Paranormal Russia, The Petrozavodsk phenomenon

 

UFO's over Russia. The Petrozavodsk Jellyfish 

48 years ago today there was a strang craft sighted over the sky's of Russia.

 On September 20th 1977 an odd series of lights were spotted in the sky above Petrozavodsk.

These lights and craft were seen over a  large area  ranging as far as  Copenhagen and Helsinki in the west to Vladivostok in the east.

Though it's named after the city of Petrozavodsk in Russia, where a large glowing object was  reported  showering the city with numerous rays of light similar to fireworks raining down.

Several government officials from northern European countries sent letters to Anatoly Aleksandrov, president of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, expressing concern about whether the observed phenomenon was caused by Soviet weapons testing and whether it constituted a threat to the region's environment.

 Some claim what people were actually seeing was the launch of the Soviet satellite Kosmos-955. 

In the same year, a preliminary report for the Academy of Sciences of the USSR was made, containing a large body of visual observations, radiolocation reports, physical measurements, and accompanying meteorological data. It concluded that "based on the available data, it is unfeasible to satisfactorily understand the observed phenomenon"

The Petrozavodsk phenomenon contributed to the creation of Setka AN, a Soviet research program for anomalous atmospheric phenomena (UFO's).

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At the time, Petrozavodsk was the capital and a major industrial hub of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, with a population of 203,000 in 1974.

 The earliest published report of the Petrozavodsk phenomenon was written by TASS correspondent Nikolai Milov, who described the unidentified object over Petrozavodsk as "a huge star", that "flared up in the dark sky" at about 4:00 am local time, "impulsively sending shafts of light to the Earth".

Milov's report was published in the mainstream Soviet press (Pravda, Izvestiya, Selskaya Zhizn, and Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya). A local newspaper, Leninskaya Pravda, also reported the Petrozavodsk object.

The preliminary data analysis by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1977 found the eyewitness reports to be mutually consistent and complementary. Some eyewitness accounts were attested by Yuri Gromov. According to Milov, "the star" was spreading out over Petrozavodsk in the form of a jellyfish, "showering the city with a multitude of very fine rays which created an image of pouring rain".

 Milov further reported that "after some time the luminescent rays ceased" and "the jellyfish turned into a bright semicircle", which resumed its movement towards Onega Lake.

The object, surrounded by a translucent coat, was initially spotted at about 4:00 am in the northeastern part of the sky below Ursa Major at an azimuth of about 40°.

The initial brightness of the object was "apparently comparable to that of Venus". The object moved ascendantly towards Ursa Major. The course angle as determined by former pilot and eyewitness V. Barkhatov was 240°. As the object ascended, it was expanding and pulsating, but a decrease in brightness was not noted. The object moved slowly for about three minutes.

Shortly before the object stopped it dispersed a bright "cloud". The cloud was round or oval in shape. Its maximum angular size was larger than that of Ursa Major, about 30° in diameter.

The altitude of the object during the formation of the "cloud" was estimated at 7.5±0.4 km (based on eyewitnesses' observations) or at 6.0±0.5 km, based on parallax.

The linear diameter of the object's core was estimated either at 119 feet or at about 60 m.

 The diameter of the object's jellyfish-like cupola was estimated by Felix Ziegel at about 105 m, based on the drawing of eyewitness Andrei Akimov. The object itself was red in color and emitted a bluish white glow.

 The lighting of the area was compared to that from a full moon.

According to eyewitness V. Trubachev, "the ground was lightened like in the white night".

 The glowing "cloud" then developed a dark spot around the central core. The spot quickly expanded while the glow was fading away.  The object hovered over Petrozavodsk for five minutes and then moved away. Before hovering, the object moved slowly, with the angular velocity of a passenger aircraft. After the hovering its speed had increased. One eyewitness noted that the object's underside resembled a Segner wheel.  The entire phenomenon lasted 10–15 minutes.  The Petrozavodsk object was also seen in adjacent places, such as Pryazha. 

