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Communist regime, and its desire to reject the presence of mysterious guests. The sharp increase in UFO
activity in 1977-1978 in the Soviet Union (especially, after the famous Petrozavodsk Case) had caused
appropriate departments within the USSR Academy of Sciences to agree with the Soviet leadership and
create a research program for anomalous atmospheric phenomena. The code name for this program was
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The Soviet Ministry of Defense embarked on a similar program, dubbed SETKA-MO (Ministerstva Oboroni
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Purportedly, it was the Military-Industrial Commission that had ordered
this research. The powerful
Military-Industrial Commission decided to create two UFO research centers, one in the USSR Academy of
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According to Russian UFO expert and author Mikhail Gershtein, those in charge of the academic research of
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involved in the SETKA-AN. Only the debunkers, together with military specialists from secret military
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Enthusiasts of ufology were to be controlled, and were allowed to work only on the assigned projects, and
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Kazakhstan, a vast country in the Central Asia, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union
until 1991. At its western end, Kazakhstan borders the northeastern quadrant of the landlocked Caspian
Sea, the worlds largest lake. Located between Russia, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, locked between two
seas, in the Caspian Lowland (south of the lower reaches of the Emba) and on the western Ustyurt
Plateau, is the Mangyshlak (aka Mangystau) Peninsula, land of the ancient tribe of Aday
The sun-drenched land is largely devoid of trees, and endless winds blow over vast steppes covered with
scant vegetation. The Mangystau (Eternal) Mountains run from northwest to southeast on the
Mangyshlak Peninsula. Located in the extreme southeast, the Ustyurt Plateau falls precipitously to the plain
in a steep scarp. The northwestern part of Mangyshlak Oblast adjacent to the Caspian Sea is covered by
vast solonchak (light-colored soils rich in soluble salts) regions This land is full of mysteries, and some of
them have paranormal undertones. We will look at them later.

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Landscape of Boszhira Tract on the Mangyshlak Peninsula, Kazakhstan. (Credit:

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In the late 1970s, it was called the Mangyshlak Oblast (region), part of the Kazakh SSR. The size of the
Oblast
was 167,000 square kilometers. There were three cities and 11 urban-type settlements in
Mangyshlak Oblast. Its administrative center was Shevchenko (today, Aktau).
On August 7, 1979 a scientific expedition group of research workers from the IKI (Russian abbreviation for
the Space Research Institute; a participating entity in the SETKA-AN
program) was dispatched to the
Mangyshlak Oblast. The group had operated there until August 31. It consisted of the following four

people: the SETKA-AN scientific secretary I. G. Petrovskaya, N.F. Sanko, Y. G. Lifschitz, and S. Yegorov.
For the period of ten days, B. A. Feshin of the NII-4 had worked with the group. The secretive Scientific
Research Institute (NII-4)
Number Four controlled development, production, and integration of strategic
missile-space technology in the Soviet Armed Forces; maintained and serviced satellites and spaceships.
The report, produced by this group, has been mentioned in Mikhail Gershteins book Tayni NLO i prisheltsev
(Secrets of UFOs and aliens),
Saint Petersburg, 2007. The researchers stated in their report of the

expedition that the group was intended to be the first exploratory and methodical step with the goal of
ascertainment of expediency of dispatch, output of activities, and efficiency of a small groupThe group
was dispatched rapidly so as to determine by the summer of 1980, whether such steps are necessary,
what is the optimal quantity for an expedition, and how it is to be organized, should there be a need.
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The goals were modest, but the output of activities was

impressive, because the group had received 85
UFO reports, and conducted the maximum possible analysis of the reports. The scientists determined
that 35 UFO reports actually described rocket launches; convergence of satellites accounted for 5 reports;
gunnery was responsible for 4 UFO reports; one report actually described a bolide; 36 UFO reports were of
unidentified objects (of them, 10 cases were presumably scientific and technical experiments, and
the
remaining 26 were genuine anomalous phenomena). Most likely, B. A. Feshin of the NII-4 helped the team
separate the scientific and technical experiments from other sightings.

