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SUBJECT: THE SENATOR'S SOVIET SAUCERS FILE: UFO2408
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Georgia Senator Richard Russell was a major figure in the U.S. Senate. As head
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of the Senate Armed Services Committee, he exerted enormous influence over
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the American defense establishment. When he spoke, the military listened. So
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when Russell reported what he had seen while traveling through the Soviet
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Union, no one laughed - and hardly anyone outside official circles knew of his
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remarkable experience until years later.
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Just after 7 P.M. on October 4, 1955, while on a train in the Transcaucasis
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region, the senator happened to gaze out a window to the south. To his
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considerable astonishment his eyes focused on a large disc-shaped object
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slowly ascending as a flame shot from underneath it. The object then raced
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north across the tracks in front of the train. Russell scurried to alert his
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two companions, who looked out to see a second disc do what the first had just
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done. At the moment Soviet trainmen shut the curtains and ordered the American
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passengers not to look outside.
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As soon as they arrived in Prague, Czechoslovakia, the three men went to the
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United States embassy and sat down with Lt. Col. Thomas S. Ryan, the air
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attache. Russell's associate, Lt. Col. E. U. Hathaway, told Ryan that they
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were about to report something extremely important - "but something that we've
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been told by your people [the U.S. Air Force] doesn't exist.
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Soon rumors about the senator's sighting reached America, but when a reporter
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for the Los Angeles Examiner tried to obtain details, Russell said only, "I
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have discussed this matter with the affected agencies and they are of the
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opinion that it is not wise to publicize this matter at this time." The report
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was not declassified until 1985. Interestingly, one of the "affected agencies"
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was not Project Blue Book, which never received the report. Apparently, the
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event was too sensitive for so lowly a project.
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