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 COUNTRY: LITHUANIA
 SUBJ:     POLICE OFFICERS SPOT UFO; RAPID REACTION FORCE ALERTED
 SOURCE:   MOSCOW ITAR-TASS WORLD SERVICE IN RUSSIAN 0920 GMT
 26 JUN 96
 FBIS TRANSLATED TEXT VILNIUS, 26 JUN --  AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING
 OBJECT (UFO), SPOTTED NEAR THE LITHUANIAN BORDER ON 25 JUNE BY TWO
 DUTY MOTOR POLICE PATROL OFFICERS JAUNIUS POZERA AND LAIMIS
 KRAUJALIS 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 OF THE
 EMERGENCY.
 ACCORDING TO THE EYEWITNESS'S ACCOUNTS, AT ABOUT 0030 IN THE
 EARLY MORNING, ON THE VILNIUS-MEDININKAI ROAD, NEAR THE VILLAGE OF
 NEMEZIS,  10 KM FROM THE CAPITAL, AT AN ALTITUDE OF 20-30 METERS
 ABOVE THE GROUND, THEY NOTICED A SPHERICAL OBJECT HANGING AND
 "PULSING," ALTERNATELY SHRINKING AND EXPANDING.   AT THE SAME TIME,
 THEY HEARD WHAT THEY DESCRIBED AS "A STRANGE SOUND LIKE AN ELECTRIC
 OR ELECTRONIC CRACKLE,."  WANTING TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE UFO,
 THE POLICEMEN MOVED TOWARD IT.   WHEN THEY HAD ADVANCED ABOUT 50
 METERS-THROUGH THE LONG GRASS, THE POLICE SAID, THE SPHERE MOVED
 AWAY, ROSE HIGHER AND RAPIDLY DEPARTED IN THE DIRECTION OF VILNIUS.
 THE POLICEMEN WATCHED THE UFO FOR ABOUT HALF AN HOUR.   ON THEIR
 ARRIVAL AT THE SCENE OF THE "EMERGENCY", MEMBERS OF THE CIVIL
 DEFENSE DEPARTMENT,  SERVICEMEN FROM THE SPECIAL FORCES AND
 COMMISSIONERS OF THE CAPITAL'S POLICE CAREFULLY STUDIED THE AREA,
 MEASURED THE BACKGROUND RADIATION AND TAPE-RECORDED THE STRANGE
 SOUND, WHICH WAS STILL HEARD IN THE AREA AFTER THE DISAPPEARANCE 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 FLATTENED TO A RADIUS OF
 10 METERS.
 LITHUANIAN SCIENTISTS HAVE NOT YET EXPRESSED AN OPINION ON THE
 APPEARANCE OF THIS UFO NEAR VILNIUS.   POLICE COMMISSIONER VALENTINAS
 JUCHNEVICIUS SAID IN A RADIO INTERVIEW TODAY THAT BOTH OFFICERS WHO
 WATCHED THE SHINING OBJECT "ARE PSYCHOLOGICALLY HEALTHY, NORMAL
 PEOPLE, NOT NOTED FOR CRANKINESS."
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