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UFO SIGHTINGS NO.4: STATEMENTS BY MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT INTENSIVE MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE UFO PHENOMENON IN THE USSREPORT OF VISUAL AND RADAR TRACKING OF UFOSOVIET AIR FORCEIGHTING DY SOVIET COSMONAUTS; AN ASSESSMENT BY THE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN, USSR COUNCIL OF MINISTERS; AN ACCOUNTPACE UUNCH MISTAKENFO; COMMENTARIES BY TWO SOVIET GENERALS; AND REFERENCES TO STATEMENTS BY MIKHAIL GORBACHEV ON UFOS.
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THE0 ISSUE OF RABOCHAYA TRLBUNA CITED0 ISSUE OF AVIATION WEEK ON SIGHTINGS OF UFOS OVER NEVADA THAT WERE REPORTEDLY MOVING AT INCREDIBLE SPEEDS. IT IS HYPOTHESIZED IN THE SOVIET ARTICLE THAT SAUCER-LIKE AND TRIANGULARSHAPED CRAFT WITH UNUSUAL CAPABILITIES ARE BEING DEVELOPED AND TESTED IN NEVADA AND IN THE SOUTHWEST AS PART. MILITARY PROJECT: "BELGIUM WAS VISITED BY STRANGE FLYING MACHINES OF TRIANGULAR SHAPE. THEN THE 'TRIANGLES' APPEARED HERE. (SOVIET)
AIR DEFENSE FORCES UNITS OBTAINED FIXES ON SIMILAR
ACCORDING TO THE ARTICLE, THE SPEEDS OF THE UFOS SIGHTED OVER THE MOJAVE DESERT WERE SIMILAR TO THOSE OF THE UFOS SIGHTED IN THE USSR0 TIMES THE SPEED OF SOUND, AND, AS IN THE SOVIET SIGHTINGS, "TKEY HOVE SILENTLY, CLIMB TO AN INCREDIBLE ALTITUDE, AND SOMETIMES HOVER IN PLACE ANDULSATING LIGHT." MOREOVER. ACCORDING TO THE RABOCHAYA TRISUNA ARTICLE, THE "BELGIANS READ THE REPORT IN AVIATION WEEK 'WITH GREAT INTEREST' AND THE BELGIAN PRESS IS HYPOTHESIZING THAT TOP SECRET AMERICAN AIRCRAFT, NOT UFOS, ARE FLYING IN THE SKY OVER BELGIUM."
THE0 ISSUE OF RABOCHAYA TR1 BUNA INCLUDED AN ARTICLE ON THE PURSUIT OF AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING VEHICLE BY AN INTERCEPTOR PILOT AFTER S. PRCSHKIN, THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF AN AIR FORCE UNIT, REPORTEDLIP DESIGNATING AN "AERIAL TARGET" HAD SUDDENLY APPEARED ON RADAR SCREENS0
ECEIVED THE COORDINATES OF THE TARGET AND THE
MISSION TOOOK AT ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION FROM
THE COMMAND POST. THE OBJECT WAS LOCATED AT AN ALTITUDEILOMETERS. THE WEATHER WAS CLEAR AND CLOUDLESS, THE VISIBILITY EXCELLENT. EARCH FOR THE TARGET DID NOT YIELD ANYEPORTED THIS, TURNED, AND HEADED HOME. SUDDENLY, SOMETHING MADE ME TURN MY HEAD. TO THE REAR AND TO THEAW TWO CIGARSHAPED
OBJECTS OF-THS-FIRST-WAS
ILOMETERS AND THE SECONDETERS. TKEY WERE POSITIONED ONE BEHIND THE OTHER AND WERE IN GOOD9IEV AGAINST THE BACKGROUNDLEAR SKY. THE SMALLER ONEILVER COLOR IN THE RAYS OF THE SUN AND THE LARGER ONE APPEARED TO BE LUSTERLESS.AS NOT ABLE TO MAKE OUT DETAILS AND STRUCTURAL FEATURES--THE DISTANCE WAS TOO GREAT. OTICED. IN FACT, THE UFOS MOVING SIDEWAYS WITH GREAT SPEED. URNED AND BEGAN TO CLOSE IN. AND SUDDENLY BOTH TARGETS DISAPPEARED FROM THE FIELD OF VISION. BUT THE PIPS STAYED ON THE RADAR. ACCORDING TO INFORMATION FROM THE COMMAND POST, ABOUTILOMETERS SEPARATED US AT THIS POINT."
