CIA document C05516658 (FBIS translation)

C00174708
The flight engineer had barely glanoed outside when he said:
"Commander, we must report this to the ground. 1f
But the beam of 11ght suddenly opened up, turning into a brilliant luminous
oone. From this moment, everyone saw what waa taking plaoe outside on the
right. A second cone emerged, wider, but not as bright as the firat one.
Then a third one, broad and quite bright.
"Wait," the commander said, shrugging his shoulders, "what do we report? We
have to see what happens further. And 1n general--what oould this be?"
It anyone understands that you cannot ascertain distance by eye, pilots do.
Nevertheless, all four had the same perception--an unidentified object is
hovering over the earth 40 to 50 kilometers away. The oopilot hastily began
sketching a drawing of the unusual phenomenon. It was unbelievable, but on
the ground, illuminated by the cone-ahaped beam of light, every.thing would be
olearly viaible--houses, roads. How powert~ this "projector" must be?1
The beam of the "projector" rose from the ground and focused on the airoraft.
Now they saw a blinding white spot, surrounded by concentric colored circles.
The oommander was atill hesitating a should he report what is taking Place or
not? But something that put an end to the doubts happened here. The white
spot flashed up, and a green cloud emerged in its place.
"He out in the engines and is runn1n& away," the copilot said, automatioallY
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But it seemed to the oommander that the objeot began coming closer at
tremendous speed, intersecting theaircratt's course at a sharp angle. In
short, it was rushing to intercept the path ot the aircratt.
Cherkashin shouted to the navigator:
"Tell the ground I "
But there was a strange coincidence: atter Ognev's very first words, the
object stopped. It stopped ooming closer, it seemed to the commander. It
stopped moving farther away, the oopilot deolded.
The Mlnsk controller took the crew's report into consideration and politely
sald that he himself, unfortunately, sees nothlng--elther on the screen of the
surveillanoe radar or in the sky.
"Well, now they will say that we're not in our right minds," Lazurin said,
offended.
But the green oloud suddenly dropped down, rushlng past the aircraft's
altitude. Then it Climbed vertically the same way. It was cast right and
lett. And again down and up. And finally, it fixed itaelf exactly opposlte
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