04/03/2026
UFO and Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
On the night of April 26, 1986, at 1:23 am, an explosion thundered at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which almost caused the largest catastrophe in human history. In practice, it was a prolonged explosion of an atomic bomb.
The reactor core of the fourth power unit was destroyed, and a huge amount of radioactive products were released into the atmosphere. The fire engulfed the turbine hall and was about to spread to the third power unit of the NPP. Only a few hours later, firefighters managed to extinguish the flames. Many of them received lethal doses of radiation.
A lot has been written about the Chernobyl accident, it would seem that we have figured out both the physical picture of this catastrophe and who bears direct responsibility for what happened. The fourth unit was supposed to be put on scheduled preventive maintenance, but before shutting down the reactor, the Chernobyl NPP management decided to conduct a series of experiments. In particular, they stopped feeding steam to one of the turbogenerators to find out how long electricity would be generated due to the rotation of the rotor by inertia. In order to conduct the experiment, part of the emergency protection of the power unit was turned off. In parallel, the vibration of the turbine was studied.
At 1 a.m. on April 25, they began to reduce the power of the power unit, and at 2 p.m. the emergency cooling system was turned off. By this time, the reactor itself should have been completely shut down. But at that moment, the Kyivenergo system did not have enough electricity, and the dispatcher from Kyiv, who did not know about the experiments being conducted, did not allow the fourth power unit to be stopped. This is how the preconditions for the tragedy arose, the consequences of which many thousands of people are still experiencing.
Fortunately, the powerful explosion turned out to be thermal, which means that the fourth unit was primarily destroyed by superheated steam. The nuclear explosion itself did not occur, although this reactor alone contained about 180 tons of enriched uranium. If a full-scale nuclear explosion had happened, one half of Europe would have ceased to exist, and people on the other half would have been struck by radiation sickness. Miraculously, the catastrophe did not happen. Eyewitness accounts suggest that aliens intervened.
When abnormal events began to occur at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a flying saucer appeared above the fourth block. It hung there for six hours, and hundreds of people saw it, but they began to write about it only two years after the accident. There are written testimonies of Mikhail Andreevich Varitsky, senior dosimetrist of the UDC (Dosimetric Control Directorate) of Chernobyl. On the night of April 26, 1986, Varitsky, along with his partner, UDC dosimetrist Mikhail Samoylenko, were raised on alert and sent to the Chernobyl area. Their task included dosimetric control at the government communications center and replacement of oxygen cylinders. The group left in a GAZ-51 vehicle, state number 24-28KITs. They had a DP-11-B field beta-gamma radiometer with them. They were in the line of sight of the fourth block at 4:15 am. Having seen the reactor of the power unit torn apart by the explosion blaze (the explosion, which had been drawn out over time, was still ongoing), and having felt a “burning sensation in the face” (they had no protective equipment with them, and the device was going off the scale), the professional dosimetrists, understanding the threat of radiation, decided to postpone the mission and return to the base for protective equipment.
They had already started to turn the machine around when (here we will quote the written testimony of M. A. Varitsky): “We saw a bright brass-colored fireball slowly floating in the sky. It was 6-8 meters in diameter. We took measurements again, switching the instrument scale to another range. The instrument showed 3000 milliroentgen/hour. Suddenly, two bright crimson searchlights (two beams) flashed from the ball. These two beams were directed at the reactor of the fourth block. The object was located at a distance of approximately 300 meters from the reactor. All this lasted for about 3 minutes.
The searchlights suddenly went out, and the ball slowly floated to the northwest, towards Belarus. Here we again turned our attention to the instrument. It was already showing 800 milliroentgen/hour! We ourselves could not explain what had happened and therefore “blamed” the instrument. However, when we returned to the base and checked it, the device turned out to be in good working order.”
It turns out that the UFO that appeared on the night of the accident reduced the radiation level by almost four times, preventing a nuclear explosion.
On September 16, 1989, malfunctions were again noted at the fourth power unit, accompanied by emissions of large radioactive masses into the atmosphere.
A few hours later, at 8:20 a.m., a doctor working at Chernobyl, Iva Naumovna Gospina, observed and photographed an object in the sky above the plant that she described as “amber-colored,” with a “top” and “bottom” distinguishable.
