Documents / FOIA release
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.
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# ANNOTATED ARTICLES IN ENGLISH 4 V. Shultzas, M. Sobkalov. RUSIAN EXPORT ACTIVITIES IN MILITARY AVIATION Tendencies of world arms sales market and problems of trading Russian military aircraft and equipment are discussed. Over-saturation of the world market with military aircraft just before the next millennium is forecasted. The authors show growing scientific and engineering standards of the national military aircraft industry on the pattern of proved Russian airplanes. 8 NEWS 11 THE LAST FLIGHT 10 ACCIDENTS Three Su-27 airplanes of the Russian Knights aerobatic team crashed in Vietnam, not far from Kam Ranh airbase on December 12, 1995. The article discloses some objective information shedding light on the circumstances of death of four Russian pilots and gives brief descriptions of their biographies. Reasons of flight accidents are often left undisclosed. The author believes that some accidentns occur because aircraft and their crews are subjected to the influence of energetic envelopes belonging to different natural objects and, first of all, undersurface water flows. Influence of UFO probe radiation, in particular, could result in heavy consequences. This is why there must be a specialist in biolocation among experts investigating an accident. 16 M. Faleyev. HELP COMES FROM THE SKIES Centrospas detachment is an aeromobile rescue unit of aviation of Russia's Ministry for Civil Defence Affairs, Emergency Situations and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters. The detachment participated in providing help to victims of air accidents and natural disasters, in elimination consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, humanitarian aid deliveries to areas of armed conflicts, in fire extinguishing. ## 19 V.Ilyin, S.Skrynnikov. AIR POWER OF RUSSIA We present a magazine variant of a book of the same title. This issue contains the introduction written by Col Gen P. Deinekin, the Commander in Chief of the Russian Air Force, and chapter "Frontal Aviation" with introductory article by Col Gen N. Antoshkin, Frontal Aviation Commander. The section tells about aircraft in the Russian service as well as types recently retired from first-line units, and waiting for entering service, i.e. Su-35, Su-34, Su-27, Su-25, Su24M, Su-17M4, MIG-29, MIG-29M, MiG27, M-55, Yak-28, etc. One article, by A. Velovich, describes the Su-39 (former Su-25TM), attack aircraft. Materials devoted to different aviation services of the Russian Armed Forces including RusAF Long-Range, RusAF Military Transport Aviation, Interceptor Aviation of the Air Defence Forces, Army and Navy Aviation are planned for publication in next issues of the magazine. 65 G.Byushgens. RUSSIAN SCIENCE NEEDS RENUNCIATION Academician G. Byushgens, Adviser of TsAGI (Central Aero-Hydrodynamical Institute) Board, brings up a pressing question of aviation science development perspectives in Russia. The facts cited in the article persuasively prove that cancellation of advanced basic research programmes delivers a blow to the very aircraft-building prospective. 69 FLIGHT CLOTHINGS BY ARE MATCHED WITH AIRPLANES The famous Sukhoi Design Bureau has a branch firm that manufactures high-quality flight clothings for test pilots as well as fur and leather coats. 70 G.Lozino-Lozinsky. TRIPLANE Embodying the project of the Superheavy Transport Airplane developed by NPO would allow to create an aircraft having no counterpart all over the world. It could carry up to 450 tonnes of load or up to 1200 passengers in a special underwing container or cabin and transport the commercial load for the distance up to 11-12 thousand kilometers. Use of foreign-made avionics and engines would make it competitive. With sufficient financial support, the could begin flying only in six years. 73 V.Zenkin. «BRUSSEL — EURICA-95» EXPAND THE ACTIVITY> On the background of common restriction of air traffic volumes in Russia, Transaero doubles this rating yearly. The millionth Transaero's passenger was met in Sheremetyevo airport on December 4, 1995. The company is the second after Aeroflot authorized Russian firm for carrying out regular flights to the USA. Our reporters were informed about these facts and many other ones by Alexander Pleshakov, President of Transaero. 76 K.Ruppel. IF WE'LL TAKE-OFF, IF WE'LL LAND... Because of insufficient financial support of the Civil Aviation, the number of airports in Russia is swiftly reduced, especially at remote districts where acute need in air transportation is felt. There are shortage of modern airports in our country. How to provide the safe and effective operation of air transport under these conditions? The author sees a solution of the problem in using attracted funds of regions and cities, investments including foreign ones as well as trust funds. ## 78 G.Antonenko. AVIATION ACCORDING TO LAW Two parts of the Civil Aviation of Russia (general aviation and commercial one) are compared by their legal nature. It is noted that Air Code of the USSR, currently in force in Russia, does not contain any clear separation of these two kinds of aviation because it was intended for the regulation of aviation activities under conditions of the Soviet command-administrative system. So, the author tells about the project of the new Air Code of Russian Federation and cites documents regulating the general aviation activities before its approval. 80 N.Chernyscev. 7000 OVER THE GROUND Valery Syutkin, popular singer and composer and former soloist of the group, interviewed by our magazine. 82 A.Markusha. NON-ESSENTIALS — GET OUT! The writer Anatoly Markusha is known as a man who is familiar with aviation not by hearsay. Published back in the Aviatsiya i Kosmonavtika magazine, the first chapters of his new novel were appreciated by readers at their true value. Vestnik Vozdushnogo Flota proceeds publishing chapters of the book. 84 K.Kosminkov. I-17bis (ЦКБ-196ис). CANNON THEME AND I-16'S VARIATIONS. IL-40 The article proceeds the rubric «Archive finds» begun in the previous issue. 86 A.Kanevsky. NIKOLAI KUDRIAVTZEV, ATTACK PILOT The article of the routine rubric «People and aircraft» (was begun in the Aviatsiya i Kosmonavtika》 magazine in 1992) tells about the remarkable
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