(March 27, 2010) The Russian Information Agency (RIA Novosti) reported that a boy from Tajikistan captured the image of an unidentified flying object with his cell phone camera. The boy became a local hero after he filmed a 50-second footage of what is thought to be a flying saucer. Residents of Khujand in northern Tajikistan saw the flying saucer over the city and on March 22, a 9th grade student named Bakhtovar Khurshedzod captured it on video. Khurshedzod described the flying saucer as "red surrounded by white lights", moving soundlessly towards the mountains where it accelerated and disappeared. He added that he was sure it wasn't a kite or a plane.
Local air traffic authorities failed to detect the flying saucer on their radar which is usually turned off. It was not the first sighting of its kind as a similar incident occurred in the 1990s.