THE0 ISSUE OF RABOCHAYA TRIBUNA INCLUDES AN INTERVIEW OF COSMONAUTS ABOARD THE SOVIET SPACE STATION MIR,OURNALIST WHO WAS COMMUNICATING WITH THE COSMONAUTS VIA RADIO. THEEPTEMBER INTERVIEW CENTERED ON AN ENORMOUS UFO THAT THE COSMONAUTS REPORTEDLY OBSERVED IN SPACE. AN EXCERPT FROM THIS INTERVIEW IS TRANSLATED BELOW. ALTHOUGH THE TWO COSMONAUTS,
GENNADIY HIKHAYLOVICH HANAXOV AND GENNADIY HIKHAYLOVICH STSERALOV ARE NOT IDENTIFIED BY NAME IN THE INTERVIEW, THEY ARE IDENTIFIED BY NAME IN THE POSTSCRIPT. BOTH COSMONAUTS TOOK PART IN THE INTERVIEW,
QUESTION: "TELL HE, WHAT ARE THE HOST INTERESTING NATURAL PHENOMENA YOU SEE ON EARTH?"
COSMONAUT: "YESTERDAY, FORAW. IF ONE MAY CALL ITAN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING Object. ALLED IT THAT.'"
QUESTION: *'WHAT WAS IT?"
COSMONAUT: "WELL,ON'T KNOW. ITREAT, SILVERY SPHERE, IT WASTHIS WAS"
QUESTION: "THIS WAS OVER THE REGION OF
COSMONAUT: "NO. WE HAD ALREADY PASSED OVER NEWFOUNDLAND. THERE WAS AN ABSOLUTELY CLEAN, CLEAR SKY. IT IS DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE BUT THE OBJECT WASREAT ALTITUDE OVER THE EARTH.ILOMETERS. IT WAS MUCH LARGERUGE SHIP."
QUESTION: "COULD IT HAVE BEEN AN ICEBERG?"
COSHONAUT: "NO. THIS OBJECTEGULAR SHAPE, BUT WHAT ITO NOT KNOW. PERHAPS AN ENORHOUS, EXPERIHENTAL SPHERE OR SOMETHING
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THE0 ISSUE OF SOVETSKAYA ROSSIYA INCLUDESWITH ACADEMICIAN L. I.EPUTY CHAIRMAN OFCOUNCIL OF MINISTERS. IN REFERENCE TO GORBACHEV'SBAUCIN SAID THAT THE PROGRAMOME MIRACULOUS MIAN'S, AND OUR PEOPLE BELIEVEYOU NOTICED THAT IN SUCH CRISIS SITUATIONSBE-;EF IN ALIENS ANTEVELOPS THIS IS AYOU KNOW. ISCUSSED THIS MANY YEARS AGO. BECAME CLEARLY EVIDENT IN THENDUPHEAVALS CAUSE SUCH A
0 LENINGRADASKAYA PRAVDA CARRIED AN ARTICLE BY VALENTIN GOLTS, ACTING MEMBER OF THE USSR GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, WHOTRONG CASE TO PROVE THATUGUST SIGHTINGSFO IN THE LENINGRAD OBLAST CAN BE EXPLAINED AS OBSERVATIONS OF THE
SSnSS2XS 7KAT AlhX2 OBSERVERS AGREE THAT THE UFO APrEARED INITIALLY AS AN UNUSUALLY BRIGHT OBLONG CLOUD.
THEN, FROM THE RIGHT OF THEPHEREELL-DEFINED PROFILE SEPARATED, WITH ARCS OF BRIGHT ILLUMINATION EXTENDING OUT FROM THE SPHERE. THE VELOCITY OF THE SPHERE SOMEWHAT EXCEEDED THE
BL^AI*CRm-" TS STATISALLEZ COINCIDE WITH THE LIGHT EFFECTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE LAUNCH OF KCSMOS, WHICH TOOK PLACE AT THIS TIME.
