MariaDine
16th October 2010, 22:08
ON THE BORDER OF UMMO: THE UFO LANDING AT VORONEZH, RUSSIA, 1989
With the Glasnost, the new policy of transparency and opening inaugurated by Gorbachev which put an end to the Soviet Union in the form that it had during the cold war, many Russian newspapers realized that the subject of UFOs, just like any "paranormal" or unusual topic, was very popular and started to publish weird stories and reports of UFOs regularly, without paying any attention to the veracity of the story and without consulting with serious ufologists, since it was a matter of getting more readers and not to investigate the UFO phenomenon. There was thus a new surge of magazines and reviews briskly mixing UFOS, astrology, poltergeist, sex, disappeared ancient civilizations and largely sensationalized mysteries of all sorts.
Russian ufologist Boris Shurinov tells the revealing example of the discovery in July 1989, along an artery of Moscow, of a simple burned grass patch of eight meters, that a delirious ufologist, A. Kouzovkine, claimed to have been caused by the strong radiations emitted by some flying saucer that nobody actually saw, and which according to the firemen, was simply the remainders of a haystack that took fire.
A three eyed extraterrestrial robot walks in the park:
It was in this context that on October 1989, and in the middle of a flurry of journalistic hoaxes and ordinary hoaxes, that the sensational story of an extraterrestrial landing in downtown Voronezh - a city of 800.000 residents approximately 500 kilometers of Moscow - was revealed.
The first report of the Voronezh wave appeared in the Soviet newspaper Kommuna. This particular incident took place at a park in the city during the course of a soccer game. The witnesses were said to include many teenagers as well as over forty adults. They described seeing a pink/red light which turned into a dark sphere. The sphere circled an area of the park at an extremely low altitude (approximately thirty to forty feet above the ground) then flew away. After only a few moments it reappeared and again hovered over the park. This time a door opened in the bottom, a being could be seen looking out, surveying an astonished group of witness. The door closed and the craft descended and then landed. As it did so, it came into contact with a large poplar tree. The tree was bent over to the side and remained in that position.
Tass agency then publishes the following news item, which will be read in the western countries:
A UFO said to have landed in a park at Voronezh
Voronezh, October 9. TASS. The experts confirmed that a UFO had indeed landed in a park of Voronezh. According to their statement, they have discovered, on the landing spot, traces of the craft and its occupants, who have even made a short walk in the park.
According to witnesses, there would have been these last days at least three extraterrestrial visits. An enormous ball or a luminous disc arrived above the park, then it went down to the ground and let come out by a passage two or three extraterrestrial beings, 3 to 4 meters tall, with tiny heads, as well as a small robot. During a certain time, the extraterrestrial turned around the ball, before returning inside, then the craft took off without noise and disappeared in a wink. The fear that seized the witnesses lasted several days.
"To locate the place of landing, we had recourse to the technique of biological magnetism", indicated the chief of the laboratory of the expedition sent in the park, Guenrikh Silanov. "It is a circular surface of 20 meters in diameter. Four depressions of 4 A 5 centimetres of depth and 14 to 16 centimetres in diameter are quite visible there. They form a rhombus. We also took two samples of the mysterious ground. At first sight they resemble dark red sandstone. However, after mineralogical analysis, we established that it was a rock without equivalent on Earth. To give a more precise conclusion, we need to make complex additional studies."
Which appeared in France as this news release:
The next days, many newspapers worldwide publish the story, for example, "Le Courrier de l'Ouest, France, on October 10, 1989:
A UFO said to have landed in the Soviet Union
MOSCOW. -- Soviet researchers claimed that a strange unidentified spaceship, operated by giant individuals with tiny heads, had recently landed in a park of the town of Voronej, the Tass agency announced Monday.
The scientists "identified the place of the landing and discovered traces of the strange creatures which carried out a short walk in the park". The date of the landing is not specified.
According to Tass, a ball or a large luminous disc was seen above the park by the inhabitants of Voronezh, a city located at 480 km in the south-east of Moscow. The unidentified flying object (UFO) landed and three creatures, which measured between 3 and 4 meters with tiny heads, similar to human beings came out of there, accompanied by a small robot.
Which gave, translated by the Associated Press on October 9, 1989:
By JOHN IAMS Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) -- The official Tass news agency said today that scientists have confirmed the landing of an alien spaceship carrying giant people with tiny heads.
The report was the latest strange tale in the official Soviet media, which under the policy of glasnost, "or openness," have recently told of other sightings of unidentified flying objects and alien creatures.
