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05.02.2010
The Dalnegorsk UFO Crash: Roswell Incident of the Soviet Union
This internationally famous UFO incident took place in 1986, on January
29, at 7:55 p.m. Some have called it the Roswell Incident of the Soviet Union.
The information concerning this incident was sent to us by a number of Russian
ufologists.
Dalnegorsk is a small mining town in the Far East of Russia. That cold
January day a reddish sphere flew into this town from the southeastern
direction, crossed part of Dalnegorsk, and crashed at the Izvestkovaya Mountain
(also known as Height or Hill 611, because of its size). The object flew
noiselessly, and parallel to the ground; it was approximately three meters in
diameter, of a near-perfect round shape, with no projections or cavities, its
colour similar to that of burning stainless steel. One eyewitness, V. Kandakov,
said that the speed of the UFO was close to 15 meters per hour. The object
slowly ascended and descended, and its glow would heat up every time it rose
up. On its approach to Hill 611 the object "jerked", and fell down like a rock.
All witnesses reported that the object "jerked" or "jumped". Most of them
recall two "jumps". Two girls remember that the object actually "jumped" four
times. The witnesses heard a weak, muted thump. It burned intensively at the
cliff's edge for an hour. A geological expedition to the site, led by V.
Skavinsky of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Siberian Branch of
the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1988), had confirmed the object's movements
through a series of chemical and physical tests of the rocks collected from the
site. Valeri Dvuzhilni, head of the Far Eastern Committee for Anomalous
Phenomena, was the first to investigate the crash. With the help of our
colleagues in Russia this is the most accurate account of the incident to date.
Dr. Dvuzhilni arrived at the site two days after the crash. Deep snow was
covered the area at the time. The site of the crash, located on a rocky ledge,
was devoid of snow. All around the site remnants of silica splintered rocks
were found: (due to exposure to high temperatures), and "smoky" looking. Many
pieces, and a nearby rock, contained particles of silvery metal, some
"sprayed"-like, some in the form of solidified balls. At the edge of the site a
tree-stump was found. It was burnt and emitted a chemical smell. The objects
collected at the site were later dubbed as "tiny nets", "little balls", "lead
balls", "and glass pieces" (that is what each resembled).
Closer examination revealed very unusual properties. One of the "tiny
nets" contained torn and very thin (17 micrometers) threads. Each of the
threads consisted of even thinner fibers, tied up in plaits. Intertwined with
the fibers were very thin gold wires. Soviet scientists, at such facilities as
the Omsk branch of the Academy of Sciences, analyzed all collected pieces.
Without going into specific details suffice it to say that the technology to
produce such materials was not yet available on Earth...except for one
disturbing account.
To give an idea of the complexity of the composition of the pieces, let
us look at the "iron balls". Each of them had its own chemical composition:
iron, and a large mixture of aluminum, manganese, nickel, chromium, tungsten,
and cobalt.
Such differences indicate that the object was not just a piece of lead
and iron, but some heterogeneous construction made from heterogeneous alloys
with definite significance. When melted in a vacuum, some pieces would spread
over a base, while at another base they would form into balls. Half of the
balls were covered with convex glass-like structures. Neither the physicists
nor physical metallurgists can say what these structures are, what their
composition is. The "tiny nets" (or "mesh") have confused many researchers. It
is impossible to understand their structure and nature of the formation.
A. Kulikov, an expert on carbon at the Chemistry Institute of the Far
Eastern Department of the Academy of Sciences, USSR, wrote that it was not
possible to get an idea what the "mesh" is. It resembles glass carbon, but
conditions leading to such formation are unknown. Definitely a common fire
could not produce such glass carbon. The most mysterious aspect of the
collected items was the disappearance, after vacuum melting, of gold, silver,
and nickel, and the appearance-from nowhere-of molybdenum, that was not in the
chamber to begin with.
The only thing that could be more or less easily explained was the ash
found on site. Something biological was burned during the crash. A flock of
birds, perhaps, or a stray dog; or someone who was inside the crashed object?
Dr. Dvuzhilni's article was published in a Soviet (Uzbekistan) Magazine
NLO: Chto, Gde, Kogda? (Issue 1, 1990, reprint of an article in FENOMEN
Magazine, March 23, 1990). In his article Dalnegorski Phenomen V. Dvuzhilni
provides details unavailable elsewhere.
The southwesterly trajectory of the object just about coincides with the
Xichang Cosmodrome of People's Republic of China, where satellites are launched
into geo synchronous orbit with the help of the Great March-2 carrier rockets.
