1990: Megas Platanos UFO Crash

THINK ABOUTIT CRASH REPORT

Date: September 2, 1990

Sighting Time: 03.00 hours

Day/Night: night

Location: Megas Platanos, Greece

Urban or Rural: -Rural

Hynek Classification: NL (Nocturnal Light) Point or extended luminous source observed at night.

Duration:

No. of Object(s):  5 – 6 

Height & Speed:

Size of Object(s):

Distance to Object(s): 500 meters 

Shape of Object(s): oval 

Color of Object(s):

Number of Witnesses: Multiple

Source: 

Full Report

Here is the story of the UFO crash near the village of Megas Platanos in Central Greece on September 2, 1990:

About 03.00 hours that night, shepherds and some villagers observed a small group of 5 – 6 UFOs approaching the area from the North. One of them had an unstable flight and seemed to be with a problem. Strange lights came out of UFO’s fuselage, but without any noise.

As an eyewitness, shepherd Trantos Karatrantos, told me, suddenly the troubled UFO lost altitude and crashed to the ground at a distance of about 500 meters away from him. He didn’t hear any noise but a fire started burning the bushes. Trantos Karatrantos was very afraid to get closer and stayed in his position watching the phenomenon.

The rest of the UFOs in this group stopped over the “accident” spot and 2 of them landed near the destroyed UFO. In a few minutes the fire in the bushes was terminated (probably the crew of the landed UFOs stopped the fire). For the rest of the night, till dawn, there was an unusual traffic from the ground to the flying UFOs. Light spots (something like small space rafts??) went up and down, probably collecting the pieces of the destroyed UFO and the bodies(?) of the crew. They finished the collection before sunrise and after that the rest of UFOs took off and were lost in the sky!

Meanwhile all the villagers had been awakened and had seen the whole operation.

Early in the morning the villagers went out to the spot (where all of this occurred) and they saw on the ground a burned oval shape in the ground with a cut pine tree in the center (it is still in this place); and very small metallic pieces and pieces of wires around the tree. Some of the the people, like Argyris Alevantas, collected a number of these pieces. One strange thing was that at the edges of the burned oval the fire stopped like it had been cut by knife!

Some hours later a team of Hellenic Air Force personnel came in the area and told the villagers that this was nothing serious, maybe a Soviet satellite crashed or a plane! They took some pieces of the UFO too and left the area.

Argyris Alevantas sent a piece of the UFO to the Space Research Institute in Brussels and they replied to him that the item came definitely from space!