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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.
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.