UFO. Belarus

My professional employment interesting questions and issues management of our strategic missiles were sometimes supplemented by such unusual events that they are worth discussing.

14 Dec 1963. 16.00. The end of the day. Dozens of experts come home from work. A clear evening. The sky is cloudless. No wind! On the tops of the pine trees still linger red glow evening dusk. I'm going with captain Fomenko and Colonel Vyrubova. Suddenly on the Western side of the sky arises a moving object. It has the form of cigars and without losing altitude, soundlessly moves through the southern and visible us side of the sky. In the Central part of the object, we see two rows of light and dark squares, in the centers of which (one) visible light round spots, resembling portholes. But the shape of these circles to the edges of the "cigars" go in ellipses, which suggests that we see the disk! At its aft portion differs a greenish flame. Because we don't know the distance to the object and its dimensions, the evaluation of the dimensions of this disc we can rely only on its angular parameters: its length was about four disc of the moon, and the height of disk! It is 2 and 0.5 degrees, respectively.

Within 1 minute, the object moved from West to East about 120 degrees and, being perfectly visible by many observers, suddenly disappeared from sight as suddenly as it appeared... Before us all again was a pure dark blue evening sky...

The next day to witness this unusual phenomenon was drafted letter to the Academy of Sciences, which was was signed by 42 people. A month later, we received a response signed by the academic Secretary of the Supreme scientific body of the country. In this message we all tactfully upscales in the subjective overestimation of the rating... the usual "atmospheric phenomena".

What, after all, was it? By this time I had already enough experience of parachute jumps from an-2, YAK-12, an-12, an-26, IL-14, and even balloons DAG-2. But, unfortunately, I could not identify the visible with any of the listed aircraft, including helicopters MI-4, MI-6, MI-8, which I had to perform hundreds of jumping...

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