CIA document C05516658 (FBIS translation)

C00174708
Cherkashin's crew will assume that the light from the object was polarized,
that 1s, it was not dispersed in all directions.
When they were coupled with the cloud airplane they passed over Riga and
Vilnius, and the controllers ot these cities consistently Positioned the odd
tandem. Passing over the Chudskoye and Pskovskoye lakes, Cherkashin's crew
were able to estimate the dimensions of the cloud airplane.
Tbese two lakes, oblong in shape, are separated by a small strip ot land. Tbe
Tu-13QA was flying 100 kilometers to the left of them. And the cloud airplane
was on the right, closer to Tartu. From the point where it seemed they
guessed there was a dense nucleus, a beam ag.in "appeared. A luminous spot
fell on the clouds and slid along the ~ound. lbe object automatically gave
its coordinates. It was now poss1ble to estimate that it itself was equal in
length to the Pskovskoye Lake.
Tbe combined flight continued until Tallin itself.
And after th'eir landing, the Tallin contr~ler told the crew these curious
details. The Tu-134A was not seen alone on the screen of the Tallin Airport's
:surveillance RLS [radar]. Two more blips followed its radar return on the
screen, although there was not one more aircraft in the air. In addition,
these two blips were continuously visible, as also assumed. But the
illuminated speok for the "Tu" tirst vanished, then reappeared. "I would
understand if you had 'fliokered' on the soreen ot the landing radar," the
controller said. "But this does not happen on the surveillance radar; it
oannot be."
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on Aerodynamic Phenomena attached to the All-Union Council of
Scientific and Technical Societies and corresponding member
of the USSR Academy of Sciences, to oomment on our
correspondent's report.
"The commission 1s conducting a systematic study ot NLO [un~dentified flying
object--UFOJ sightings over the territory of the Soviet Union. There is
already plenty of material to work on. However, we have to note that
regrettably, all the aooounts whioh we have at our disposal sutfer from being
one-sided or tragmentary to one degree or another.
"The sighting made by the Tallin crew has been inv~stigated by the Estonian
section ot our CommiSSion (I. Volke, E. Parve and others). The case is really
interesting, although we know ot similar oases. The tact that the objeot
instantly changed its movement to the opposite direotion and reached the
ground with a beam ot light from a very high altitude is unquestionably
atypical.
"However, in determining the nature ot a phenomenon, the commission is guided
first of all by the oharacter ot the locality. That is, if the phenomenon 1s
indigenous, limited in range, it may be olaimed as an anomaly. But the
dimensions ot the objeot which the aViators saw automatically alerted them.
It was reallY very huge. It was natural to assume that somewhere distant,
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