The UFO Phenomenon

UFO legends surround world's deepest lake

By T.K. Randall
April 2, 2015 ·  16 comments

The vast lake is said to hold many secrets. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0 W0zny With a depth of 5387ft the lake is so big that it contains 20% of all the surface freshwater in the entire world. How it became such a hotbed for reports of unexplained phenomena however isn't exactly clear, but so many people have seen things there now that it's difficult to deny that something strange has been going on.

One particularly intriguing tale was recounted by Valery Rudentsov who, along with twelve other people, witnessed something extraordinary back in April 1987 at Kurma in the region of Irkutsk.

"At about 12.20am, one of our guys went out into the yard, a few seconds later runs, and calls all of us out," she said. "He stood in the centre of the yard and pointed his finger at the sky."

"Diagonally from his gesture - 150 meters above us hung a huge flying saucer. From the centre of the plate went a phosphorescent purple ray. And at the edges of the plate were yellow portholes, almost like in our rural houses. The diameter of the plate was 70 meters."According to Rudentsov the object made no sound at all throughout the encounter.

"It was a full moon and the visibility was so clear that no one of us could doubt the reality of what we saw," she said. "And then the plate slid smoothly away, sailed along the shore of the bay and further slipped into the hills of Olkhon."

Another well known case, which was covered extensively on local TV stations at the time, occurred in the Kyakhtinsky district in 1990 when locals reported a peculiar yellow light and the appearance of a disc-shaped object in the sky from which several figures in shining suits emerged.

Nobody knew who they were or what they were doing, but upon noticing that they were being watched the visitors quickly retreated in to their craft and took off, never to be seen again.

Source: Siberian Times | Comments (16)

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