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This Defense Intelligence Agency compilation brings together several Department of Defense intelligence information reports on UFO sightings from 1968 to 1976. It includes 1968 reports of UFOs over South China and the Taiwan Strait, a 1970 South Korean report on possible North Korean balloons, and a table of Spanish sightings from 1973 to 1974 taken from the local press. It also contains a Pakistani report of a light seen before an earthquake and the USDAO Tehran account of F-4 jets losing instruments while chasing a UFO in September 1976.
“The Advance”1 page
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FORECAST AN OVERSATURATION OF THE WORLD MILITARY AIRCRAFT MARKET BEFORE THE YEAR 2000. 3. (U) BEGINNING ON PAGE 11, THE ARTICLE ENTITLED "LAST FLIGHT" GIVES DETAILS OF THE DECEMBER 1995 CRASH IN VIETNAM OF THREE SU-27 AIRCRAFT FLOW BY MEMBERS OF THE "RUSSIAN KNIGHTS" AEROBATIC TEAM. THE ARTICLE ALSO GIVES BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE FOUR RUSSIAN FLYERS WHO DIED IN THE ACCIDENT. 4. (U) BEGINNING ON PAGE 14, AUTHOR V. ((KUCHERENKO)) IN "THE DISREGARDED REASONS" DISCUSSES FLIGHT ACCIDENTS AND THEIR CAUSES. BESIDES POSSIBLE NATURAL CAUSES, THE AUTHOR EVEN MENTIONS THE INFLUENCES OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS. 5. (U) IN "HELP COMES FROM THE SKIES," M. ((FALAYEV)) WRITES ABOUT THE "CENTROSPAS" AIRMOBILE RESCUE UNIT WHICH IS SUBORDINATE TO RUSSIA'S MINISTRY FOR CIVIL DEFENSE AFFAIRS, EMERGENCY SITUATIONS AND ELIMINATION OF CONSEQUENCES OF NATURAL DISASTERS, OR EMERCOM. 6. (U) "AIR POWER OF RUSSIA," BEGINNING ON PAGE 16, CONTAINS A SERIES OF INFORMATIVE ARTICLES ON SOME OF RUSSIA'S BEST MILITARY AIRCRAFT, INCLUDING THE SU-34, SU-35, SU-27, SU-25, MIG-29, MIG-29M, AND MIG-27. A SEPARATE SECTION DESCRIBES THE SU-39 TANK KILLER AIRCRAFT. THE SECTION INCLUDES INTRODUCTIONS WRITTEN BY COLONEL-GENERAL PETR ((DEYNEKIN)), COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE RUSSIAN AIR FORCE AND BY COLONEL-GENERAL NIKOLAY ((ANTOSHKIN)), COMMANDER OF RUSSIA'S FRONTAL AVIATION FORCES. 7. (U) BEGINNING ON PAGE 65, AUTHOR G. ((BYUSHGENS)) IN "RUSSIAN SCIENCE NEEDS RENUNCIATION" ARGUES THAT THE CANCELLATION OF BASIC RESEARCH PROGRAMS HINDERS THE AIRCRAFT CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY. 8. (U) ON PAGE 69, AN ARTICLE ON FLIGHT WEAR DESCRIBES HOW THE "RUNO-S" COMPANY, ASSOCIATED WITH SUKHOY DESIGN BUREAU, MANUFACTURES CLOTHING FOR FLIERS, INCLUDING HIGH-QUALITY FLIGHT SUITS FOR TEST PILOTS AND FUR AND LEATHER FLIGHT JACKETS. 9. (U) AUTHOR G. ((LOZINO-LOZINSKIY)) IN "GERAKL TRIPLANE" DESCRIBES NPO MOLNIYA'S "GERAKL" PROJECT WHICH ENVISIONS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SUPERHEAVY TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT. THE ARTICLE CLAIMS THAT THE SUPERHEAVY TRANSPORT COULD CARRY UP TO 450 TONS OR AS MANY AS 1200 PASSENGERS FOR UP TO 12,000 KILOMETERS IN THE CARGO HOLD AND IN SPECIAL UNDERWING CONTAINERS. IF SUFFICIENT FUNDING IS SECURED, SAYS THE AUTHOR, THE AIRCRAFT COULD
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