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THE WAVE 217 GIANTS IN THE PARK investigation was in progress in the Soviet Union, and that over forty witnesses had already been interviewed. GLASNOST The Soviet wave may actually have begun early in 1989. On April 24 an object described as "three times the size of an aircraft" flew over Cherepovetsk, according to a witness named I. Veselova, who saw it hovering a thousand feet in the air at 10:55 P.M. In central Russia, in the Vologda region, on June 6, 1989, school children near the village of Konantsevo in the Kharaovsk district, saw a luminous dot in the sky. It became larger and soon turned into a shining sphere. The object landed in a meadow and moved to the nearby river as the children watched from a quarter-mile away. The sphere appeared to split, and "something resembling a headless person in dark garb" appeared, its hands reaching lower than its knees. The sphere and the creature quickly became invisible. Three more spheres, some of them associated with entities, later landed in the same meadow. On June 11 a woman named O. Lubnina saw a fiery ball above Vologda at 9:20 P.M. It was visible for seventeen minutes. In Shevchenko, on the Mangyshlak peninsula in the Caspian Sea, witnesses had seen an object several times larger than a passenger aircraft in August 1989. It vanished in clouds above the sea, its lights remaining in sight for a long time. In the area of Kasturskoye Highway near Moscow people reported a mysterious burned patch of ground in a grassy area in August 1989. On the night of October 11, 1989, Soviet television viewers saw a picture of one of the creatures on a news show devoted to the Voronezh landing. It was a figure with two eyes, a nose, and a broad mouth, inside a glowing, two-legged oval object. When I saw the drawing on French television later that month, I noticed how closely the proportions of the