| ID | #1709989826 |
| Added | Sat, 09/03/2024 |
| Author | July N. |
| Sources | |
| Phenomena | |
| Status | Hypothesis
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Initial data
Alexander Viktorovich Smirnov (LIAP, engineer) writes to the AIA Commission:
Returning home one spring day in 1976, I observed a colorful sight. The exact date of the event has now been erased from memory, but I remember well that it was in March-April, on Wednesday, at about 18-30 - 19-00. Against the background of a dark cloudless sky, I saw a flying object. At first, he gave the impression of an airplane flying at low altitude, for example, a YAK-40, coming in for landing. It even seemed to me that I could see a chain of portholes, but soon this feeling disappeared.
The object felt like a material body, glowed with a pale blue color, which had the character of a flash. It seemed to sparkle all over, and in the bow the spark was slightly weaker than in the tail. In addition, the bow had the appearance of a denser core.
The weather was slightly frosty and windless that evening. There was no glowing halo around the object.
The viewing angle was 35-40 degrees to the horizon.
I watched the object as long as there was a possibility of visual observation - about 20 seconds, after which it disappeared behind neighboring houses.
The flight path was almost horizontal, it seemed that the object was moving away from the observer, in the last seconds there was a slight change in the color of the glow towards dark red, burgundy, it also seemed to me that the flight was accompanied by a faint monotonous, rustling sound.
Hypotheses
Space debris
By space junk refers to all manmade objects and their fragments in space, which is already faulty, not functioning, and will never be able to serve any useful purpose. Currently in low earth orbits up to altitudes of about 2000 km is, according to various estimates, about 220 thousand (300 thousand according to the UN office for outer space Affairs, October 2009) man-made objects weighing up to 5000 tons.
In the case of UFOs, it is possible to expand this list lost cosmonauts things (tools, etc.).
Meteor
Meteor, "shooting star" is a phenomenon that occurs when small meteor bodies (for example, fragments of comets or asteroids) burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. A similar phenomenon of greater intensity (brighter than magnitude -4) it's called a fireball.
The Airship Effect
The "airship effect" is that observers perceive moving lights in the dark sky as connected into a single whole.
Because of this, disparate objects are sometimes referred to as one UFO with portholes (or external lighting equipment).
Investigation
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