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 UFO SIGHTINGS NO.4:   STATEMENTS BY MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT
 OFFICIALS
 :iIGMLIGHTS OF RECENT INTENSIVE MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE UFO
 _=ENOM NON IN THE USSR INCLUDE A REPORT OF VISUAL AND RADAR TRACKING
 OF UFOS BY A SOVIET AIR FORCE UNIT;  A SIGHTING BY SOVIET COSMONAUTS;
 AN ASSESSMENT BY THE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN,  USSR COUNCIL OF MINISTERS;  AN
 ACCOUNT OF A SPACE LAUNCH MISTAKEN FOR A UfO;  COMMENTARIES BY TWO
 SOVIET GENERALS;  AND REFERENCES TO STATEMENTS BY MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
 ON UFOS.
 THE 28 OCTOBER 1990 ISSUE OF RABOCHAYA TRLBUNA CITED THE 1
 OCTOBER 1990 ISSUE OF AVIATION WEEK ON SIGHTINGS OF UFOS OVER NEVADA
 THATaWERE 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 OF A U.S.  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 MACHINES.... "
 ACCORDING TO THE ARTICLE,  THE SPEEDS OF THE UFOS SIGHTED OVER THE
 MOJAVE DESERT WERE SIMILAR TO THOSE OF THE UFOS SIGHTED IN THE USSR
 -- 10 TIMES THE SPEED OF SOUND,  AND,  AS IN THE SOVIET SIGHTINGS,
 ''THEY MOVE SILENTLY,  CLIMB TO AN  INCREDIBLE ALTITUDE,  AND SOMETIMES
 HOVER :N PLACE AND EMIT A PULSATING LIGHT.''   MOREOVER,  ACCORDING TO
 THE RA30CHAYA TRIBUNA ARTICLE,  THE  ''BELGIANS READ THE REPORT IN
 AVIATION WEEK  'WITH GREAT INTEREST'  AND THE BELGIAN PRESS IS
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 HYPOTHESIZING THAT TOP SECRET AMERICAN AIRCRAFT,  NOT UFOS,  ARE
 FLYING IN THE SKY OVER BELGIUM.''
 THE 20 OCTOBER 1990 ISSUE OF RABOCHAYA TRIBUNA-INCLUDED AN
 ARTICLE ON THE PURSUIT OF AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING VEHICLE BY AN
 INTERCEPTOR PILOT AFTER S.  PROSHKIN,  THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF AN
 AIR FORCE UNIT,  REPORTED THAT A BLIP DESIGNATING AN  "AERIAL
 TARGET''  HAD SUDDENLY APPEARED ON RADAR SCREENS AT 1100 ON 8 OCTOBER
 1990.
 ''AT  1122, I RECEIVED THE COORDINATES OF THE TARGET AND THE
 MISSION TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT....   ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION FROM
 THE COMMAND POST,  THE OBJECT WAS LOCATED AT AN ALTITUDE OF 4.5
 KILOMETERS.   THE WEATHER WAS CLEAR AND CLOUDLESS,  THE VISIBILITY
 EXCELLENT.   BUT A SEARCH FOR THE TARGET DID NOT YIELD ANY RESULTS.  I
 REPORTED THIS,  TURNED,  AND HEADED HOME.   SUDDENLY,  SOMETHING MADE ME
 TURN MY READ.   TO THE REAR AND TO THE RIGHT I  SAW TWO CIGARSHAPED
 OBJECTS OF CONSIDERABLE DIMENSION.   THE LENGTH OF THE FIRST WAS
 APPROXIMATELY  2 KILOMETERS AND THE SECOND ABOUT 400 METERS.  THEY
 WERE POSITIONED ONE BEHIND THE OTHER AND WERE IN GOOD VIEW AGAINST
 THE BACKGROUND OF A CLEAR SKY.   THE SMALLER ONE CAST A SILVER COLOR
 IN THE RAYS OF THE SUN AND THE LARGER ONE APPEARED TO BE LUSTERLESS.
 BUT I WAS NOT ABLE TO MAKE OUT DETAILS AND STRUCTURAL FEATURES--THE
 DISTANCE WAS TOO GREAT.     I  NOTICED,  IN FACT,  THE UFOS MOVING
 SIDEWAYS WITH GREAT SPEED.     I TURNED 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,  ABOUT 15 KILOMETERS SEPARATED-US AT THIS P-OI-NT..''
 THE 16 OCTOBER 1990 ISSUE OF RABOCHAYA TRIBUNA INCLUDES AN
 INTERVIEW OF COSMONAUTS ABOARD THE SOVIET SPACE STATION MIR,  BY A
 JOURNALIST WHO WAS COMMUNICATING WITH THE COSMONAUTS VIA RADIO.   THE
 28 SEPTEMBER  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,
 GZNNADIY MIKHAYLOVICH MANAKOV AND GENNADIY MIKHAYLOVICH STREKALOV
 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 ME, WHAT ARE THE MOST INTERESTING NATURAL
 PHENOMENA YOU SEE ON EARTH?"
