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This is a Central Intelligence Agency program summary, dated 5 December 1990, of Moscow International Service's Mandarin-language broadcast at 0700 GMT that day. It lists the topics and running times of 23 segments. They include a KGB investigation of the 7 October attempt to assassinate Gorbachev, spending on mansions for military officers, and Leningrad's plans for a special economic zone. One one-minute item reports a UFO sighted in an unnamed city, with no further details given.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency transcription of a Moscow TASS English report dated 6 December 1990, written by correspondent Rena Kuznetsova. It covers a press conference held by TV link between Mission Control near Moscow and the Soyuz TM-11 and Mir crew, which included Japanese television reporter Toyehiro Akiyama. Akiyama described adapting to weightlessness, a frog experiment and haze over Japan and the United States. Gennadiy Strekalov said the crew saw a huge ball of light for seven minutes on 26 September, probably an unknown natural phenomenon.
This Central Intelligence Agency release is a program list (comlist) of Soviet Radio Peace and Progress broadcasts for 9 December 1990. It sets out 14 items under the headings Global/Disarm, Americas, Mideast and USSR, noting each item's speaker, length and broadcast language. Topics include the Gulf crisis, Central American and Paraguayan politics, and the Soviet peace committee. One Arabic-language item has journalist Ahmad Abu Rashad discussing the Soviet economic crisis and the phenomenon of UFOs. The document was approved for release in February 2010.
This Central Intelligence Agency record, dated 10 December 1990, summarizes a Hanoi Domestic Service radio broadcast in Vietnamese. It lists the segments of the Vietnam People's Army program. These include an article on artillery group B68 maintaining its weapons and a report that inspectors found no smuggled goods at Can Tho military port. The broadcast also previewed an issue of Quan Doi Nhan Dan with an article by Van Le on American intentions in researching flying objects.
This Central Intelligence Agency translation, dated 12 December 1990, reports a Moscow Television "Vremya" newscast from 6 December 1990 about a Mir news conference with the Soviet-Japanese spaceflight crew. Toyohiro Akiyama describes how hard his first days of weightlessness were, and says Earth looked afflicted by illness. Gennadiy Strekalov reports that he saw an object he first took for an unidentified flying object before deciding it was probably something like an aerostat casing.
This Central Intelligence Agency release is an FBIS video selection list, dated 13 December 1990. It summarizes segments from the Moscow Television Service program "120 Minutes" that aired on 12 December 1990. Most items cover cultural and social topics, including a Pasternak exhibition, the return of remains of Italian soldiers, and a drug rehabilitation conference. One report by S. Yegorov covers paintings by Burtsev showing his encounters with UFOs and includes comment on Burtsev's claimed extrasensory powers.
This Central Intelligence Agency document, dated 21 December 1990 and approved for release in 2010, is a consolidated list of Soviet radio, television and TASS items monitored from Moscow that day. It summarizes coverage of Shevardnadze's resignation, the Congress of People's Deputies, the Persian Gulf, and the ROK president's visit, among other topics. A single science item notes a Radio Moscow answer on circles in British fields, mentioning speculation about UFOs and changing Soviet attitudes toward UFOs.
This Central Intelligence Agency listing, dated 26 December 1990, is a consolidated daily list of Moscow radio, TASS and television items monitored that day. It gives a short description of each broadcast, grouped by region and topic. Most items cover the USSR Congress of People's Deputies, Shevardnadze's resignation, Yanayev's nomination as vice-president, the Persian Gulf crisis and year-end reviews. The only UFO content is a Czech/Slovak-language program item in which a boy from an unnamed Uzbek village recalls seeing a UFO.
This unclassified Central Intelligence Agency message dated 29 December 1990 is a consolidated list of Soviet broadcast and TASS items from Moscow for that day. It summarizes more than 100 items on topics including the Gulf crisis, disarmament, Soviet foreign relations, nationalities issues, Gorbachev's economic decrees and the Congress of People's Deputies. The only UFO reference is a note that a Radio Moscow "Moscow Mailbag" program included discussions on UFOs.
This Foreign Broadcast Information Service press note from January 1991, FB PN 91-003, reports on an interview that Soviet Deputy Minister of Defense Ivan Tretyak gave to Literaturnaya Gazeta on 9 November. Tretyak confirmed that interceptor pilots had encountered and photographed UFOs, including two pulsating lights seen on 2 March 1990 northeast of Moscow near Pereslavl-Zalesskiy and Zagorsk. He said their nature remains unknown and warned against hoaxes, citing a false Kuybyshev radar station story.
