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Ukraine’s astronomers say there are tons of UFOs over Kyiv
Researchers from Ukraine’s Main Astronomical Observatory and the National Academy of Sciences documented daytime-sky unidentified aerial phenomena over Kyiv using two stations 120 km apart (Kyiv and Vynarivka) with CCD cameras (ASI 178 MC and ASI 294 Pro), Computar 6 mm lenses, and SharpCap 4.0, classifying observed objects as cosmics (luminous, brighter than the sky) and phantoms (dark bodies with 3–50% contrast) occurring as singles, groups, and squadrons moving 3–15 deg/s at distances up to 10–12 km and sizes of 3–12 m with speeds up to 15 km/s, noting that exposures under 1 ms and frame rates of at least 50 Hz were necessary since phenomena shorter than a tenth of a second cannot be fixed by the eye and coordinates were derived from cameras aimed toward the zenith or the Moon, while acknowledging that ordinary fast-moving objects can evade capture without tuned shutter speed, frame rate, and dynamic range; the inquiry, spurred by interest from the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and NASA’s plans for atmospheric UAP studies, was led by Boris Zhilyaev who declined to comment to Vice, and the work does not identify what the observed objects are, only detailing their high speeds and observational characteristics, underscoring the need for enhanced observation techniques to detect and analyze rapidly evolving unidentified aerial phenomena.