In 1978, Tekhnika i Nauka published a color reconstruction of various stages of the object.

In November 1977, clinical psychologist Y. Andreyeva evaluated the mental condition of nine eyewitnesses of the Petrozavodsk phenomenon. She concluded that "one can be confident of complete mental sanity of the eyewitnesses and the veracity of their answers and testimonies". Nonetheless, several reports noted some impact of the phenomenon on humans and environment. According to A. Grakov, who observed a glowing yellow ball the size of the moon, the air above the lake in Petrozavodsk glowed with white light after the ball had disappeared.  The glow was more intense than that from Petrozavodsk's lights

According to Yuri Linnik, after 20 September 1977 there was increased biological activity in the areas where the phenomenon was observed. Noting that that increase might not be related to the Petrozavodsk phenomenon, Linnik nonetheless reported the blooming of roses in his garden and the second bloom of "about 10 species of herbaceous plants".  Linnik called it "extraordinary for Karelia's latitude" because "after the autumn equinox the vegetation of herbs almost ceases". He further emphasized the intense bloom of the water in Ukshozero, caused by Ankistrodesmus, shortly after September 20th.

Some impact on technical devices was also noted when the engineers in the Petrozavodsk area reportedly observed "huge failures" in computing devices, which then regained normal performance

Other sightings. ..

Most sightings occurred between 1:00 and 1:20 am UTC, when at least 48 unidentified objects reportedly appeared in the atmosphere.  Several sightings occurred before, at 1:00 am local time over Medvezhyegorsk, at 2:30 am over Loukhi and at 3:00 am over Kovdor and Palanga (Lithuania).

 From approximately 3:00 to 3:25 am an unidentified luminous object was observed by the supervising personnel of the Leningrad maritime trade port.  At 3:30 am a flying object, surrounded by a luminous coat, was reportedly seen by the crew of the Soviet fishing vessel Primorsk, which was departing from the Primorsk harbour. The object appeared to move noiselessly from the east, and near Primorsk it abruptly changed its direction to north.

In Helsinki, Finland, the sightings of a glowing ball were reported by newspapers Ilta-Sanomat on 20 September and Kansan Uutiset the next day. The ball was observed by many residents, including taxi drivers, police functionaries and Helsinki Airport personnel An unidentified object was also observed near Turku by two men. At the distance of 300 m they spotted a spinning object similar to a lifebuoy, 10 m in diameter. 

This claim was contested by Pekka Teerikorpi from Tuorla Observatory. Arguing that the entire phenomenon was caused by Kosmos-955, Teerikorpi believed that the actual distance was "many hundreds of kilometres" and that "such reports probably are due to the well-known fact that it is difficult to estimate distances of unfamiliar phenomena".  Ilta-Sanomat also reported a sighting of a glowing object in Denmark, over Copenhagen, by the pilots of a Finnish airline aircraft flying from Rome.

The glowing objects were also observed in various places in the Soviet Union, mostly in the northwest. The appearance of an unidentified object over Helsinki reportedly caused heavy radio traffic in Soviet territory. In the European part of the Soviet Union "bright, luminous bodies surrounded by extended shells and emitting light rays or jets of quaint shapes" were reported. The "shells" reportedly "transformed and diffused within 10 to 15 minutes", while "a more long-lived, stable glow was observed, mostly in the northeastern part of the sky

The eyewitnesses included paramedics, on-duty militsiya functionaries, seamen and the longshoremen at Petrozavodsk's port, members of the military, local airport staff and an amateur astronomer.  The phenomenon was also observed by the members of the IZMIRAN geophysical expedition near Lekhta. In Saint Petersburg, then Leningrad, the sighting of an unidentified object was reported by three night shift employees of Pulkovo Airport, including air traffic controller B. Blagirev. According to Blagirev, he spotted a fireball-like object slightly larger than Venus at 3:55 am in the north-north-east at an azimuth of 10°. 