This is a CIA JPRS translation, dated 1 January 1991, of an editorial roundtable written up by V.I. Shamshurin for the Moscow journal Sotsiologicheskiye Issledovaniya. Soviet scientists, physicians and philosophers discuss medicine and biology as sociohumanitarian sciences and the links between the natural and social sciences. One participant says public interest in parapsychology, UFOs and astrology reflects a human need for miracles during social crisis. He also criticizes parapsychology experiments and Uri Geller's performances.
This unclassified Central Intelligence Agency message of 4 January 1991 adds to an earlier PMU pressfax transmission. It describes INTERPULS, a Soviet-U.S. edition of Komsomolskaya Pravda that PMU received by pressfax on 24 December 1990. The same paper came as a pullout supplement in the 25 December 1990 issue. The message lists the editors and the publishers in Denver and Moscow, and gives a circulation of 21,925,000. It notes that the first issue had no hard news, only features on UFOs, Arnold Schwarzenegger and skateboarding, and that PMU has no plans to cover it.
This Foreign Broadcast Information Service cable, relayed by the Joint Staff in January 1991 and later released by the Central Intelligence Agency, translates a CTK report from Bratislava Pravda of 22 January 1991. It says observatories in South Moravia received reports of a shining unidentified flying object seen on 18 January, which looked like a comet's tail shedding burning pieces and moved quickly from north to south. Astronomers assumed that a satellite, or part of one, was burning up in the upper atmosphere.
This Central Intelligence Agency release is a consolidated monitoring list of Soviet broadcasts for 19 January 1991. It catalogues Radio Moscow, TASS and television items by region and topic. Most items cover the Persian Gulf war, the crisis in Lithuania and the Baltics, Soviet domestic politics, and foreign relations. One entry records an anonymous 20-minute Korean-language program on world media interest in an unidentified flying object. The list gives no further details about that program.
This Central Intelligence Agency record dated 19 January 1991 is a commentary list for Moscow International Service's Korean-language broadcasts from that day. It lists news items and commentaries from three broadcasts, covering the Persian Gulf situation, Gorbachev's contacts with Bush and Arab leaders, Laos-China cooperation, and a Soviet vice premier's visit to Seoul. The 1330 GMT broadcast included a 20-minute anonymous item on the world media's interest in unidentified flying objects.
This Foreign Broadcast Information Service cable, relayed by FBIS Vienna and the Joint Staff on 21 January 1991, lists the items on the 19 January 1991 evening news broadcast of Budapest MTV Television. Most of the 17 items cover the Gulf War, including Iraqi missile strikes on Tel Aviv, peace demonstrations, and Hungarian domestic affairs. Item 16 is a 75-second video report on an unidentified flying object seen in Kecskemet. The document gives no further details about that sighting.
This Central Intelligence Agency translation, dated 22 January 1991, carries a CTK report from Bratislava Pravda headed "Destruction of a Satellite?" It says observatories in South Moravia had been receiving eyewitness reports since 19 January of a shining unidentified flying object seen on 18 January between 2317 and 2320. The object looked like a comet's tail that shed burning pieces, glowed like the full moon and moved quickly from north to south. Astronomers believed it was a satellite, or part of one, burning up in the upper atmosphere.
This Central Intelligence Agency message, dated 22 January 1991, carries the second part of an English translation of reader letters from the Moscow newspaper Rabochaya Tribuna of 15 January 1991. It gives a letter from Yu. Yefstafyev of Leningrad. He proposes that the Krasnoyarsk radar station, which no longer has a military use, be turned into a center for UFO observation and research, possibly with foreign experts. The paper's military section asks readers to keep sending suggestions for a panel of specialists to review.
This CIA press selection list, dated 23 January 1991, covers East European newspapers from Poland, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. It lists articles picked for translation or cancelled, with their page numbers and word counts. Topics include the Gulf War, Slovak politics and screenings of officials, the Gabcikovo dam, the withdrawal of Soviet troops and Montenegrin government formation. One Pravda item of 22 January reports an unidentified flying object seen over South Moravia and suggests it was possibly a destroyed satellite.
This is an unclassified Central Intelligence Agency monitoring list of Moscow media broadcasts dated 25 January 1991, released in 2010. It summarizes Soviet radio, TV and TASS items on the Persian Gulf war, the unrest in the Baltic republics, the withdrawal of 50 and 100 ruble banknotes, and Soviet foreign relations. Its only UFO reference is a science program answer to a Kenyan listener. That answer confirmed there has never been an official statement on the capture of a UFO.
