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THE plant." I asked. 220 REVELATIONS VORONEZH COLLECTIVE The four men with whom we met the next day were tough, well- informed, and technically trained investigators who were not beginners in the UFO field. The group included Alex Mosolov, an aeronautical engineer; Venceslaw Martinov, chief engineer at the Voronezh aviation factory; and Yuri Lozotsev, a professor who teaches the physics of materials on the faculty of Voronezh University. With nearly one million inhabitants, Voronezh is a key industrial town located some four hundred kilometers south of Moscow. "There is no single center of UFO activity in Voronezh," Lozotsev told me. "The sightings have taken place at several locations, from the city park to the electrical generating station and the nuclear power "How did you first become aware of the sighting of September 30, 1989, the main one?" "Mosolov lives in the area," was the answer. "The mother of one of the kids told him about the landing near the school. We went there the very next day." "You said that there was more than one sighting. When did the activity begin?" "It actually started back in August. There were several landings between September twenty-first and October second." "How many witnesses saw the phenomena?" "If you're talking just about landings, there are over thirty witnesses, both children and adults. But literally thousands of people have seen the objects in flight." "What methodology have you used to conduct your investigations?" "As soon as we went to the site we separated the witnesses," said Mosolov. One of his companions added: "In the main landing event, the case that included the symbol on the side of the craft, the witnesses were children. Many of them did