There is no data of any rocket launches in the PRC at the end of January. At
the same time, Sinxua Agency reported on January 25, 1988, that there was a
sighting of a glowing red sphere not far from the Cosmodrome, where it hovered
for 30 minutes. Possibly, UFOs had shown interest toward the Chinese Cosmodrome
in the years 1989 and 1988.
There is another curious detail: at the site of the Height 611 small
pieces of light gray color were discovered, but only in the area of the
contact. These specimens did not match any of the local varieties of soil. What
is amazing, the spectroscopic analysis of the specimens matched them to the
Yaroslavl tuffs of the polymetalic deposits (i.e. the specimens possessed some
characteristic elements of the Yaroslavl, but not the Dalnegorsk, tuffs). There
is a possibility that the object obtain pieces of tuff in the Yaroslavl area.
Tuffs experience metamorphosis under the effect of high temperatures .
The site of the crash itself was something like an anomalous zone. It was
"active" for three years after the crash. Insects avoid the place. The zone
affects mechanical and electronic equipment. Some people, including a local
chemist, actually got very sick.
This Hill 611 is located in the area of numerous anomalies; according to
an article in the Soviet digest Tainy XX Veka (Moscow, 1990, CP Vsya Moskva
Publishing House). Even photos taken at the site, when developed, failed to
show the hill, but did clearly show other locations. Members of an expedition
to the site reported later that their flashlights stopped working at the same
time. They checked the flashlights upon returning home, and discovered burned
wires.
Eight days after the UFO crash at Hill 611, on February 8, 1986, at 8:30
p.m., two more yellowish spheres flew from the north, in the southward
direction. Reaching the site of the crash, they circled it four times, then
turned back to the north and flew away. Then on November 28, 1987 (Saturday
night, 11:24 p.m.), 32 flying objects had appeared from nowhere. There were
hundreds of witnesses, including the military and civilians.
The objects flew over 12 different settlements, and 13 of them flew to
Dalnegorsk and the site. Three of the UFOs hovered over the settlement, and
five of them illuminated the nearby mountain. The objects moved noiselessly, at
an altitude between 150 to 800 meters. None of the eyewitnesses actually
thoughts they were UFOs. Those who observed the objects assumed they were
aircraft involved in some disaster, or falling meteorites. As the objects flew
over houses, they created interference (television, telegraph functions).
The Ministry of Internal Affairs officers, who were present, testified
later that they observed the objects from a street, at 23:30 (precise time).
They saw a fiery object, flying in from the direction of Gorely settlement. In
front of the fiery "flame" was a lusterless sphere, and in the middle of the
object was a red sphere. Another group of eyewitnesses included workers from
the Bor quarry. They observed an object at 11:00 pm. A giant cylindrical object
was flying straight at the quarry. Its size was like that of a five-story
building, its length around 200 or 300 hundred meters. The front part of the
object was lit up, like a burning metal. The workers were afraid that the
object would crash on them. One of the managers of the quarry observed an
object at 11:30 pm.
The object was slowly moving at an altitude of 300 meters. It was huge,
and cigar-shaped. The manager, whose last name was Levakov, stated that he was
well acquainted with aerodynamics, knew theory and practice of flight, but
never knew that a body could fly noiselessly without any wings or engines.
Another eyewitness, a kindergarten teacher, saw something else. It was a
bright, blinding sphere at an altitude of a nine-story building. It moved
noiselessly. In front of the sphere Ms. Markina observed a dark,
metallic-looking elongated object of about 10 to 12 meters long. It hovered
over a school. There the object emitted a ray (its diameter about half a
meter). The colour of the ray was violet-bluish. The ground below illuminated,
but there were no shadows from objects below. Then the object in the sky
approached a mountain and hovered over it. It illuminated the mountain, emitted
a reddish projector-like light, as if searching for something, and then
departed, flying over the mountain.
No rocket launches took place at any of the Soviet cosmodromes either on
January 29, 1986, or November 28, 1987.
Dr. Dvuzhilni's conclusion is that it was a malfunctioning alien space
probe that crashed into the Hill 611. Another hypothesis has it that the object
managed to ascend, and escape (almost in one piece) in the north-easterly
direction and probably crashed in the dense taiga.
To be continued
The above is an extract from Philip Mantle & Paul Stonehill's new book
'UFO CASE FILES OF RUSSIA' now available from Healings of Atlantis
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