This Central Intelligence Agency release carries an unclassified FBIS summary of the "Vid" variety program, broadcast on Moscow Central Television on 25 January 1991 and presented by Igor Kirillov. Most items cover Soviet economic topics, including the withdrawal of large-denomination banknotes, market reform, ownership and business ventures. An "Eldorado" segment includes an Ufa resident claiming to have seen extraterrestrial life-forms linked to the "Perm Triangle", a Moscow artist with a UFO photograph, and a scientist's "parallel world" theory.
This is an unclassified CIA broadcast monitoring listing titled "Comlist: Moscow Consolidated", dated 26 January 1991 and approved for release in February 2010. It catalogues the day's Soviet radio, TV and TASS items by topic. Coverage includes the Persian Gulf war, Foreign Minister Bessmertnykh's trip to the United States, unrest in the Baltic republics, the withdrawal of 50 and 100 ruble banknotes, and India's Republic Day. One entry, a repeat from a Korean-language service, notes world interest in the sighting of a UFO.
This Central Intelligence Agency record, dated 26 January 1991, lists the programs that Moscow International Service aired in Korean that day. The broadcasts were at 0900, 1100 and 1330 GMT. They covered an RSFSR congress session, the Persian Gulf crisis, nationalist movements in the USSR and an interview with Soviet deputy defense minister Kochetkov on Korean reunification. The 1330 GMT broadcast was a 20-minute item on UFOs, a repeat. The list gives no details of what that item said.
This Central Intelligence Agency listing, dated 27 January 1991, catalogs Soviet radio and television broadcasts monitored from Moscow that day. Most items concern the Gulf War, Foreign Minister Bessmertnykh's visit to the United States, unrest in the Baltic republics, and the withdrawal of 50 and 100 ruble notes. A few entries touch on UFOs, including a Tashkent UFO report and a television segment on the "Perm triangle," a photograph with a circular object, and a parallel world theory.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency list, dated 27 January 1991, that indexes Soviet radio commentary broadcast in Mandarin and Japanese. Most entries deal with Foreign Minister Bessmertnykh's visit to the United States, Soviet-Japanese relations, the Baltic situation, Gorbachev's antistrike decree and his monetary reform order. A youth program item mentions a Tashkent UFO report of 26.5 minutes but gives no further detail. The list also includes science items on anaemia research and on day-night phenomena in space activities.
This is an unclassified Central Intelligence Agency media note from 30 January 1991. It describes Panorama, a weekly Greek-language pictorial magazine that began publication in Nicosia, Cyprus on 29 September 1990. The magazine's first issue ran 116 pages. It included interviews with UN special representative Oscar Camilion and the mayor of Nicosia, along with reports on a kidney transplant clinic and UFO sightings in the Soviet Union. The bureau did not plan to cover the magazine regularly.
This Central Intelligence Agency release is an unclassified summary of a Hanoi Domestic Service radio program in Vietnamese, broadcast at 0500 GMT on 14 February 1991. The program covered domestic news such as Tet visits, rice purchases, tax collection and airport renovation in Ho Chi Minh City. It also carried Gulf War items quoted from foreign media, including a CBS report that the United States would give Israel codes identifying all flying objects. The document has no UFO content.
This is an unclassified CIA foreign broadcast monitoring summary of Phnom Penh Domestic Service radio programs in Cambodian, aired at 2300 GMT on 23 February 1991 and 0430 GMT on 24 February 1991. Most items cover Cambodian trade union meetings, military clashes, rice planting, reforestation and local development. One foreign news item reports that a Soviet jet fighter disappeared after encountering an unidentified flying object. No further details are given.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency monitoring summary dated 24 February 1991. It lists the Cambodian-language programs of Phnom Penh Domestic Service. The items cover armed forces activities, army recruitment, uncovered enemy arms caches, farming, paddy buying, industry and road repairs, and health guidance. Among the foreign news items is a Moscow radio commentary on a Japanese diplomat's visit to Cambodia, along with a Novosti item on a Soviet aircraft's encounter with a UFO. The summary gives no details of that encounter.
This Central Intelligence Agency release reproduces a JPRS Report, number JPRS-UAC-91-008, dated 1 March 1991. The report lists the articles it did not translate from issue No 3 of the Moscow journal Aviatsiya i Kosmonavtika, March 1991. The titles cover military aviation training, the round-the-world flight of the Ruslan, the air war in North Korea and aviators' family problems. They also include B. Malykhin's article "What Do We See When We 'See' a UFO?" The document was approved for release in February 2010.