 COSMONAUT:  ''YESTERDAY,  FOR EXAMPLE,  I SAW, IF ONE MAY CALL IT
 THAT,4,AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT.    I CALLED IT THAT.''
 QUESTION:  ''WHAT WAS IT?"
 COSMONAUT:  "WELL,  I DON'T KNOW.   IT WAS A GREAT,  SILVERY
 SPHERE,  IT WAS IRIDESCENT...THIS WAS AT 2250...''
 QUESTION:  ''THIS WAS OVER THE REGION OF NEWFOUNDLAND?"
 COSMONAUT:  ''NO.  WE HAD ALREADY PASSED OVER NEWFOUNDLAND.  THERE
 WAS AN ABSOLUTELY CLEAN,  CLEAR SKY.     IT IS DIFFICULT   TO DETERMINE
 BUT THE OBJECT WAS AT A GREAT ALTITUDE OVER THE EARTH,     PERHAPS 20-30
 KILOMETERS.     IT WAS MUCH LARGER THAN A HUGE SHIP.''
 QUESTION:  ''COULD IT HAVE BEEN AN  ICEBERG?''
 COSMONAUT:   ''NO.   THIS OBJECT HAD A REGULAR SHAPE, BUT WHAT  IT
 WAS --  I DO NOT KNOW.  PERHAPS AN ENORMOUS,  EXPERIMENTAL SPHERE OR
 SOMETHING E S         "
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 THE  23  SEPTEMBER 1990  ISSUE OF SOVETSKAYA ROSSIYA  INCLUDES AN
 .NTZRVIEW WITH ACADEMICIAN L.  I.  ABALKIN,  DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE
 USSR COUNCIL OF MINISTERS.     IN REFERENCE TO GORBACHEV'S NEW  ''500
 DAYS PROGRAM,' '  ABALKIN SAID THAT THE PROGRAM CONTAINED A  ' 'KIND OF
 MYSTERY EFFECT... SOME MIRACULOUS MEANS,  AND OUR PEOPLE BELIEVE IN
 MIRACLES.... PERHAPS YOU NOTICED THAT IN SUCH CRISIS SITUATIONS A
 MASS BELIEF  IN ALIENS AND UFOS...DEVELOPS.    THIS IS A SOCIAL               ?
 PHENOMENON,  YOU KNOW.     I DISCUSSED THIS MANY YEARS AGO.  THIS
 SITUATION BECAME CLEARLY EVIDENT IN THE LATE 70S AND EARLY
 BOS..'.SOCIAl UPHEAVALS CAUSE SUCH A BELIEF.... ''
 THE 1 SEPTEMBER 1990 LENINGRADASKAYA PRAVDA CARRIED AN ARTICLE BY
 VALENTIN GOLTS,  ACTING MEMBER OF THE USSR GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY,  WHO
 DEVELOPS A STRONG CASE TO PROVE THAT THE 3 AUGUST SIGHTINGS OF A UFO
 IN THE LENINGRAD OBLAST CAN BE EXPLAINED AS OBSERVATIONS OF THE
 KOSMOS SPACE LAUNCH.   HE NOTES THAT ALL OF THE OBSERVERS AGREE THAT
 THE UFO APPEARED INITIALLY AS AN UNUSUALLY BRIGHT OBLONG CLOUD.
 ''THEN,  FROM THE RIGHT OF THE CLOUD,  A SPHERE WITH A WELL-DEFINED
 PROFILE SEPARATED,  WITH ARCS OF BRIGHT ILLUMINATION EXTENDING OUT
 FROM THE SPHERE.   THE VELOCITY OF THE SPHERE SOMEWHAT EXCEEDED THE
 VELOCITY OF A JET AIRCRAFT.''   GOLTS  STATES THAT ALL OF THE SIGNS
 DESCRIBED ABOVE COINCIDE WITH THE LIGHT EFFECTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE
 LAUNCH OF KOSMOS,  WHICH TOOK PLACE AT THIS TIME.
 THE ARTICLE CONTAINS FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE  '' 3 AUGUST UFO'
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 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 LAUNCH  (ILLUSTRATION L),  A MOVING,  BRIGHT,
 SHINING SPOT IS OBSERVED,  TOGETHER WITH A CONTRAIL RESEMBLING THE
 CONTRAIL OF A JET AIRCRAFT.   GRADUALLY THE CONTRAIL SPREAIIS OUT AND
 BECOMES WIDER.  WHEN OBSERVED FROM THE SIDE,  IT RESEMBLES A FLATFISH
 (ILLUSTRATION 2).   THE SECOND PHASE OF THE LAUNCH'BEGINS AT THE
 MOMENT OF FIRSTSTAGE SEPARATION.   A BRIEF FLASH OCCURS,  AND IN THE
 PLACE WHERE THE BRIGHT SPOT  IS LOCATED,  A RAPID EXPANSION OF GAS IN
 THE FORM OF A SPHERE 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 FLASH
 (ILLUSTRATION  3),  CONCENTRIC CIRCLES MOVING OUTWARD,  OR COMPLEX
 VORTICES ARE OBSERVED.    WHEN THERE IS A HEAD-ON OR END-VIEW
 OBSERVATION  OF THE LAUNCH,  THE SHAPE OF THE GASES CAN RESEMBLE A
 FLOWER OR A CROSS.  THE SUBSEQUENT MOVEMENT OF THE SECOND STAGE  IS
 OBSERVED AS A BRIGHT SPOT WITH A CONE OF GASEOUS JETS STREAMING OUT
 BEHIND IT,     RESEMBLING RAYS EXTENDING AT AN ANGLE OF 70-110 DEGREES.
