Head 5. The Ministry of Defence

Question, that no one cares, receives a response, that does not mean anything

Stas Jankowski

In July 2009 years I have been able to find and talk to the person, that in the years of military service, while on duty, I saw on the radar screen so-called «Unidentified radar target " (HPM - the military equivalent of the term UFO). Игорь Ставропольский (for some reason he was asked not to be his real name) remember what happened in the life, and the event itself has made significant adjustments to its outlook. But this is, as the saying goes, another story.

— It was summer 1995 or 1996 year. I then served as a lower-case service at the airport Gavryshevka, a few kilometers from Vinnitsa, — says Igor. — Number of the military can not remember, but it is based directly on the airfield Gavryshevka — is an airfield of the Air Staff of Ukraine. So, I have served on an object called RSBN (Radio System range navigation), which operates on the principle of "challenge-response" to air targets, eliminating "parasitic" illumination from reflected signals…

— You can read more about the equipment?

— RSBN - Soviet / Russian system of navigational support for aviation (is now widely replaced by a modern digital equipment, for example, computerized system VOR / DME - ca. Ya.V.Sochki). RSBN beacons enable us to obtain information about the azimuth and slant range to the air moving object. I had to work on the unit-4H series RSBN. The system works in 2 ranges of: 100 and 400 km. As far as I can remember, processing of these ranges is carried out completely different blocks of… By the way, in the form of the system itself is reminiscent of the notorious "flying saucers", in addition to a trailer…

— And that it was possible to detect?

— So, When I saw on the screen illumination, appears directly "overhead" that is, the coordinates of "0", and journeyed to the north, I was a little taken aback, as in the air while, it seems, there was no vessel flying. Highlights clearly kept constant course and speed until it has gone beyond "the horizon of 100». Then I thought, that, possibly, it is a failure of equipment, and switched it to "a range of 400 km ". Illumination, and there was, and she continued to move in the same course and at the same rate. When she was gone below the horizon, after a few seconds there was at "0" circular LED illumination second. And at the same speed, it again went to the north, Only the course of a few degrees different. I immediately jumped out and looked at the sky. There was nothing. Then I called the dispatcher to "rig", reported on the illumination, specifying, whether he sees it? He confirmed, he sees…

— But it could be a plane, and, not necessarily Vinnitsa Airport…

— Just do not. The screen mesh RSBN in the form of concentric circles. The screen is updated 1 times per second. During this time the illumination took place each time 11 km. Again, the object was moving at a speed of 11 kilometers per second! It could not be physically aircraft!

— And this is confirmed by the tower controller?

— Yes, He saw the same as me in the detail display RSBN to "rig". And the question "What is?», He said word for word: "And the hell knows, planes do not fly so fast ". Again, that the visual is nothing in the sky was not observed, Yes, and it is hardly possible to detect an object the eye, moving so fast! By the way, after the second was a third and fourth exposure. All were illuminated at the same rate, only after, as the previous one left the horizon, and what is not immediately. The course was a flare to the north, but each came with a small deviation is +5 degrees, then about -3, then due north, appearing just above the airfield. After the fourth fifth exposure was no longer, Although the system worked for some time.