UFO in Russia: Real or Hoax?

[Spartan198]

Pictures of a UFO crash site in Russia (sorry, can't find any better quality pics).







What do you guys think? Real or fake?

[CountArach]

Small pic is small...

Personally, I think it is a commie plot...

[LeftEyeNine]

These photos are from the Tunguska Event of 1908.

[Fragony]

It's more fun if it's real so I go with real

[Gaius Scribonius Curio]

A Flying Saucer?

...so cliched!

[Ramses II CP]

Looks like a bunch of packed snow to me. The idea of a 'UFO' is a little absurd anyway.

[Reverend Joe]

If it had hit the ground at that angle it would have exploded, miracle alien metal or no.

Fake.

[Devastatin Dave]

Looks like Godzilla dropped his Viagra.

[Csargo]

[Adrian II]

Let's be fair. Let's assume this is not a fake.

At least the uniforms, army jeeps, sun glasses and related accoutrements all look authentic. So is the quality of the footage; it looks like genuine 9 mm. The film is highly amateuristic though. An army cameraman would never move so haphazardly, shoot straight into the sun, or fail to slowly and completely circle and capture an object of potential military importance.

On the other hand, by 1969 the Soviets were very busy developing their first AEW (AWACS) plane, the TU-126 Moss, and the 6-7 yards diameter disc in the film (with remnants of a broken-off strut?) could be the rotordome of an experimental model. That would also explain the apparent secrecy surounding the film and the incident.

My 2 cts.

EDIT

Wait a minute. Let me add 2 more cents. It seems that all the soldiers are wearing officer belts (without shiny buckle) and not regular soldiers' belts (with a square, shiny buckle). This indicates that the footage is a hoax. But then there was a change in Soviet uniform styles precisely in 1969, so who knows...

2nd EDIT

Some time ago we had a discussion of the UFO phenomenen in the Backroom. I seem to recall that quite a few members took them seriously. Why is it that, when a concrete UFO sighting comes up, none of them ventures a hypothesis and skeptic old me is about the only one who takes the trouble to analyse the thing at all? Funny, that.

[Redleg]

Let's be fair. Let's assume this is not a fake.

At least the uniforms, army jeeps, sun glasses and related accoutrements all look authentic. So is the quality of the footage; it looks like genuine 9 mm. The film is highly amateuristic though. An army cameraman would never move so haphazardly, shoot straight into the sun, or fail to slowly and completely circle and capture an object of potential military importance.

What concerns me is that any average military intelligence film that would have had the classification this web site claims the film had would of indeed had a full circle film capture of the site. In 1969 the Soviet Union was not lax in its gathering of intelligence information. The very lack of the full circle capture in this film screams that it is a hoax to me.

On the other hand, by 1969 the Soviets were very busy developing their first AEW (AWACS) plane, the TU-126 Moss, and the 6-7 yards diameter disc in the film (with remnants of a broken-off strut?) could be the rotordome of an experimental model. That would also explain the apparent secrecy surounding the film and the incident.

Even then the soviets would of made a full circle film capture of the crash site to document that they cleaned up everything.

Wait a minute. Let me add 2 more cents. It seems that all the soldiers are wearing officer belts (without shiny buckle) and not regular soldiers' belts (with a square, shiny buckle). This indicates that the footage is a hoax. But then there was a change in Soviet uniform styles precisely in 1969, so who knows...

Getting warm on that uniforms Adrain. What is even more important is the vehicles shown in the film. The poor angles and focus on the vehicles seems makes it hard for me to determine if the vehicles are of 1969 soviet military or not. The paint however seems to me to be a shade to bright of a green.

The lack of sound in the video is interesting - it could be just my system refusing to have sound because of a filter on the computer.

All in all - I would say this is a hoax given the lack of followup information - just as the link also indicates

[Moros]

If it had hit the ground at that angle it would have exploded, miracle alien metal or no.

Fake.

shattered perhaps, but it would only explode if it contained an amount of flammable substance.