Three local boys, Vasiliy, Maksim both 5 years of age, and 7-year old Victor were playing in an abandoned opencast mine on the outskirts of town. The time was near sunset when they suddenly saw a strange white object, like a dot, then a circle of white fog or mist that was gradually increasing and finally transforming into a disk-shaped object that then hovered over a pit. The disk was hovered silently in front of the stunned boys and then all three witnesses began to feel odd, like being pierced by a thousand needles evidently as a result of an intensified electrostatic field. Next moment all three boys lost consciousness and later woke up laying on the very bottom of the opencast mine. They couldn't understand how they ended up the bottom of the pit, since it was very large and quite deep. All three boys still had been experiencing the electrostatic field. None of them could remember what happened after they saw the disk. They all returned home at 2300 or midnight, their mothers reproaching them for staying out so late. After the incident strange things began happening with Maksim, he began to sleepwalk at night and all three boys discovered strange identical marks on the backs of their heads. The marks were in the form of a trident, it looked as if they had been branded. All three boys then moved to the city of Saint Petersburg. Victor strangely died at the age of 17 of unknown causes. Unfortunately no regressive hypnosis was ever arranged to clarify the details of their evident abduction experience.

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