The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Parisien, France, on May 13, 1997.
Residents of the village of Ginkunai, in western Lithuania, claim to have seen an unidentified flying object "pulsating like a heart" on Saturday evening. According to them, it was not an apparition in the Baltic sky of Boris Yeltsin's famous heart organ, which was nevertheless the subject of miracles last winter. Nor was it even an advertising campaign for the launch of Luc Besson's film, The Fifth Element. No, Kestutis Nesavas, the first to have spotted the thing, is categorical: it was a flying saucer, a real one. When he saw it, he immediately alerted his wife and three neighbors.
All five say that the object, on which lights were flashing, came within about ten meters of them, while remaining perfectly silent, before moving away. The encounter of the third kind is said to have lasted twenty minutes.
An astrophysicist interviewed by the daily newspaper Respublica questioned the value of these testimonies, stating that these people could have been deceived by an atmospheric phenomenon. Ginkunai is close to the city of Siauliai, where a Soviet military air base was installed, and where several testimonies on the appearance of UFOs have already been recorded in the past.
Ultimately, Kestutis Nesavas is right. It is better to believe in Martians.
