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This is a Central Intelligence Agency transcription of an unclassified Moscow Interfax report in English, dated 5 August 1991. It says that, according to the Norutium Service news agency, a UFO landed in a mountain pass near Atsavan village, 12 to 15 km from Yerevan, at about 21:30 local time on 4 August. Eyewitnesses said the object stayed there until 3 a.m. with its lights twinkling while it changed shape. Nobody dared to approach it.
This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS Report translation, dated 31 August 1991, reproduces a News Desk announcement from the Moscow newspaper PRAVDA headed 'We Will Buy News'. It explains that the paper's new status brings a new news concept, covering everything from encounters with 'flying saucers' to impromptu interviews with politicians. PRAVDA asks readers for suggestions, advice and news, says it is considering incentives for the freshest reports, and gives a news hotline number.
This is a JPRS report, number JPRS-UAC-92-004, from the Central Intelligence Agency's concatenated JPRS reports. It lists articles from the September 1991 issue of the Moscow journal Aviatsiya i Kosmonavtika that were not translated. The items include coverage of Le Bourget-91, an assault on the North Pole, Kosminform news, and an article by S. Turenko and A. Aleshin titled "The 'Flying Saucer' - A Gravity Plane?!" The report gives only titles, authors and page numbers, with no article text.
This is a CIA-distributed unclassified summary of a Hanoi Vietnam Television Network broadcast aired at 1200 GMT on 10 September 1991. It lists the program's segments, including a ceremony awarding the Ho Chi Minh Order to Dam Quang Trung, economic and industrial reports from Vietnamese provinces, a public health seminar and a weather report. Its world news segment includes a one-minute item saying that UFOs continue to be a myth for scientists, with no further detail given.
This Central Intelligence Agency transcription is dated 27 September 1991 and marked approved for release in May 2000. It is part 2 of an 8-part translation of a Sovetskaya Rossiya interview in which Abalkin criticizes the "500 Days" economic program. He argues for preserving the Union state and warns that the Russian republic's plan would dissolve the USSR. In passing, he likens the program's "mystery effect" to the mass belief in aliens, UFOs and extrasensory perception that arises in times of crisis.
This Central Intelligence Agency record, dated 10 October 1991, is an unclassified translation of a Spanish-language report from the Buenos Aires news agency TELAM. According to the report, a green metal object weighing about 15 kg and measuring 35 cm across came through the roof of the Romero family's house at 4000 Independencia Street in Corrientes and landed on the couple's bed. Nobody was hurt. Local police were investigating, and the report suggests the object may be a cast iron piece that came loose from a satellite or a flying object.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency release of a Foreign Broadcast Information Service television program summary, dated 20 October 1991. It lists the contents of the Russian Television "Vesti" newscast broadcast from Moscow on 19 October 1991. The items cover the economic treaty signing, Yeltsin's veto, unrest in Soviet prisons, the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site and other domestic and foreign news. The final press review item notes that a UFO congress opened in Moscow that day.
This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS translation reproduces an IZVESTIYA article by A. Tarasov, published 26 October 1991, on the "Sverdlovsk syndrome." The illness left students and other harvest workers on Ural potato fields with toxic polyneuropathy. The article lists many suggested causes, from pesticides and thorium storage to military activity and UFOs, and gives Prof Ye. Krupin's view that imported pyrethroid pesticides were to blame. A postscript notes that a Russian Ministry of Health commission blamed combined factors and cleared the pesticides.
This CIA-released FBIS translation covers a Moscow Central Television "TV Inform" video report by Aleksandr Krutov, broadcast on 28 October 1991. The report describes environmental damage in Dalnegorsk, Maritime Kray, where strip mining by the 'Bor' industrial association left a moon-like landscape, dust pollution and water that crumbles cement. A local gynecologist links rising birth defects to industry. The report also mentions a UFO said to have crashed on a hill there several years earlier, and notes that local ufologists await a landing.
This is a JPRS translation, dated 6 November 1991 and held in a CIA release, of an article from the Moscow paper LITERATURNAYA GAZETA by correspondent Tatyana Fast. It tells how Riga journalists founded NEZAVISIMAYA BALTIYSKAYA GAZETA with backing from a business association, which then pressured and threatened them. The staff broke with the sponsor and relaunched as BALTIYSKAYA GAZETA. The article notes that the old title's new staff now writes about UFOs, nutrition and sex.
