The Caucasus region. A land of ancient mountains, forgotten history, and secrets buried so deep under the rock that we are only just starting to scratch the surface. But sometimes, the secrets aren’t underground. Sometimes, they are hovering right above our heads, silent, watching, and glowing with an energy that defies explanation.
We need to talk about June 11, 2012. Yerevan, Armenia.
Most people go about their lives looking down. We look at our phones. We look at the pavement. We look at the traffic. But on this specific warm summer night, the people of Yerevan were forced to look up. What happened over the course of eight baffling minutes wasn’t just a weather balloon or a trick of the light. It was a documented, photographic anomaly that remains one of the most compelling pieces of UFO evidence from the early 2010s.
The Event: Eight Minutes of High Strangeness
Let’s set the scene. It was late evening. The city lights of Yerevan were twinkling, a golden grid spread out across the valley. A reporter for Armenian News-NEWS.am, Arsen Sargsyan, was out doing what reporters do—documenting the life of the city. He was taking night shots. Long exposures? Maybe. High ISO? Definitely. But he wasn’t hunting for aliens. He was hunting for aesthetics.
Then, the sky changed.
It didn’t happen with a bang. There was no sonic boom. No Hollywood explosion. Just an unrecognized flying object sliding into the frame. It appeared seemingly out of nowhere, hanging in the darkness like a lantern where no lantern should be.
Here is the kicker: We have the timestamps. This isn’t a vague memory from thirty years ago. We know exactly when this went down.
21:29 – The Arrival
At exactly 9:29 PM, the object manifests. Look at the first image above. That is not a star. Stars are pinpricks of white light, distant and cold. This? This is local. This is a contained sphere of energy. It glows with a warm, amber hue. In ufology, amber or orange orbs are often associated with low-altitude plasma phenomena or, if you ask the believers, propulsion exhausts from craft utilizing ionization to move.
The reporter didn’t just snap one photo and run. He kept shooting. He had the presence of mind to keep his finger on the shutter.
Analysis of the Anomalies
Let’s break down what we are looking at in these photos. Skeptics love to shout “Chinese Lanterns!” whenever an orange light appears. And sure, lanterns exist. They float. They flicker. But look at the consistency here.
A paper lantern is at the mercy of the wind. It flickers wildly. It moves in a distinct, drifting path. The object captured over Yerevan has a solidity to it. A weight.
Between 21:30 and 21:31, the object holds its position. Or perhaps it moves relative to the observer in a way that suggests intelligent control. Notice the surrounding darkness. Yerevan is a major city. There is light pollution. For an object to appear this bright against the urban glow, the luminosity has to be off the charts. We are talking about thousands of lumens.
Could it be a flare? Military flares are the second most common explanation for these things. But flares fall. Gravity is the law, and flares obey it. They drop, they smoke, and they burn out in seconds or a couple of minutes max. This thing hung around.
The “Double Tap” Sighting
This wasn’t an isolated incident. This is where the story gets really sticky. Just one week prior, the same news outlet reported a similar object in the sky. Same city. Same weird behavior. And they had video footage of that one.
When you have repeat visits, you have to stop asking “what is that?” and start asking “why are they here?”
UFO waves often happen in clusters. The Belgian Wave in 1990. The Phoenix Lights in 1997. The Stephenville sightings in 2008. Whatever was scanning the Armenian skies in June 2012 wasn’t just passing through. It was looking for something. Or waiting for something.
The 21:33 to 21:35 Sequence: Shape Shifting?
As the reporter continued to snap photos, the shape of the light seemed to distort. Look closely at the images below. In some frames, it looks like a perfect sphere. In others, it appears elongated, almost saucer-like. Is this motion blur from the camera? Maybe.
Or is it the object manipulating the space around it?
Bob Lazar, the famous (and controversial) whistleblower, talked about how gravity amplifiers bend light. If a craft is using a gravity drive, you aren’t seeing the craft itself; you are seeing the light bending around it. This creates distortions. From one angle, it’s a ball. From another, it’s a disk. From another, it disappears entirely.
