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This is a JPRS translation, dated 16 June 1992, of an article by Vladimir Lagovskiy in the Moscow newspaper Rabochaya Tribuna. It covers work at the Scientific Production Association of Experimental Machine Building, which has military ties, on a saucer-shaped vehicle. The vehicle would be driven by a fast electron flux acting on a high-temperature superconductor. Researcher Vasiliy Shabetnik also claims an 'energy conversion' process that could power a round trip to Alpha Centauri in 12 years.
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Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1992 Document 5 of 20 Page 1 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Document Date: 16 Jun 92 Report Type: JPRS report Report Number: JPRS-UEQ-92-010 Status: [STAT] Category: [CAT] Report Date: UDC Number: Author(s): Vladimir Lagovskiy] Headline: Sensation: Flight to Alpha-Centaurus Source Line: 927F0248A Moscow RABOCHAYA TRIBUNA in Russian 16 Jun 92 p3 Subslug: [Article by Vladimir Lagovskiy] FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Article by Vladimir Lagovskiy] 2. [Text] ...On ''Flying Saucer'' 3. For starters, let us acknowledge this fact. The rumors that the military industrial complex which actually owns the Scientific Production Association (NPO) of Experimental Machine Building is rather seriously interested in "'flying saucers'" are justified. I am looking at a document. It is entitled, "'A Protocol of the Test Results of an Exploratory Flying Vehicle Motion Method.'" At the top, as it should be, it is marked "'Concur'" with a signature of the deputy commander of the military unit and an official seal. This is followed by the test date, test location, and the object of testing. And the purpose. As for the latter, it says that the experiments are carried out in order to assess the effect of moving a bulk high-Tc superconductor under the effect of a fast electron flux on it according to a flying vehicle research program developed by the Scientific Production Association of the X and Y military units. 4. I am quoting these data in such detail not without reason. Stereotypes are still deeply embedded here. Many still think that if you have "'saucers,'" then you must have aliens. And if you have aliens, then it is garbage. Yet for a change, this is a rather serious affair. We are talking not about fantastic hypotheses but about a real breakthrough in technology and basic knowledge. The "'protocol'" is not a sole witness to this. There are also patents, authors' certificates, and patent and invention claims. 5. 'We are offering,' says the senior fellow of the Scientific Production Association of Experimental Machine Building, Candidate of Technical Sciences Vasiliy Shabetnik, 'a principally new method of moving in space. And we can demonstrate it.'
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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.