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01-07-1990
A UFO OVER THE MZHA RIVER
General
Translation
In the morning of the 7th of January, on the
Christmas day of 1990, the weather was dull and raw. It was drizzling
rain, a thaw had set in [the] Kharkov
region, but Anatoli
Yevdokimovich Vorontsov,
an ardent fisherman and hunter, decided to see rich fishing places on the
Mzha River. Could the fitter working in the local depot [of Merefa, a small
town in Kharkov
region], to imagine that his walk would become a part of the history of
ufology?
About 9 o'clock in the morning Anatoli
Yevdokimovich was nearing one of the best fishing places on the river, where
before a once-existent dam the water was wider and deeper, up to 12 meters.
Suddenly, in total silence, he saw a strange reddish glow on a bank which was
like camp fire gleams, a funny thing in so damp weather. But the wonder was
waiting for him quite near. Turning past the dam, Anatoli Yevdokimovich
saw a reddish object
hanging in the air over the ice of the river in its widest expanse.
The disk-shaped object, about 30 meters in diameter, hovered, its bottom just
above bushes and top almost reaching the tops of trees. Ten or fifteen
minutes after the beginning of the observation the UFO instantly soared high
above the trees and stopped hovering. Now the man noticed a large round patch of open water
in the ice. A second or two after the object flew away in the
direction of the village
of Kolesniki; as it did so, a blast of wind
shook the tops of willows, some of them breaking with crackling. But
for the round gap in the ice, there would have been no trace of the
occurrence. It was also
remarkable that a disc of ice of about 20 meters in diameter emerged slowly
from under water and occupied the round gap, exactly fitting. Anatoli Yevdokimovich
spared no efforts to examine broken willow tops and the field, and he saw the
following: the whole
water-meadow with remnants of mown grass was burnt by something. The burnt
strips represented arcs of a large radius and were almost as deep as the ground.
Where a small haystack had been, near a road, outside the burnt zone, the
investigator found a dark burnt spot on the ground.
Fortunately, the Kharkov section for
anomalous phenomena knew about this UFO hovering on the following day. The
first photographs of the ice traces were made by Dr. P. Kutnyuk, a biologist; mild frosts
that followed enabled us to investigate this case.
This reference: Anomalous
Phenomena, published in Kharkov, Ukraine. Date of Publication: December 1990
(pg. 8). Translation by Vladimir
Rubtsov.
With thanks to Dr. Richard
Haines for the copies and permission to post to this site.
UFOCAT PRN – 177174
UFOCAT
PRN – NONE Anomalous
Phenomena, published in Kharkov, Ukraine. Date of
Publication: December 1990 (pg. 8).
Translation by Vladimir
Rubtsov.
UFOCAT PRN – NONE JUSA-CISAAF Translations by Richard F.
Haines, p. 307, No date
UFOCAT PRN – 177174 *U* UFO
Computer Database by Larry Hatch, # 15535 © 2002
Europe – Ukraine
Khar’kov Latitude 50.0 N, Longitude 36.15 E
(D-M) [Now Kharkiv]
Mzha River Latitude 49.40 N, Longitude 36.22 E
Merefa Latitude 49.48 N, Longitude 36.03 E
Kolesniki ***Three found***:
Latitude 50.30 N, Longitude 26.31 E
Latitude 50.42 N, Longitude 32.22 E
Latitude 51.05 N, Longitude 31.43 E
Reference: Gazetteer of the
U.S.S.R., Volumes 3 & 4, Prepared in the Geographic Names Division, U.S.
Army Topographic Command, Washington, D.C., June 1970
UFO Location (UFOCAT) Latitude
49.40 N, Longitude 36.22 E
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