Tobolsk, Russia — 25 November 1696
Human form in the sky
An object split into four luminous parts, the center being dark, with a human form inside. The report reads: “On Sunday, at 2 P.M., there appeared in Tobolsk a sign in the sun: it split into four parts, as it were, and the rays from the sun were light, but in the middle it was dark. And among these parts one could see in the darkness something like a man with extended arms.”
Source: Cherepanov, Aerial Fears of Tobolsk in Olden Days-from the Siberian Olden Days. (Tobolsk, 1882). Quoted in Zvesdochtets (Moscow, 1990), 214-215. Case: W260