This Central Intelligence Agency release, dated 18 November 1991, is an unclassified foreign broadcast transcript, the third of three parts, covering a 15 November news conference by Soviet economist Abalkin. He answers journalists' questions on public expectations, possible US economic help for perestroyka, and opposition from conservatives to reforms of state property and prices. The only UFO reference is his remark that in difficult times like these, reports of UFOs start circulating.
This unclassified Central Intelligence Agency message, dated 8 December 1991, passes on a BBC-sourced preview of Moscow television programming for 9 to 15 December, taken from the 7 December edition of SEM DNEY. It lists daily schedules for Central Television First Program and Russian Television, with items such as news, films, sports, language lessons and RSFSR Supreme Soviet sessions. Some programs are marked for checking. The listing contains no UFO or UAP material.
This unclassified Central Intelligence Agency message, dated 6 January 1992, relays a television program preview for the week of 6 to 12 January 1992. It lists daily schedules for Moscow's Ostankino network and Russian Television, drawn from SOVETSKAYA ROSSIYA and network previews, and notes that the BBC would monitor programs marked for checking. Listed items include a Yeltsin conversation, Christmas services and War and Peace, and Russian Television scheduled a program titled "UFOs" on 10 January.
This is a TASS English-language wire report dated 9 January 1992, released by the Central Intelligence Agency. It describes Russian President Boris Yeltsin starting a working visit to Ulyanovsk with a tour of the aircraft building complex that had recently been reorganised as the Aviastar joint-stock society. Yeltsin was shown what the report calls the world's first thermoplane, which the plant built with the Moscow Aviation Institute. Its designers believed the saucer-shaped craft could soon be widely used in the economy.
This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS translation, dated 29 January 1992, reproduces an IZVESTIYA article by Marat Zubko about Soviet submarine U-137, which ran aground near the Karlskrona naval base in Sweden on 27 October 1981. It reports former commander Anatoliy Gushchin's claims that the submarine carried nuclear weapons and that he had orders to blow it up. It also quotes Swedish commander Karl Andersson likening claims of submarine incursions to flying saucers. Captain 1st Rank Vladimir Vazhov disputes the order claim and describes two Soviet minisubmarines.
This Foreign Broadcast Information Service report, dated 11 February 1992 and relayed through the Joint Staff, carries a Seoul Yonhap English dispatch. Radar detected an intruder over the West Sea south of China's Shandong Peninsula. It moved at about 630 knots and then disappeared about 128 kilometers west of Kunsan. The South Korean Air Force sent up 18 fighters, a helicopter and a C-130, which found nothing. A spokesman said the contact was probably a radar ghost signal caused by overlapping surveillance systems.
This CIA-distributed JPRS translation, dated 24 February 1992, reproduces an IZVESTIYA article by Marat Zubko from Stockholm. The article covers a report to the Swedish government by armed forces commander-in-chief General Bengt Gustafsson. The report cites about five probable foreign submarine violations in 1991, recorded submarine noises and a film showing a damaged anti-submarine cable off Gotland. It says the incursions apparently stopped in September 1991. The article also recounts a 1984 submarine hunt near Karlskrona.
This is an unclassified FBIS item relayed through the Joint Staff in April 1992. It carries a Xinhua English-language report dated 16 April 1992. The report says the China UFO Research Organization (CURO) would hold a national conference in Beijing the following month, with more than 100 Chinese and overseas researchers expected to attend. According to the report, China has had over 5,000 sightings, and CURO, set up in 1978, is largely supported by the government.
This Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) record, dated 2 April 1992, is a program summary of the Radio Moscow Mandarin-language broadcast aired at 1200 GMT that day. It lists news items that include Russian economic reform, an aid agreement between Austria and Russia, the Dniestr talks, a meeting of NATO and CIS defense chiefs in Brussels, and North Korea observing nuclear accords. The feature segment has a four-minute report on an economic weekly's article about UFOs.
This FBIS translation, relayed through the Joint Staff in May 1992, carries a 13 May 1992 Xinhua report on the Fourth National Congress of the China UFO Society. The congress confirmed that China would study UFOs under dialectical materialist principles and modern natural science. The report says more than 5,000 UFO reports had been registered on the Chinese mainland over the past decade or so. It also cites Chinese research on ball lightning and on flying object design, and quotes acting president Wang Changting calling for more international cooperation.
