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   SUBJECT: SOVIET PRESS AIRS STARTLING UFO EVIDENCE            FILE: UFO1146   
      
      
   Tribune, New York, NY - June 21, 1990   
   CR: A. Huneeus {Reprinted with permission}   
      
   ANTONIO HUNEEUS/SCIENCE FRONTIERS   
      
   SOVIET PRESS AIRS STARTLING UFO EVIDENCE FROM MILITARY SOURCES   
      
                Second in a two-part series.   
   Last week we revealed how the Soviet Union is experiencing an intense UFO wave   
   and how, due to glasnost, what was once a forbidden subject is now covered in   
   detail by the Soviet press.  Even cases involving the Soviet military are now   
   reaching the public.   
        On Sept. 30, 1989, the newspaper Sotsiahisticheskaya Industriya (Socialist   
   Industry) quoted Anatoliy Listratov, chairman of the anomalous phenomena   
   section of the All-Union Astronomical and Geodesic Society, that "Soviet   
   military officers and pilots had recently started providing some documentation   
   on UFO sightings."  That and similar articles were translated by the U.S.   
   government's Foreign /broadcast Information Service (FBIS).An FBIS "Foreign   
   Press Note" entitled "USSR: Media Report Multitude of UFO Sightings" was dated   
   Nov. 22, 1989.   
        The article described one of the most serious UFO injury cases ever   
   reported, involving the scramble of two Soviet jets over the city of Borisov in   
   Byelorussia: "The crews of two Soviet aircraft reported seeing a large flying   
   disk in their vicinity with five beams of lights enamating from it: three beams   
   were directed toward the ground and two were projected upward when the object   
   was first sighted.  The ground controller instructed one of the planes to alter   
   its course and approach the object, at which point the disk flew to the same   
   level and aimed one of its beams at the approaching Soviet plane, illuminating   
   the cockpit."   
        The pilot's log stated, "At this time, the copilot was at the controls.   
   He observed the maneuver that the object had just carried out and was able to   
   raise his hand to shield himself from the unbearable light.  The aircraft   
   commander was resting in the adjoining seat, and a bright ray of light,   
   projecting a spot with a diameter of 20 centimeters, passed across his body.   
   Both pilots felt heat."   
      
             One Injured, Another Dead   
   Both crewmen later became "invalids," the article said.  "The copilot was   
   forced to leave his job due to a sudden deterioration in his health, including   
   the onset of sudden prolonged periods of 'loss of consciousness.'  The aircraft   
   commander died within a few months.  The cause of death was listed as 'cancer'   
   and 'injury to the organism as a result of radiation from an unidentified   
   flying object' was listed as a contributing factor on the official medical   
   record in the hospital where the commander died."   
        This is not the only military UFO incident to be reported in the Soviet   
   press.  In an unprecedented statement published in Rabochaya Tribuna on April   
   19, General of Aviation Igor Maltsev, chief of the Main Staff of Air Defense   
   Forces, openly discussed a radar-visual and jet scramble incident on the   
   Pereslavl-Zalesskiy region, east of Moscow, on the night of March 21.  This   
   article was also translated by FBIS and leaked to some American ufologists.  We   
   have also secured a Russian copy of the article entitled "OFOs on Air Defense   
   Radars."   
        Due to its importance we shall quote Gen. Maltsev's statement in full.  He   
   said: "I am not a specialist on UFOs and therefore I can only correlate the   
   data and express my own supposition.  According to the evidence of these   
   eyewitnesses, the UFO is a disk with a diameter from 100 to 200 meters.  Two   
   pulsating lights were positioned on its sides.  When the object flew in a   
   horizontal plane the line of the lights was parallel to the horizon.  During   
   vertical movement it rotated and was perpendicular to the gorund.  Moreover,   
   the object rotated around its axis and performed an 'S-turn' flight both in the   
   horizontal and vertical planes.  Next, the UFO hovered over the ground and then   
   flew with a speed exceeding that of the modern jet fighter by 2 or 3 times.   
   All of the observers moticed that the flight speed was directly related to the   
   flashing of the side lights: the more often they flashed, the higher the speed.   
       "The objects flew at altitudes ranging from 1,000 to 7,000 meters.  The   
   movement of the UFOs was not accompanied by sound of any kind and was   
   distinguished by its startling maneuverability.  It seemed the UFOs were   
   completely devoid of intertia.  In other words, they had somehow 'come to   
   terms' with gravity.  At the present time, terrestrial machines could hardly   
   have any such capabilities.  The object was observed as a 'pip' from a radar   
   target on the screens of aircraft radar sights and on the screens of several   
   electronic surveillance sub-units.  One station did not establish an   
   ovservation."   
        Rabochaya Tribuna also said unit commanders compiled "more than 100 visual   
   observations" and passed them on to Gen. Maltsev. Lt. Col. A.A. Semenchenko   
   "received the command to go on an alert exercise" at 21:38 hours.  "I received   
   my task of detecting and identifying a target at an altitude of 2000 meters,"   
   he reported.  He established visual contact, although "the target did not   
   respond to the 'identify, friend or die,' request."  Considering the Borisov   
   incident, it is interesting to note his comment, "with the permission of the   
   command post, I locked my sights onto the radiation after checking to be sure   
   that the weaponry was switched off."  The paper also published the testimonies   
   of four captains and a radar post as well as a photograph taken of the   
   Yaroslavskiy Highway.   
      
             A 'Victory' for UFO Buffs   
   The newspaper editors commented, "UFO enthusiasts can celebrate a victory.  It   
   is the first time that the military so openly and impressively witness on   
   behalf of 'flying saucers.'  Especially pleasing is the fact that the   
   disclosure was made by air defense representatives, people who possess unique   
   technical possibilities for observations.  Maybe now they will disclose past   
   secrets, legends of which are very popular.  Let us hope that the present   
   publication is a good occasion for further disclosures."     
        The editors went on to say that these incidents "demolish a hypothesis   
   which relate UFOs to atmospheric phenomena."  This is particularly interesting   
   since in June of 1989, the official Soviet Military Review published an article   
   on "UFOs and Security," which concluded that UFOs were most likelu related to   
   "certain plasma formations."   
      
      
                    
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