I need to tell you about something that happened here in Dalnegorsk back in '86. January 29th, 1986. I was sixteen years old, working after school at my uncle's machine shop in town. What I saw that night, what hundreds of us saw, it wasn't anything from this world. And the thing is, we've got proof. Physical proof that scientists still can't explain. Dalnegorsk is a mining town, small, about 30,000 people back then. We're in the Far East, near the Chinese border, surrounded by hills and forests. Cold in January, snow everywhere. People here work hard, go to bed early. Nothing exciting ever happens. That night I was walking home from the shop around seven fifty in the evening. It was already dark, temperature maybe minus 15 Celsius. I was cutting through the center of town when I heard people shouting, pointing at the sky.
I looked up and saw it. This reddish sphere, glowing like burning metal, moving across the sky. It was coming from the southeast, flying parallel to the ground, maybe 700 or 800 meters up. The color was strange, like stainless steel when you heat it until it glows. Not orange like fire, more like, metallic red. The thing that struck me immediately was the silence. Completely silent. No engine sound, no whooshing, nothing. It was moving at maybe 15 meters per second, not fast, almost leisurely. I could see it clearly because it was so bright against the dark sky. Perfect sphere, maybe three meters across, no wings, no tail, no projections of any kind. People were coming out of their houses, stopping on the street. I remember old Mrs. Sokolova from the bakery standing next to me, saying 'What is that thing?' Over and over. What is that thing? None of us knew.
The sphere crossed over the town, heading toward Height 611. That's what we call Izvestkovaya Mountain, it's 611 meters tall, sits on the edge of town. Rocky, steep in places. As the object got closer to the mountain, something changed. It started to jerk, like it was having trouble. Stuttering in the air. Then it just dropped. Fell like a rock, straight down toward the mountain slope. I saw it hit the rocky ledge near the top. There was this muted thump, not loud, more like when you drop something heavy on packed snow. Then flames. Bright, intense flames, but they didn't look like normal fire. They had this electrical quality, hard to describe. Blue-white mixed with red. The editor of our local newspaper, his name was Korotko, he saw it too from his office. He said later there was a short explosion, then these huge reddish-white flames. The whole mountainside lit up. You could see it from anywhere in town. Krai residents still remember this incident vividly - Felicity' Some people thought it was a plane crash, started running toward the mountain to help.
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