The intervals between photos—21:33, 21:34, 21:35—show the object persisting. It isn’t burning out. It isn’t fading away like a dying firework. It is sitting there, glowing with that same intense, reddish-orange spectrum.
Armenia: An Ancient Hotspot?
Why Yerevan? Why Armenia? To understand the present, we have to dig into the past. This isn’t just a random spot on the map. This is the cradle of civilization.
Just a few hours from Yerevan, you have the Ughtasar Petroglyphs. These are rock carvings dating back to 12,000 BC. And what do they show? They show men. They show animals. And they show strange, geometric shapes in the sky. Some researchers believe these ancient carvings depict extraterrestrial visitations that happened before human history was even written down.
Are the visitors returning to check on their investment?
Furthermore, consider Mount Ararat. It dominates the skyline. The legendary resting place of Noah’s Ark. High-altitude peaks are magnets for UFO activity. Pilots often report seeing “foo fighters” or orbs trailing them over mountain ranges. The geology of the area—rich in minerals, volcanic history, and fault lines—might act as a beacon. Some theories suggest that UFOs use the electromagnetic anomalies of fault lines to refuel or navigate.
The Soviet Legacy: Project Setka
We cannot ignore the geopolitical angle. Armenia was part of the Soviet Union. The Soviets were obsessed with UFOs, although they kept it quiet. They had a secret program called “Setka” (The Net). For decades, the KGB and the Ministry of Defense tracked anomalous aerial phenomena across the USSR.
Did they know about something in the Armenian mountains? Were there underground bases left over from the Cold War that are still active? Some conspiracy theorists suggest that these lights aren’t aliens at all, but leftover Soviet tech. Secret directed-energy weapons or plasma-stealth aircraft being tested in the dead of night.
But the tech in 2012 didn’t match the movement. Drones were noisy. They buzzed. This object was silent. And it was huge. Judging by the distance from the camera and the size of the glow relative to the buildings below, this wasn’t a toy. It was the size of a car, maybe a bus.
21:37 – The Departure
The final timestamps tell the end of the story. By 21:37, the show was over. Eight minutes. That’s a long time for a sighting. Most UFO encounters are blink-and-you-miss-it moments. Seconds.
But eight minutes allows for observation. It allows for multiple witnesses. It allows for a reporter to change settings on his camera and take shot after shot.
Look at the way the light interacts with the atmosphere in these final shots. It seems to have a “corona”—a fuzzy edge. This indicates ionization of the air. When you heat the nitrogen and oxygen in our atmosphere to extreme temperatures, it glows. It becomes plasma. Whatever this object was, it was incredibly hot on the outside, or it was generating an electromagnetic field strong enough to excite the air molecules around it.
The Verdict?
So, what was hovering over Yerevan on that warm June night?
Theory 1: The Drone Swarm. Could it be? In 2012, quadcopters were just hitting the consumer market. But they had tiny LEDs, not massive blazing orbs of fire. And the battery life back then? Terrible. To hold a position with that much luminosity for nearly ten minutes would require a serious power source.
Theory 2: Ball Lightning. A natural phenomenon where a sphere of electricity floats during a storm. But look at the weather. The sky is clear. No storm clouds. No lightning. Ball lightning is erratic and explosive. This was calm. Controlled.
Theory 3: The Unknown. This is where we land. The behavior, the luminosity, the silence, and the historical context of the region all point to something anomalous.
Keep Your Eyes on the Skies
The photos by Arsen Sargsyan remain a fascinating piece of the puzzle. They remind us that no matter how much we think we know about our world, there is always something above us that remains just out of reach.
Was it a visitor from another star? A traveler from another dimension? Or a secret military project flexing its muscles over a sleeping city? We might never get the official disclosure. But the camera doesn’t lie. Something was there.
Next time you are walking through your city at night, take a moment. Stop looking at your screen. Look up. You never know what might be looking back at you.
Photos by Arsen Sargsyan
Originally posted 2013-06-09 16:35:24.
Originally posted 2013-06-09 16:35:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Aloha, I’m Amit Ghosh, a web entrepreneur and avid blogger. Bitten by entrepreneurial bug, I got kicked out from college and ended up being millionaire and running a digital media company named Aeron7 headquartered at Lithuania.