THE ARTICLE CONTAINS FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS OF THEUGUST UFO" SENT IN BY TWO OF THE OBSERVERS, AND GOLTS POINTS OUT THAT THE ILLUSTRATIONS CLEARLY DEPICT THE PHASES OF THE LAUNCH. IN THE FIRST PHASE OF THE LAUNCHOVING, BRIGHT, SHINING SPOT IS OBSERVED, TOGETHERONTRAIL RESEMBLING THE CONTRAILET AIRCRAFT. GRADUALLY THE CONTRAIL SPREADS OUT AND BECOMES WIDER. WHEN OBSERVED FROM THE SIDE, ITLATFISH THE SECOND PHASE OF THE LAUNCH BEGINS AT THE MOMENT OF FIRSTSTAGE SEPARATION. RIEF FLASH OCCURS, AND IN THE PLACE WHERE THE BRIGHT SPOT ISAPID EXPANSION OF GAS IN THE FORMPHERE IS OBSERVED. THE LOWER FRINGES OF THE SPHERE CAN REACH TO THE HORIZON. THIS CREATES THE IMPRESSION THAT THE BRIGHT SPOT HOVERS BRIEFLY. SOMETIMES, AT THE MOMENT OF THE FLASHONCENTRIC CIRCLES MOVING OUTWARD, OR COMPLEX VORTICES ARE OBSERVED. WHEN THEREEAD-ON OR END-VIEW OBSERVATION OF THE LAUNCH, THE SHAPE OF THE GASES CANLOWERROSS. THE SUBSEQUENT MOVEMENT OF THE SECOND STAGE IS OBSERVEDRIGHT SPOTONE OF GASEOUS JETS STREAMING OUT BEHIND IT. RESEMBLING RAYS EXTENDING AT AN ANGLE0 DEGREES THE SPEED OF THE ROCKET IS SIGNIFICANTLY GREATER THAN THE SPEEDIGH-ALTITUDE AIRPLANE. WHEN THE SECOND STAGE SEPARATES, THERE MAY OCCUR ANOTHER FLASH, WITH RAYS STREAMING OUTWARD (ILLUSTRATIONHE FIRST PHASES CAN LASTOINUTES AND THE LAST,RAIL IN THE SKY, CAN LAST UP TO THREE HOURS.
THE0 ISSUE OF SSHA; EKONQMIKA, POLITIKA. IDEOLOGIYA STATED THAT THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE CPSU M. S. GORBACHEV HADE REFERENCES TO UFOS ON THREE OCCASIONS:
"GORBACHEV,ELECTED SPEECHES AND ARTICLES. VOL
POLITICAL REPORT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OFH PARTY CONGRESS.
PEECHORUM ENTITLEDON-NUCLEAR WORLD, FOR HUMANISM IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS',
0 ISSUE OF NTR TRIBUNA CITES THE VIEW OF THE LEADING SOVIET SKEPTIC REGARDING THE UFO PHENOMENON. CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE USSR ACADEMY OF SCIENCES VLADIMIR MOULIN, WHO CONSIDERSATCHDOG "GUARDING AGAINST THE NONSENSE OF UFO
REPORTS." NIGULIN SAID THAT HE IS EXTREMELY IRRITATED WITH THE DELUGE OF UTO REPORTS IN THE NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS. POINTING OUT THAT SOME FOREIGN JOURNALS SUCH AS THE SKEPTICAL INQUIRER HAVE BEEN WRITING ABOUT THE PARANORMAL BABBLE" IN THE SOVIET UNION "WITH UNDISGUISED MALICE."