Mangyshlak Peninsula

The report mentioned that attention was paid to the data collected from pilots, especially Report # 44 that
described the detection by radar of unidentified target with anomalous features.
The scientific expedition group had several investigations in Mangyshlak in the hot month of August, 1979.
They included possible UFO sightings; the research involved interactions with the local KGB and the
military units. Their explorations and findings in the Mangyshlak Peninsula are subject of detailed study,
outside the scope of this article. Suffice it to say, this remote land of bleak lowlands covered with
wormwood and filled with saltwort deserts with areas of scrub vegetation on brown soils, rich in petroleum
and natural gas, was one of
the territories where UFOs had been sighted frequently during the Soviet era.
UFOS OF THE KARAGIYE DEPRESSION
UFOs have been sighted over this part of Central Asia for thousands of years, and those who had observed
them have etched their impressions in petroglyphs, legends, manuscripts, photos
The Mangyshlak Peninsula has many unique land formations that cannot be found elsewhere in the world.
The first of these attractions is the lowest point in Kazakhstan and Central Asia, the Karagiye Depression,

also known as The Black Mouth, and happens to be one of the most anomalous areas in Central Asia. It
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is 132 meters below sea level, forty kilometers long and ten kilometers wide, and acknowledged as the
fifth lowest portion in the world. Locusts, scorpions, snakes, moving sands of the rocky desert, dwarf

treessuch are the features of this land. Once, many centuries ago, the Great Silk Road passed here.
There are hundreds
of ancient necropolises that remain in the area
This is where unidentified flying objects that resemble red spheres have been sighted repeatedly.

Rock formation on the Karagiye depression. (Credit: http://kazakhstan.travel)

Apparently, something attracts them to the Depression. One relatively

recent report is from the spring of
the memorable year of 1979, when Soviet engineer Valery Rozhkov observed a red sphere flying at low

altitude but at great speed. The case was investigated by the SETKA-AN
group while they worked in the
area. There was a hypothesis that the UFOs have been attracted to Karagiye because it is located forty
kilometers from Aktau, where a unique nuclear power plant has been
in operation since 1973. In any
event, there have been a number of reports of UFOs over the Black Mouth.
UFO INVESTIGATION TEAM GRUPPA FAKT
The Mangyshlak Peninsula is not an easy area to access, the exploration there is quite dangerous and
expensive, and many sightings are not recorded. Not all of the reports found their way into the SETKA-AN
files.
On April 10, 1992, Russian newspaper MOLODYOZH TATARSTANA published several articles about UFO
investigators of the Mangyshlak Peninsula. The local researchers had been studying the local UFO

phenomenon for over ten years, since the early 1980s. They had observed different UFO types over the
Peninsula: in the 1960s-1970s the garland-shaped objects; in the 1970s-1980s, the silvery spheres;
and in the early 1990s, the black giants. Let us look at their research in greater detail.
THE GARLAND-SHAPED UFOS
The most intensive period of the sightings of the garlands
in the Mangyshlak and Ustyurt Plateau areas
was at the end of the 1960s
and beginning of the 1970s. At the end of the decade, there were scant

sightings. In the 1980s, there were just a few verified sightings, and mostly in the Ustyurt. The last
sighting, as far as Gruppa Fakt knew, took place in 1986.
They assumed some of the sightings were of ball lightning. What about the rest of the sightings?
Such very unusual UFOs usually look like chains of lights, seemingly hovering in the air, sometimes slowly
floating. The lights are usually red-colored. Investigators in Gruppa Fakt discerned (after studying reported
sightings) that the median number of lights varied from three to six. Most often, the garlands were
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sighted in the nighttime, and the glow of the spheres was dull, not glimmering. Only two cases were
reported of the UFOs in the twilight hours, when the sky was still somewhat light. The spheres that
comprised
the garland in such cases resembled objects made from metal of dark color, with reddish hue,
each 7 -8 meters in diameter.
There was no visible construction that connected the spheres.

