This has been a translating challenge! I've also used various online translators because my Russian is really non existant! Apologies for any oddities that slip through.
"Close encounter of the third kind, which has the property encyclopedicity"
Published story on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 7:46 PM
Stanislav Ermakov
Published as an appendix to the book "Secrets of the
Living Earth. S.E. Ermakov, T.V. Faminskaya"
The author waffles on quite a bit at first and it adds nothing to the report so:
"Let's move on to the facts, presented in the dry language of
the “Report on the investigation of the report of “contact of Yerevan schoolchildren with UFOs in April
1990.”
Chronicle of events
"In the last ten days of April 1990, three fourth-grade
students of Yerevan
school No. 111, which is located on the outskirts of the city, were playing football in the school yard after class. It was at this moment that they suddenly saw a strange
glowing spherical object in the sky. The object landed at a distance of about
300 meters from the children on rocky wasteland behind the school and opened up
into two parts at the moment of landing (“like “an orange cut in half,” the
children said later.
"Three tall humanoid figures, one of which moved toward the school
yard and the 4-meter-high metal mesh fence around the school yard. Unlike The first fence
that the “UFOnaut” managed to step over without difficulty, the second one
turned out to be a more serious obstacle. After several unsuccessful attempts step
over it, the “UFOnaut” transformed (turned into a glowing ball about 1 meter in
diameter), bounced “like a ball” (according to the children) up the net fence,
and then rolled down, already from the side of the school yard. Having touched
the ground, the ball turned into a "UFOnaut" again and moved towards
the dumbfounded boys. At that moment two more of their classmates ran out from
around the corner of the school building, and all five watched the approach of
the "UFOnaut".
above one of the "Ufonauts2 and ground traces found
"The creature resembled a robot in appearance, just over 2
meters tall, grayish metallic hue, with a screen-like appearance on the chest.
Below the screen there was a device similar to a watch. The creature's
"mouth" was closed with a metal grid, on the forehead there was
something resembling a light bulb or a “third eye”. The names of each of the schoolchildren, written in letters,
flashed on the screen one by one in Armenian letters. Frightened, one of the
boys started to run but was knocked down with a powerful blow of unknown
nature -a beam of light burst out of the creature's "third eye" and
hit the boy in the arm. A red spot appeared on the skin (change in pigmentation),
which persisted for at least six months (in October 1990 it was clearly
visible). The doctors the boy's parents consulted were unable to determine the
etiology of this spot.
"A conversation took place between the children and the
“UFOnaut”, in which the alien's responses to questions asked out loud appeared
on the same screen. Conversation concerned the future of Armenia. According to the school children, during the conversation one
of them suddenly began to rise into the air under the action of the same (or
similar) beam emanating from the frontal
parts of the "UFOnaut's" head. The second boy tried to hold
back his friend by grabbing by the leg (from which we can conclude that by that
time he had risen to a height of not less than 1 meter), but was lifted along
with him by the same force. Both of them for a few seconds hung in the air,
after which both fell to the ground when the impact ceased.
"It should be noted that after some time has passed since the
start of the conversation, The children's consciousness began to periodically
"switch off".
"Further details that were found out from the eyewitnesses'
account: When the youths came to their senses after what was apparently
a short-term blackout, the “UFOnaut” walked around the yard, bending
down from time to time and groping on the ground with his fingers. He picked up
a stone from the ground with his left hand, which he rubbed against his right
hand, which is why it acquired a reddish tint (I assume they mean the stone was tinted -TH). Then the "UFOnaut"
followed the same path as before, returned to the object and climbed into it. The object
closed, once again taking the shape of a ball, “jumped up like a spring” and
disappeared into the sky, hovering for a moment above the school yard and
flashing a beam of light at the children.
"When asked what the other two “UFOnauts” were doing all this
time, the children answered, that they seemed to be constantly near the object
and performing actions that can be roughly called taking soil samples.
"This whole story could easily be dismissed as pure fiction
if not the results of complex studies or a series of events that occurred
before and after this case. But first of all, one very important consideration.
Children, as it turns out, didn't really know a single word in Russian except
"hello." As of August 1990, when A.G. Tonakanyan learned about this
case, there was not a single report related to the UFO problem published in the Armenian language. Likewise, Russian-language media in Armenia completely ignored this phenomenon. Thus, we can completely exclude the
assumption that the children made up this whole story after listening to radio
and television programs or after reading newspaper articles.
Chronicle and results of the investigation
"In September 1990, local television, on the initiative of
Hakob Tonakanyan, went to the scene of the incident in order to prepare a
television program with a story about this incident. During the filming, the
children were asked the question: “Have you ever seen anything else? something
like that?”, to which the answer was: “Yes, these things are quite common
here.”
“They’re flying... Look, there’s one flying!” Indeed, in the
sky above the school yard a shiny ball was moving, according to the children, exactly
the same as the one that had descended onto the vacant lot near the school. The TV
cameraman raised his camera and started filming. a flying object. Suddenly a
gust of wind blew, dust rose sharply, and... the cable the camera's power
supply (which connected it to the TV crew's car) disconnected. When the dust
settled, the object in the sky was no longer there.