"Scientists have confirmed that an unidentified flying object recently landed in a park in the Russian city of Voronezh," Tass said in a dispatch from the city, 300 miles southeast of Moscow. "They have also identified the landing site and found traces of aliens who made a short promenade about the park."
Tass said Voronezh residents saw a large shining ball or disk hovering over the park. They reported that the UFO landed and up to three creatures similar to humans emerged, accompanied by a small robot, Tass said.
"The aliens were three or even four meters (9 to 12 feet) tall, but with very small heads," the news agency quoted witnesses as saying. "They walked near the ball or disc and then disappeared inside."
The report was similar to a story last summer in the daily newspaper Socialist Industry, which told of a purported "close encounter" between a milkmaid and an alien in Central Russia's Perm region.
In that report, Lyubov Medvedev was quoted as saying she encountered an alien creature "resembling a man, but taller than average with short legs." The creature, she said, had "only a small knob instead of a head."
The Tass report, which did not give the date of the purported landing in Voronezh, said onlookers were "overwhelmed with a fear that lasted for several days."
Genrikh Silanov, head of the Voronezh Geophysical Laboratory, told Tass that scientists investigating the UFO report found a 20-yard depression with four deep dents as well as two pieces of unidentified rocks.
"At first glance, they looked like sandstone of a deep-red color. However, mineralogical analysis has shown that the substance cannot be found on Earth," Tass quoted Silanov as saying. "However, additional tests are needed to reach a more definite conclusion."
Silanov said the landing site and path taken by the aliens were confirmed using the "biolocation" method of tracking, but Tass didn't explain what that was.
Further confirmation came from witnesses, who were not told of the experiments and whose accounts matched precisely the scientific findings, Tass said.
The Tass report said residents also reported recent sightings of a "banana-shaped" object in the sky.
In July, Tass disputed a report in Socialist Industry quoting a UFO specialist, A. Kuzovkin, as saying a 26-foot-wide patch of burned ground near southern Moscow was probably caused by the landing of a UFO.
Tass said firefighters believe a haystack simply caught fire and scorched the ground.
Normally, any sensible ufologist would have raised a suspicious eyebrow by reading the stories of sandstone unknown on the earth requiring further studies and of research of "experts" turned scientists, by "the technique of biological magnetism", i.e. in reality: the divining rod. But the Tass Agency then reported other details:
Moscow, October 10. TASS. The daily newspaper Sovetskaya Koullaura published today additional details on the appearance of an unidentified flying object in Voronezh (central Russia). According to the newspaper, it occurred in the warm evening of September 27. Schoolboys Vassia Sourine, Jenia Blinov and Youlia Cholokhova played football in the city park where there were many people. Not far from there, several tens of people awaited the bus. At six hours and half, the children suddenly noticed in the sky a pink light and then a dark red ball of approximately ten meters in diameter. After having made some turns, the sphere disappeared but it returned a few minutes to then hover above the park. A trap door opened in the lower part of the ball. The crowd, already important, saw a being of a size of three meters approximately, with three eyes, in silver combination, boots of bronze color and with a disc on the chest.
After having examined the ground, the "visitor" closed the trap door, and the sphere landed, reads one in the article. Two beings descended from there, one of which was undoubtedly a robot. The first uttered something, after that, a luminous triangle of 30 centimetres by 50 was seen for a few moments on the ground. The extraterrestrial touched the chest of the robot which started to walk.
At this time, one of the kids cried of fear. The "visitor" threw a luminous glance at him: the boy could not move any more. Then, all the crowd shouted. The sphere flew away with its passengers. It was seen again five minutes afterwards. This time, the being with three eyes had a one half-meter length tube at its side. He pointed it on a sixteen year old teenager: this one disappeared and reappeared only when the apparatus and the extraterrestrial flew away definitively.
Commenting on this information, the permanent correspondent of Sovetskaya Koultoura in Voronezh notes that it is difficult to explain them. But, in his opinion, something really occurred. The account quoted above reproduced testimonys of several people. The residents of the street Poutiline have more than once observed the appearance of UFOS between September the 23 and 29. Militiamen and journalists questioned the witnesses: no contradictions in the description of the sphere and the actions of the extraterrestrials. Moreover, all the children who attended the phenomenon are still afraid.
