading. Flying attitude of disc remained same during ascent as in cruise, like a discus in flight. Two operating serachlights poiting almost vertical seen near takeoff area located about 1-2 miles (16-32 kilometres) south RR (railroad) line. After sighting Soviet trainmen became excited and lowered curtains and refused permission to look out windows. US observers firmly belive these unconventional aircraft were genuine saucer or disc aircraft. (Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, page 227)
1956. North Pole. Chief Navigator of the North Pole Air base, Valentin Akkusatov (pilot) describes his encounter with a UFO: We were reconnoitring over a startegic ice-area near Greenland when we came out of the clouds into a clear zone where we suddenly saw to our left an unknown object flying paralell to us. It seemed like a large, pear-shaped construction, or a lens with pulsating ends. Thinking we saw an unknown American aircraft we popped back into the clouds to avoid a meeting. After a further 40 minutes of flying the clouds stopped again and to port we saw the same strange thing once more. It had no wings, antennae or windows and neither was there any trace of smoke. We decided to have a close look at the object so altered course accordingly. But while we were doing this the object also altered its course and remained at the same distance from our machine. After 15 minutes the mysterious thing shot up higher and vanished. It travelled with a speed which seems impossible. (Psychic Discoveries behind the Iron Curtain)
1957 - the first USSR UFO flap starts
1957. Twice in the course of this year a flying saucer was seen over the city of Poznan (Poland) in broad daylight. (Kurjer Polski, 31 January 1953)
1957. In January saw various wintesses a whitish object over the town of Milowka (Poland). It was silvery, some thought, and round ”like a hat”. It moved with a steady flight at an estimated height of 500 metres and it had a diameter of about 20 meters. The object ”shone like a mirror in the sun” before departing at high speed. (Hobana/Weverbergh archives)
1957. Also in January in the town of Milowka. A married couple were on the balcony of their flat when they witnessed three bright spheres in the sky, all of equal size and the same distance from eachother. (Hobana/Weverbergh archives)
1957. On July 25th Reuter and Tass reported: ”Between 21:20 and 21:30 Moscow time (G.M.T. is three hours later) some people on a small airfield in the Urals saw a strange object flying from the north. It shone like a star of magnitude 2 but there was no twinkle. It was visible in the Cassiopeia Constellation but was clearly no higher than 350 metres and had a velocity of 150 knots. The object veered to the west and accelarated to 400 knots (the speed of a turbo reactor), flying over the airfield without any sound at all. Then suddenly it stayed motionless in the air for about 10 seconds. The light now emanating from it was quite spherical and beams of light could not be seen. The colour was that of a red rose. After thus pausing briefly the ”light” started again and went off at an angle of 45 degrees in a north-westly direction for several seconds at 100-120 knots and suddenly stopped 45 degrees above the horizon. After this it moved until it was close to the control tower and the light began to pulsate. Did it then make a spiral ascent? Probably it did, though that is not the impression I have. At 80 degrees above the horizon it seemed to turn like a satellite around an (invisible) axis. When the object had become distant it appeared to be aproached by a second light coloured like red stars. Both points of light circeled around each other for a long time and finally disappeared from view. During this wave Russian Pacific coastal batteries shot at high speed at brightly-lit UFO’s on 25th July 1957 but without any result” (Ian Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFO’s Behind the Iron Curtain)
1957. Bucegi Mountains (Romania). Witness Mizof Pantelimon, an engineer of the Land Registry (died in cancer 1963), sees a soundless machine approaching his 4 man work team. It was green and oval, with a particularly bright surface. As they approached to within 40-50 metres it took off soundlessly again and began to do a dance (their experssion) over them with an incredible agility, after which it disappeared. (Hobana/Weverbergh archives)
1957. On November 10th a bright, cigarr-shaped object appeared overv the town of Sjaryszew, Radom (Poland) at 11:00 PM from the south. It was yellowish on the top, orange underneath. It was visible for about 30 minutes before flying off to the east and was seen by a dozen or so people. (Zycie Warszawy, 12th November 1957)
Some of the sightings between 1958-1966
In 1958 as Poland was in the middle of the first eastern UFO flap the press was overwhelmed by the amount of sightings and lowered their garde and quite a large number of cases was published. And for a short time the subject was not taboo. Some respected newspapers as Dookola Swiata, a monthly magazine for popular science, dared to present the possibility that these UFO sightings could be connected to ET’s and little green men. Before this, thoughts like that were a one way ticket out of the scientific communion. Allthou articles about space-journeys, spacemen and MIB’s was presented as Space Fables. One of those articles was about an incident in the Carpathian Mountains (an area with much UFO activity at the time) which caused a number of journalists to go to the site for research. But the article to come out of this work was modest. Even the news of a photographed UFO on December 22nd at Muszyn was treated in the same way.
