Nadym, Russia: Yak-40 crew sees bright round object rush in, it soars up before the nose
In January 1978, during a flight between the Medvezhye gas field and Nadym in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the crew of a Yak-40 airliner saw a bright round object approach rapidly; a crash seemed imminent before the object soared up in front of the aircraft's nose.
Background
During the flight of a Yak-40 airliner between the Medvezhye gas field and Nadym, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, the crew noticed a bright round object that approached rapidly and some time later appeared in front of the aircraft, apparently much larger. A crash appeared imminent, but the object soared up in front of the nose of the airliner. Eberhart's only source is an article by Paul Stonehill on cosmonaut Pavel Popovich and UFOs (Open Minds, 2014). The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.