The object was surrounded by a spacious, rhythmically glowing coat with intricate structure and "the observed phenomenon had nothing similar to aurora". The object moved ascendantly to the observer, to the south-south-west, then it changed direction to north-north-west and eventually disappeared. All three airport employees failed to identify what they saw.

Further reports in the Soviet Union came from Primorsk (two eyewitnesses), Petrodvorets (one eyewitness), Lomonosov (three eyewitnesses), Podporozhye (three eyewitnesses), Polovina (one eyewitness), Leppäsyrjä (one eyewitness), Kem (several eyewitnesses), Põltsamaa, Liiva, Priozersk, Kestenga, Valday and other places.

Many reports were accompanied by drawings from eyewitnesses. By 30 December 1978, the Soviet researchers collected a total of 85 reports on the Petrozavodsk phenomenon.[

In the settlement of Kurkijoki a luminous object was seen by engineer A. Novozhilov, who compared it to an airship. He reported the sighting to the candidate of technical sciences, Konstantin Polevitsky, who recorded it. Initially Novozhilov saw what he thought to be a meteor. After some time the object had stopped and then moved towards Novozhilov, quickly increasing in size and acquiring the well-outlined shape of an airship.[

The object was faceted and tipped with brightly shining spots on front and back. The edges were glowing with white light, which was slightly fainter than the spots. The facets resembled windows lit from inside and were evenly glowing with a white light that was fainter than that of the edges. The object reportedly moved at an altitude of 300–500 m, being 100 m long and 12–15 m in diameter.

Still approaching Novozhilov, the object, moving from west to east, had released a brightly shining ball from the rear, which flew north. The ball was flying horizontally and then descended behind a forest. The landing reportedly caused the appearance of a bright glow.

At 4:15 am. Novozhilov took three unsuccessful photos of the sighting with a 0.1 sec exposure.  The object was "much larger than moon" and moved with the speed of a helicopter. The observation lasted 10–15 minutes in complete silence.

Another detailed account of one unidentified object was given by Soviet writer and philosopher Yuri Linnik.

 He observed the object at his dacha near Namoyevo at about 3:00 am through an amateur telescope with an 80× magnification.

He stated,  The lens-like object, surrounded by a dim, translucent ring, had a color of a "dark amethyst, intensively lightened from inside.

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Paranormal Russia: The Kamchatka time traveler.

Kamchatka Paranormal event / Time Travel .

On November 8th 1997 a navel officer disappeared in Kamchatka, the last time he was seen was two hours before the end of his watch and he was listed as AWL with a weapon

The officer was found in the mountains two months later and was just a skeleton but there was no sighs of bite marks on the bone's from wild animals.. and the uniform

he was wearing just looked old but was not damaged or torn the remains were taken to Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky for an autopsy / examination....

Apparently Radio Carbon dating said the bone's and the uniform belonged to a 30 year old man but that he had died at least 160 years ago....

The case is still unsolved and unexplained, and is one of the more well know cases of possible Time Travel...

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..Yeti DNA..

There's a lot of Yeti sightings in Russia, and one famous possible attack took place in the 1950's called the Dyatlov Pass incident all the hiker's/ skiers

were found dead ...killed in a brutal fashion but no one knows what actually killed them..

In 2012 lab's in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Idaho analyzed DNA from a clump of fur that had been found in the Azass Cave in Mount Shoriya and confirmed that

the hair samples from the cave belonged an unknown spices neither ape or man. Possible Yeti dna...

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The Valley of Death on the western slope of Kikhpinych volcano in Kamchatka where the volcano releases carbon dioxide and cyanide.

There are a lot of UFO sightings in Russia, and the Siberian Explosion in 1916, (One of the largest explosions in history comparable to a nuclear blast )

and it's still unknown what cased it...

Also there are large tunnels in the Medveditskaya Ridge  and in Zhirnovsk District of Volgograd Region.