1958. About 3:00 on December 22nd Dr. Stanislaw Kowalezewski took at photo (see picture) of a shimmering light coming from the clouds. Although he had no filter on his camera he took the photo through the window hoping the light would make the film record the orange glow. Dr. Kowalezewski said that he could see the road to Zegiestowa, the railway, the Poprad river and trhe top of the mountrains silluette bathing in orange light which was about 500 metres from his window. The negative has been examined by several experts which has found it to be genuine.
1959. This is a quote of Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh’s foreword to their book UFO’s Behind the Iron Curtain:
”On 21st of February dock-workers in the Polish port of Gdynia see a radiant object fall into the harbor basin, and their account of the matter is so accurate that the spot where it fell could be ascertained excactly. The port authorities send three divers to the scene who, after going down into the ice-cold water and reporting that their investigations are hindered by a thick layer of mud, nonetheless come back to the surface with a piece of metal. The newspapers then report that the metal bears not the slightest trace of rust - which might well suggest that it may indeed be a fragment of the object concerned. After being examined by the Polish navy it is sent to Gdynia’s Polytechnic University. The final results of these two examinations are not known, and neither do we know as yet what the object is and what happened to it. It did however come to light that certain Wmisfortunes” occured during the investigations, as a result of which some of the material was lost. This story bears some striking likeness to the one about a piece of magnesium which people said derived from a UFO picked up in the Brazilian Ubatuba.”
1959. March 20th, Ostralece (Poland). Witold Sambrowski, an electronics engineer saw with several other witnesses two noiseless cigarr-shaped objects flying west in a clear and calm sky at 17:30. They were reddish-pink and in front seemed brighter. Length was about twice that of the full moon and the distance between them was three or four times their own length. (Casimir Zaleski in Le Courrier Interplanétaire no. 51, September 1961)
1959. Spring, Sverdlovsk (Russia). The headquarters of a Russian rocket base was visited for a period of 24hrs by saucer-shaped UFO’s which often remained stationary over the launching-pads. They were picked up on radar and certain amount of panic was supposed to have been caused. (Flying Saucer Review, may 1967) This incident has been given a much more ”action-packed” profile in the Flying Saucers, No 47 (Palmer Publications 1966) when they described the incident as; the UFO out manouvered the fighter-planes by zig-zagging, to avoid machine-gun-fire.
1959. Georgia (Russia). In the vincinity of an unnamed village in Georgia a UFO was said to have exploded, the event being witnessed by a 43-year-old farm labourer Vasily Dubischev. There were no remainings apart from a dead monster (!) A certain Dr. Fyodor Petrov was said to have claimed it was not made of carbon (as humans.ed) but silicon. (Robert Charroux, Le Livre des mondes oubliés, Paris, 1971, pages 449-450)
1960. In Brno (Czechoslovakia) during a military excercise the men saw a peculiar coloured light above the town. After remaining some time it suddenly vanished but turned up again elsewhere in the sky. The commanding officer orddered the use of binocular and radar as the headquarters sent up fighters to confront the light. Everytime the fighters neared the light it vanished, only to reappear somewhere else on the radar screen. This went on for about an hour, after which the light disappeared for good. (Hobana/Weverbergh, ed.-translation)On to part 7 of the USSR UFO history...
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