THE St. PETERSBURG INCIDENT | ||
The St. Petersburg incident is one of the most witnessed and highly recorded incidents in the history of UFOlogy. The events took place in the skies over St. Petersburg in Russia on the evening of 19th February 1997, when at around 7-00p.m. the residents of the city became aware of a cluster of lights hovering overhead. The incident was unusual in that there were multiple witnesses; a number of video recordings made and was seen quite clearly by air traffic staff and aircrew at the local airport. Just after 7-00 p.m. the air traffic controllers at the local airport saw the strange objects appear on their radar screens and also strange lights became quite visible in the skies over the airport. | ||
The strange
lights were captured on video by |
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One of the air traffic controllers, Victor Laxtushin,
went outside and witnessed the objects, he remarked: | ||
Victor Laxtushin [ above ]
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Uri Arzamastsev, [below] an
economics student, noticed the lights, high in the sky and well above the horizon, through the kitchen window -
rushing outside with his camcorder he captured the UFO on video and, by
this time, the rest of his family were also witnessing the event. | ||
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The strange lights as |
Victor Laxtushin made |
The "lights" were recorded from different locations. |
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The lights take on
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Viewed from another location. |
Quite clearly a triangular formation. |
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