Mystery of Train #1702
A freight train pulled an UFO for an hour
The event happened about 20 years ago, however people in Karelia still remember it. Witnesses of the mysterious incident are still alive and now believe that UFO actually exists.
In February 1985, a freight train #1702 consisting of
70 empty cars and a locomotive followed to the city of Kostomuksha
through Petrozavodsk and Suoyarvi. Engine driver Orlov and his mate
Mironov were talking while watching the railway. The train passed the
station of Essoila at 2:35 a.m. according to the schedule.
Suddenly, Sergey Orlov noticed some strange object
behind the trees; the round object was moving parallel to the train. It
was not clear what the object might be. The engine driver saw the object
let out a ray of light toward the ground and then drew it in.
Mironov could not speak for a moment as he saw the
ball cross the railway and start moving 30-50 meters ahead of the train.
Sergey Orlov stopped the engine and slammed on the brakes to avoid
collision with the bright ball. But the train would not stop; it seemed
that some strange power still pulled it.
The engine driver and the mate felt as if hypnotized
and stared at the mysterious object. Later, they told the inquiry the
object was a regular geometrical form of about four meters in diameter.
It moved silently above the surface as if drifting.
The train was approaching the Novye Peski station.
Sergey Orlov switched on his portable radio and felt happy when the
device was on. He made desperate attempts to explain what has happened
to the train to a person on duty at the station. The woman could hardly
understand what the engine driver was saying, but still went out to meet
the train approaching the station. The woman was extremely surprised to
see some vibrating object looking like an upturned basin, the shining
ball followed the vibrating object and only after them the train
appeared at a speed of 60 km per hour. It seemed that the ball might hit
the building of the small station.
But right before the switch the ball suddenly
separated from the diesel locomotive and passed around the building of
the station. But the train would not stop and passed the station at its
gathered speed.
Historian Alexey Popov investigating UFO in the
republic of Karelia says that the engine driver and the mate mention
only the ball because they could not see the object resembling an
upturned basin from the cab.
On that mysterious day, as soon as the ball passed
the switch it immediately rushed to the train. When it moved off the
train, its speed reduced at least by half. The diesel locomotive
twitched heavily, and the men inside of the cab hit against the
windshield. However, the locomotive gathered its speed as soon as the
shining ball approached the train again.
The train managed to stop only near the Zastava
station. The ball disappeared behind the forest. The locomotive crew had
to wait for a train coming from the opposite direction, to the city of
Petrozavodsk. The engine driver got out of the cab to examine the
wheels. As soon as he walked around the locomotive he felt some strange
force press him against the machine. He could not move; when the man
could move he hardly reached the cab. That was strange but as soon as he
reached the cab, the train started off as if it was waiting for the man
to take the seat. The train kept on moving for some time until the
shining ball disappeared behind the forest.
Alexey Popov says that the incident lasted for an
hour and twenty minutes, the period within which the ball pulled the
train for over 50 kilometers. That spared 300 kilograms of diesel oil
for the locomotive. People involved in the incident experienced a strong
nervous shock. Automatic recorders of the locomotive and other official
documents prove the reliability of the strange incident. However, there
is no believable explanation to the phenomenon. The shining ball was
noticed earlier at the Kutizhma station even before it came across the
train #1702.
This is a hard task to pull a train weighing 1560
tons for 50 kilometers; it requires much energy, indeed. Sergey Orlov
says the ball acted rather intelligently, as it passed around switches
and buildings of railway stations, and even withdrew to the forest when a
train appeared from the opposite direction.
The story seems to be incredible until one meets
people who took part in it. The railway workers would hardly lie, as
they do believe that the incident was an UFO visit.
Doctor of physical and mathematical sciences from the
Moscow State University Leonid Speransky commented upon the phenomenon.
"The hypothesis of extraterrestrial life existing in other galaxies
cannot be ruled out. It is frequently said that organic substances may
be formed not only on the basis of carbon and water, the way substances
are formed on this planet. Adherents of the theory say that life may be
formed on the basis of silicone and other chemical compounds; substances
formed out of these materials can survive under extremely high or low
temperatures. If we allow these theories, then we can suppose that life
may exist even in the form of clouds and shining balls of some organic
substance. However, we can neither confirm nor deny existence of
extraterrestrial life as based on present-day scientific researches."
The number of reports about UFOs from witnesses is
enormous in this country. The Vestnik UFO bulletin held a research in
1999 and revealed that about 9 per cent of Russia's population say they
witnessed UFOs and 56 per cent believe that these objects exist. The UFO
is a universal phenomenon, as polls held in other countries reveal
approximately the same situation. In the epoch of space voyages people
are used to seeing planes, helicopters and balloons high in the skies.
However, they still expect miracle and strange phenomena.
In 1963, the US carried out the Blue Book project and
considered about 13,000 reports from UFO witnesses. Upon completion of
the research, the commission decreed there was no evidence proving that
the phenomena under report were of extraterrestrial origin. In some
cases we do not have enough information to define what we actually see
above the head. The nature of UFO phenomena is in fact fantastic stories
invented by people. The phenomenon observed in Petrozavodsk highly
likely belongs to the category of UFO legends; not only participants but
also law enforcement structures believed in its reality. One of the
most credible hypotheses explaining the phenomenon is that the shining
object was in fact ball lightning that appears not only in thunderstorm.
Unfortunately, ball lightning is the least studied phenomenon today. It
is highly likely to be an enormous energy substance which power can be
compared with a large electric power station; it spontaneously ejects
quantum vacuum energy. It is well known that ball lightning can
influence man's psyche and state of health; unfortunately people cannot
predict how ball lighting will move or control it.
Natalia Leskova
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