The local section for the study of the natural anomalies, which gathers specialists in physics and biology, investigates into this phenomenon, announces the newspaper.
http://www.ufologie.net/ummo/voronej.htm
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Although with a missleading title, the Russian Ufo story is reported here in this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JaXqpUV8j0
With the Glasnost, the new policy of transparency and opening inaugurated by Gorbachev which put an end to the Soviet Union in the form that it had during the cold war, many Russian newspapers realized that the subject of UFOs, just like any "paranormal" or unusual topic, was very popular and started to publish weird stories and reports of UFOs regularly, without paying any attention to the veracity of the story and without consulting with serious ufologists, since it was a matter of getting more readers and not to investigate the UFO phenomenon. There was thus a new surge of magazines and reviews briskly mixing UFOS, astrology, poltergeist, sex, disappeared ancient civilizations and largely sensationalized mysteries of all sorts.
Russian ufologist Boris Shurinov tells the revealing example of the discovery in July 1989, along an artery of Moscow, of a simple burned grass patch of eight meters, that a delirious ufologist, A. Kouzovkine, claimed to have been caused by the strong radiations emitted by some flying saucer that nobody actually saw, and which according to the firemen, was simply the remainders of a haystack that took fire.
A three eyed extraterrestrial robot walks in the park:
It was in this context that on October 1989, and in the middle of a flurry of journalistic hoaxes and ordinary hoaxes, that the sensational story of an extraterrestrial landing in downtown Voronezh - a city of 800.000 residents approximately 500 kilometers of Moscow - was revealed.
The first report of the Voronezh wave appeared in the Soviet newspaper Kommuna. This particular incident took place at a park in the city during the course of a soccer game. The witnesses were said to include many teenagers as well as over forty adults. They described seeing a pink/red light which turned into a dark sphere. The sphere circled an area of the park at an extremely low altitude (approximately thirty to forty feet above the ground) then flew away. After only a few moments it reappeared and again hovered over the park. This time a door opened in the bottom, a being could be seen looking out, surveying an astonished group of witness. The door closed and the craft descended and then landed. As it did so, it came into contact with a large poplar tree. The tree was bent over to the side and remained in that position.
Tass agency then publishes the following news item, which will be read in the western countries:
A UFO said to have landed in a park at Voronezh
Voronezh, October 9. TASS. The experts confirmed that a UFO had indeed landed in a park of Voronezh. According to their statement, they have discovered, on the landing spot, traces of the craft and its occupants, who have even made a short walk in the park.
According to witnesses, there would have been these last days at least three extraterrestrial visits. An enormous ball or a luminous disc arrived above the park, then it went down to the ground and let come out by a passage two or three extraterrestrial beings, 3 to 4 meters tall, with tiny heads, as well as a small robot. During a certain time, the extraterrestrial turned around the ball, before returning inside, then the craft took off without noise and disappeared in a wink. The fear that seized the witnesses lasted several days.
"To locate the place of landing, we had recourse to the technique of biological magnetism", indicated the chief of the laboratory of the expedition sent in the park, Guenrikh Silanov. "It is a circular surface of 20 meters in diameter. Four depressions of 4 A 5 centimetres of depth and 14 to 16 centimetres in diameter are quite visible there. They form a rhombus. We also took two samples of the mysterious ground. At first sight they resemble dark red sandstone. However, after mineralogical analysis, we established that it was a rock without equivalent on Earth. To give a more precise conclusion, we need to make complex additional studies."
Which appeared in France as this news release:
The next days, many newspapers worldwide publish the story, for example, "Le Courrier de l'Ouest, France, on October 10, 1989:
A UFO said to have landed in the Soviet Union
MOSCOW. -- Soviet researchers claimed that a strange unidentified spaceship, operated by giant individuals with tiny heads, had recently landed in a park of the town of Voronej, the Tass agency announced Monday.
The scientists "identified the place of the landing and discovered traces of the strange creatures which carried out a short walk in the park". The date of the landing is not specified.
According to Tass, a ball or a large luminous disc was seen above the park by the inhabitants of Voronezh, a city located at 480 km in the south-east of Moscow. The unidentified flying object (UFO) landed and three creatures, which measured between 3 and 4 meters with tiny heads, similar to human beings came out of there, accompanied by a small robot.
Which gave, translated by the Associated Press on October 9, 1989:
By JOHN IAMS Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) -- The official Tass news agency said today that scientists have confirmed the landing of an alien spaceship carrying giant people with tiny heads.
The report was the latest strange tale in the official Soviet media, which under the policy of glasnost, "or openness," have recently told of other sightings of unidentified flying objects and alien creatures.
