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This is an FBIS London translation of a TASS report by correspondent V. Belousov, published in Krasnaya Zvezda on 4 September 1990 and relayed through Joint Staff channels. It was later approved for release in August 1997. The report says that on 2 September a large illuminated ball appeared over Murmansk, moving slowly from the sea toward the Kola Peninsula. Air defense staff described the object as resembling a large airship flying at 25 km altitude and said their troops were keeping it under observation.
This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS report, number JPRS-USA-91-001 and dated 1 September 1990, lists articles from the September 1990 issue of the Moscow journal SShA: Ekonomika, Politika, Ideologiya that were not translated. The listing gives each article's title, author and pages. Its thirteen entries cover monopoly regulation, immigration law, Canadian trade and American television. They also include an article titled "Official American Science and UFO's" by V.S. Vasilyev and V.A. Spichkin.
This Central Intelligence Agency translation, dated 4 September 1990, reproduces a TASS report by correspondent V. Belousov that appeared in the Soviet newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda. It says that on the night of 2 September a large illuminated ball appeared over Murmansk while residents were watching the Vremya program, moving slowly from the sea toward the Kola Peninsula. The Air Defense Staff told the reporter that the object resembled a large airship flying at an altitude of 25 km and that Air Defense soldiers were keeping it under observation.
This FBIS London message, relayed through Joint Staff channels on 5 October 1990, carries a Moscow News report by D. Sidorov. It describes a planned Soviet bulletin, UFO and Anomalous Phenomena, edited by Sergey Rybakov, a former member of Felix Zigel's group at the Moscow Aviation Institute. The report says the state agency Soyuzpechat had not yet approved the bulletin and that the military might try to stop it. The first issue was to include cosmonaut transcripts and a story on the Bermuda Triangle.
This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS translation, dated 18 September 1990, reproduces an article by Jaroslav Spurny titled "Birds of Steel" from the Prague weekly RESPEKT. It looks at Czechoslovak Air Force reform: high costs, reliance on Soviet equipment, the uneven spread of airfields and the pilot clearance process. The article expects the Air Force to be cut by about half. Its only UFO reference is a passing remark that the MIG-29 has little civilian use except perhaps investigating unidentified flying objects.
This is a Joint Publications Research Service translation, report JPRS-USP-91-002, of a KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA article from 22 September 1990 by correspondent Ye. Chernykh in Prague. It takes up a Hungarian book by I. Nemere that claims Yuriy Gagarin did not make the 12 April 1961 flight. It quotes the Czechoslovak space writer Karel Patsner, who rejects the rumors of hidden cosmonaut deaths, citing James Oberg, Charles Sheldon's congressional report and CIA archive documents. UFOs come up only in passing, as an outdated sensation.
This JPRS report, compiled in 1991 and carried in CIA records, translates an article by Aleksandr Demidov of the USSR Academy of Sciences' Sociology Institute, published in Sotsiologicheskiye Issledovaniya in October 1990. It draws on 18 months of polls of Moscow residents to analyze public opinion during the 1989 and 1990 election campaigns, covering trust in the CPSU, voter preferences, and dissatisfaction with how the elections were organized. It notes a growing mysticism, including belief in flying saucers, but has no UFO content beyond that.
This Central Intelligence Agency transcript, dated 4 October 1990, reproduces a Moscow News report on a planned Soviet news bulletin, UFO and Anomalous Phenomena. Editor-in-chief Sergey Rybakov, who studied in Felix Zigel's group at the Moscow Aviation Institute, says the distributor Soyuzpechat had not yet approved it. The first issue was to include a transcript of two cosmonauts describing what they saw in space and a Bermuda Triangle story. The report notes funding troubles and fears that the military might block publication.
This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS translation, dated 10 October 1990, reproduces a KRASNAYA ZVEZDA article by Lieutenant Colonel A. Dokuchayev about the Soviet outer space monitoring system (SKKP). Officers at its tracking center describe cataloging more than 7,000 orbital objects and tracking the fragments of a satellite that re-entered the atmosphere. They also describe helping the Soyuz T-13 crew find the silent Salyut-7 station. The article says center data showed the downed South Korean Boeing-747 flight in 1983 was synchronized with a Ferret-D reconnaissance satellite.
This unclassified CIA transcription of a Soviet broadcast, dated 13 October 1990, is the last of four parts covering the 5 October premiere of the "VID" television program. It describes the segments that aired after "Vzglyad": "Vedi" with historic film clips, Interfax news items, and "El Dorado". "El Dorado" reported on a 1989 UFO sighting in Georgia and interviewed a man who said aliens controlled him and left him with scars that later disappeared. The broadcast closed with MTV music videos.
