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USSR: UFO SIGHTINGS NO. 3DEPUTY MINISTER OF DEFENSE INTERVIEW
LEADING SOVIET NEWSPAPERS HAVE INCREASED THEIR REPORTING ON UFO SIGHTINGS IN RECENT MONTHS. ONE PARTICUUR HIGHLIGHTENGTHY INTERVIEW WITH SOVIET DEPUTY MINISTER OF DEFENSE IVAN TRETYAK INOVEMBER LITERATURNAYARGE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER WITH NATIONAL CIRCULATION. TRETYAK, WHO ALSO HOLDS THE POSITIONS OF COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE AIR DEFENSE FORCES AND GENERAL OF THE ARMY, CONFIRMED THAT FIGHTER-INTERCEPTORS HAD ENCOUNTERED UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS IN SOVIET AIR SPACE. HE SAID THAT ONE "UNIDENTIFIED FLYING MACHINE" HAD BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED BY INTERCEPTOR
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PILOTS AND THAT OPTICAL AND THERMAL SIGNALS FROM IT HAD BEEN DETECTED ON THE PILOTS' TARGET SCREENS, ALTHOUGH SOME STEALTH-LIKE" CAPACITY PREVENTED THE RECORDING OF RADAR SIGNALS.
LITERATURNAYA GAZETA COLUMNISTOROZ ASKED TRETYAK IF THE AIR DEFENSE FORCES REGARD THE FLIGHT OF UFOS IN SOVIET AIR SPACEVIOLATION OF THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE TRETYAK REPLIED THAT IT IS PREMATURE TO SEE THE UFOSHREAT TO SOVIET SECURITY OR SOVEREIGNTY BECAUSE ALTHOUGH PILOT REPORTS INDICATED THE UFOS APPEARED TO BE OF ARTIFICIAL ORIGIN, THEIR REAL NATURE HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. OBSERVING THAT MOST PREVIOUS UFO SIGHTINGS HAD BEEN EXPLAINED AS NATURAL PHENOMENA ORISINTERPRETATION OF OPTICAL PHENOMENA ASSOCIATED WITH ROCKET LAUNCHES OR THE ARTIFICIAL DEBRIS THAT IS CONGESTING SPACE NEAR EARTH, TRETYAK ADDED: "MANY OF THE PHENOMENA TAKEN FOR UFOS ARE CAUSED BY THE PENETRATION OF COSMIC RAYS THROUGH OZONE HOLES WHICH ARE FORMED DURING ROCKETE REVEALED THAT THE MILITARY KNEW SOME OF THE FAMOUS UFO SIGHTINGS IN THEOULD HAVE BEEN EXPLAINED BY MAKING THIS EFFECT PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE BUT THAT "FOR SECURITY REASONS. NOTHING WAS WRITTEN ABOUT THIS AT THAT TIME."