This is an unclassified FBIS Okinawa translation of a Beijing Xinhua English report dated 16 April 1992, relayed through the Joint Staff and released by the CIA. It reports that the China UFO Research Organization (CURO) would hold a national conference in Beijing the following month, with more than 100 Chinese and overseas researchers attending. The report says China has had over 5,000 sightings of unexplained aerial phenomena. It adds that CURO was set up in 1978 and is largely supported by the government.
This unclassified CIA-distributed translation reproduces a brief report from the Moscow newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta of 5 May 1992. It says that NASA specialist Richard F. Haines began public lectures in Chelyabinsk, a city closed to foreigners until recently, speaking on "Man and Space." His second planned topic, "Technical Review and Testimonies on UFO's," drew particular interest because a UFO had been observed over Chelyabinsk shortly before.
This 1992 JPRS report, dated 16 June 1992 and held in the CIA collection, translates a Rabochaya Tribuna article by Vladimir Lagovskiy called "Flight to Alpha Centauri." The article reports that specialists at the Experimental Machine Building Scientific Research Association say they built a high-temperature superconductor. They propose using it for a saucer-shaped spacecraft driven by electron flux. Scientist Vasiliy Shabetnik also describes an "energy conversion" process that he says could power a flight to Alpha Centauri and back in 12 years.
This is a JPRS translation, dated 16 June 1992, of an article by Vladimir Lagovskiy in the Moscow newspaper Rabochaya Tribuna. It covers work at the Scientific Production Association of Experimental Machine Building, which has military ties, on a saucer-shaped vehicle. The vehicle would be driven by a fast electron flux acting on a high-temperature superconductor. Researcher Vasiliy Shabetnik also claims an 'energy conversion' process that could power a round trip to Alpha Centauri in 12 years.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency FBIS translation of a RIA report printed in Krasnaya Zvezda on 6 August 1992. It says aircraft, helicopters and ground teams were still searching for an Su-27 fighter that disappeared on 25 July during a planned flight, and that a cyclone was hampering the search. The Far East Air Defense headquarters pointed to a UFO sighted in the crash area during the flight. No trace of the aircraft or its radio beacon had been found.
This JPRS report, filed with the Central Intelligence Agency's concatenated 1992 JPRS reports and dated 26 August 1992, gives an excerpted Radio Moscow French-language broadcast about the MosAeroshow-92 exhibition held at Zhukovskiy near Moscow. Some 300 firms took part, and the aircraft on show included the TU-160 bomber, the SU-27M, the MiG-31 and the formerly secret C-300 antiaircraft system. The broadcast notes only that some new designs looked like flying saucers, and it reports export agreements signed at the show.
This is an FBIS program summary, carried in a Central Intelligence Agency release dated 1992, of the Paris Antenne-2 French television newscast of 15 April 1990. It lists sixteen news items. Most are Easter celebrations in Rome, Eastern Europe, Berlin and Lithuania, along with Mandela's arrival in London, the Strangeways revolt and a report on the French arms industry. Item 15 is a video report on a UFO hunt in Belgium. A videotape of the newscast could be ordered from the FBIS TV Center.
This Central Intelligence Agency record, dated 1 October 1992, is a translated transcript of a live Moscow Central Television "Utro" interview with Major General Yuriy Gusev, deputy commander of the Russian Ministry of Defense Space Units. Gusev describes the space units' role, the ratio of civilian to military launches, satellite counts, possible manned launches from Plesetsk, and the 35th anniversary of the first satellite. Asked about UFOs, he says he doubts humanoid craft but once saw an unexplained moving ray of light during a flight.
This unclassified Central Intelligence Agency message dated 18 October 1992 relays a television program preview for CIS TV and Russian TV for the week of 19 to 25 October, as published in the newspaper Rabochaya Tribuna. It lists broadcast times in Moscow time for news, films, sports, soap operas, cartoons and reports on the Constitutional Court and the Russian Supreme Soviet. Several programs are marked for checking by the BBC.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency transcript, dated 23 October 1992, of a Radio Khabarovsk news report. It covers the three-month search for Captain Vladimir Molokanov, who went missing on 24 July near the Okhotsk Sea coast while flying an Su-27 near the Shantarskiye Islands. Proposed explanations included an accident, loss of consciousness, escape abroad and abduction by a UFO. The search team head said an accident was the main explanation, but none had been confirmed.
