Minsk, Belarus: Aeroflot Tu-134 crew sees glowing shape-changing object follow airliner

At 4:10 a.m. on September 7, 1984, while approaching Minsk, Belarus, the pilots of a Soviet Aeroflot Tu-134 airliner saw a strange, brightly glowing shape appear to their right and follow their path closely for several minutes. It changed shape repeatedly, appearing first as rays, then as concentric circles, then as a cloud and finally as an amorphous mass. While copilot Gennady Lazurin sketched the object, Captain Igor Cherkashin contacted air traffic officials, who reported that radar showed a strange 'double' object, believed to be the airliner and the unidentified object. Years later, reports surfaced that a second flight crew traveling in the opposite direction had also seen the glowing object. Lazurin's sketches closely resemble sketches by other witnesses of rocket launches, and James Oberg considers a missile launch from a Russian submarine in the Barents Sea a likely explanation. 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.