Nevertheless, the spheres, as if tied together by invisible threads, very smoothly and synchronically
performed various maneuvers. The invisible coupling has two functions: in once case it was a rigidly

fastened system, while in the other case it was flexible. In the first case, all of the spheres of the garland
UFO started moving at the same time, in one designated direction, keeping the distance between them

unchanged. The mutual layout of the spheres assumed correct geometrical shapes: triangles, rectangular,
and polygon. In the second (flexible) case the movement was started by one of the spheres, and the
rest
repeat its trajectory. The investigators noted that the leading sphere can be any of the spheres in the
garland.

Ustyurt Plateau (Credit: www.voxpopuli.kz)

The flight of the garland UFO was absolutely noiseless. They did not react to the light signals, and there
was never a
case when technology was effected by the UFOs (as well unaffected were devices that were
used for photography, but there were never clear pictures, due to the nighttime hours, and lack of quality
film.
Local ufologists believed that the famous Belgian Triangles were typical examples of the rigidly fastened
garlands,
consisting of three spheres. Probably the objects that were of large size, with color range from
yellow to red, and sighted a single entity or in pairs, are also of the same variety. They were characterized
by quite low flight altitude and noiselessness.
One case was of special interest to the researchers. It took place in
the heat of summertime, when three
geologists parked their vehicle at the edge of the precipice. They climbed to the top of the vehicle to sleep.
Half an hour later, a yellow-colored sphere (they initially mistook it for the Moon) smoothly moved into
their direction along the shoreline. Having approached them, the object hovered, a blinding white light
flared up, and the vehicle was inside a cocoon. The eyewitnesses described that they physically felt the
light. The ray formed a brightly
colored ring (around ten meters in diameter) on the ground. The vehicle
and its passengers were in the middle of the ring. The geologists were very scared. Not so much of the
event, but of its suddenness. One of them recalled that he had only one thought in his mind: they will
shoot at us, they will shootHe tried to climb out from the sleeping bag, tearing off fasteners. But most
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interesting was the fact that none of them screamed; everything took place in the absolutely thick silence.
And then the light was gone. The next day they woke up, and none of the
geologists remembered what
happened. This story resurfaced in the memory of two of them (and at the same time) only three years
later, when they read (independently of each other) the famous Soviet newspaper
report of a very sinister
1984 case*.

UFO photo taken in the Caucasus region (on the western coast of the Caspian Sea),
published in the Soviet Military Review.

The memories came back at once, as if they always existed in the back
of the mind, as if they remembered
something they always knew, but did not pay attention to, due to the insignificance of the fact, its

commonness, lack of real interestWhen one geologist read the article, he rushed to his former place of
employment, found one of the other witnesses, and was convinced that the event (phantasmagoria, as he
described it to Gruppa Fakt) was not a dream. Both of them quickly recalled the details. Quite amazing
was the explanation that, itself, appeared in the minds of the geologists after the UFO departed. The
explanation was similar even in the smallest details, and calmed them to such a degree, that they were
able to peacefully lie down and sleep; and in the morning, and subsequent days eve mentally not recall the
events of the amazing night. The explanation was this: this
was a helicopter of the Border Guard troops;
it illuminated us to check
the vehicle license number on its roofIt was as if this logical explanation was
given
explanation was to all participants. But there no numbers on the roof, and they never before
encountered such helicopters. The explanation could not be logical, passionately told the researchers one
of the geologists, because such spot checks was impossible. One important
detail: if a helicopter could
reach the altitude where its engine would
be noiseless (for the UFO was noiseless) it would not be able to

illuminate such plot of land; there were no such floodlights. But the light that the geologists reported was
tight, as if one could touch and feel it

*This was a very poignant and well-known case of an alleged UFO encounter with an aircraft (described it
in an earlier chapter. An article titled At exactly 4:10 was written by V. Vostrukhin, and published in the
Soviet newspaper TRUD. The date of the publication was January 30, 1985).
SILVER-COLORED MYSTERIES
In the early 1980s, the UFO investigation team Gruppa Fakt had learnt of strange rumors pertaining to
silvery spheres. They waited for years for some government disclosure about the events, some news of a
foreign reconnaissance satellite that was shot down over the peninsulabut nothing really was reported.

