Liudmila Goryacheva filmed a UFO in Rostov; the sighting was picked up by the Rostov and Moscow news agencies. The sightings continued for a month.(Flier’s Files)

In January 1988, Irina Subbotina in the Rostov area (Kharkov, Ukraine) experienced a UFO type event; circles of light, awakened from sleep, and humanoid entities. She experienced another encounter later that summer. (UFO Info.com)

In 1992, a landed UFO was seen on Two Sisters Hill in the Rostov region. Soil samples were taken at the landing site, which showed that the soil contained extremely high levels of manganese; not at all usual. (Paul Stonehill: UFO-USSR)

But probably the most well known case is the September 27, 1989 Voronezh, Russia entity and UFO sighting. Several children saw a nine foot, three eyed-entity, accompanied by a robotic being of some kind. The UFO landed just outside the city of Voronezh, and, like something from The Day the Earth Stood Still, the alien shot a weapon at one of the witnesses. This incident is problematic in many ways, but it is clear something very weird and highly unusual happened. In some ways it reminds me of Marian apparitions, witnessed by children, with accompanying high strangeness.

From squeaking green mystery creature of the deep, to robotic entities, the Rostov region has a legacy of UFO and anomalous events.