Dalnegorsk is a small mining town in the Russian Far East. A reddish sphere flew into the town from a southeastern direction, crossed the town and crashed at Izvestkovaya Mountain (also known as Hill 611). The object flew noiselessly, and parallel to the ground; it was some ten feet in diameter, quite round, with no projections or cavities, its colour similar to that of burning stainless steel. An eyewitness, V. Kandakov, said that it slowly ascended and descended, and its glow would heat up every time it rose up. On its approach to Hill611 the object "jerked," and fell down like a rock. A weak, muted thump was heard and it burned intensively at the cliff's edge for an hour.
A geological expedition to the site in 1988 confirmed the object's movements through a series of chemical and physical tests of the rocks collected from the site. The crash was investigated by Valeri Dvuzhilni, Head of the Far Eastern Committee for Anomalous Phenomena. Anatoly Listratov researched it, as did several other investigators.
Heavy snow was characteristic of the weather at the time but the site of the crash, located on a rocky ledge, was devoid of snow. All around the site remnants of silica rocks were found, splintered (due to exposure to high temperatures) and "smoky" looking. Many pieces, and a nearby rock, contained particles of silvery metal, some "sprayed," others in the form of solidified balls. At the edge of the site a tree-stump was found. It was burned out and emitted a chemical smell.
The objects collected at the site were later dubbed as "tiny nets," "mesh," "little balls," "lead balls," and "glass pieces" ( that is what each resembled).
Closer examination revealed that they had very unusual properties. One of the "tiny nets" contained torn and very thin (17 micrometers) threads. Each of the threads consisted of even thinner fibres, tied up in plaits. Intertwined with the fibres were very thin gold wires.
Soviet scientists, at such facilities as the Omsk branch of the Academy of Sciences, studied all the collected pieces: suffice it to say that the technology to produce such materials was not yet available on Earth. To give an idea of the complexity of the composition of the pieces, let us look at the "iron balls." Each of them had its own chemical composition: iron, and a large add mixture of aluminum, manganese, nickel, chromium, tungsten, and cobalt. Such differences indicate that the object was not just a piece of lead and iron, but some heterogeneous construction made from heterogenous alloys with definite significance. When melted in a vacuum some pieces would spread over a base, while at another base they would form into balls. What these structures are and what their composition is, neither the physicists nor metallurgists can say.
The "tiny nets" have confused many researchers. It is impossible to understand their structure and the nature of their formation. It resembles glass carbon, but conditions leading to such formations are unknown. A common fire could definitely not produce it. The most mysterious aspect of the items collected was the disappearance, after vacuum melting, of gold, silver, and nickel, and the appearance of molybdenum which was not in the chamber to begin with.
The crash site itself was like an anomalous zone. It was "active" for three years after the crash. Insects avoid the place, and the zone adversely affects humans, too, with people experiencing sensor failure and loss of coordination. The zone also affects mechanical and electronic equipment.
On February 8, 1986, at 8:30pm, a little over a week after the crash at Hill 611, two more yellowish spheres flew in from the North. They circled the site four times, then turned back to the North and flew away. Then on November 28, 1987, at 11:24pm, 32 flying objects appeared from nowhere. There were hundreds of witnesses, both military and civilian. The objects flew over different settlements, and no less than 13 of them flew to Dalnegorsk and the site. Three of the UFOs hovered over the settlement, and five of them illuminated the nearby mountain.
There were no rocket launches taking place at any of the Soviet cosmodromes either on January 29, 1986, or November 28, 1987. Dr Dvuzhilni's conclusion is that it was a malfunctioning alien space probe that crashed into Hill 611. Another hypothesis has it that the object managed to ascend and escape (almost whole) in a northeasterly direction, and probably crashed in the dense taiga. There are conflicting opinions. V. Psalomschikov, an expert on aircraft crashes, stated that the object was manufactured in the former USSR, that the technology to produce it dates back to the 1970s, and that he has similar ultra thin filaments in his possession. However, a Soviet probe would self-destruct immediately, whereas the object reportedly did try to ascend.
A Russian UFOlogist, Gennady Belimov, presented information in 1993 that a Soviet military probe had crashed at Hill 611. His proof was based on similar crashes of highly classified Soviet probes, and he concludes that the one that crashed in the Far East was misinterpreted by UFOlogists to be a UFO. As for the metal collected at the site: it was, according to Belimov, extracted from the Kholodnensky deposit in the northern Baikal region.
Would the military later stage "UFO" flights to confuse and mislead UFOlogists, and Western intelligence services? The objects observed on November 28, 1987, consisted of different shapes: cigar-like, cylindrical, spherical. Their flight was noiseless, smooth, and at various altitudes. Actually, not one of the witnesses (including the Police) mistook them for UFOs; the impression was that they had observed some aircraft, or falling meteorites.
While in flight, the objects affected power lines throughout the area. Lieutenant Zhivayev of the Interior Ministry troops described the object he observed as a flame with a lusterless sphere in the front and a reddish ball in the rear. And workers from the Bor Quarry-Bistryancev, Anokhin and Grigoriyev-reported a giant cylindrical object at an altitude of 1000feet. Its fore part was illuminated like melting metal.
It is worth noting that the area of the crash is not that far away from the Tunguska Phenomenon site. Something else, unknown in the West, took place in the region that could shed some light on both incidents.
Alexander Rempel published his report in Priroda newspaper (Vladivostok) in July 1991: A fiery object was observed at night over the city of Khabarvosk on August 24, 1978. It was about five feet in diameter. At one point in its flight, it emitted a wheezing or hissing sound, like a jet engine does. The area around it became as bright as daylight. The object descended slowly and lit up; the soil, albeit full of water, burned up. Coal-like pieces were found in the area with holes and glass-like structures. For ten years thereafter the soil remained unchanged, and nothing would grow at the site of the explosion. The eyewitnesses reported that a dark object flew away just before the explosion. It was not found.
Ten years later Rempel and his colleagues received numerous reports about an anomalous zone near Khabarovsk. The few explorers who have returned from the area have confirmed that the object fell there, or that fantastic things have been observed. Yet at the time Rempel could not confirm their reports: the military had sealed the area off. But his group was able to research the area of the alleged Dalnegorsk Object's fall after it flew off Hill 611. They discovered unusual animal mutilations, but something-or someone-stopped any further expeditions.