Nothing But the Facts on UFOs or Which Novosti Writer Do You Read? (with 2 Articles Attached)

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# UNIDENT...IEL

# FLYING OBJECTS

First the factor several striking and reliable 1FT observations, and then correlations.

## First Account

THE PLACE of observation is Nazakhstan, the field camp of a geophysical expedition from a Lebanese research institute. The nearest populated fertility, Nazakh, is 14 miles away. The time of observation is August 16, 1947, about 11 P.M. local time.

Accompanying to Master of Geology and Minerology Nikodai Socheanos, the camp chief, a strange, luminous body outblends appeared over the mountains on the eastern slope of the valley. It was moving from north to south, and its visible diameter was one and a half times longer than the Moon's.

A few seconds later the body disappeared behind a mountain trip, reappeared and headed southeast, keeping constant speed and height above the Earth. The mysterious object was lens-shaped and bright, the edges being somewhat less luminous than the center.

The unidentified flying object UFO was observed by eight scientific workers, members of the physical expedition.

The body described an arc in the sky and disappeared behind the mountains, leaving no trace.

## Second Account

On July 26, 1963, Latvian astronomer Robert Vitalnick, Ian Melcheris and Kamerakla Vitalnick were studying moonlight clouds at an observation station at Ogren. At 9:15 P.M. then noticed an unusually bright star moving clouds in a wrestly direction. looked at through binoculars with a magnification of eight diameters, the "star" resolved itself into a small but speak. The telescope then disclosed the following in excellent picture.

In the heart of a leucochaud disc, which the astronomers estimated to be about 125 feet across, was clearly evident a thickened part, a small sphere. Around the disc, at a distance of two diameters, were three spheres resembling the one in the center. The spheres closely rotated around the disc as the outer system diminished in size, gradually leaving the Earth some 15 to 20 minutes later the spheres began to move away from the disc, as if receding in different directions. The sphere in the center also left its place and moved away. Finally at 10 P.M. all three shining reservoir green bodies were far away that the astronomers lost sight of them.

This strange picture was observed in the northwestern part of the sky at about 60 degrees above the horizon. The nonmotion estimated that the忍忍istic objects were about 60 miles above the Earth.

## Third Account

A long sediment arrived at the office of the magazine Smeen, for which I had written an article on IFO. It was sent by First Mate Rachelin on behalf of the crew of the Soviet ship Ishard.

On August 2, 1967, at 11:30 P.M. Nimmon time, while censoring the Norwegian Sea in a western discretion, Ishkosh police witnessed this unusual phenomenon, said the radiogram:

There were three of us in the cabin—

Captain Marker, Senior Engineer Isaacs

and myself. Symes, not w an data, re-

ported a strange phenomenon. In the sky. We

ran to the bridge and saw a sphere-like

whitish spot moving southward.

"3 few minutes later a height spot flared up high in the sky. For a couple of seconds it rushed headlong from west to east at an angle of 25 degrees in the Earth, getting much larger. Suddenly it came to a stop and with a play of bright rainbow colors (yellow precipitation) began throwing off sparks and became embedded in a white shard.

"There again the sphere-like white nuclea began moving south. The penetration was repeated four times. On the fifth and last time the spirit's behavior changed. It stopped mid- was turned more and assumed the shape of an egg with the thicker end up. Then a powerful white jet squirred from the lower end, after which the egg grew pale, became enveloped in white mist and, with its white tail, began to heal southward."

All this strange orbital activity was visible for an hour and then vanished into thin air.

## Fourth Account

Not one but several reports came from astronomers at the Mountain Astrophysical Station, UNSR Academy of Sciences, 12 miles from Kibschmich, Caugarge.

In July 1867 the station received letters from rural newspapers reporting the flight of a strange rebellion present across the sky at 9:20 P.M. on July 17.

In the very early morning of July 18, 1967, astronomer H. I. Porter, who was observing the Moon at the Mountain Station, noticed a strange formation against a clear starry sky at 2:30 A.M. Moon time. A white cloud appeared in the northeast as an elevation of about 20 degrees. Its diameter was twice as long as that of the Moon but its more was several times less bright.

The cloud itself had a dense milky-white color, with a rounded nucleus clearly discernible near its northern end. The cloud expanded and grew pales. A few minutes later the white cloud disappeared completely, but the redish nucleus remained. Toward close break it but its outlines and then disappeared. Photographs showing its changes were taken.

At 9:30 P.M. on August 14, 1967, at the same Mountain Station astronomer Inselli Saramos observed an unfamiliar flying object. It was shaped like an asymmetrical crescent, with its comet side turned in the direction of its movement. Saramos, lainly luminous silk lume resembling the condensation trail of a jet plane inflamed behind the horns of the crescent. Its diameter was ten-thirds that of the Moon, and it was not so bright. It was yellow with a reddish tinge.

The objects were flying horizontally in the northern part of the sky, from west to east, at about 20 degrees above the horizon. It measured the distance from Luna Major to Cach

# FEBRUARY 1968

By Felix Zigel

Boston of Science Technology

Assistant Professor,

Moscow Aviation Institute

opera in half a minute. A bright star of the first magnitude was nursing at a constant distance ahead of the present.

As it moved away from the microscope, the

creature diminished, turned into a small dier

and then instantly disappeared.

The mysterious object was seen by 10 of the station's scientific workers. It was also observed in Kielmundeh. Armeding in Sussex, the current was 12 miles away, and it was no less than 500 feet across.

## Optical Illusion?

Let us stop here and draw some conclusions. For if all the LIFO evidence amounted to no more than three hour amounts, it is clear that the evidence points. The fact of the matter, in however, that many thousands of such observations have been documented in the past 20 years, they come from phenomena of countries and virtually every corner of our planet, including the Arctic and Antarctic. The LIFO phenomenon is two widespread and popularly accepted to be dismissed lightly.

A priving number of serious scientists are not satisfied with explanations characterizing the sightings as visual alterations. It goes without saying that the phenomenon attracts and will unfortunately continue to, all unto of publicity workers. But we do not stop using money because there are counterfeiters. The task of science is, previously, the obligation to distinguish between the false and the true. Thus, if science considers flying causes a hallucination, it still must explain the cause of this global psychic illness. That may well be difficult to establish as the true nature of LFQs.

The well-known American astrophysicist Donald Menzel says that flying saucers are optical phenomena in the Earth's atmosphere. Because of Professor Menzel's scientific prestige the explanation is generally accepted, that it does not hold water. As soon as we go on from this generalization to concrete interpretations of concrete observations, it becomes evident that XTDs will not reduce themselves to optical phenomena of the magnitude, rainfall or haze type. Try the Menzel explanation on the four accounts we cited earlier. Nothing intelligible will merge. What we seem to be dealing with here is a kind of reality still unexplored.

The appearance of L'FOs is almost always accompanied by a luminescence of air and the formation of an atmospheric plasma. This latter is the basis for the "plasma" hypnotherapy of L'FOs as preconditions of atmospheric plasma of the ball lightning type. But this explanation shows not hold up either. Ball lightning is always a thunderstorm product, and the appearance of L'FOs has no relation to weather. Ball lightning diameters as a sub-run length in five inches, no larger; the diameters of living dunes are true and earn humidities of times that size. The behavior of L'FOs, their shape and other physical properties are quite different from what we know of ball lightning.

## Sauero and Hello

To find a clue in the nature of I life, we must study all the requisite three surprising and, in my mind, real objects. Only a science like analysis will reveal the truth. What is, however, clear already is that I life phenomenon.