This story took place in June 1979 in the Turgai region of the Kazakh SSR near Arkalyk – now almost abandoned, but then – a prosperous industrial city.
The local shepherd named Sagynbay, woke up in the middle of the night, left the house and saw that the sky was glowing. It seemed to him that the source of light was not far away, and the shepherd, saddling his horse, decided to go and find out what was the reason for the strange glow.
Having driven several kilometers from his native village, he saw traces of a large object falling from the sky in the night steppe. Deciding that it could be an airplane or a Soviet space satellite, the shepherd drove closer and was surprised to see a silver disk half buried in the rocky soil.
Deciding that it was not worth approaching such a find, Sagynbay went back to the village. And a few hundred meters from the fallen object, he came across an escape pod, very similar to a coal-black egg.
The surface of the capsule was of such texture that the shepherd decided that it was just a smoothly processed boulder. But at that moment, the “boulder” suddenly opened up, and from it, under the horse’s feet, fell out, as it seemed to Sagynbai at first, a tall man...<<<Read More>>>...
