The Nemėžis Police Sphere
Shortly after midnight on 25 June 1996 two Lithuanian motor police officers on the Vilnius–Medininkai road near Nemėžis reported a pulsing sphere hanging twenty to thirty metres above the ground and crackling like electricity, which rose and sped off towards Vilnius as they walked towards it. Soldiers, dog handlers and radiation monitors were called out, and the grass beneath it was found flattened in a ten-metre circle. The account survives as a Russian news-agency report that the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service translated. This is the record of what was reported, not a verdict on what hung over the field.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- The Nemėžis Police Sphere is a reported UAP case in Vilnius–Medininkai road near Nemėžis, about 10 km from Vilnius, Lithuania, 25 June 1996, about 00:30.
- Two Lithuanian motor police officers reported a sphere hanging twenty to thirty metres above the ground near Nemėžis, "pulsing" as it shrank and swelled and crackling like electricity.
- When they walked towards it the sphere rose and sped off towards Vilnius, after about half an hour in view, the Russian news-agency report says.
- A rapid reaction force, sniffer dogs and radiation monitors were called out, and the grass beneath the spot was found flattened in a ten-metre circle.
- In 2009 a Lithuanian paper could not find the two officers, and the Vilnius district police chief said no such officers had served under him.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 1 distinct source and 2 distinct claimants on its resolved list.
- The archive grades it L3 · MULTI-SOURCE — multiple independent sources attest to it.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-03; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
