The Alien. Russia

Date: July 1999
Location: Near Moscow, Russia
Time: night
Summary: Retired Air Force Colonel Alexander Smimov (involved in a previous encounter) and three friends were fishing in a remote forest outside of Moscow. At night they had parked their car under a large oak tree. The weather was excellent and the sky was cloudless. Smimov friends went to sleep but he remained awake looking at the clear and beautiful night sky filled with stars. He briefly felt asleep but was suddenly awakened and noticed an unusual dead silence in the area. Suddenly he noticed a star move side to side and stop in one place, it then descended to the ground sharply. Filled with curiosity he walked towards the landed object. About 15 meters from the craft he felt paralyzed and a dense of air hindered his movement. The alien craft appeared to be inside some sort of force field. Suddenly a hatch opened on the lower part of the craft and a platform descended to the ground. Several strange entities stood on the platform, they remotely resembled humans and had on “space suits” but very different from terrestrial spacesuits, they resembled the suits wore by deep-sea divers. Their faces were not visible, and the suits were dark. He had a sudden feeling of being watched or scanned and then heard a voice that told him that, “They were not going to do anything wrong” that they were just collecting water and soil samples. Smimov told the aliens that he was a former pilot and his great curiosity made him approach their craft. All conversation was via thought or telepathically. The protective wall of dense air remained. Smimov told the aliens that he had contacted them back in 1990, they said, “We know” and the wall of air suddenly dissolved and he heard the command to come in. He approached the circular craft with a tripod landing gear, resembling the time he had seen back in 1990. The craft consisted of two sections with its lower half rotating. The aliens told Smimov that they had “modified their technique” and told him to climb in. He obeyed and the platform ascended. The aliens were still wearing their suits and their faces were not visible, and Smimov wanted to see them. He then heard a response, “It is early, your air is not yet acceptable to us, and in time you will see us, come to the control post.” He approached the console, the instruments were giving light in the semi-darkness and he could see three chairs in the middle of the room. He was told to sit on the control console and was told how to operate the instruments. He was told to start testing the engines and not to “mix up the sequence”. Smimov began following the instructions but nothing occurred the craft did not take off. He then heard that everything was Ok that he was not ready yet that it had only been a test to probe his reaction. They said that they would teach him how to control the craft the next time; they recommended not telling anyone about their encounter. They added, “We establish contacts gradually, we do not need a panic among the earthlings”. The witness then stood on the platform and descended to the ground. He then heard a slight humming sound and the UFO ascended over the ground, the tripod landing gear retracted into the object. The lower section of the craft began to rotate, first slow and then at very high speed. The craft then sharply zoomed up and disappeared from sight.
Source: Anomalous News Saint Petersburg # 30, 2000 Anton Anfalov