Overview
A collection assembled by the Belarusian research group Ufocom documents four reported UFO encounters in rural communities between the late 1960s and 1990s. The cases occurred far from military installations or major airports, in settings including a volleyball court, a hayloft, a village home and a misty field. Published on November 5, 2026, the account is based not on government records, but on interviews conducted years after the alleged events by investigators who revisited witnesses in their villages.
Ufocom investigators—including Viktor Gaiduchik, Dmitry Pasovets, Ilya Butov and others—typically reconstructed incidents through repeated interviews, witness drawings and comparisons between separate accounts. The reports remain anecdotal and have not been independently confirmed, but they offer a record of how unusual experiences were remembered and discussed in Belarusian communities over several decades.
Liadets, 1967: A witness above the volleyball net
The earliest case took place one summer evening in Liadets, in Stolin district, where seven boys chose to play volleyball rather than go to the cinema. One witness, identified in the file as A.A., said that a silent, elongated object passed close to the court. He reported feeling his feet leave the ground and described the volleyball post as appearing to move downward as he rose.
A.A. said he grabbed the top of the net and held on. He recalled no beam or visible ray, only what he characterized as a pull toward the object and an inability to look away. A second witness, N.P., later told investigators that he remembered an object passing near the village club but did not recall seeing anyone lifted from the ground.
The case came to Ufocom’s attention after a 2012 radio program. In May 2016, Pasovets and another investigator visited Liadets and located the second witness. The resulting file, which includes A.A.’s drawing, was published in February 2017.
Dvorets, 1989: An encounter in a hayloft
In Dvorets, Vitebsk region, 16-year-old Roman and his friend Pavel were sleeping in a hayloft in July 1989 when they noticed luminous shapes near the opening. Roman later said that, while approaching the ladder, he saw a glowing figure beside the bedding. He described it as approximately 1.5 meters long, with a large head, two dark points resembling eyes and a long, curled tail.
The boys initially covered their heads, then looked again and eventually began laughing, according to the account. Roman’s mother, Taisiya Romanovskaya, told investigators that the episode lasted until dawn—approximately two hours. She later submitted a correction from her son, clarifying that he had seen one sphere and one triangle, rather than several spheres and squares. Investigators Vadim Aleksinsky and Olga Tarasenko published the case in 2018.
Grivkovichi, 1990: Visitors and three glasses
Another report came from Grivkovichi, in Pinsk district, on January 13, 1990. A witness identified as Alexander N. said that two visitors in bright green suits appeared while he was preparing a late meal. They reportedly did not speak. He invited them to sit down, placed food on the table and set out three glasses of spirits before losing part of his memory of the encounter.
He later described the figures as shorter than himself, with low-set heads, wrinkled faces, long chins and unusually kind-looking eyes. Ufocom investigator Viktor Gaiduchik interviewed Alexander and his wife in December 2007, nearly 18 years after the alleged event, and preserved the wife’s separate account. The couple requested pseudonyms. The case was published in 2014.
A record of rural testimony
The source collection also references a fourth encounter in a misty field during the 1990s, though the supplied account provides few identifying details about its witnesses or location. Taken together, the cases illustrate Ufocom’s central approach: preserving local testimony and historical memory, rather than presenting the reports as proven evidence of extraterrestrial activity. The long delays between events and interviews, differing witness recollections and absence of physical evidence leave the incidents open to conventional explanations. Their significance lies chiefly in documenting how residents remembered extraordinary experiences in Belarusian villages across changing decades.
