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<<UFONET I>> * 416-237-1204 * PC-Pursuitable * File Requestable * HST
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* 24 Hour Operation * Sysop - Tom Mickus * Toronto * FREE
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SOVIET1.TXT - "UFOs And Security"
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- by Alexsandr Kuzovkin and Alexsandr Semyonov
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Note: The following article was excerpted from the No.6, June, 1989
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issue of "Soviet Military Review", which along with English is
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translated into about a dozen other languages.
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- Tom Mickus 11/20/89
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UFOs AND SECURITY
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DEAR EDITORS, I HAVE READ MANY ITEMS ABOUT UFOS IN THE PRESS.
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DO THEY REALLY EXIST? IF SO, ARE THEY A DIRECT THREAT TO PEACE ON
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EARTH? WHAT HAS SCIENCE TO SAY ON THIS SCORE?
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-Benjamin S. Mapurisa
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ZIMBABWE
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Since 1947, when American citizen Kenneth Arnold saw from his
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plane strange glimmering objects in the mountains, the world has been
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talking about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). The appearance of
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UFOs is from time to time reported in newspapers and magazines, radio
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and television. They are all analysed by scientists.
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On August 25, 1966 a USAF officer working on Minuteman missile
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in North Dakota saw that his radio had stopped functioning. He was 18
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metres down in the concrete silo. The ground crew reported that they
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saw a UFO which was alternately descended and climbed and interference
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disappeared. And then it started to land. When a group of soldiers
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dispatched to the landing site 16 kilometres from the silo, interference
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broke its radio contact with command. It was suggested that during the
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1966-1967 period of UFO activity, the UFOs visited also the Titan silos.
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Experts were concerned over their electromagnetic effects, that might b
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capable of influencing the electric equipment of combat missiles.
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In the autumn of 1974, a metal disk some 100 metres across
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approached a South Korean anti-aircraft shore battery. The commander
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launched a Hawk guided missile which was immediately shot down by a
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"white ray" from the UFO. The second ray was directed at the battery,
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melting the remaining two Hawk missiles into an unrecognisable mass.
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The investigation of the UFO problem was launched in the US by
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the military. In 1974, (sic) on orders from the Air Force commander,
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they started Project Sign. The Air Technical Intelligence Centre was
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responsible for research. Back in February 1953, head of the anti-
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aircraft committee of the continent General Benjamin Chidlow stated:
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"We have a great mass of reports about flying saucers. We regard this
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very seriously, because we have lost many people and many aircraft which
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have attempted to attack UFOs."
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Project Sign was subsequently renamed Grudge and then Fang. But
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it is better known under the name Project Blue Book.
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In 1954 the French Ministry of the Armed Forces established a
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department to collect information about UFOs. In 1977 the French
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National Space Research Centre created a group of experts to study
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unidentified aerospace phenomenon, GEPAN.
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In 1960-1970, public organisations studying UFOs mushroomed
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throughout the world, notably in Bulgaria, Denmark, West Germany and
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Mexico. Later UFO fever spread to Canada, Britain, Japan, China and
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other countries.
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In the autumn of 1978, the First Committee of the 33rd UN
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General Assembly discussed the question of launching international UFO
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research. The discussion was based on ICUFON Memorandum, a public US
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organisation studying UFOs. It provided a wealth of information on
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the military-technical and military-political aspect of the problem.
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Afterwards, though, information on UFO research in the West dwindled.
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The press published only distorted and superficial information about
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UFOs. At that time, the US launched the Strategic Defence Initiative
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(SDI).
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The study of UFOs in the Soviet Union started in 1958 by a group
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of enthusiasts led by Feliks Zigel, assistant professor at the Moscow
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Aviation Institute and the founder of UFOlogy in the Soviet Union. In
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the mid-1970s, information about UFOs was collected by the Institute of
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Earth Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Waves, led by Vladimir Migulin,
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corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1984, a
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commission to study anomalous phenomena, led by Vsevolod Troitsky,
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corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, was established
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at the national scientific and technological society of nature protection.
