Person
Vladimir Stroynetsky
Also known as Vladimir Ivanovich Stroynetsky, V. Stroynetskiy, Stroynetskiy
- Major, serving officer in a Soviet military unit near Moscow (1990)
Vladimir Ivanovich Stroynetsky was a major serving in a military unit outside Moscow during the spring 1990 wave of sightings along the Yaroslavl Highway. He reported the lights to the newspaper Rabochaya Tribuna and then described them on camera to Soviet state television's Vremya.
His account came weeks after the 21 March 1990 air-defence alert in the same region.
Sources: CIA/FBIS FB PN 90-123; Vremya, 30 April 1990 (Gosteleradiofond)
Facts and claims
- documented Told Rabochaya Tribuna (15 April 1990) that he and several hundred other witnesses had repeatedly seen UFOs over the Yaroslavl Highway at 500–800 m, many like "great triangular milk cartons", whose speed rose with the frequency of their flashes. Source: CIA/FBIS Foreign Press Note FB PN 90-123: "USSR: UFO sightings no. 2 — General Maltsev comments" (1990)
- claimed On Soviet TV's Vremya (30 April 1990) he described a huge mass, about the size of two aircraft, rimmed with bright welding-like flashes, rising silently over the forest at his unit and coming to within about 40–50 m, so that they drove away. — Vladimir Stroynetsky Source: "UFOs over Moscow": Vremya, Soviet Central Television, 30 April 1990 at 1:41
Connected files
Incidents
- Pereslavl-Zalessky air-defence alert and interception (USSR, 1990) (witness) — He described a huge mass rimmed with welding-like flashes rising silently over the forest at his unit