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SUBJECT: SOVIET DEFENSE UNIT SCRAMBLES AFTER UFOS            FILE: UFO1147


Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ-July 15, 1990 

CR: D. Kettles

SOVIET DEFENSE UNIT SCRAMBLES TO CHECK SIGHTINGS OF UFOS
Pilots, radar spot 'flying saucers'
By David Wood    
Newhouse News Service

     WASHINGTON-The Cold War may be over, but the Soviet Union's military air
defenses are struggling with a new threat:  an apparent invasion by flying
saucers.
     Dozens of sightings of unidentified flying objects-disk-shaped spacecraft
with blinking lights and performing impossibly high-speed maneuvers-have been
recounted in the past few months, including eyewitness reports from Soviet
interceptor pilots that reportedly have been corroborated by surveillance
radar.
     "I am not a specialist on UFOs, and, therefore, I can only correlate the
data and express my own supposition," said Gen. Igor Maltsev, chief of the main
staff of the Air Defense Forces.
     And what is Maltsev's supposition?  That UFOs exist and are piloted by
extraterrestrials, he indicated in an interview with a Moscow Communist Party
newspaper, Rabochaya Tribuna.  
     And they may not be friendly.  Vladimir Akhaltsev was driving his milk
tanker truck one night in May when he noticed a shining ball following him.  He
tried to outrun it, gunning his rig to 60 mph on the twisting road several
hundred miles south of Moscow before the UFO gave up the chase.
     Farmers who also saw the shining ball were said by the local newspaper to
have demanded, "If thirsty humaniods steal our driver, who is going to deliver
the milk?"
     Other Soviet reports, monitored and distributed without comment by the
U.S. Air Force's Technical Information Division and by the State Department,
have UFOs sniffing around politically restive Estonia, probing with mysterious
light rays a buried gas pipeline in Siberia, and hovering over the village of
Delnegorsk in the eastern Soviet Union.
     The Soviets, a deeply superstitious people with a historic mistrust of
foreigners, have a ready explanation:  Space aliens, perhaps running out of
supplies at home, are after their natural resources.
     Whatever their purpose, reports of alien visits are exhaustively checked
by the Soviets' elite Air Defense Forces, which operates the military's most
sophisticated aircraft and the most powerful system of ground-based
surveillance radar networks in the world.
     The Soviet air-defense unit has had a bad case of the jitters since 1987,
when a 19-year-old West German on a lark flew a single-engine Cessna unmolested
through 400 miles of Soviet airspace before buzzing President Gorbachev's
Kremlin office and touching down in Red Square.
     Today, with those unpredictable Americans flying around in "Stealth"
aircraft, no general or lowly radarman is going to overlook an unexplained
radar blip or ignore a hysterical phone call.
     An example is the call from several Soviet policemen who breathlessly
reported last spring that they had been shadowed by "two disk-shaped UFOs" near
Krasnoyarsk.
     Or, the ominous report from Maj. V. Stroynetskiy, who along with "several
hundred other witnesses" claimed to have seen numerous blinking, iridescent
UFOs cavorting over a highway outside Moscow.
     Soviet Lt. Col. A. A. Semenchenko was properly cautious when he and other
pilots recently were sent aloft to check out a UFO at 6,000 feet over
Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, a city northeast of Moscow, according to after-action
reports released by Maltsev and published by Rabochaya Tribuna.
     "I visually detected the target, designated by two flashing white lights,
at 2205 hours," Semenchenko reported.
     Capt. V. Birin said the object "looked like a flying saucer with two very
bright lights along the edges."
     In confirmation, ground-control radar said, "At 2203 hours, a fighter
aircraft appeared in the field of observation... While the fighter was
approaching the object, the latter disappeared."
     Capt. V. Ivchenko and others pilots said the UFO's lights flashed more
quickly as the spacecraft accelerated.
   

              
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