Early 19th century saw a UFO?

The author's sketch.Number 1: flight path of strange objects.Number 2: Size of strange objects.Number 3: when the radiation is off, strange objects fly straight up into the sky and lose after two minutes

Flying saucers appear in newspapers now no longer attract readers. Most reports that flying saucers have turned out to be a 'over-chicken look'.

Those unidentified flying objects - English called UFOs, also known as flying saucers - are often missiles, planes or meteorological exploration balls.

However, the following story published in the daily newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, published in Moscow, was taken seriously by Alexander Afanasyev, an expert on the manuscript at the Russian History Museum. Indeed, at the beginning of the 19th century, there was no plane or missile. Afanasyev recently happened to find in the personal archives of Peter Poludensky - a senator in Moscow working at the Tsar's intelligence agency and died in the mid-19th century - a document describing a phenomenon the mystery that Afanasyev believes is about UFOs.

Alexander Afanasyev told the Russian newspaper reporter: 'UFO is not in my field of research. Even so I think the author has seen flying saucers'.

The document states: ' On September 1, 1808, at 8: 7 minutes at night, in the clear starry sky there appeared an unprecedented phenomenon with great beauty and great size with an hour. big Bang. It flew in an arc from the horizon and stopped on top of the Kremlin. It now looked like a 9 arshin long structure (6.35 m), half arshin thick (0.35 m). Then, the front edge of the strange object spits out an oval flame about 2 arshins long (1.4 m) and about 1.5 arshin (1.05 m) high like phosphorous fire brightens a whole area like daytime. The fire then turned off but the flat object was still bright. It flew slowly vertically to the stars. People still see it for about 2 minutes before it disappears . '

According to Afanasyev, the description of the aforementioned mysterious flying objects is similar to those of present-day flying saucers with the following characteristics: sudden stop and redirection, continuous glowing, instantaneous changes. Is this a fake document? Afanasyev does not believe this, because ' correct writing is the product of the year 1805, penmanship and spelling are also in the early 19th century. The author is a learned man, possibly a Moscow University professor because This school is located near the Kremlin '.

P.THANH