CIA C05516709 Concatenated PROD Reports 1988-1994

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firmly fixed in relation to each other. Atmospheric phenomena are
marked by chaos."
16. The 11 April issue of SOVETSKAYA ROSSIYA had reported that the
Belgian Society for the Study of Space Phenomena had called a press
conference at vhich journalists vere shown a video of UFOs that had
recently penetrated Belgian air space. The film was made by a
citizen of Brussels on the night of 30-31 March and was claimed to
show triangular UFOs, with bright lights outlining their edges and
with weaker sources of light flashing in their centers which
reportedly were clearly visible to many observers as they moved at an
altitude of about 400 meters. The Belgian air force was placed on
alert and F-16 fighters were ordered to intercept the objects. The
objects disappeared as the aircraft approached but not before two
radar stations had registered them on their screens.
17. The following paragraphs describe only a few of the many Soviet
newspaper and journal articles on UFOs appearing in recent months.
Unlike the sightings described in the articles listed above, air
force aircraft and radar stations were not involved in the
observa tions:
18. The 5 April issue of SOVETSKAYA ESTONIA reported that many
observers, including one of its own correspondents, had recently
observed UFOs flying over Estonia. The UFOs reportedly hovered over
power lines along the Tallinn Highway, and the newspaper published
what it called photographs of them sent by correspondent Yeo Kapova.
19. The 4 April issue of RABOCBAYA TRIBUNA reported that an ethylene
pipeline inspector for the NizhnekamskPetrochemical Authority in the
Bashkir Autonomous Republic, who had been ordered by his dispatcher
to check his run of pipe after monitoring instruments began to
fluctuate erratically, reported back that a oro was hovering over the
area where the pipe was buried and that rays emanating from the
disk-shaped object were touching the ground above the pipeline.
20. The 24 March issue of VECBBRNAYA MOSKVA reported that a
scientist, Vladimir Azhazha, had been appointed as the head of the
new All-Union Interbranch Ufological Scientific-Coordination Center,
which is affiliated with the USSR Academy of Sciences. It is
reportedly the first center to represent the USSR as a whole in
research concentrated on the UFO phenomenon.
21. The 3 Karch issue of SOVETSKAYA ROSSIYA published an article
proposing possible explanations for such anomalous phenomena as UFOs.
22. The Karch issue of the military journal KOMHUNIST VOORUZHENNYKB
SIL published a 7-page article on UFOs, including a section that
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