CIA document C05516658 (FBIS translation)

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AIRLINER CREW REPORTS UFO SIGHTING
Mosoow TRUD in Russian 30 Jan 85 p 3
(Report by TRUD Speoial Correspondent V. Voatrukhin: "At 4: 10 Precisely,"
followed by commentary on the report by N.~.'Zbeltukh1n, deputy chairman of
the Commission on AYa (Aerodynamic Phenomena] attached to the VSNTO (All-Union
Council of Scientific and Technical Sooieties) and oorresponding member or the
USSR Academy or Scienoes]
(Text] Flight No 8352 from Tbilisi to Rostov to Tallin, a
Tu-134 aircrart, was being manned by a crew from the
Estonian Administration ot ,the USSR Ministry ot Civil
Aviation. The airoraft commander was Igor Alekseyevich
Cherkashin. He completed the' Buguruslan Flight School and
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Class. The oopilot was Gennad1y Ivanc)v10h--Lazur1n~--He--------- ----------
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completed the Sasovo F11ght Scbool and tbe Order ot Lenin
Academy ot Civi.l AViation, and baa aOOl'ued 4,500 hours Of
t11Sht t1me. He 1s a Pilot Seoond Claalt. Tbe naVigator,
Yegor Mikhaylovioh Ognev, comPleted tbe Order of Lenin
Academy ot Civil AViation and has aocrued 3,500 hours of
fllght time. He is a Nav1gator Seoond Class. The flight
engineer, Gennadiy Mikbayiov10b Kozlov, baa aocrued 12,500
hQurs of t11ght time. He is a Flight Engineer First Class.
At 4: 10 am, they were 120 kilometers trom Minsk. The aircraft was not
flying--it was standing in the oenter of the universe. There was not a sound
in the earphones. As luok would have it, they were alone in the olear air, in
a block of black glass with little holes made by the stars_
Glancing over his portion ot the sky, the copilot notloed a large star that
was not flickering on his upper right. , But this is no star, this yellow speok
the size or a 5-kopeok ooin, stretched out along the edges. "No matter•• ," he
told himselt oalmly, "refraotlon of light in the atmosphere or something
else•••" A very thin beam of light emerged from the speck and fell vertioally
down to the ground itselt. Then the pilot nudged the flight engineer:
"Look, Milchalyoh ••• "
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