Declassified UFO / UAP Document
AIRLINER CREW REPORTS UFO SIGHTING
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A Soviet airliner crew reported observing a non-flickering yellow object that emitted a vertical beam of light while flying near Minsk in 1985. The report was published in the newspaper TRUD and included commentary from a member of the Commission on Aerodynamic Phenomena.
This document is a press report from the Moscow newspaper TRUD, dated January 30, 1985. It details a sighting of an unidentified aerial phenomenon by the crew of a Tu-134 airliner, Flight No. 8352, traveling from Tbilisi to Rostov to Tallinn. The crew consisted of aircraft commander Igor Alekseyevich Cherkashin, copilot Gennadiy Ivanovich Lazurin, navigator Yegor Mikhaylovich Ognev, and flight engineer Gennadiy Mikhaylovich Kozlov. At 4:10 am, while 120 kilometers from Minsk, the crew observed a non-flickering yellow speck in the sky, described as being the size of a 5-kopeck coin with edges that appeared stretched. The copilot initially dismissed the object as a refraction of light. However, the object emitted a thin beam of light that descended vertically to the ground. The report includes commentary from N. A. Zheltukhin, deputy chairman of the Commission on AYa (Aerodynamic Phenomena) attached to the VSNTO.
A very thin beam of light emerged from the speck and fell vertically down to the ground itself.
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Witnesses
- Igor Alekseyevich CherkashinAircraft commanderEstonian Administration of the USSR Ministry of Civil Aviation
- Gennadiy Ivanovich LazurinCopilotEstonian Administration of the USSR Ministry of Civil Aviation
- Yegor Mikhaylovich OgnevNavigatorEstonian Administration of the USSR Ministry of Civil Aviation
- Gennadiy Mikhaylovich KozlovFlight engineerEstonian Administration of the USSR Ministry of Civil Aviation
Key Persons
- N. A. ZheltukhinDeputy chairman of the Commission on AYa