UFO. Russia

 September 7, 1984 4 or 3.50, Leningrad


Lopatovskaya K. writes to the Commission on the:

I haven't dared to write to you for a long time. I heard that there is a commission on AI in our country, but I did not write, because I was sure that they would hardly believe me in my story about what I saw.

I want to tell you about what I saw in September 1984, or rather on the night of September 6 to 7, at about 4 o'clock, maybe at 3.30.

But first I want to tell you about what happened to me on September 6. It was surprisingly cold in Leningrad that day. But for some inexplicable reason, I wanted to wash the window, which had already been washed and faced the north side, where a very cold wind was blowing. But, despite this, I dressed very warmly and still began to wash this window.

The window is large, since we also have a balcony on this side. It may seem strange to you that I started my story about some windows, but it has a considerable connection with what I want to tell you. My cousin lived with me at that time. She asked me to stop washing the window and wash it better in the living room if I really wanted to, but I continued my work with amazing thoroughness. I also want to say that there are curtains hanging on our windows that we have never pulled back. Here, of course, I pushed them to the end. 

I finished washing the windows at 20.00, and I just forgot to close the curtains. From 20.00 to 23.30, my sister and I were doing the usual things. That day we were going to go to the cinema and even tickets were bought, but I flatly refused, saying that I would wash the windows.

At 24 o'clock my sister decided to go to bed, but I persuaded her to play checkers with me. We got carried away and lost until about 2 hours and 30 minutes. About 3 o'clock I decided to go out for a walk with the dog. My sister was very surprised by this. But it seemed to me that there was nothing special about it and I started getting dressed.

My sister said she wouldn't let me go out alone and would come with me. We went out and saw a surprisingly clear sky. Such a thing had not happened in Leningrad for a long time, not a single cloud, not a cloud, and amazingly bright stars shone. It was dark outside, since the lights are turned off at 2 a.m., and I noticed that only ours was lit in our house: the window, and in other houses almost no lights were on anywhere.

We got home at 3 o'clock. My sister said she really wanted to sleep, but I didn't want to sleep at all, I couldn't understand the reason. Although I usually go to bed at 12 o'clock. My sister was very surprised. I went to wash my hair and informed my sister that I had decided to clean the whole room where I was cleaning the windows. The sister was completely stunned and went to bed. But at that moment I didn't see anything special about starting to clean the room at the beginning of the fourth hour. I asked my sister to sit with me, but she said she was just terribly sleepy.

I remember exactly that it was 3:50 when I looked at my watch and estimated how long I would clean the room. I dusted the desk and sat down at it. Then I looked distractedly at some photo, and at that time I raised my head.

My desk was next to the window and the curtains were fully open. And this is the picture that appeared before me: against the background of an almost black sky there was something absolutely incredible.

Later I was picking up what to compare with and, perhaps, the best comparison would be a jellyfish.

It was a "dome" or, more precisely, a "cone", which still had something in it; the "dome" itself was greenish in color, it seemed as if it was a veil. But this "veil" had clear boundaries. And along this green veil vertically, apparently, from what was on top, the spectra diverged - reddish, blue, etc.

Now I will move on to my condition. I was seized with such an inexplicable fear that I could observe the whole ego literally in a matter of seconds. I can't explain to you what happened to me, maybe it will even seem funny, but I am not a fantasist and have never read or loved fiction.

The first thought I had was that I was being seen, seen and heard. I can't explain why this happened. And I literally rushed to turn off the light in a few seconds, because I remembered that our window was the only one burning in the house. When I turned off the light, I also, as if to make sure of what I saw, looked back and, unfortunately, the frame covered part of this object for me and I saw only the end of this greenish dome. I also want to say that there was something on top of the dome, that is, that the dome itself is like the light that came from this object (I understand that this is a rude expression, but I can't imagine how to call it a window in another way).

And yet, for some reason I was afraid to look at this "object", from which the "dome" itself emanated. Therefore, I describe the "dome" itself in more detail.

The only thing I literally managed to see out of the corner of my eye was a red "light" on the side of this object, from which a reddish hue apparently radiated along the dome. Naturally, the red spectrum is the brightest and stands out better among others. But I say again that other colors also diverged along the dome. It seemed to me, it just seemed, I'm not saying with certainty, since I saw this object literally out of the corner of my eye, that it resembled an inverted rhombus. (But you shouldn't pay attention to this at all, because I was afraid to look at what was above the dome from some incomprehensible fear, and, of course, I saw only vague outlines out of the corner of my eye).

And then I ran to the other room where my sister was sleeping. When I ran up to her, I couldn't utter a single normal word.

There was a certain period of time, probably ten years ago, when conversations about flying objects were very frequent. But then and in the time that followed, I said that if I could see with my own eyes, then I would believe. I think I'm not the only one in this statement. It was a shame to me that I saw it, and not a scientist who is engaged in this field, or at least a person,

more knowledgeable in the field of physics than I am.

Undoubtedly, such logicians could evaluate everything that happened from a completely different point of view. I will not describe what happened to me after I ran into my sister's room. I can only say that when my sister saw me and my appearance, she was speechless with horror, I was in such a terrible state.

And I had no idea of going back to the other room and seeing what was going on there next. Of course, I regret it very much now.

I told a lot about what I saw only to my sister and no one else, because it's unlikely that ito will believe it and will only laugh at you.

On September 7, I immediately drew what I saw, of course, I could not depict this amazing, that's right, unearthly sight. I can't send you this drawing, it's on a sick format sheet. I drew something similar to my drawing, but much worse.

I will also add that it seemed to me that this object was at a great distance from the Earth. This veil itself is large, and the object that was on top was much smaller.

I decided to write to you after an article that was published in the newspaper "Trud" on January 5, 1985, where it was said about a case that occurred in the Estonian SSR, where firefighters saw objects resembling balloons, but the phenomenon that I saw them, which they saw, has nothing in common.

The object I saw did not illuminate anything and did not move (at least, it seemed to me).

Of course, if I were a physicist, I would be able to more accurately characterize what I saw. But I'm in the humanities. So I'm sorry if something is wrong.

And in general, of course, it must be seen, it is very difficult to describe in a story. I described everything that was happening to me for a long time before I saw the object, maybe it was just a coincidence, but you must agree, if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have seen anything, since I usually sleep at this time.