"Scientists have confirmed that an unidentified flying object recently landed in a park in the Russian city of Voronezh," Tass said in a dispatch from the city, 300 miles southeast of Moscow. "They have also identified the landing site and found traces of aliens who made a short promenade about the park."
Tass said Voronezh residents saw a large shining ball or disk hovering over the park. They reported that the UFO landed and up to three creatures similar to humans emerged, accompanied by a small robot, Tass said.
"The aliens were three or even four meters (9 to 12 feet) tall, but with very small heads," the news agency quoted witnesses as saying. "They walked near the ball or disc and then disappeared inside."
The report was similar to a story last summer in the daily newspaper Socialist Industry, which told of a purported "close encounter" between a milkmaid and an alien in Central Russia's Perm region.
In that report, Lyubov Medvedev was quoted as saying she encountered an alien creature "resembling a man, but taller than average with short legs." The creature, she said, had "only a small knob instead of a head."
The Tass report, which did not give the date of the purported landing in Voronezh, said onlookers were "overwhelmed with a fear that lasted for several days."
Genrikh Silanov, head of the Voronezh Geophysical Laboratory, told Tass that scientists investigating the UFO report found a 20-yard depression with four deep dents as well as two pieces of unidentified rocks.
"At first glance, they looked like sandstone of a deep-red color. However, mineralogical analysis has shown that the substance cannot be found on Earth," Tass quoted Silanov as saying. "However, additional tests are needed to reach a more definite conclusion."
Silanov said the landing site and path taken by the aliens were confirmed using the "biolocation" method of tracking, but Tass didn't explain what that was.
Further confirmation came from witnesses, who were not told of the experiments and whose accounts matched precisely the scientific findings, Tass said.
The Tass report said residents also reported recent sightings of a "banana-shaped" object in the sky.
In July, Tass disputed a report in Socialist Industry quoting a UFO specialist, A. Kuzovkin, as saying a 26-foot-wide patch of burned ground near southern Moscow was probably caused by the landing of a UFO.
Tass said firefighters believe a haystack simply caught fire and scorched the ground.
Normally, any sensible ufologist would have raised a suspicious eyebrow by reading the stories of sandstone unknown on the earth requiring further studies and of research of "experts" turned scientists, by "the technique of biological magnetism", i.e. in reality: the divining rod. But the Tass Agency then reported other details:
Moscow, October 10. TASS. The daily newspaper Sovetskaya Koullaura published today additional details on the appearance of an unidentified flying object in Voronezh (central Russia). According to the newspaper, it occurred in the warm evening of September 27. Schoolboys Vassia Sourine, Jenia Blinov and Youlia Cholokhova played football in the city park where there were many people. Not far from there, several tens of people awaited the bus. At six hours and half, the children suddenly noticed in the sky a pink light and then a dark red ball of approximately ten meters in diameter. After having made some turns, the sphere disappeared but it returned a few minutes to then hover above the park. A trap door opened in the lower part of the ball. The crowd, already important, saw a being of a size of three meters approximately, with three eyes, in silver combination, boots of bronze color and with a disc on the chest.
After having examined the ground, the "visitor" closed the trap door, and the sphere landed, reads one in the article. Two beings descended from there, one of which was undoubtedly a robot. The first uttered something, after that, a luminous triangle of 30 centimetres by 50 was seen for a few moments on the ground. The extraterrestrial touched the chest of the robot which started to walk.
At this time, one of the kids cried of fear. The "visitor" threw a luminous glance at him: the boy could not move any more. Then, all the crowd shouted. The sphere flew away with its passengers. It was seen again five minutes afterwards. This time, the being with three eyes had a one half-meter length tube at its side. He pointed it on a sixteen year old teenager: this one disappeared and reappeared only when the apparatus and the extraterrestrial flew away definitively.
Commenting on this information, the permanent correspondent of Sovetskaya Koultoura in Voronezh notes that it is difficult to explain them. But, in his opinion, something really occurred. The account quoted above reproduced testimonys of several people. The residents of the street Poutiline have more than once observed the appearance of UFOS between September the 23 and 29. Militiamen and journalists questioned the witnesses: no contradictions in the description of the sphere and the actions of the extraterrestrials. Moreover, all the children who attended the phenomenon are still afraid.
The local section for the study of the natural anomalies, which gathers specialists in physics and biology, investigates into this phenomenon, announces the newspaper.
http://www.ufologie.net/ummo/voronej.htm
-------------------------------------------------
Although with a missleading title, the Russian Ufo story is reported here in this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JaXqpUV8j0