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But we need to remember that the MOLODYOZH TATARSTANA article was published in 1992, when the
SETKA
program was still unknown to the population of the former Soviet Union (the Communist nation had
disintegrated in 1991). It is possible that the sightings of the silvery spheres were the same that had
attracted attention of the Soviet UFO researchers of the SETKA.
The Gruppa Fakt team learned of the strange
rumors that circled in Shevchenko: its residents
carefully mentioned incredible, every day events
that involved silvery spheres. One case involved a

sighting outside of the city, by Caspian Sea. The

spheres were too far from the observers, and it
was impossible to determine their size.
The report
was not taken seriously until confirmation came
from geologists. The latter not only observed the
spheres, but also attempted
to approach the
objects. And here is where the strangeness really

began: the vehicle they were driving in could not

approach the UFOs, despite the fact that they
drove for five kilometers in their direction.
It is as
if the car was immobile. Finally, the spheres
vanished ( they burst like soap bubbles) .From

that day on, many witnesses described sightings to

others in the city. But all their accounts were
similar. However, the size of the spheres was
mentioned, usually around thirty meters in
diameter. Another interesting trait: the spheres
appeared only in groups. Soon, local geologists
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actually photographs of the objects. The quality
was poor, as it was difficult to
make a photo of a
silvery object over the desert. What cam through were
inexpressive white blots. Yet, one photo did help
determine that the spheres do not vanish, but very rapidly ascend. As the events unfolded very close to
the border, the matter was made public. The team found out
that some commission arrived in the city,
rented a vehicle from a governmental entity, and left for some unknown itinerary. The commission
returned, but without the equipment they brought with them, and quickly
departed. The spheres were
observed for another month, and then they disappeared.
The unnamed author of the MOLODYOZH TATARSTANA articles, member of the Gruppa Fakt
team,
mentioned that those who observed the spheres reported that the most amazing feeling they had after the
encounters was the sensation of alienness of the objects to the environment. While the author did not

personally observe the spheres, he did work in the desert at the time, and made interesting discoveries.
He found round sites of completely dead soil; the diameters ranged from three to five meters. He also

discovered small circles of approximately ninety centimeters. The sites had perfectly round shapes, and
even alhagi (camels-thorn) did not grow there. Supposedly, these were landing
sites of the mysterious
silvery spheres. There were witnesses who encountered here, jelly-like mush in the desert, in the areas of

reported sightings. Perhaps, this mush was the cause of the absence of life inside the sites.
The team never did find out (as of 1992) what commission had visited the area, where the equipment was
placed, and whether there was any connection between the departure of the commission, and the

disappearance of the silvery spheres. And still, the mystery did not end
there. The unknown author was
told by his acquaintances of their experience on the Moscow-Krasnovodsk flight in 1990. They observed

similar spheres, flying in the single file along the shoreline. Today this city in Western Turkmenistan, a
harbor at the Caspian Sea, has the name of Turkmenbashi. Similar sightings, dating to the period of 198890, were reported the Turkmen media. Another confirmation the author of the MOLODYOZH TATARSTANA
articles had received from his acquaintance, who had served in the Soviet border guard troops, in the
Caspian flotilla. He had observed the same similar spheres over the shallow waters through binoculars,
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from the distance of several kilometers, during one of the patrols. The sighting was in the area of the Kara
Bogaz Bay.

Turkmenbashi Port (Credit: www.dredgingtoday.com)

The team of local ufologists wondered as to what was covered by silvery shell of the spheres: secret
foreign military technology; alien technology; some illusion that caused massive hypnosis; manifestation of

multidimensional life formor something else?

