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Moscow TRUD in Russian 30 Jan 85 p 3 AIRLINER CREW REPORTS UFO SIGHTING [Report by TRUD Special Correspondent V. Vostrukhin: "At 4:10 Precisely," followed by commentary on the report by N. A. Zheltukhin, deputy chairman of the Commission on AYa [Aerodynamic Phenomena] attached to the VSNTO [All-Union Council of Scientific and Technical Societies] and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences] [Text] Flight No 8352 from Tbilisi to Rostov to Tallin, a Tu-134 aircraft, was being manned by a crew from the Estonian Administration of the USSR Ministry of Civil Aviation. The aircraft commander was Igor Alekseyevich Cherkashin. He completed the Buguruslan Flight School and has accrued 7,000 hours of flight time. He is a Pilot First Class. The copilot was Gennadiy Ivanovich Lazurin. He completed the Sasovo Flight School and the Order of Lenin Academy of Civil Aviation, and has accrued 4,500 hours of flight time. He is a Pilot Second Class. The navigator, Yegor Mikhaylovich Ognev, completed the Order of Lenin Academy of Civil Aviation and has accrued 3,500 hours of flight time. He is a Navigator Second Class. The flight engineer, Gennadiy Mikhaylovich Kozlov, has accrued 12,500 hours of flight time. He is a Flight Engineer First Class. At 4:10 am, they were 120 kilometers from Minsk. The aircraft was not flying--it was standing in the center of the universe. There was not a sound in the earphones. As luck would have it, they were alone in the clear air, in a block of black glass with little holes made by the stars. Glancing over his portion of the sky, the copilot noticed a large star that was not flickering on his upper right. But this is no star, this yellow speck the size of a 5-kopeck coin, stretched out along the edges. "No matter..." he told himself calmly, "refraction of light in the atmosphere or something else..." A very thin beam of light emerged from the speck and fell vertically down to the ground itself. Then the pilot nudged the flight engineer: "Look, Mikhalyoh..."
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