This unclassified CIA-distributed item, dated 27 October 1992, summarizes a Radio Beograd Network broadcast in Serbo-Croatian aired at 1400 GMT that day. It lists 35 program items, mostly on the Yugoslav wars, the Geneva talks on a Bosnian constitution, Kosovo, Serbian assembly debates and elections. One item notes a report by a correspondent in Bihac on UFOs in the Kupres region, described as not real ones. The summary includes no further detail on that report.
This Central Intelligence Agency message dated 15 November 1992 passes along the CIS television schedule for the week of 16 to 22 November. It is drawn from the 14 November edition of SEM DNEY. The document lists the daily programs on CIS TV and Russian TV, including news bulletins, soap operas, films, cartoons and a documentary series about Stalin. It also lists a Saturday program titled "UFOs: Unannounced Visit." It draws no conclusions and offers no analysis.
This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS translation reproduces an article by Olga Kuznetsova that ran in the St. Petersburg newspaper Nevskoye Vremya on 20 November 1992. It profiles the Scientific-Research Navigational-Hydrographic Institute of the Russian Ministry of Defense, known as NINGI, a formerly secret institute that is now opening up to civilian partners after funding cuts. The article notes in passing that UFO-ology was within the institute's research field and that it gathered a lot of material on the subject over many years.
This unclassified CIA-distributed JPRS translation, dated 1 December 1992, reproduces an article by Lieutenant Colonel V. Maksimovskiy from the Moscow journal Aviatsiya i Kosmonavtika. It describes V. Shabetnik's proposed propulsion method for a spherical craft covered in superconducting material and driven by electron accelerators rather than hydrocarbon fuel. It reports tests in March and May 1992 in which a small superconductor model developed more than 22.5 grams of force, and it notes that the models moved like flying saucers.
This is a Foreign Broadcast Information Service item from the Central Intelligence Agency, dated 14 December 1992. It reproduces a Guardian report by Simon Tisdal. Shetland police, the coastguard and the Lerwick Observatory recorded 17 sightings of a large, white object travelling low and very fast off the Shetland Islands at about 9pm on a Saturday. The article connects the sightings to US reports that a secret Mach 8 successor to the SR-71 spy plane had begun testing, and notes that the Pentagon declined to comment.
This is an unclassified Foreign Broadcast Information Service report sent from FBIS Okinawa on 19 February 1993. It relays a Kyodo news item from Tokyo saying that officials at Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) plan to set up a research institute, likely in 1995, for scientific study of art, culture and parapsychology, including telepathy, clairvoyance and UFOs, for application to next-generation industry. The MITI panel behind the plan was to draft an interim report by May.
This Central Intelligence Agency translation, dated 14 January 1993, reproduces a KRASNAYA ZVEZDA report on an expert commission reviewing the Russian military mass media system. The commission was chaired by Lieutenant General Konstantin Bogdanov. He reported that subsidized military newspaper and magazine print runs had fallen to 42 and 45 percent of their early 1992 levels. He listed the current publications, proposed a new soldier's journal, and criticized some papers for filling their pages with fiction and UFO stories to attract readers.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency translation, dated 26 January 1993, of excerpts from a video report by O. Shommer on the "Utro" program of Moscow Central Television. The report describes EKIP ("ecology and progress"), a saucer-like aircraft being developed by the Saratov aviation factory. It combines wing and fuselage and uses an air cushion in place of an undercarriage, so it needs no airports and can land on snowy tundra or water. The presenter jokes that the meeting with a UFO did not take place after all.
This Central Intelligence Agency translation of a 3 February 1993 IZVESTIYA article covers Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt's planned official visit to Moscow. He intended to press Russia on suspected submarine incursions into Swedish waters, and Sweden had sent Russia recordings of propeller noise. The article cites Swedish doubters, including a former coast defense leader who compared the submarine alarm to flying saucers. Russian experts called the recordings too poor to prove anything.
This CIA-distributed translation, dated 9 March 1993, is the full text of a Radio Moscow World Service English broadcast. It reports that Russia intends to patent a new airliner that air designers have dubbed a flying saucer, with the first test models being assembled at the Saratov aviation plant. The item says several modifications are planned, carrying 20 to 2,000 passengers, and that an air cushion lets the craft take off and land on any ground or on water.