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In April last year, Tomsk hosted a conference on sporadic instant
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phenomena, which rallied more than 300 scientists and experts from major
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scientific centres of the Soviet Union. The conference recommended that
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the Siberian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences draft a comphrehensive
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programme for the study of the problem.
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Many Soviet and foreign scientists tried to present the UFO
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phenomenon as a natural thing, such as optical atmospheric effects,
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flocks of birds, rare astronomical phenomena, meteorites, luminous
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insects, frauds, weather balloons, aircraft, missle launches, streams
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of space particles, clusters of light, ball lightning, luminous pollutants,
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Polar lights, etc.
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According to the USSR Academy of Sciences, some 90-95% of UFO
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reports are a result of such causes or a combination of them. But the
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remaining share constitutes tens of thousands of unexplained phenomena.
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The main "positive" version have been the idea of extra-terrestrials.
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Despite its great popularity, it has not been unequivocally supported
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by scientists. The most promising today is the idea of the plasma origin
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of the UFO phenomenon. In 1984, scientists Aleksei Dmitriyev and Viktor
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Zhuravlyov from Novosibirsk advanced a theory of the plasma origin of
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the Tungus phenomenon. As is known, the culmination of that unique event
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in Siberia in 1908 was a 40-megaton air explosion. There are reasons to
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believe that the Tungus phenomenon and UFOs have a common origin.
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We believe that so far the study of UFOs has not paid due heed to
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some specific features, as well as the mechanism of human perception of
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the world around us. Frequency parameters of UFOs and the limited speed
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of processing information in the eye-brain system breed so-called
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metaphoric deformities. Eye-witnesses see not the object itself but
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their own individual or accepted idea of it.
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Proof of this is the historical mimicry of UFOs' outlook and
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special photographing. Research by foreign and Soviet experts show
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that there are, in the atmosphere and at the Earth's surface, certain
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plasma formations, different in form, size, colour and frequency. Most
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often, they are registered in the ultraviolet part of the spectre. These
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unseen formations, which, however, can be felt, often appear to act
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systematically and even "reasonably."
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Successful study of UFOs is impossible without considerable
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expansion of our views of the world. The idea of a multi-dimensional
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and multi-layered Universe, parallel or intertwined physical worlds
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were voiced by major scientists, notably Paul Ehrenfest, Konstantin
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Tsiolkovski, Aleksandr Friedman, Anatoly Logunov, and Dmitry Blokhintsev.
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Materialising the principles of the new political thinking, the
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Soviet Union is actively working for universal security and disarmament.
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Against this background, the world public cannot but be worried by the
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US carrying on with the SDI programme. This ballistic missile defence
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is designed to control outer space and destroy near-earth, air and space
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targets. Any system can be effective only if it is managed by super-quick
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computer systems. It is most important here to correctly identify
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targets. So, corresponding computer cells must "know" what signal
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characteristics of the object it is tracking can make it a potential
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target.
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We believe that lack of information on the characteristics and
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influence of UFOs increase the threat of incorrect identification. Then
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mass transition of UFOs along trajectories close to those of combat
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missiles could be regarded by computers as an attack.
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In the autumn of 1960, all bombers at the Trevis Air Force base
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in the United States were put on red alert for an attack against the
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Soviet Union after the base radars detected "targets" flying via the
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North Pole to the US territory. Suddenly the "targets" disappeared
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from the screen, and were later explained as "radar reflections of the
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Moon."
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In SDI conditions such incidents could provoke immediate reaction
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from computers to destroy the "targets," say, by an X-ray laser, which
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means a powerful nuclear explosion. Or SDI computers could order a
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counter-attack, which might prove unwarranted. It should be remembered
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that decisions will be taken not by people but by impartial computers
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which "know nothing of UFOs." There would be no time to determine the
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cause of the conflict then, but those who are creating SDI should think
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about it now.
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The UFO problem remains unsolved. It is difficult to predict what
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would have happened if an incident similar to the Tungus one happened in
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Europe, America or any other region of local conflicts. Back in 1968,
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Feliks Zigel, the main Soviet researcher of the problem, said: "The
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subject and aims of UFO research are sufficiently important to justify
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any effort. Understandably, international cooperation is vitally needed
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here."
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