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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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