THE SPINDLE FROM NOWHERE
This encounter took place in the summer of 1990. That Saturday the five researchers of the Gruppa Fakt
team were on their way to study the legendary depression of the Kara Bogaz Bay. Unfortunately, they
missed the chance to observe a tremendous
UFO sighting elsewhere other part of the desert, where they
actually stopped earlier in the morning.
A column of vehicles came to their own stop in the afternoon, waiting
for one of their vehicles that lagged
behind. The geologists had a field meeting in the staff vehicle, and one of the younger scientists tried to
abscond. When he slumped down toward the wheels, he felt something inexplicable above him. The
feeling was that behind his back was something huge and frightening. He slowly turned around, clinging to

the vehicle, and saw above, about two hundred meters away, a black colossus of a thing
It seemed at first to cover half of the sky. Later, he was able to determine that IT
was about 150 meters
long. The black, metallic object that hovered over
the geologist was spindle-shaped; it looked velvety, and
did not have any sunlight on its surface The UFO was hovering right over the geologist, at a very close
distance. Actually, it floated over him, leaving behind slight silvery haze. While the objects movement was
very slow, it was visible. His first thought that no one would believe him. According to his colleagues, he
jumped inside the staff vehicle yelling something incoherent. They ran outside and became witnesses to
the most unforgettable scene.

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Kara-Bogaz Gol and Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan seen from space. (Credit: NASA)

There were ten of the observers. The conditions were very appropriate
for the observation: a short
distance to the object, ideal visibility, absence of clouds and wind. The object slowly departed to the
distance of one and a half kilometers, and suddenly vanished. All that was left behind was a slight trail
resembling contrail of an aircraft flying
at high altitude. Some witnesses heard popping sound when the
UFO disappeared.
When it became dark, the vehicle that lagged behind finally joined the column, and its team of geologists
told the main group that they, too, observed the UFO. The spindle accompanied their vehicle for twenty
minutes; it flew over them on a parallel course. It disappeared without a sound. Everyone agreed that the
UFO resembled an aircraft without wings and tail. One interesting detail that was reported was the
presence of apertures in the hull; light burst
out from them. There was no consensus as to the actual
number of apertures; usually it was reported that there were four Some reported the light to be of green
or blue colors. The rays of the light were short; more like cones of light. The author of the MOLODYOZH
TATARSTANA
articles mentioned that we should not forget: the sightings took place during the daylight
hours. That very same day three observers saw a
spindle-shaped UFO at a distance of two kilometers
from the sea shore. It was black-colored and huge, and landed in the area of a freshwater lake. The
witnesses visited that area, but found no traces. The Gruppa Fakt researchers had more reports of black
UFOs that had been observed only during the spring and summer in the area bordered by Mangyshlak
Peninsula, the Kara Bogaz Bay, and the Ustyurt Plateau.
There is no further information about the Gruppa Fakt researchers, despite the attempts of the author to
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locate themThe SETKA project documents are inaccessible, locked away in impenetrable archives of the
Russian State Archives.

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Paul Stonehill is the author of The Soviet UFO Files (1998), Paranormal Mysteries of Eurasia
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2 COMMENTS
jim oberg
June 15, 2016 at 4:48 pm

Any article opening with the Petrozavodsk medusa UFO is giving fair warning it will be full of
nebulous rumors of events that have no known date/time/location/direction info needed for basic
validation. More random ramblings of gossip, just as useless.

Paul Stonehill
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Once again, as the old Turkish proverb tells us: The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
But to give respect to those who had attempted to research the mysterious anomalous aerial
phenomena to the best of their abilities and the meager funds allocated by the State, here is an
interesting episode.This will show Open Minds readers how some of the SETKA researchers
investigated UFO cases. I am sure we will be amazed when the
sealed files are open one day (the
Arkhangelsk Dust, and who knows what
else)
The SETKA Report No. 44 described the detection by radar of an unidentified target with anomalous
features. On 14 August 1977, at 20:00-20:30 hours, Raisa Gopachenko, an air traffic controller at

Shevchenko Airport, detected a target in the range of radar coverage. She assumed that the target
was a military object. The target appeared suddenly over the town of Aksu, Kazakhstan, and for
approximately one minute it remained motionless. Gopachenko reported this to the flight operations
officer, Vyacheslav Irin. He checked the flight route restrictions, but there were none that day.
Moreover, at the moment that
the object was detected, the radar field of vision did not indicate the
presence of any aircraft. No more than a minute after being detected, the object started moving
along the sea in the direction of the town of Yeraliyev, following the shoreline bend. Before
reaching Yeraliyev, the object turned sharply towards the city of Uzen and accelerated to
500
kilometers per hour. The officer immediately contacted Krasnovodsk military airport, which
confirmed that it had no aircraft in the sky. The object passed Uzen and turned towards Muynak, a
city which used to be an important logistical port in Central Asia. Now the objects speed was close
to 700 kilometers per hour.

