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MY ENCOUNTER WITH A UFO Flight Commander Major Musatov at once: _ the strange sparkling pillar which stretched by Lev Vyatkin "Who is in the zone?" He consulted his downwards. Soon the light above and the [Fighter Pilot of the Ist Class instruments and answered to my surprise ray below disappeared. Lieutenant-Colonel Lev Vyatkin was born that there was nobody in the zone as all the Flying back to the airfield I kept search- in Perm, Russia, on 20th October 1931. In _ other planes had already landed. ing the starry skies above for more surpris- 1953 he finished the Komarov Higher I banked the plane to the right, trying not es, but everything was quiet. My night Naval Aviation College in Yeysk, and in to lose sight of the strange object which flight ended safely. For many days after- 1974 graduated from the Mechnikov State worried me a lot. Attempting not to wards, the surface of the wing which had University in Odessa, Ukraine.] approach the object too closely, I tried to come into contact with the strange ray On 13th August 1967 I took off my inter- determine in what direction it was moving. shone at nights as if to remind me of the ceptor for a training flight. The time was However, several seconds later its lights phenomenon. several minutes past 23 hours. I wrned on went gradually down as if a rheostat switch One knows from experience that there is the afterburning in order to climb to 10,000 _ had been tured off inside. no such thing as ‘solid rays'. And yetit was metres. I manoeuvred’the plane to face the Meanwhile the plane made a complete me, a pilot, who happened to encounter the beam, determined my location, reported to right turn and came back to the starting ‘impossible phenomenon in real life. I felt the Flight Commander and smoothly point. I considered my next move and then some relief when the popular newspaper banked the plane to the left... decided to make the left tum I had planned, Komsomolskaya Pravda published an.arti- It was a calm, moonless night. The trying to be as careful as possible. Hardly cle entitled “Cosmic Ghosts" (1 October bright constellations added to its charm. had I banked the plane to the left and 1989). The plane had performed half of the turn adjusted the speed and thrust when I saw a The article stated that ‘solid rays' really and was facing the sea. The lights of Yalta, flash of bright light from above straight on _ existed, and I had not been the only person a Black Sea resort town, glimmered below the course of my plane. Then a slanting to come into contact with them. V. along the half moon of the beach. Imadea milky-white ray appeared in front of my Selyavkin, the police chief of Voronezh, routine check of the flight instruments. plane. The ray was closing in on the plane. Russia, described a similar experience he The engine murmured behind my armoured Had I not levelled out the plane, I would had when he found himself at night on a chair. Everything was OK, the flight con- have run into the ray with the fuselage or, road in the town suburbs: “Suddenly a ray formed to all standard procedures. to be more exact, with the cockpit. of light fell down on me from above. It At that moment I caught sight of the All the same I hit the ray with the left was so bright and powerful that I felt it thing that later kept returning to my memo- wing. I was approaching the ray at very physically. You won't believe it, but it ty and troubling me, making me recall the high speed, not taking my eyes off it, soI pinned me to the ground with its weight. details of my night flight, time and time had time to notice and feel something very Then the ray moved aside and disappeared. again, searching for explanation for what strange. No sooner had the wing touched _ I will not forget it as long as I live..." happened then. I saw the Object when I the ray than the latter broke into a myriad Many other sources mention this phe- looked up from the instruments: it was a_ of tiny sparkles like those you see in a nomenon so characteristic of UFOs. very large oval-shaped object which was spent firework. The plane shook violently Another feature of the ray is no less somehow fixed to the port of my plane. A and the instruments read off the scale. strange. It can project itself from a UFO strange object so close to my plane could "What's the matter? Is the ray solid?" I _ like a telescope support or a probe. It ter- not help but worry me, so I requested the thought instinctively, with my eyes still on minates abruptly. None of the physicists can explain these peculiarities. The nature and functions of the ray are not clear. Is it a ray at all? There is a need for a different name, but what? Which physical laws gover it? Both the impact on contact and the fran- tic running of the instrument needles sug- gest that it is not a ray of light but a pillar of fluorescent, highly magnetised gas. By confining gas within a ‘magnetic tube’ or a ‘pillar’ it is possible, in principle, to achieve the effect of a ‘solid’ ray which can project and retract itself. It means that a protruding ray which has an 'end face' may turn out to be nothing but a pillar of magnetised gas. I know that I am speculating over disputable and poorly- investigated issues, but circumstances forced me to express my opinion. (Source: AURA-Z, no. 1, March 1993 [PO Box 224, Moscow 117463, Russia; phone +7 (095) 925 7679, fax +7 (095) 422 0960]) by Lev Vyatkin [Fighter Pilot of the Ist Class Lieutenant-Colonel Lev Vyatkin was born in Perm, Russia, on 20th October 1931. In 1953 he finished the Komarov Higher Naval Aviation College in Yeysk, and in 1974 graduated from the Mechnikov State University in Odessa, Ukraine.] On 13th August 1967 I took off my inter- ceptor for a training flight. The time was several minutes past 23 hours. I wrned on the afterburning in order to climb to 10,000 metres. I manoeuvred’the plane to face the beam, determined my location, reported to the Flight Commander and smoothly banked the plane to the left... It was a calm, moonless night. The bright constellations added to its charm. The plane had performed half of the turn and was facing the sea. The lights of Yalta, a Black Sea resort town, glimmered below along the half moon of the beach. I made a routine check of the flight instruments. The engine murmured behind my armoured chair. Everything was OK, the flight con- formed to all standard procedures. At that moment I caught sight of the thing that later kept returning to my memo- ty and troubling me, making me recall the details of my night flight, time and time again, searching for explanation for what happened then. I saw the Object when I looked up from the instruments: it was a very large oval-shaped object which was somehow fixed to the port of my plane. A strange object so close to my plane could not help but worry me, so I requested the 70 ¢ NEXUS MY ENCOUNTER WITH A UFO OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1994