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UFO. Latvia

ID #1692545895
Added Sun, 20/08/2023
Author July N.
Sources
Phenomena
Status
Hypothesis

Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness
Incident date: 
10.1984 20:00
Location: 
Пагиряй
Latvia

From a letter to the Commission on the USSR:

I want to respond to your request to report anything who has seen any phenomena in the atmosphere. Yes, my workmate and I had to face a similar phenomenon in the fall. it was at the end of October or already in November.

I can't say the exact date, because I didn't attach any importance to it until I read the article in the newspaper. I was walking home in the evening with my friend after work. The evening was frosty and the sky was clear, the stars were visible. The time was about 20 to 21.. our residential area is called Pagiriai (it is 12-15 km from Vilnius). Suddenly, above the forest, high in the sky, a glowing oval-shaped ball appeared ahead of us. he hung in the sky like a star, like a big star. it was smaller than the moon. a very bright beam was clearly radiating from this ball (as if a spotlight was shining). The brightness of the beam exceeded the brightness of the ball. This ray shone straight down as if moving away from us. All this spectacle quietly disappeared over the horizon. then it was dark again.

I also joked loudly to my friend, "Look, a flying saucer." All this happened in less than 30 seconds.

Hypotheses

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Booster, the rocket and tracks

For UFOs often take stages of rockets, parts of space ships burning in the atmosphere, the launches of various missile technology for military purposes, etc., and traces from them. They attract attention mostly in the dark, but in the day time have a greater aura of mystery.

Formation of the track of the launch vehicle occurs in the tropopause (the layer between the troposphere and stratosphere), which sharply reduced the vertical temperature gradient. The emergence of the so-called "jellyfish" influenced by water vapor, which are subject to enhanced condensation.

Investigation

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