Another interesting place is Bolshoy Zayatski Island it has series of ancient Labyrinths that are believed to date back as far as 30,000 B.C. or roughly 32, 000 years ago the island is on the far North west region of Russian not too far from Scandinavia...

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The Sodder Family Christmas Mystery.

 

Just after midnight on Christmas Eve in 1945, Jennie Sodder awoke to the smell of smoke. She quickly discovered that the Fayetteville, West Virginia, home she shared with her husband, George, and nine of their children, was ablaze. When the fire department arrived seven hours later, the two-story framed house had burned to the ground — and five Sodder children were missing. 

The ultimate fate of the five young children is still unknown, but their family never saw them again, and their remains were never found in the ashes of their ruined home.

The siblings’ older brothers, John, 23, and George Jr., 16, and their father had gone to bed early that Christmas Eve, tired from a long day working at George’s coal trucking business. The younger children, however, were allowed to stay up late to play with the toys their older sister, Mary Ann “Marion” Sodder, 17, had bought them for Christmas. Their mother took the youngest child, 3-year-old Sylvia, to bed with her at around 10:30 p.m., telling Maurice and Louis to attend to the cows and chickens.

Joe Sodder, 21, had been discharged from the Army the day before the fire and was the only one of the 10 Sodder children not home.

At about 1 a.m., Jennie bolted out of bed when she smelled smoke and saw flames in her husband’s office, blocking her from reaching the phone. She told Marion, who had fallen asleep on the couch to take Sylvia outside while she and George frantically tried to save the rest of the children. George Jr. and John, who said he woke his siblings — but later updated his account, saying that he had only shouted at them — ran downstairs. Fire engulfed the staircase to the attic where the children slept, preventing their father from going upstairs. The fact that no one heard them crying out was one of the reasons the Sodders later believed they might not have been in their bedroom at all. 

At the time, however, George desperately tried other ways to get to his children. He was unsuccessful  for two peculiar reason ls.  First, a ladder that normally stood by the house wasn’t there. He and his sons then tried to move his trucks against the house, hoping to reach the upper floor by standing on top of them, but they couldn’t get them started.

Although authorities determined that the children — Maurice, 14; Martha, 12; Louis, 10; Jennie Irene, 8; and Betty, 5 — had died in the fire, their family disputed the finding and never gave up searching for them. 

Even if Jennie had been able to reach the family’s telephone, she couldn’t have placed a call: The line had been cut. George Bragg, a local writer and researcher, told NPR in a 2005 interview that a man later admitted that he had cut them — and during the fire was in an outbuilding on the Sodders’ property stealing a block and tackle (used to remove car engines). While there is speculation that he set the fire as a diversion, it’s also possible he took advantage of the family’s distraction to take the equipment. Still, neither the thief nor anyone else was ever charged with arson in the catastrophic fire.

The phone was working just after midnight, Jennie later said. Its ringing was the first of three separate strange events, including the smoke, that had awakened her. The caller asked to speak to someone Jennie didn’t know. After she replied that they must have the wrong number, the caller responded with what Jennie described as a strange laugh.

Half an hour later, Jennie heard “something like a rubber ball” hit the roof. “It rolled and hit the ground with a thump,” she said.

At the time, it didn’t worry her, and she fell back asleep again. But a passing bus driver (or passenger ) described having seen “balls of fire” being thrown on the tar and wood roof, where it was determined the fire had started. Sylvia later found a rubber object in the yard, the family claimed, that George identified as a type of hand grenade. 

Death certificates for the children were issued on Dec. 30, five days after the fire. The cause of death for each was listed as “fire or suffocation.” Although George and Jennie Sodder later insisted otherwise, a journalist who covered the story for NPR said four people had reported seeing remains — including one of Jennie’s brothers. If so, they weren’t collected or included in official records.

George Sodder himself may have unintentionally destroyed evidence that his children had died. On Dec. 29, he brought in a bulldozer to fill the basement with dirt in order to create a memorial for them. At the time, the grieving family did not doubt the officials’ determination that the five children did not survive. Only later would John reportedly admit that he hadn’t actually seen or heard his five siblings respond when he warned them to escape as he and George Jr. fled.

