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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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BEGIN FLYING IN SIX YEARS. 10. (U) "TO BE OKAY IN BUSINESS AND TO EXPAND THE VENTURE" DISCUSSES THE RUSSIAN AIRLINE "TRANSAERO". THE ARTICLE FEATURES AN INTERVIEW WITH MR. ALEKSANDR ((PLESHAKOV)), PRESIDENT OF TRANSAERO. 11. (U) K. ((RUPPEL)) IN "IF WE'LL TAKE OFF, IF WE'LL LAND" DESCRIBES THE SHRINKING NUMBERS OF AIRPORTS SERVICING THE VAST EXPANSE OF RUSSIA. HE OFFERS POSSIBLE WAYS TO IMPROVE AIRPORT SERVICE, INCLUDING SETTING UP INVESTMENT FUNDS TO ATTRACT FOREIGN CAPITAL INVESTMENT. 12. (U) STARTING FROM PAGE 78, G. ((ANTONENKO)) IN "AVIATION ACCORDING TO THE LAW" DESCRIBES THE CONFUSING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RUSSIA'S COMMERCIAL AVIATION AND GENERAL AVIATION. HE DETAILS PORTIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AVIATION CODE. 13. (U) V. ((RODIKOV'S)) "WE SHOW AIRPLANES WHICH ARE IN SERIAL PRODUCTION" FEATURES AN INTERVIEW WITH V. ((KUZMIN)), GENERAL DIRECTOR OF RUSSIA'S FAMED MAPO-MIG CORPORATION. THE AUTHOR ALSO DISCUSSES MIG-29 SALES AND THE MIG-AT TRAINER. 14. (U) SEMYON ((UMANSKIY)) IN "MODERN ROCKET LAUNCHERS" DESCRIBES SOVIET AND RUSSIAN SPACE LAUNCHES AND ROCKET BOOSTER ENGINES. 15. (U) IN PROBABLY THE MOST INTRIGUING ARTICLE OF THIS MAGAZINE, AUTHOR V. ((MAKSIMOVSKIY)) DISCUSSES THE DEVELOPMENT OF STEALTH TECHNOLOGY IN "THE HUNT FOR THE INVISIBLE ONE." THE AUTHOR CLAIMS THAT RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS HAVE DEVELOPED A METHOD OF RELIABLY DETECTING STEALTH TECHNOLOGIES. 16. (U) IN "NOT TO LOSE A CHANCE" V. ((SIRENKO)) DESCRIBES THE PROGRESS OF RUSSIA'S "GLONASS" GLOBAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM. THE AUTHOR ADVOCATES THE MASS PRODUCTION OF A NEW PORTABLE RUSSIAN-BUILT RECEIVER DEVELOPED BY RUSSIA'S SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CENTER. 17. (U) BEGINNING ON PAGE 98, L. ((KVASNIKOV)) IN "NUCLEAR POWERPLANTS IN SPACE" DISCUSSES THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN NUCLEAR POWERPLANTS FOR SATELLITES AND POSSIBLY FOR FUTURE SPACECRAFT. 18. (U) A TABLE ON PAGE 100 CONTAINS STATISTICS, DESCRIPTIONS OF ORBITS, AND COMMENTS ON RUSSIAN SPACE LAUNCHES IN THE LAST HALF OF 1995. COMMENTS:
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