"The story was soon shown on local television and became the
first broadcast about a UFO in Armenia, after which a flood of
messages poured into ASUNI, photographs and even video footage of UFO sightings
from all over the republic.
"Dowsing survey of the area (conducted by us in October 1990
– Auth.) confirmed the presence of a characteristic annular biolocation anomaly
on the site of the proposed landing site. Let us remember that the
children did not know Russian, just like we couldn't speak Armenian. As a result, the work was organized in the following way: first, we filmed, we did this or
that conclusions, reported them to their Armenian colleagues, and they, in
turn, clarified with eyewitnesses provided relevant details of the contact.
Point marks were discovered anomalies which were later found to coincide with
the locations transformations and stops
of the “UFOnaut” as it moves around the school yard. (basically the team asked where the object landed and where the entity was to check those spots -TH).
Very significant vertical dowsing anomalies were also noted
on the grid. the fence of the vineyard where the “UFOnaut” crossed it and on
the fence mesh of the school courtyard in the place where the “UFOnaut” transforms into a
ball. When exploring the proposed location the landing of the object and the
route of movement of the “UFOnaut” where vegetation grew-three spots were found, presumably,
traces of his “feet”. By distance between them, taking into account the
approximate proportions the "UFOnaut"'s probable height was calculated, amounting
to 2-2.5 meters. The “footprints” had the shape of slightly elongated circle
measuring about 0.2- 0.25 meters along the long axis. At the transformation
points and in areas with softer soil until October 1990 (see illo above -TH).
"The city has preserved excavations with a depth of 0.05-0.1
meters. It is interesting to note that all ant trails, abundantly present in
the school yard and in the vineyard, passed in such a way as if the ants
would carefully go around all the supposed “traces”, carefully following their edge and after that returning
to the old direction. Other holes, located away from the trajectory of “the
movements of the UFOnaut” "stood out"
"At the landing site, on the basalt
fragments, there were semicircular grooves found, possibly resulting from a
large impact forces. There are also traces of thermal action on the
grooves. Geologists who took participation in the investigation of the case clearly
state that with a geological hammer, as well as with any other impact tool,
such damage to basalt is not impossible.
"Upon closer visual inspection of the proposed landing site,
it was found that the ring-shaped anomaly is also distinguished by
changes in color vegetation, which along its contour was more faded and
withered.
Above: damage to basalt
"From the landing site the supposed traces of the
“UFOnaut” and the landing site soil samples were taken -
two from each point of the proposed impacts, as well as control samples. Candidate of Geological
Sciences L.A. Araratyan prepared sections from samples of each group and
studied them under a microscope and subjected to spectral analysis.
Microscopic studies of the main samples revealed the presence of fused quartz
and, in part, pyroxene. In a control sample taken at a distance of two meters
from the landing site the state of crystalline forms of minerals
(quartz, pyroxene, etc.) did not change. In addition, with the light brown
color of the control sample.
"The main samples were black to charred, although, according
to microscopy there were many more minerals in the control
sample. Spectral analysis showed a difference in the content of 3 elements out
of 10, namely: copper, lead, and titanium. Their content in the control sample
was 2-2.5 times lower. No anomalies in the radiation or magnetic background
were detected.
"The results of the experiment also set by L.A. Araratyan
turned out to be very interesting. agrochemical experiment on germination of
wheat seeds on main and control soil samples. The lag in the vegetation period
of the main sowing compared to the control was about two weeks, and the germination of
seeds planted in the soil, taken from the place where the “UFOnaut” was transformed
into a ball, turned out to be 95% lower than the control one.
Above the the "agrochemical" plant tests
"During dowsing examination of the alleged landing site and "UFOnaut" traversed path was photographed on black and white
negative and color reversal film (camera FED-3; photographic films: Svema-125 GOST and ORWO
UT-18) using light filters: Ж- 2X for black and white film and polarizing
for color. The reversal film was not completely used but was used over
the next two days for photography not related to study of anomalous phenomena.
"After processing the film in Moscow,
a red tint was discovered across the entire run of frames taken in the landing site. No anomalies were found on the black-and-white film.
" During the questioning of eyewitnesses by
T.E. Arutyunyan and A.G. Tonakanyan it became known that approximately two weeks before the schoolchildren's contact with the UFO, one
of the children before going to bed was in a strange state (“sleep and not-sleep”) and it seems that a figure approached, exactly the same type as those that came
out of the ball. It said: “Soon you will be playing in a group of five in the
school yard, there will be five of you, we’ll fly in and talk to you.” At that moment, the boy, of
course, didn’t give it a second thought. no significance to his vision.
Moreover, according to him, in August he was spending the holidays with his
grandmother in another city. One day he went to a local market for milk and on
the way he met an old woman who called him by his name and asked him how where? TH) he
lived. When asked how she knew him, the “old lady,” lsuddenly
turned into the same “robot” (literally -Auth.) and disappeared right before
the eyes of the astonished child.
Conclusion
"That's the story. We ourselves, having heard everything, find
it hard to believe its reality. But the same stubborn facts is that the results
of surveys and experiments, an exposed slide film that captured a basalt block with a
pothole, a spot on in the boy's hand, a video tape (shot by a professional!)
with a sparkling object flying in the sky metallic shiny ball - where can you
escape from them?