In the “burial, cremation, or removal” section of the children’s death certificates, “burial” is selected with the date of Dec. 27. The Sodders’ address is listed as the “cemetery.”  though no actual body's could be found.

The Sodder children we're never seen again and now nearly a century after the tragedy that destroyed their family the mystery remains, what really happened to the Sodder Family?

Because of so many odd events surrounding the  fire and the Sodder children's disappearance's, the case immediately captured the public eye  and is still one of the greatest mysteries of the early 20th century.

After only 45 minutes the five bedroom home had burned to nothing but ash leaving only the foundation.

The true fate of the family will likely never be solved and decades from now people will still find this mystery as perplexing as we do now 

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Christmas Mystery: The disappearance of Oliver Lerch.

 

 

 

 


One more short holiday related paranormal  post for the year.

...A Christmas Disappearance .....

Oliver Morton Lerch, The man who disappeared .

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Tragic events and mysterious disappearances can happen anytime of the year and too anyone.

Not even the most cheerful of seasons is immune to tragic or unexplained events.
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Those of you that have read David Paulides  the  Missing 411 Series knows how strange some of the
missing person cases can get, Footsteps suddenly ending for no apparent reason, people walking
just sightly ahead of a group and vanishing without a trace and if the people are ever found
it's days or sometimes even months or years later and in areas the had already been searched by
several people with no explanation as to how they got there or why they were never
found during the initial search?......

I highly recommend checking out The Missing 411 series, its a great read and full of fascinating
and down right strange case's!!
David also has a youtube page.
Link--- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChXKAI83IuqSneWe92F97jQ
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Today we talk about the strange disappearance of Oliver Lerch.

In some versions the events take place on Christmas eve 1889.
others its December 24th 1890

There was also a news article detailing the events published in 1906.
 

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One cold night on December 24th of 1890, the Lyrch family was hosting there annual
Christmas gathering, aside from Mr and Mrs and their sons Jim and  Oliver,  other guest's included Oliver's girlfriend Lilian Hirsh the daughter of a prominent Chicago attorney as well as several other friends, extend family members and even Samuel Mallelieu the local reverend.

The party had continued until long after sunset, and by 10:00pm the large gathering had finished
the house's supply of fresh water.

At this point Oliver was asked by his father Tom Lerch to go and fetch some more from the
outside well.

Oliver made his way outside to get the water taking 2 buckets with him.

But within as little as five minutes after he had left the house, guests were startled by what they
believed to be screaming, and several guest including Hirsh and Mallelieu quickly made
there way outside too see what was going on.

Reverend Mallelieu would later go on to testify that as he ran outside, he could clearly hear Oliver's
voice screaming for help as he was apparently being carried off by whatever had taken him.

Mallelieu stated that he could see Oliver's footprints in the snow heading in a straight line
to the well and then just suddenly stopping just short of the well itself, with one of the buckets lying next to the tracks, but no clear sign of a struggle was visible the foot prints just stopped there.

But as the group gathered around searching of him, suddenly Olivers voice could be heard from
above shouting, "Help, Help it's got Me" followed by a loud scream.

The pleas for help seemed to be coming from the clouds above them, Oliver's cries for help could be
heard for several minutes afterwords, becoming fainter and fainter as whatever had him moved
further away until the crowed could no longer hear him.

The following morning a full search was organized, but no trace of Oliver was found.

The Lerch family was offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to his whereabouts, but
To this day it is unknown what became of him, or what entity carried him off, and the case
remains unsolved.
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This will by me last post for 2020!

I am truly thankful for all of you that read and hopefully enjoy my post's and
I hope to add a lot more entry's here in 2021 !

Thank you all, Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!!!

🦇🎄❄️Merry Christmas❄️🎄🦇

🦉Mike.