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This CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service translation reproduces a report from the Moscow newspaper Trud of 30 January 1985. It describes the crew of Aeroflot flight 8352, a Tu-134 flying from Tbilisi to Tallinn, watching a luminous object about 120 kilometers from Minsk. The object cast beams of light and became a cloud that escorted the aircraft to Tallinn, and controllers reported seeing it too. Commission member N. A. Zheltukhin concluded that the crew had encountered a UFO.
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many thousands of kilometers away, a global atmospheric or geophysical process of a type still unknown to science is taking place. But it seemed to the aviators only that it was somewhere close by--a typical optical illusion, so to speak. "But in the final analysis this explanation proved to be untenable. After all, the aviators succeeded in determining the distance to the object. "For this reason, there is only one conclusion that may be drawn: the Tallin crew dealt with what we call a UFO. The fact that we now have a consistent and detailed picture of the transformation of an unidentified flying object is especially important. G. Lazurin's drawings also provide it with word descriptions. "We are again requesting the readers of TRUD to report all similar sightings to this address: 101000, Moscow, Glavpochtamt [Main Post Office], Box 764, the Commission on Aerodynamic Phenomena." 8936 CSO: 8144/0029
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