GENERAL TRETYAK REPLIED NEGATIVELY WHEN ASKED WHETHER THE AIR DEFENSE FORCES HAD DETECTED ANY OF THE UFOS CITED IN FIVE RECENT CASES OF MASS OBSERVATION. AS AN EXAMrLEASE OF "MASS" OBSERVATIONFO IN THIS CASE BY THE AIR DEFENSE FORCES -TRETYAK CITED AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING VEHICLE APPARAT THAT WAS REPORTED BY HIS CHIEF OF STAFF, COLONEL GENERAL MALTSEV, IN0 (SEE FOREIGN PRESS NOTE FB2 "USSR: UFO SIGHTINGSENERAL MALTSEV COMMENTS"). TRETYAK STATED THAT ONE PARTICULAR UFO HAD BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED. AND OPTICAL AND THERMAL SIGNALS FROM IT HAD SHOWN UP ON THE TARGET SCREENS OF THE INTERCEPTORS. IN THE WORDS OF TRETYAK: "FORONG TIME,0N THE REGION NORTHEAST OF MOSCOW (PERESLAVLZALESSKIY, ZAGORSK, FRYAZINO,WO PULSATING LIGHTS WERE OBSERVED IN THE SKY. MOVING AS IF THEY WERE FIXED IN POSITION IN RELATION TO EACH OTHER, LIKE THE SIDE LIGHTS OF AN AIRPLANE. BUT THIS WAS NOT AN AIRPLANE. WE HAVE WRITTEN TESTIMONY FROM EYEWITNESSES AND PHOTOGRAPHS. SOME OBSERVERS WERE EVEN CONVINCED THAT THE SPEED OF THE OBJECT DEPENDED ON THE FREQUENCY OF THE PULSATION OF THE LIGHTS." TRETYAK NOTED THAT ALTHOUGH THE OBJECT COULD BE OBSERVEDADAR SCREEN AND PHOTOGRAPHED, IT COULD NOT BE REGISTERED BY ON-BOARD RADAR RECORDING EQUIPMENT. HE EXPLAINED THAT THE "THREE SIGNALS WHICH COME INHE RADAR SIGNAL. THE OPTICAL SIGNAL, AND THE THERMAL SIGNALLL SHOW UP ON THE SCREEN OF THE SIGHT. IT IS AS IF THEY DUPLICATE EACH OTHER, BUT THE RECORDING DEVICE REGISTERS ONLY THE RADAR SIGNAL. AND, INARCH CASE, THERE WAS NONE." TRETYAK SAID HE BELIEVES THAT THE UFO CANNOT BE RECORDED ON RADAR BECAUSE IT IS NOT AN ORDINARY FLYING MACHINE WHICH CAN BE RECORDED ON THE RELATIVELY NARROW BAND ON WHICH AIR DEFENSE FORCES RADARS OPERATE.
TRETYAK FURTHER EXPLAINED THAT THE UFO APPEARED TO HAVE "STEALTHLIKE" CHARACTERISTICS. STATING HIS HOPE THAT TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS WILL MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO WIDEN THE CAPABILITY OF RADARS TO COUNTERACT "STEALTH" FEATURES, TRETYAK SAID; "IT IS KNOWN, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT THEREUMBER OF MATERIALS AND SHAPES
WHICH SHARPLY LOWER THE RADAR AND OPTICAL PROFILE OF AN OBJECT
THAT IS PRECISELY WHAT IS BEING ACHIEVED IN THE AMERICAS 'STEALTH'
DMIT THAT THE MEASURES AIMED AT COUNTERING THIS
PROGRAM, WHICH WE ARE NOW TAKING, WILL SIMULTANEOUSLY PROMOTE THE SOLUTION OF THE UFO RIDDLE." TRETYAX SUGGESTED THAT "IF SPECIAL OBSERVATION POSTS WERE ORGANIZED AND THE FREQUENCIES ON WHICH RADARS OPERATE WEREE MOST LIKELY WOULD SEE MORE. FOR THIS, HOWEVER, VERY GREAT RESOURCES ARE NECESSARY. THE GROUND RADARS OF THE AIR DEFENSE FORCES ALSO DID NOT RECORD THE UFO TARGET."