Its flight path did not correspond to the civil aviation flight route. The air traffic controller warned
Nukus Airport in Uzbekistan that the object was approaching the range of their radar set. At the
same time, one An-24 aircraft appeared from the direction of Muynak, flying to Shevchenko. The
target flew in the direction of the An-24, not changing its course. The air traffic controller contacted
the aircraft, whose crew responded that they had not observed anything. To preclude an accident,
the air traffic controller turned the An-24 away from the course of the object when it and the Soviet
aircraft were at a distance of 220-250 kilometers from Shevchenko. The object moved away, and at
a distance of 300-350 kilometers it exited the range of the Shevchenko radar vision and
disappeared. At that time, the flight operations officer at Nukus

Airport reported to Shevchenko that they could not see the target, and contacted military airports in
the cities of Astrakhan, Rostov, Volgograd, Baku, Tashkent, Alma-Ata and Moscow. All of the
airports responded that they had no aircraft in the sky (it was a day off), and asked Shevchenko
Airport about the circumstances of the sighting. The object reappeared five to six minutes later on
the Shevchenko Airport radar screen, at the very site from where it had disappeared. The object
followed strictly the same route, but in the opposite direction towards
Uzen and at great speed.
According to the flight operations officer, its speed was approximately 40 kilometers per one
revolution of
the radar aerialabout 7200 kilometers per hour

Again the Shevchenko air traffic controller asked Nukus about the presence of aircraft on that flight
course, and again the answer was negative. The flight operations officer contacted the Air Defense
units at Krasnovodsk. The official response was that there were no route restrictions.

From Uzen, the object turned towards Aksu and disappeared at the same spot from where it had
appearedalthough, at a distance of 170 kilometers, it was still in the range of reliable detection by
Shevchenko Airports radar The air traffic controllers impression was that the object had vanished
as if it had turned off its transponder beacon.

During the time that the object was observed, the air traffic controllers performed tracking using
the ground based question-answer interrogator system. They used the P-35 (Mech', meaning
sword) radar set, and the speed of the aerial was three revolutions per minute. The object could

be detected by radar only if it possessed a device which worked like a radio transmitter tuned to the
established civil aviation operating frequency. On the radar screen, the object resembled a highaltitude aircraft.. The object could be detected by radar only if it possessed a device which worked
like a radio transmitter tuned to the established civil aviation operating frequency. It never
established communications during the sighting.

The Air Defense unit tried to find the target and specified its whereabouts from the flight operations
officer after the target had already disappeared from the radar screen.

During subsequent discussion of the events, the lieutenant-colonel of the Krasnovodsk Air Defense
units radio engineering forces stated
his opinion that the UFO sighting was in reality a phenomenon
generated
when the lateral lobe of the radar on board the observing aircraft detected another
aircraft. That second aircraft was flying from the opposite direction to Nukus, over the sea.
However, the flight operations officer was not satisfied with such an explanation because of
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absence of aircraft in the sky (with the exception of the An-24) and the absence of similar
phenomena during his 14 years of work with the same radar

The report concluded: . -The described event was characterized by the following

anomalous manifestations: presence of hovering, change of speed from 0 to 7200 kilometers per
hour, emissions at the operating frequency of the
ground based interrogator system.

The nature of the UFO was never determined. However, the scientific expedition group made other
investigations in Mangyshlak in August 1979,
including of possible UFO sightings. The research
involved interactions
with local KGB and military units. Their explorations and findings in the
Mangyshlak Peninsula were the subject of detailed study, outside the
scope of this article.

But 1979 was a very interesting year in terms of UFO sightings in the USSR. We have reports from
a Soviet meteorological station in the Arctic
Yakutia, about incredible sightings the same year; and
more.

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