 THE SPEED OF THE ROCKET IS SIGNIFICANTLY GREATER THAN THE SPEED OF A
 HIGH-ALTITUDE AIRPLANE.   WHEN THE SECOND STAGE SEPARATES,      THERE MAY
 OCCUR ANOTHER FLASH,  WITH RAYS STREAMING OUTWARD  (ILLUSTRATION 4).
 THE FIRST PHASES CAN LAST FROM 8 TO 25 MINUTES AND THE LAST,  THE
 TRAIL    IN THE SKY,  CAN LAST UP TO THREE HOURS.
 THE'SEPTEMBER 1990  ISSUE OF SSHA:  EKONOMIKA,  POLITIKA,  IDEOLOGIYA
 STATED THAT THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE CPSU M.   S.  GORBACHEV MADE
 REFERENCES TO UFOS ON THREE OC-CASLONS.
 --  ''GORBACHEV,  M. S.,  SELECTED SPEECHES AND ARTICLES.  VOL.  4.
 MOSCOW,  1987.  P.  388''.
 -- POLITICAL REPORT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE 27TH PARTY
 CONGRESS.
 --  IN A      SPEECH AT A FORUM ENTITLED  'FOR A NON-NUCLEAR WORLD,  FOR
 HUMANISM IN  INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS',         FEBRUARY,  1987.
 THE 5 AUGUST 1990 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 MIGULIN,  WHO
 CONSIDERS HIMSELF A WATCHDOG  ''GUARDING AGAINST THE NONSENSE OF UFO
 REPORTS."    MIGULIN SAID THAT HE IS EXTREMELY  IRRITATED WITH THE
 DELUGE OF UFO 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 JOURNAL AVIATSIYA I KOSMONAVTIKA,  NO.  8,  1990, INCLUDES AN
 INTERVIEW WITH MAJOR GENERAL OF AVIATION A.  LEONOV.        THE GENERAL,.
 WHO IS ALSO A COSMONAUT,  SAID THAT A LOT OF BUNK IS PUBLISHED BY
 UFOLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS.   UFOLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS, ACCORDING TO
 LEONOV,  TOOK A PHRASE USED BY U.S.  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.    I  SAW THESE VIDEO FRAMES.   JAMES ALDRIN,
 TURNING TO HIM,  SAID  'WATCH OUT, THEY ARE WATCHING US.'  'THEY'  IN
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 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.     I
 HAVE SAID TO THE UFOLOGISTS 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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 THE 12 MAY  1990  ISSUE OF KRASNAYA ZVEZDA INCLUDES A LENGTHY
 INTERVIEW WITH COLONEL GENERAL ALEXANDER MAKSIMOV WHO WAS RESPONDING
 TO THE PUBLIC'S DEMAND FROM THE MILITARY 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 CALLING FOR A SOBER
 AND SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENON,"  HE KNOWS FOR CERTAIN
 THAT THE UFOS SIGHTED OVER BAYKONUR WERE ACTUALLY PHENOMENA
 ASSOCIATED WITH ROCKET LAUNCHES.   HE SAID THAT HE PERSONALLY
 OBSER?V`ED ONE OF THESE UPOS 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 WENT  INTO ORBIT WITH
 IT...AS MANY AS 20 DIFFERENT OBJECTS CAN DROP OFF THE SPACE VEHICLE
 AS  IT MOVES INTO ORBIT--THIS TRASH ORBITS EARTH AT ALTITUDES VARYING
 FROM 200 TO 800 KILOMETERS.''   MAKSIMOV  SAYS THAT HE PERSONALLY
 CONFIRMED THAT A UFO SIGHTED OVER BAYKONUR WAS,  IN REALITY,  JUST THE
 REFLECTION OF SUN RAYS FROM ONE OF THESE OBJECTS.
 THE 4 MAY  1990 ISSUE OF THE RIGA NEWSPAPER SOVETSKAYA MOLODEZH
 CONTAINED A FULL-PAGE ARTICLE ENTITLED  ''ONLY FROM OFFICIAL
 SOURCES.''  AMONG THE OTHER OFFICIAL SOURCES CITED  (SUCH AS THE KGB
 AND THE AIR DEFENSE FORCES),  THE AUTHOR,  PAVEL MURKHORTOV,  CLAIMS
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