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This 1992 JPRS report, dated 16 June 1992 and held in the CIA collection, translates a Rabochaya Tribuna article by Vladimir Lagovskiy called "Flight to Alpha Centauri." The article reports that specialists at the Experimental Machine Building Scientific Research Association say they built a high-temperature superconductor. They propose using it for a saucer-shaped spacecraft driven by electron flux. Scientist Vasiliy Shabetnik also describes an "energy conversion" process that he says could power a flight to Alpha Centauri and back in 12 years.
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# Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1992 5. It is no accident that I am presenting these data in such detail. Our stereotypes are strong. Indeed, many will say that "'saucers"' means "'newcomers." And newcomers are gibberish. No, this matter is uncommonly serious. This is no discussion of fantastic hypotheses but of the current rift between technology and fundamental knowledge. The "'Protocol'" is not the only such affirmation. There are also patents, inventor's certificates, and applications for discoveries and inventions. 6. 'What we are proposing,' says Vasiliy Shabetnik, senior scientific associate of the Experimental Machine Building Scientific Research Association and candidate of technical sciences, 'is a fundamentally new method of space travel. And we can demonstrate it.' 7. Here is the so-called Mohammed's grave-a saucerlike body made of a cooled superconductor sailing freely in a magnetic field. Nearly all developers of high-temperature superconducting compounds have 'toyed around with'' this focal point. And it has excited its enthusiasts' imagination. It seems that this is just how one can fly over the earth in some sort of miracle craft. It is possible. There are no theoretical obstacles. But here is the problem: On closer examination, this generally sensible idea turned out to be fraught with irresolvable technical problems. 8. To rise above our planet in the geomagnetic field, for example, a 'saucer'' would have to create its own incredibly strong magnetic field. And this is far from easy, even with the superconductors themselves. But suppose a way could be found? How would it move in space, which is chock-full of magnetic fields? 9. ''The ship would need to be equipped with additional sustainer engines,'' the enthusiasts shouted back. That was, of course, the way out. Only would the game be worth the candle? 10. In a word, for reasons that are entirely understandable, many specialists consider such methods of travel more hypothetical than realistic. And so a solution was found. It was a simple one, as it should have been. 11. An experimental unit. A flux of fast-moving electronics would fly from an accelerator and be carried along with a model made of a superconductor. And 'Mohammed's grave'' instantaneously jumped to the side in the flash of an eye. 12. 'Now imagine a real spacecraft,' says Shabetnik. 'Its body is will be covered with a high-temperature superconductor. Fast-moving
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.