In 1989 several city in Russia, experienced a wave of sightings involving many UFOs of different shapes and sizes. Starting on April 24, 1989, in Cherepovetsk, a man named Ivan Vesalova reported a craft of enormous size, bigger than any airplane, about a thousand feet above ground. On June 6, in Konantsevo, several children saw, or claimed they saw, a luminous sphere land in a meadow and a headless person climb out. On June 11, a woman in Vologda reported a fiery sphere crossing the sky, visible for 17 minutes.

In one sighting, about 500 people watched an unidentified craft hovering over their neighborhood. Another craft flew over the nuclear power plant and sent down a ray of some sort, which left a burn mark in the ground.

All that, however, was prologue to the Voronezh “landings”. On September that year, hundreds of citizens in Voronezh, saw a spaceship land in a public park. The witnesses claimed that the giant visitors had three eyes and that their craft and their uniforms were all marked with the X symbol.

On the afternoon of September 27, 1989, several children in Voronezh, an industrial center with a population of about one million, were playing soccer in a local park when a giant red sphere, 30 feet in diameter, landed right next to them.

A huge crowd quickly gathered. Suddenly, a hatch opened in the craft and two creatures stepped out. One was a short robotic-looking figure, the other was a gigantic humanoids (12 to 14 feet tall) walked about the town, perhaps sightseeing. The alien appeared to have “three eyes,” was wearing a silver jumpsuit, bronze-colored boots, and a round disk on his chest.

Because there were so many witnesses, and because of the earlier wave of sightings, the event caused a huge sensation. The news agency TASS picked up the story, and before long, it was front-page news across the world.