WHEN ASKED WHY HE, AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE AIRDID NOT ORDER THE UFO SHOT DOWN, PARTICULARLY SINCEIN THE POST OF COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, AS WELL ASOF DEFENSE. HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM THEIR POSITIONS WHENUNABLE TOFLIGHT OVER OUR TERRITORY AND AMOSCOW OF THE INOFFENSIVE SPORTS PLANE THAT WAS FLOWN BYPOINTED OUT THAT THE UFOS ENCOUNTERED THUS FAR BY HISAPPEARED TO POSE NO EXTRATERRESTRIAL THREAT AND THAT THERENO PROOF THE UFOS ARE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGIN OR FLOWNBEINGS. MOREOVER, HE WARNED, IT WOULD BE FOOLHARDYAN UNPROVOKED ATTACK AGAINST AN OBJECT THAT MAYCAPACITIES FOR RETALIATION. HE SAID THAT EVEN IF ITSOHE OF THE UFOS ARERODUCTIGNIFICANTLY MORE DEVELOPEDNY FIGHT WITH SUCH OBJECTS AND THEIR CREWSEFOREOF THEIR INTENTIONSOULD BE
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TRETYAK WAS ASKED HOW HE REACTS TO EACH NEW REPORT OF SIGHTINGS AND WHETHER HE PERSONALLY BELIEVES THAT UFOS ARE FLOWN BY INTELLIGENT BEINGS OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGIN. TRETYAK SAID HE WOULD NOT, AT THIS TIME, TAKE AN OATH ON HIS PARTY MEMBERSHIP CARD THAT NONE OF THE UFOS APPEARING OVER SOVIET TERRITORY ARE PILOTED BY EXTRATERRESTRIALS BUT SAID HE BELIEVES "THE SERIOUS SCIENTISTS WHO MAINTAIN THAT THE APPEARANCE OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS ON EARTH IS EXTREMELY IMPROBABLE. NEVERTHELESS, EACH NEW REPORT ABOUT SUCH AN EVENT EVOKES INHINK AS IN MANYODERATE CURIOSITY. THISUMAN REACTION. BUT THE REACTION OF THE COMMANDER-IN CHIEF OF THE AIR DEFENSE FORCES IS THE DESIRE TO INVESTIGATE WHAT IS
BEHIND ALL OF THESE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CHECK OUT ALL OF THESEHERE ARE TOO MANY OF THEM. BUT THIS IS HARDLY NECESSARY. OFTEN, THEY ARE SIMPLY NEWSPAPER 'HOAXES.1 RECENTLY, IN RABOCHAYAEPORT APPEARED SOME KIND OF FLYING VEHICLE APPEARED IN THE KUYBYSHEV DISTRICT AND, WHAT IS MORE, IT DESTROYED OUR RADAR STATION. NATURALLY VE WERE PERPLEXEDHY IS THERE NO REPORT? ESTROYED STATIONITAJOR INCIDENT. EVEN IF IT HAD BEEN HIT BY LIGHTNING, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NECESSARY TO REPORT THIS IMMEDIATELY. AND HERE WE HAVE AN ATTACKLYING VEHICLE. BUT IT CAN BE EXPLAINED. RABOCHAYA TRI8UNA TOOK THESE REPORTS FROM THE DISTRICT MILITARY NEWSPAPER ZA RODINU. IT TURNS OUT THE HOAX
WAS THOUGHT UPTAFF MEMBER OF THE DISTRICT NEWSPAPER IN ORDER
TO ATTRACT READERS. MAYBE, RIGHT NOW, EVEN AS WE SPEAK, THIS CAPTAIN IS IN THE OFFICE OF GENERAL MAKASHOV AND THE LATTER IS, AS
THEY SAY, FLAYING HIM ALIVE. THESE DAYS, ALL THESE RUMORS AND NEWSPAPER 'HOAXES' FALL ON FERTILE SOILVERYBODY WANTS A
MIRACLE. AND WHEN IT IS WANTEDT WILL APPEAR."
TRETYAK ADVISED THE PUBLIC TORITICAL AND CAUTIOUS ATTITUDE TOWARD THE UFO PHENOMENON IN LIGHT OF THE INCREASING NUMBER OF HOAXES. HE EMPHASIZED, HOWEVER. THAT SOME OF THE UFOS. AS DEMONSTRATED BY EVIDENCE OBTAINED BY HIS INTERCEPTOR PILOTS, ARE REAL. "AT THE SAME TIME HOAXES ARE BEINGEPEAT, THERE REALLY ARE PHENOMENA OF SOME KIND WHICH ARE APPEARING BEFORE US IN THE FORM OF UFOS, THE NATURE OF WHICH WE DO NOT KNOW."
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(FOR FURTHER REPORTING OS THIS TOPIC. SEE THE FBIS FOREIGN PRESS NOTES: FB2 "USSR: MEDIA REPORTS MULTITUDE OF UFO SIGHTINGS" AND FB2 "USSR: UFO SIGHTINGS NO.ENERAL MALTSEV COMMENTS")
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