The Shaitan Mazar craft
The account
A gigantic craft supposedly crashed in the mountains, and expeditions to reach it ended in disaster.
What investigators found
There is no official record or verified image of the object; the account circulates only in UFO sources.
The story
According to reports that circulated in Russian UFO magazines in the 1990s, a huge cigar-shaped object supposedly crashed in 1991 in a remote area of the Tian Shan Mountains, in Kyrgyzstan, near a place called Shaitan Mazar, roughly "the devil's grave." Expeditions allegedly tried to reach the site, and one of them supposedly ended in a helicopter crash.
The story also speaks of strange fields that made visitors ill. No government in the region confirmed the case, and there are no verifiable photos or documents. Skeptical investigators treat the episode as a modern legend, born in the information chaos at the end of the Soviet Union.