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UFOs
in Soviet Waters
by Paul Stonehill*
The Russian Ufology Research Center has obtained
a collection of interesting eyewitness sighting reports from the secret
files of the Soviet Navy. These files have been largely inaccessible,
even after the fall of the USSR, until recently.
In August 1965, a crew of the steamship RADUGA, while navigating in the
Red Sea, observed an unusual phenomenon. At about two miles away, a
fiery sphere dashed out from under the water and hovered over the
surface of the sea, illuminating it. The sphere was sixty meters in
diameter, and it hovered above the sea at an altitude of 150 meters. A
gigantic pillar of water rose as the sphere emerged from the sea and
collapsed some moments later.
In December 1977, not far from the Novy Georgy Island, the crew of the
fishing trawler VASILY KISELEV also observed something quite
extraordinary. Rising vertically from under the water was a
doughnut-shaped object. Its diameter was between 300 and 500 meters. It
hovered at the altitude of four to five kilometers. The trawler's radar
station was immediately rendered inoperative. The object hovered over
the area for three hours, and then disappeared instantly.
The testimony of Alexander G. Globa, a seaman from GORI, a Soviet
tanker, was published in Zagadki Sfinksa magazine (Issue # 3,
1992) in Odessa. In June 1984, GORI was in the Mediterranean, twenty
nautical miles from the Strait of Gibraltar. At 16:00, Globa was on
duty and with him was Second-in-Command S. Bolotov. They were standing
watch at the left bridge extension wing when both men observed a
strange polychromatic object. When the object was astern, it stopped
suddenly. S. Bolotov was agog, shaking his binoculars and shouting: "It
is a flying saucer, a real saucer, my God, hurry, hurry, look!"
Globa looked through his own binoculars and saw, at a distance over the
stern, a flattened out looking object (it did remind him of an
upside-down frying pan). The UFO was gleaming with a grayish metallic
shine. The lower portion of the craft had a precise round shape, its
diameter no more than twenty meters. Around the lower portion of it
Globa also observed "waves" of protuberances on the outside plating.
The base of the object's body consisted of two semi-discs, the smaller
being on top; they slowly revolved in opposing directions. At the
circumference of the lower disc Globa saw numerous shining, bright,
bead-like lights. The seaman's attention was centered on the bottom
portion of the UFO. It looked as if it was completely even and smooth,
its color that of a yolk, and in the middle of it Globa discerned a
round, nucleus-like stain. At the edge of the UFO's bottom, which was
easily visible, was something that looked like a pipe. It glowed with
an unnaturally bright rosy color, like a neon lamp. The top of the
middle disc was crowned by a triangular-shaped something. It seemed
that it moved in the same direction as the lower disc, but at a much
slower pace.
Suddenly the UFO jumped up several times, as if moved by an invisible
wave. Many lights illuminated its bottom portion. The crew of GORI
tried to attract the object's attention using a signal projector. By
that time Captain Sokolovky was on the desk with his men. He and his
Second-in-Command were watching the object intensely. However, the
UFO's attention was distracted by another ship, approaching at the port
side. It was an Arab dry cargo ship, on its way to Greece. The Arabs
confirmed that the object hovered over their ship. A minute and a half
later the object changed its flight's trajectory, listed to the right,
gained speed and ascended rapidly. The Soviet seamen observed that when
it rose through the clouds, appearing and disappearing again, it would
occasional shine in the sun's rays. The craft then flared up, like a
spark, and was gone instantly.
*Stonehill, a Soviet-born researcher of anomalous phenomena and an
independent consultant, has lived in the United States since 1973. He
is the director of the Russian Ufology Research Center, which has
served as a bridge for the CIS scientists, researchers, ufologists, and
military personnel who want to share information about the past and
present research of anomalous phenomena. Most of the information has
never reached the West before. The Center also helps investigate hoaxes
and planted "dezinformatsia." Stonehill has written several books about
anomalous phenomena, published in Moscow in 1992. His new book, The Soviet UFO Files, is published by Quadrillion Books and is available
in the United States.
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