THE JOURNALOSMONAVTIKA. NO.NCLUDES AN INTERVIEW WITH MAJOR GENERAL OF AVIATION A. LEONOV. THE GENERAL. WHO ISOSMONAUT, SAIDOT OF BUNK IS PUBLISHED BY UFOLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS. UFOLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS, ACCORDING TO UONOV,HRASE USED. ASTRONAUTS OUT OF CONTEXT AND FABRICATED THEIR FANTASIES AROUND IT. FOR EXAMPLE, AFTER THE LANDING ON THE MOON THERE WERE TRANSMISSIONS BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE ASTRONAUTS AND MISSION CONTROL IN HOUSTON. THE GENERAL SAID: "NEIL ARMSTRONG, LEAVING THE SHIP, STEPPED CAREFULLY ONTO THE SOIL, AND THEN BECAME MORE BOLD; HIS STEPS BECAME MORE CONFIDENT AND HE BEGAN TO JUMP AROUND. AW THESE VIDEO FRAMES. JAMES ALDRIN, TURNING TO HIM, SAID 'WATCH OUT, THEY ARE WATCHING US.' 'THEY' IN THE SENSE OF 'EARTH.' LATER HE ADVISED THAT THEY SHOULD NOT DISOBEY INSTRUCTIONS AND THAT THEY SHOULD BE CAREFUL. AND. IN FACT, ARMSTRONG BEGAN TO WALK AROUND AFTER THIS WITH NORMAL STEPS. AVE SAID TO THETS ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION: 'WHAT ARE YOU SPECULATING ABOUT? THERE IS NO BASIS FOR IT'." (THE SPECULATION WAS THAT THE TERM 'THEY' REFERRED TO EXTRATERRESTRIALS, RATHER THAN MISSION CONTROL).
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THE0 ISSUE OF KRASNAYA ZVEZDAENGTHY INTERVIEW WITH COLONEL GENERAL ALEXANDER MAKSIHOV WHO WAS RESPONDING TO THE PUBLIC'S DEMAND FROM THE HILITARY FOR INFORMATION ON THE SURGE OF UFO REPORTS. MAKSIMOV, CHIEF SPECIALIST OF THE USSR MINISTRY OF DEFENSE FOR REUSABLE SYSTEMS, SAID THAT, ALTHOUGH HE IS NOT OPPOSED TO THE UFO HYPOTHESIS, AND IS "ONLY CALLINGOBER AND SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF THEE KNOWS FOR CERTAIN THAT THE UFOS SIGHTED OVER BAYKONUR WERE ACTUALLY PHENOMENA ASSOCIATED WITH ROCKET LAUNCHES. EE SAID THAT HE PERSONALLY OBSERVED ONE OF THESE UFOS AND NOTICED THAT THE TRAJECTORY OF THE FLY-OVER WAS FROM THE SOUTHWEST TO THE NORTHEAST. HE NOTED THAT THAT COURSE "IS OUR FAVORITE AND THE MAJORITY OF OUR SPACE VEHICLES FLY RIGHT ALONG IT. BUT ALSO ALONG THIS COURSE FLY ALL OF THE OBJECTS WHICH ACCOMPANY THE SPACE VEHICLE WHICH VENT INTO ORBIT WITHS KANT ASIFFERENT OBJECTS CAN DROP OFF THE SPACE VEHICLE AS IT MOVES INTO ORBIT--THIS TRASH ORBITS EARTH AT ALTITUDES VARYINGO BOO KILOMETERS." MAKSIMOV SAYS THAT HE PERSONALLY
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CONFIRMEDFO SIGHTED OVER BAYKONUR WAS, IN REALITY, JUST THE REFLECTION OF SUN RAYS FROM ONE OF THESE OBJECTS.
0 ISSUE OF THE RIGA NEWSPAPER SOVETSKAYA MOLODEZHULL-PAGE ARTICLE ENTITLED "ONLY FROM OFFICIALMONG THE OTHER OFFICIAL SOURCES CITED (SUCH AS THE KGB AND THE AIR DEFENSEHE AUTHOR. PANEL MURKHORTOV. CLAIMS THAT,ECENT MEETING WITH URAL WORXERS. MIKHAIL GORBACHEV STATED THAT "THE UFO PHENOMENON IS REAL AND WE SHOULD APPROACH IT SERIOUSLY AND STUDY IT."
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