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UFO. Russia

ID #1710491319
Added Fri, 15/03/2024
Author July N.
Sources
Phenomena
Status
Hypothesis

Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness
Incident date: 
15.05.1981 02:00
Location: 
Каменка
Smolenskaya oblast
Russia

A message from Maria Andreevna Artemenkova (pensioner) from the village of Kamenka, Demistovsky district, Smolensk region.

On the night of May 14-15, 1981, at exactly 2 o'clock on the alarm clock, I woke up and looked out the window to the north. I saw a large fireball in the sky, the height from the ground is about 35 degrees, the size is about 10-13 degrees. The sky was cloudless.

The color is bright red, like the sun rising in a haze. The edges are clear and even. The form is correct. the coloring is uniform.

A well-marked dark stripe with parallel edges ran down from the ball. After 10-15 seconds. the ball began to expand upwards and to the sides (as if from an observer). She thought that an atom had been "blown up" and hid under the blanket. It took 10 minutes, I decided to take a look - there was no ball. only on the horizon in the same direction did I see a fiery glow, measuring about 2x3 degrees in the form of a distant large haystack. the glow was observed for another 4 hours, and at about 15 minutes it was no longer visible.

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.

Events

Rocket launches (from space.skyrocket.de)

  • Site: Vandenberg AFB, California (USA) Vehicle: Scout-G1 Payload: Nova 1

Investigation

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