POLICE OFFICERS SPOT UFO; RAPID REACTION FORCE ALERTED

Created: 6/26/1996

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COUNTRYi LITHUANIA

OFFICERS SPOT UFO; RAPID REACTION FORCE ALERTED

SOURCE: MOSCOW ITAR-TASS WORLD SERVICE IN0 GMTUN 96

BY VLADAS BURBULIS

FBIS TRANSLATED TEXT VILNIUS, UN -- AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT (UFO) . SPOTTED NEAR THE LITHUANIAN BORDER ONUNE BY TWO DUTY MOTOR POLICE PATROL OFFICERS JAUNIUS POZERA AND LAIKIS KRA'JJALIS PLACED THE WHOLE VILIUS POLICE ON THE ALERT. VEHICLE LOADS OF SOLDIERS FROM THE ARAS RAPID REACTION FORCE. SNIFFER DOGS AND POLICE REINFORCEMENTS IMMEDIATELY ARRIVED ON THE SCENE OP THE

ACCORDING TO THE EYEWITNESS'S ACCOUNTS. AT0 IN THE EARLY MORNING, ON THE VILNIUS-MEDININKAI ROAD. NEAR THE VILLAGE OF NEMEZIS. K FROM THE CAPITAL. AT AN ALTITUDEETERS ABOVE THE GROUND. THEYPHERICAL OBJECT HANGING ANDALTERNATELY SHRINKING AND EXPANDING. AT THE SAMS TIKE. THEY HEARD WHAT THEY DESCRIBED ASTRANGE SOUND LIKE AN ELECTRIC OR ELECTRONIC CRACKLE. " WANTING TOLOSER LOOK AT THE UFO, THE POLICEMEN MOVED TOWARD IT. WHEN THEY HAD ADVANCED ABOUT SO METERS THROUGH THE LONGHE POLICE SAID, THE SPHERE KOVKD AWAY. ROSE HIGHER AND RAPIDLY DEPARTED IN THE DIRECTION OF VILNIUS.

THE POLICEMEN WATCHED TKE UFO FOR ABOUT HALF AN HOUR. ONAT THE SCENE OF THE "EMERGENCY", MEMBERS OF THEDEPARTMENT. SERVICEMEN FROM THE SPECIAL FORCESOF THE CAPITAL'S POLICE CAREFULLY STUDIED THETNE BACKGROUND RADIATION ANDECORDED THE whichtxz un tflBDISAPPEARANCE OF

THE UFO. THE SNIFFER DOGS DID NOT DISCOVER ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS AND BEHAVED QUIETLY. BUT IT WAS NOTED THAT THE TALL GRASS AROUND THE PLACE OVER WHICH THE SPHERE HAD "HUNG" WAS FATTENEDADIUS OFETERS.

LITHUANIAN SCIENTISTS HAVE NOT YET EXPRESSED AN OPINION ON THE APPEARANCE OF THIS UFO NEAR VILNIUS. POLICE COPWISSIONER VALENTIN AS JUCHNEVICIUS SAID ADIO INTERVIEW TODAY THAT BOTH OFFICERS WHO WATCHED THE SHINING OBJECT "ARE PSYCHOLOGICALLY HEALTHY. NORMAL PEOPLE, NOT NOTED FOR CRANKINESS.a

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