According to Tass, and a report today in the newspaper Sovetskaya Kultura, two boys and a girl from a local school Vasya Surin, Zhenya Blinov and Yuliya Sholokhova were playing in a park on the warm evening of Sept. 27 when suddenly, at half past six, ”they saw a pink shining in the sky and then spotted a ball of deep red color” about 10 yards in diameter. A crowd gathered, ”and they could clearly see a hatch opening in the lower part of the ball and a humanoid in the opening.” A Stare Silen