This unclassified CIA-distributed listing, dated 5 November 1990, catalogs Radio Moscow and TASS broadcasts from that day by topic and language service. It covers the Persian Gulf crisis, European arms control and the CFE agreement, Soviet-US exchanges, Afghanistan, Moldova, the Soviet economy and the anniversary of the October Revolution. Under Space/Science, one item is an 8.5-minute Mandarin broadcast about the Soviet magazine "UFO and Us." The document gives no further UFO detail.
This Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) record, dated 5 November 1990, is an unclassified commentary list covering Soviet radio broadcasts in Mandarin and Japanese. It gives 24 items with short descriptions and running times. Topics include Primakov's Persian Gulf talks, Baker's Mideast visit, unrest in Moldavia, the RSFSR 500-day economic plan and Japanese journalist Toyohiro Akiyama's training for the Mir space station. One 8.5-minute item covers the Soviet magazine "UFO and Us."
This Central Intelligence Agency translation, dated 5 November 1990, reproduces the first part of a Literaturnaya Gazeta article by S. Kiselev published on 31 October 1990. It describes the political situation in Lugansk, where a conservative oblast soviet backed by the Communist Party was in conflict with a democratic city soviet. It also covers public distrust of the CPSU, ethnic and labor tensions, and growing calls for territorial autonomy or a move to RSFSR jurisdiction. The text mentions a UFO only as a figure of speech.
This CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service listing, dated 6 November 1990, indexes the day's Soviet radio, television and TASS output. It mostly covers the 73rd anniversary of the October Revolution, the Persian Gulf crisis, unrest in Moldova and the draft union treaty. It also logs reports on Germany, Afghanistan, Cambodia and the Soviet economy. One entry notes a report on a new almanac of UFOs that had just come off the press in Moscow.
This Central Intelligence Agency release is a monitoring list dated 7 November 1990. It catalogs Soviet radio, television and TASS broadcasts from Moscow for that day. Most items cover the 73rd anniversary of the October Revolution, including Gorbachev's Red Square parade address, the alternative demonstrations and celebrations in the union republics. Other items deal with the Persian Gulf crisis, Cambodia, Afghanistan and the Soviet economy. One brief item notes a new Moscow almanac, 'We and UFOs', about alleged contacts with UFOs.
This is a Foreign Broadcast Information Service television program summary released through the Central Intelligence Agency. It covers the Paris Antenne 2 evening newscast broadcast at 1900 GMT on 9 November 1990. Most items deal with the Gulf crisis, Gorbachev's visit to Germany, and French and European politics. One item reports that UFO sightings from the previous weekend turned out to have been a section of a Soviet rocket.
This unclassified Central Intelligence Agency release is a Moscow Consolidated comlist dated 13 November 1990. It indexes Soviet radio, TV and TASS items from that day by topic. Listed items include the opening of the world trade union congress and Gorbachev's address to military deputies. The index also covers Yeltsin's report to the RSFSR Supreme Soviet on his meeting with Gorbachev, the Gulf crisis and the Soviet-German treaty. Its only UFO reference is a four-minute item on the first issue of a new Soviet magazine, "We and the UFO's."
This Central Intelligence Agency commentary list, dated 13 November 1990, logs the content of two Radio Moscow Turkish-language broadcasts to Turkey, at 1400 and 1830 GMT. It lists news items and commentaries on a Gorbachev meeting with soldiers who were people's candidates, the anniversary of Ataturk's death, Georgian election results, and the embargo against Iraq. One segment of four minutes covered the first issue of a new Soviet magazine titled "We and the UFO's."
This unclassified Central Intelligence Agency message, dated 16 November 1990, is a consolidated list of Moscow radio, TV and TASS items monitored that day. It lists reports on Gorbachev's 16 November address to the USSR Supreme Soviet, the Persian Gulf crisis, Soviet-Canadian talks, nuclear tests, East European party leaders' meeting, and the Soviet economy. One Korean-language youth program item notes new Soviet publications on UFOs.
This Central Intelligence Agency press selection list dated 22 November 1990 indexes articles from that day's Moscow newspapers, including Krasnaya Zvezda, Sovetskaya Rossiya, Selskaya Zhizn and Rabochaya Tribuna. The listed items cover Soviet military, political and economic affairs, among them a Bosphorus ship collision and a Vilnius army camp incident. One Selskaya Zhizn item reports a local officer's disclosure of radar sightings of UFOs around the time of a 15 November rogue surface-to-air missile launch in Amur Oblast.
This Central Intelligence Agency commentary list covers Radio Moscow's Greek-language broadcasts to Cyprus and Greece on 5 December 1990. It gives program timings and topics, including Supreme Soviet proceedings, an interview with the Cypriot ambassador, commentaries on the union agreement, US-Iraq dialogue on the Gulf crisis, Soviet-Greek cooperation, and a NATO defense ministers' conference. A news segment also noted a KGB investigation into an attempt on Gorbachev's life and further UFO sightings by Soviet citizens, without details.
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.