Recording 55, page 82
Exercise 5b Now listen to the interview with Vasja, a boy who came face-to-face with an alien.
A story from Russia
Vasja Surin is a twelve-year-old boy from Voronezh.
Voronezh is a town 490 km south-east of Moscow and has about a million inhabitants.
At 7 pm on 25 June, 2018, he was in the city park with his friends.
Suddenly they saw a dark red spaceship above their heads.
Interviewer
Vasja, you say you saw a UFO a week ago. Is that right?
Vasja
Yes. I saw it last Monday, on 25 June.
Interviewer
Where were you when you saw the flying saucer?
Vasja
I was in the city park with my friends. Suddenly we saw a dark red spaceship above our heads.
Interviewer
What time did you see it?
Vasja
I think it was about seven o’clock in the evening.
Interviewer
What did the UFO look like?
Vasja
It had many bright lights and it was about ten metres wide.
Vasja
The flying saucer stopped in mid-air and made no noise.
Vasja
Yes, it landed behind some trees. There was a green fog around the flying saucer. A creature came out and when the ‘thing’ saw us it stopped.
Interviewer
What did the ‘thing’ look like?
Vasja
It was about three metres tall and had three eyes. It didn’t look very attractive but it was friendly.
Vasja
No, I wasn’t. I asked it if I could come with them.
Interviewer
What language did you speak?
Vasja
I spoke Russian and English, but the ‘thing’ didn’t understand me. It only used some light signals.
Vasja
Then the ‘thing’ went back to the spaceship and it flew away.