This declassified message, which the Joint Staff relayed from an FBIS London report dated 20 April 1991, carries an English-language TASS dispatch from Alma-Ata. It says militia patrolmen in the Kazakh capital saw a flaming object with red rays at the top of Kok-Tyube mountain. As they approached, rays swept their patrol car and it stopped dead, and the object then dimmed and disappeared. The officers later could not recall the drive back. Radio talk was taped, and TASS cites impartial witnesses.
This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS report dated 11 March 1991 translates a XINHUA Domestic Service item from Beijing on Chinese magazine circulation. It says circulation rose after the anti-pornography, curtailment and rectification campaigns, and it gives figures for party magazines, digests and general interest titles, including FEIDIE TANSUO (Probing the Secrets of Flying Saucers) at 300,000 copies, up 60,000. A China Press and Publications Administration official credits closed distribution channels for bad magazines and a national periodicals exhibition.
This Central Intelligence Agency FBIS record, dated 14 March 1991, lists the video segments of the Soviet television program "Serving the Fatherland," broadcast on Moscow Central Television on 2 March 1991. Segments include an interview with People's Deputy Starovoytova on military conditions, and a profile of test pilot Marina Popovich. They also include a "Secret" feature on UFOs in which Popovich discusses their existence, an astrologer interview on aliens, and a report on the retirement of the cruiser Admiral Senyavin.
This CIA-held JPRS translation, dated 17 March 1991, transcribes a Moscow All-Union Radio Mayak report by Valentin Bogomolov on the Plesetsk Cosmodrome and Arkhangelsk Oblast. It notes that residents sometimes mistake rocket launches for UFOs. Col. Grin describes the Informator communications satellite and an agreement to launch the Resurs spacecraft to survey mineral resources and monitor the environment. Gen. Oleynik, the cosmodrome commander, says the satellites will assess pollution, forests, soil and ozone impacts.
This Central Intelligence Agency release is an FBIS cable dated 12 to 13 April 1991. It carries a TASS English report by correspondent Anatoliy Kakovkin about an explosion just outside Sasovo, Ryazan region, at 01:30 that morning. The blast came after a strange roar, broke most windows and left a crater 28 meters wide and 3.5 meters deep. Emergency experts found no radiation or chemical changes, and the military reported no UFOs. The mayor suggested that stored saltpeter might have exploded.
This Central Intelligence Agency transcript, dated 14 April 1991, carries the second part of a Moscow television interview with Soviet Air Defense Forces (PVO) commander in chief Tretyak by interviewer Vovnenko. Tretyak talks about reorganizing reconnaissance after the loss of forward coverage in Eastern Europe, lessons from the Persian Gulf war, and budget cuts that he says will hurt combat readiness. A passage summarized in the text says the Air Defense Forces had recorded no UFOs, and Tretyak says he does not yet believe in them.
This CIA translation, released in 2000, reproduces a 15 April 1991 Pravda report by correspondent N. Kireyev about a powerful explosion near Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast, at midnight on 12 April 1991. The blast broke windows across the town and left a crater 28 meters wide and about 4 meters deep. Local officials listed several suspected causes: buried wartime munitions, an air bomb, a meteorite, UFOs, and the ammonium nitrate the military blamed. The cause remained unknown while specialists were awaited.
This Central Intelligence Agency message dated 19 April 1991 relays a Moscow TASS English report by correspondent Vasiliy Danshin, based on the newspaper Vechernyaya Alma-Ata. It says militia patrolmen in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, saw a fiery object with red rays at the top of Kok-Tyube mountain. When they drove within 200 meters, rays swept across the car and it stopped dead. The object then dimmed and disappeared, and afterward none of the patrolmen could recall the drive back. The report adds that radio talk was taped and that impartial witnesses exist.
This Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) monitoring message, dated 20 April 1991, corrects an earlier transcript of a Soviet television interview with the Air Defense Forces chief, Army General Tretyak. It restores passages covering a readiness briefing by duty officer Colonel Denisov, including one radar station out of action. Asked about flying saucers over Moscow, Tretyak says UFO questions involve many myths and tall stories. He adds that one event near Moscow was tracked by radar and turned out not to be a UFO.