This unclassified CIA record, dated 25 March 1993, summarizes a Russian-language broadcast that China Radio International aired from Beijing that day. Most of the program was news: the National People's Congress, Chinese economic reform, nuclear power, relations with Hong Kong and Taiwan, and foreign events in Russia, Bosnia, Iraq and Australia. It also lists a 15.5-minute mailbag segment reporting on UFOs, but the summary gives no details of what that segment said.
This Foreign Broadcast Information Service translation, released by the CIA in May 2000, reproduces a 27 March 1993 article in the Kiev newspaper Holos Ukrayiny, reprinted from Ternopil Vechirniy. It repeats a Weekly World News claim that US intelligence obtained a 250-page KGB file on a UFO attack on a Soviet military unit in Siberia. According to the account, soldiers shot down a saucer, five humanoids merged into a sphere that exploded, and 23 soldiers were turned to stone. Only two survived.
This Central Intelligence Agency press selection list, dated 1 April 1993, names five items selected by CISD for processing from the Moscow weekly Argumenty i Fakty No 16 of April 1993. The items are an interview with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, a Security Ministry spokesman's rejection of KGB cooperation allegations and commentaries on privatization. Also listed are an interview with Military Space Forces commander Col. Gen. V. Ivanov covering Baykonur, budget and UFOs, and an article on Moscow's Butyrka Prison.
This CIA-distributed JPRS report, dated 1 April 1993, translates an Argumenty i Fakty interview by D. Makarov with V. Ivanov, commander of Russia's Military Space Forces. Ivanov discusses the effects of the Soviet collapse, control complexes transferred to Ukraine, staffing and funding problems at Baykonur, and civilian uses of space. On UFOs, he says northern sightings studied by an institute coincided with Plesetsk launches, but notes three unexplained radar objects near Baykonur about five years earlier.
This is an unclassified CIA-distributed translation of a Moscow ITAR-TASS World Service report dated 27 April 1993. It describes an article by Oleg Lobov, first deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers and Russian economics minister, about Russia's aerospace industry. The article predicts that three geostationary satellites could support a global communications system and that "flying saucers" could become a normal form of air transport in Russia. It also discusses conversion of the aerospace industry and a new Russian Center for the Conversion of the Aerospace Industry.
This JPRS translation, dated 1 May 1993 and released by the Central Intelligence Agency, reproduces an article by Col. Marian Kopczewski of Poland's Higher Officers School of Antiaircraft Defense. The article appeared in a Polish air force and air defense journal. Kopczewski assesses the military threats Poland faces from its neighbors after the Warsaw Pact dissolved. He argues for restructuring Polish air defense into separate peacetime and wartime systems. He notes that during the Cold War any unidentified flying object was once taken as the start of World War III.
This 11 June 1993 JPRS translation, released by the Central Intelligence Agency, covers reader letters that the Moscow newspaper Rossiyskiye Vesti printed for its Operation Radiation. That campaign gathered public reports of radioactive contamination. The letters cover harm from nuclear weapons production in the Urals and a uranium deposit near the Karintorf settlement. They also warn about nuclear power plants along the Volga. One letter looks at rumors of an accident at Tomsk-7 that were traced to mediums, clairvoyants and claimed telepathic contact with aliens. It also mentions UFO researchers who forecast an accident at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant.
This Central Intelligence Agency translation, dated 8 July 1993, covers a Moscow Russian Television "M-Trust" report on the Saratov Aviation Plant. It says a visiting session of the Ministry of Science Collegium approved the plant's plan for comprehensive retooling and quality certification, which could raise aircraft production tenfold. The plant builds Yak-40 and Yak-42 airliners. It is also assembling a "flying saucer" air-cushion craft that needs no airfield and is meant to carry passengers and cargo.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency translation, dated 14 July 1993, of an article by Viktor Litovkin in the Moscow newspaper Izvestiya. The article describes a disc-shaped flying craft built at the Saratov Aircraft Plant by the Ekip firm and designed by Lev Shchukin, which uses the surface effect combined with an air cushion. A shortage of money had delayed its test flights. A planned 120-tonne, 25-meter version would cost about $70 million, and foreign firms had shown interest in the project.
This Central Intelligence Agency translation, dated 13 August 1993, is an Izvestiya article by Aleksandr Kislov on economic reform plans in Saratov Oblast. It explains a proposal by aviation plant director Aleksandr Yermishin, approved by Premier Viktor Chernomyrdin, for a US and Russian backed conversion and privatization fund that would draw in private investment. The only UFO link is a passing description of a new aircraft design that looks like a "flying saucer".