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TIME/PLACE OF SIGHTING: May 30, 1958 between 9:20 and 9:30 P.M. Moscow time (Greenwich plus three hours) a lonely airport outside of Uralsk in Southern Russia. TYPE OF OBSERVER: One American was a professional science writer and amateur astronomer; other American was his wife, a photographer; identification of the Russian men and women were generally unknown, except for the Americans’ Intourist interpreter, an English Major from Moscow University. approached, its color changed to that of an airplane's nose light as seen through a haze; it became a yellowish orange. SOUND: None. ALTITUDE: At first it appeared to be at about 1000 feet, then it rose to about 35° above the horizon and then to about 85°, or 88°, or almost overhead at a great altitude. SPEED: About 150 knots (roughly, 173 miles) an hour at first, then it speeded up to 400 mph and then stopped and moved more slowly, maybe 30 to 50 mph. TACTICS: The UFO came out of the North, very bright in the sky, and flew down one side of the small airfield exactly like a jet fighter-trainer making a landing pattern; it came up from under the constellation Cassiopeia, made the start of a pattern to the south edge of the airfield - and stopped; it remained absolutely motionless for a few minutes, then made a right-angle turn to the east for about 150 yards and stopped again; after several minutes, it began to get smaller and smaller (or so was its appearance) until it was a pinpoint of light among the many stars; here, the American observers realized they were looking almost straight up into the sky overhead; apparently the UFO had risen in a straight line from its motionless position; it had seemed also to be rotating around that line; after it had reached a tremendous altitude, another object of similar color came out of nowhere and joined the first UFO; they came together very closely and began to orbit about each other; then they pulled apart into a wider orbit and became so faint that they disappeared from view. COMMENT: All observers were stranded at the little airport because of bad weather in Moscow, about 300 miles away. The weather at Uralsk was clear and calm, with hardly any clouds. The moon was rising in the southeast, lighting up the sky but not blanking out the stars. The moonlight, however, was bright enough to illuminate any shape that might have been attached to the light. There was no DURATION: 10 minutes. NUMBER OF OBSERVERS: Two Americans and about 30 Russians. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: One. OBSERVER RELIABILITY: Excellent for the Americans; unknown for the Russians. SHAPE: A disembodied light. DIMENSIONS: Like a star of the second magnitude, increasing to the size of an airplane's nose light. COLOR: Almost the same as the Red Giant stars, such as Betelguese; Aldebaran or Arcturus; but as it