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SUBJECT: RUSSIAN VIEW OF ALIENS FILE: UFO2749
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Filename: Omni0792.Art
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Type : Article
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Author : Patrick Huyghe
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Date : 07/??/92 (July 1992 Issue Omni Magazine)
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Desc : Russian view of aliens
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Omni Magazine July 1992 Page 72
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RUSSIA'S ALIEN IDEAS
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By Partick Huyghe
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Westerners were intrigued back in 1989 when the Soviet news agency,
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Tass, reported the claims of some school children from the city of
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Voronezh. A spectacular UFO landed in town, the children insisted,
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along with its ten-foot-tall occupant toting a tube-shaped gun.
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Scrutinizing the Tass report, the Western press assumed the Russians
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were letting off steam after years of censorship. Some UFO buffs in the
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United States called the episode a hoax, but one Western scientist
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ignored the ridicule and left for Moscow instead.
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In January of 1990, Jacques Vallee, a computer scientist regarded by
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many as the world's major UFO researcher, held a week-long series of
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meetings with the Soviet Union's leading UFO lights. He met with a
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scientist who'd studied the mysterious explosion that had rattled the
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Tunguska region of Russia in 1908 and with an ex-Soviet Naval officer
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who detailed his UFO sightings by Navy personnel. But according to
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Vallee, the most compelling sighting was the one in Voronezh itself.
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In his new book, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union (Ballantine,
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1992), Vallee describes the cast of dozens--adults as well as children-
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-who reportedly witnessed the spherical Voronezh craft, its three-eyed
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giant, and an accompanying robot. He also cites engineers who examined
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an imprint allegedly left by the craft, an object they claimed weighed
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11 tons. While Vladimir Migulin, a member of the Soviet Academy of
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Sciences, attributed the markings to a rocket launched from Volvograd,
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Vallee does not agree. "Migulin's skeptical attitude," he says, "is not
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very different from what you would get from our own National Academy of
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Science."
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Why does Vallee believe the Soviet sightings are for real? The weight
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of the craft, he notes, was "in the range of estimates reached by
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French scientists studying physical markings left by UFO landings in
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France." And though the beings bore no resemblance to the familiar,
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short, Hollywood-style UFOnauts, they were similar to aliens reportedly
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seen "in a very similar case in Argentina in 1978."
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Vallee's sojourn--and his ideas--have taken fellow UFOlogists by
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surprise. Some wonder how scientific the Russians really are, given
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that they regularly use dousing to gather information about UFO sites.
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"With all due respect," says Michael Swords, a professor at Western
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Michigan University and editor of the Journal of UFO Studies, "some
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Russians are questionable in terms of UFO research. They tend not to be
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very well disciplined, nor are they good at documenting their work." As
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for Vallee's book, Swords says "it sounds like 'What I Did on My Last
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Vacation.' Vallee may have met a lot of interesting people and heard a
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lot of interesting tales, but he doesn't document things properly, and
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if he has, he never seems to share it with anybody."
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But Vallee insists the Russian findings are significant, in part
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because of the region's weak coverup system. "With the chaos spreading
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over the Soviet Union," Vallee explains, "I felt there was genuine
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information coming out from the witnesses."
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Vallee supporter and experimental psychologist Richard Haines agrees
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that the French researcher is onto something real. Explaining the
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misunderstanding about Vallee's work, Haines says, "He's a
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theoretician. He doesn't claim to be a field inverstigator. And I think
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he has some very challenging ideas."
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