This unclassified Central Intelligence Agency monitoring list, dated 11 May 1991, catalogs Soviet radio, television and TASS items from that day's broadcasts. It covers Gorbachev's call with George Bush, Foreign Minister Bessmertnykh's meeting with Egypt's President Mubarak, Victory Day anniversary programs, the crises in Yugoslavia and the Transcaucasus, and the RSFSR presidential election campaign. Its only UFO content is a Korean-language listener mailbag program noting that some listeners wanted to know about unidentified flying objects.
This CIA-released commentary list records the Korean-language broadcasts of Moscow International Service on 11 May 1991. It sums up each program segment and gives its length. The topics include the Soviet foreign minister's Middle East visit, South Korean student protests, Soviet-Chinese economic cooperation and reports on US nuclear weapons in South Korea. A listener mailbag program included letters from people who wanted to know about Soviet cosmonauts and unidentified flying objects. The document was approved for release in February 2010.
This Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) record, dated 21 May 1991, is an unclassified transcript of a Moscow Central Television "Vremya" newscast. Correspondent P. Orlov reports that a strange phosphorescent object was filmed floating around the Mir station while the Soviet-British crew, including Helen Sharman, was aboard. Musa Manarov doubted it was a UFO, saying he saw it come off the craft during docking. The report says its nature was still unclear and calls it interesting and possibly alarming.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) translation, dated 23 May 1991, of a report on the Soviet 'Vremya' newscast that aired on 21 May 1991. In it, correspondent P. Orlov describes the Soviet-British crew aboard the Mir station, including Helen Sharman, and a video of a luminescent object filmed near the station. Musa Manarov said he saw the object come off the Soyuz craft during docking. The broadcast called the object's identity unclear and the development fairly alarming.
This CIA-distributed FOUO item, dated 2 June 1991, summarizes that evening's Vesti news program on Moscow Russian Television, presented by Yuriy Rostov. It lists 15 segments with their time codes. Among them are a commemoration in Novocherkassk of the 1962 shooting of protesting workers, a factory meeting in Mordova in support of Yeltsin, and foreign news. It also records a humorous video report from Astrakhan, a city said to be visited often by flying saucers.
This unclassified CIA message, dated 10 June 1991, is the second part of a preview of Soviet television schedules for 14 to 16 June 1991. It lists programs on Central Television channels 1 and 2 and Russian TV, including news bulletins, films, cartoons, sport and a USSR Supreme Soviet session. On Sunday 16 June, the CTV2 schedule includes a program titled "UFOs" at 1100. No further details about that program are given.
This unclassified CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service comlist, dated 12 June 1991, catalogs Moscow radio, television and TASS items broadcast that day. Entries are grouped by region and topic and cover the RSFSR presidential elections, Bessmertnykh's visit to Germany, Lukyanov in London, the G-7 summit, Afghanistan, Cambodia and Soviet military matters. Brief feature items mention a close encounter of the third kind reported by a Latvian couple and a listener's letter about flying objects.
This unclassified Central Intelligence Agency record, dated 12 June 1991, lists the contents of a Radio Moscow broadcast in Turkish at 1800 GMT. It logs news on Gorbachev's summit with Bush and his London visit, then commentaries on elections in the Russian Federation, Hungarian economic reform, the Middle East and Tariq Aziz's visit to Turkey. A feature program for Turkish listeners includes a three minute item on a listener's letter about flying objects.
This Central Intelligence Agency (FBIS) item summarizes the SABC TV 1 English-language evening newscast from Johannesburg, broadcast at 1800 GMT on 9 July 1991. It lists the program's segments and their running times. Most items cover South African political and sports news, including the country's readmission to the International Olympic Committee and the possible lifting of US sanctions. Item 10 was a two-minute video report on a UFO sighting in Johannesburg, which the summary does not describe further.
This unclassified Central Intelligence Agency message, serial OW1607065991, lists Soviet radio commentaries broadcast in Mandarin and Japanese for 15 July 1991. Most items deal with the G-7 summit in London, Gorbachev's economic reform plan, the Bessmertnykh-Baker arms talks, Cambodia and USSR Supreme Soviet sessions. One USSR Today item includes a four-minute report on a UFO sighting in Krasnoyarsk, alongside a report on an Arctic island that once held concentration camps.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency cable dated 16 July 1991, released in 2010. It lists Soviet radio commentary and broadcast items for that day, numbered 1601 to 1625. Most items deal with Gorbachev's meetings with G-7 leaders in London, the Bessmertnykh and Baker START accord, and Soviet-Japanese cooperation. One "USSR Today" segment contains a four-minute report on a UFO sighting in Krasnoyarsk, but the list gives no details of it.