A year later, in October 1990, Chernobyl nuclear scientist Alexander Krymov photographed a UFO hovering over the nuclear scientists’ apartment buildings from his apartment window. The landing legs of the craft, which apparently had just taken off, are visible on the left in the photo.
On October 11, 1991, at 8:09 p.m., a fire broke out at Unit 2 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. During the fire, the roof over the power generator partially collapsed. On October 16, five days later, Vladimir Savran, a photojournalist for the Echo of Chernobyl newspaper, who had worked in Chernobyl since 1986 and had never been interested in ufology before, was taking pictures in the damaged generator turbine room. Here is what he says: “Just in case, I clicked upwards, trying to capture part of the hole in the roof at the edge of the frame…” and further, “being of sound mind and memory, I declare: there was no UFO in the sky either before or after. At least, not visible to the eye. The sky, although autumn grey, was absolutely clear.” However, when Vladimir developed the film, it showed a UFO hanging over the hole in the roof of the second unit, reminiscent of the object that Iva Gospina had seen over the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant a year earlier, only photographed from below.
Фото НЛО над Чернобылем, сделанное Владимиром Савраном
In the November 1991 issue of the newspaper “Echo of Chernobyl” (where this photo was first published), the following editorial comment is given: “… the property of UFOs to be invisible to the human eye and “manifest” only on photographic and film film has been reported in the press more than once. Apparently, V. Savran “caught” such an object. The specialists who, at the request of the editors, have already carefully studied the negative, do not allow any falsification.” In September 1988, Vadim Vasilyevich Shevchuk from Kiev observed two luminous objects hanging over the pipe of the nuclear reactor of the Kyiv Institute of Nuclear Research, located in the area of the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy of Ukraine. According to his description, these objects looked the same as the object observed by M. Varitsky and M. Samoylenko over the fourth block of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on the night of the accident.
Until April 1986, UFOs were rarely observed over the territories adjacent to Chernobyl and subsequently contaminated with radiation (some areas of Belarus, Bryansk region and Kyiv). For example, over Kiev, over the previous 30 years (from 1956 to 1986), only four cases of UFO appearances were recorded. But starting in the summer of 1986, observations of strange luminous objects in the sky, UFOs hovering over residential areas, their patrol flights and maneuvers began to be widespread.
Such evidence also includes observations by air defense radar stations of the Kyiv Military District. On November 12, 1989, at 19:46, the command post received a message from the radar operator (radar station) Lieutenant Colonel V. Shavanov: “There is a target!” A few minutes before, he was informed that Kiev residents were observing a glowing object in the evening sky over the territory of the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy of the Ukrainian SSR.
Shavanov decided to double-check the equipment and called home, in the Nivki area. His daughter Irina, who picked up the phone, returned from the balcony excited: “I see a white cross, a rectangle, and in it, as if – a fiery spiral, it seems to pulsate, illuminated.” And although from Nivki to the exhibition in a straight line is about ten kilometers, from the balcony of the 9th floor Irina saw the strange object well.
The pilot of the fighter-interceptor sent to the exhibition area did not find the object in the air. As is known, the Kiev Institute of Nuclear Research (INR) is located in the Exhibition area, over whose reactor the UFO was observed.
On December 20, 1989, from 6 to 7 p.m., a resident of Irpen, Ivan Kucher, observed a glowing object through a telescope over the village of Irpen in the Kyiv region, which then moved away in the direction of Kyiv. An hour later, at 8 p.m. 00 p.m., this glowing UFO was spotted in the sky over the Central Kyiv Stadium by Kyiv photojournalist Lyubov Kalenskaya, who took a series of photographs over the course of forty minutes, where the phases of this object’s transformation are clearly visible.
HЛО был замечен в небе над Центральным Киевским Стадионом киевским фотожурналистом Любовью Каленской
On October 17, 1990, Ukrainian television in the program “Evening Herald” showed a video tape where a UFO was seen hanging high in the sky over Khreshchatyk, in the area of Maidan Nezalezhnosti, observed by thousands of Kiev residents. However, this is already the story of another catastrophe.
