Encounter Over Ukraine

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On an unspecified date in 1944, during a mission to Romania to bomb oil refineries used by the Germans, Boris Surikov and his commander, Major Bajenov, were flying at an altitude of five kilometres over southwest Ukraine when they had an encounter with a highly unusual aircraft. ‘In front of the plane, a large elliptical-shaped object flew towards us,’ Surikov told British television producers Lawrence Moore and Livia Russell in Moscow in 1994: We’d read in the newspapers about new German weapons, but we’d seen nothing like this.

What happened was that our heavy plane [unspecified], of 14.5 tonnes, started shaking, the oil pressure rose, and when I leaned towards the window I felt a strong electrostatic charge. I was worried that the plane would burst into flames. It passed us and disappeared, but our plane was still affected: I looked at the wings, and they were covered in electrical discharges.

Major Bajenov, equally concerned that the plane was about to catch fire, ordered the crew to jettison the bomb load. ‘The whole plane was fluorescent and the wings were glowing like a rainbow,’ said Surikov. ‘If it had been up to me, I would have carried on and tried to fulfil the mission, and if the plane would have caught fire I would have jumped with a parachute.’ The commander, having more experience, believed there was real danger of the plane catching fire and the bombs exploding, so gave orders to jettison the two-tonne bomb load in southwest Ukraine instead of in Romania.

Mentioning nothing about the incident in their report on the mission, Bajenov and Surikov stated merely that they had successfully bombed Romanian oil refineries. ‘If we had said we had not carried out our mission,’ Surikov explained, ‘we could have been taken to court as cowards.’

Surikov described the unknown object as similar in some respects to the Russian and American space shuttles. ‘It lit up the air around it. It looked like a localized sunset, but in the centre was a strange-looking flying object. It didn’t look at all like the burst of an anti-aircraft shell, which is about 10 metres in diameter. It was larger and longer than our Buran space shuttle — I think about twice as long.’

Years later, Surikov asked scientists for their opinion as to what he had seen. ‘I was told that one could not rule out the possibility that the electrification of the plane was due to the close proximity of a UFO with a new type of propulsion system which ionized the atmosphere.’

Surikov later became a specialist in rockets and nuclear weapons. For a long time he worked at Soviet Army headquarters as its chief authority on weapons of mass destruction. ‘But I am proud,’ he points out, ‘to be one of those who developed a treaty on the restriction of anti-missile defence systems. For a long time I worked as an expert in Geneva, where we were trying to promote the disbanding of certain types of weapons of mass destruction — nuclear, radiological, and so on.’

Now retired from the Soviet Armed Forces with the rank of general-major, Surikov specializes in environment problems. He has also pondered the significance of the UFO phenomenon: We cannot rule out the possibility that creatures who may well be superior to us are interested in what is happening to our Earth . . . Scientists with whom I have discussed these matters think that in those civilizations new types of energy have been discovered which allow them to fly very far at great speed, so it is very important for us to study them in order to make use of these discoveries and to improve life on Earth