"By the way, this landing site is not just a local one ring-shaped
anomaly but on the ley line and tectonic fault (this was checked Akop
Tonakanyan, who was subsequently trained by us), and earlier on this wasteland there used to be an old cemetery...
"Why do we call this case “an encyclopedia of close
encounters of the third kind”? Well, here it is. Any person who is even
slightly well-read and knows the problems associated with studying UFOs and
contacts, will immediately note that in this case, all or almost all the
features are typical of close encounters.
"We won't describe them in detail again. We'll just point out
the deliberate “puppet-like” nature of the “robot”, a kind of
primitivism of its appearance, as if on purpose invented for ten-year-old boys,
which doesn't really fit in with transformations into a ball and back, and with a beam
capable of lifting two boys into the air and keep them in a “hanging
position”, as well as the absurd entity behavior; let us also draw
your attention to the story with the “warning” about upcoming contact (the
story about the “old lady humanoid” inspires less confidence, although the
characteristic features of the eyewitness's behavior seem to convince us that
he at least talks about what he saw)... Here you have your
“special state of consciousness”...
"What was it? Who was it? We can argue endlessly, as we did with our
Armenian friends and colleagues, but still haven't come to any conclusion. Was this encounter necessarily for the boys or for the unknown
directors of this event?
As it happens, the incident with the schoolchildren accelerated the creation of the
first UFO group in Armenia.
Maybe it was only necessary for us to tell you, our readers, this
amazing story full of miracles and transformations? It must be said, however,
that this story requires a number of clarifications. In part details of its
beginning, since we relied on our joint speech with Akop, when it was written
and from memory. And memory, alas, is not always a treacherous thing. Never
mind, we'll fix it.
Commentary on the third-kind contact of schoolchildren in Armenia Ufologists called this contact encyclopedic, referring to a
number of typical at the moment:
- there was contact with children (and this is not the first
case);
- the aliens behaved in a manner that was completely
understandable to children;
- the appearance corresponded to children’s ideas about
robots;
- Attentiveness and kindness were shown towards the
children.
- the contact was confirmed by ufologists who examined the
landing site and school yard and recorded anomalous zones (footprints of
aliens and landing UFO spot).
"What was the aliens' purpose in this contact? It seems to me
that it's obvious. The bulk of the population of Armenia was an information swamp.
“It’s you in Moscow who have aliens “They walk
around Red Square,” and “we in Yerevan
are thinking about where to get peaches(?).” There is a complete down-to-earthness
with everyday concerns. It was into this swamp that the “stone” was thrown –
“the appearance of aliens to children”, which stirred up the public. Children
are pure, innocent creatures (fourth-graders!),
"They don't know how to lie without a reason, they don't
drink alcohol and they are not prone to hallucinate - there is no reason
not to believe them. And the ufologist was wrong to doubt the story about old
humanoid woman. This story fits into the story very well and suggests the idea
that the true essence of "aliens" is energetic, so they can easily changed
their appearance: an old robot lady (apparently short) – a robot two-meter tall (in front of the children) - a luminous ball (the
true essence) - and again a robot.
"And for greater persuasiveness, right during the television
filming, a UFO flies overhead in front of all those present those present, moreover, it raises a dust
storm and pulls out the camera's power cable from the socket on the car. To pull
the cable out of the socket It was necessary to use force and the wind was not
the reason for this.
"Let's remember that the robot lifted two children into the
air with its beam (for children and adults this is there was a demonstration of
the alien's capabilities). Obviously, behind the dusty curtain the same The cable was disconnected with a beam (speculation -TH). The dust settled
immediately after that. Ufologists admitted an oversight by not inspecting the
cable tip and the socket for its attachment - to retain traces
of energy impact.
"Thus, from this event, ufology began to develop in Armenia
and disseminate UFO information among the population"
Firstly, we have no names for the boys so I will call the boy who saw the transforming "old lady" Piotr. To me, after all these decades that event sounds as though Piotr had entered an altered state. Recall that he was "asleep but not asleep" when a similar robot entity approached his bed. The comparisons to cases such as that of Gaynor Sunderland in the UK are striking.
That written, what about the main encounter? Is it possible that the earlier 'encounters' were false memories? After all, there were other boys present who the investigators state confirmed the account of the landing.
There are questions, however, and the main one is the "black outs of consciousness" which seems to indicate time loss which is not covered in the report. If -IF- we assume that this was a true incident it could well be that what the boys remember are false memories to help them cope with an on board experience -by the entities or their own minds and someone will point out that not all five boys would come up with the same false memory.
It would be nice to see a copy of the full report in English along with details of all of the tests and I would hope that included notes on UFO observations before this event because many cases by youngsters who reported UFO sightings before a CE3K have been dismissed by Ufologists rather than those 'UFO professionals' checking locals to see if there were sightings. "They're kids. Messing about but no point listening to them anyway!" Is a very common dismissive statement.
Translating, editing, etc has now taken up five hours of my day. Enjoy!
