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LIGA.net reporters analyzed hundreds of declassified documents published in January by the US Central Intelligence Agency in Langley (pictured) about the paranormal, which have been studied by the CIA since the early 1950s. What was hidden behind the "top secret" labels.
“The very concept of secrecy is contrary to a free and open society. We fought by nature against secret societies, secret orders, and closed gatherings. But we are confronted by a monolithic ruthless conspiracy"
John F. Kennedy. 35th US President
One step closer
In January 2017, the US Central Intelligence Agency released 775,000 13 million page documents declassified by Bill Clinton's 1995 presidential decree on the Internet. Among others, the archive contains information about the agency's projects to study the problem of the so-called "unidentified flying objects" - UFOs.
Among the declassified documents, the most detailed are eyewitness accounts, recorded from their words. Interestingly, most of the unidentified aircraft were seen in Europe. But also UFOs were recorded over the United States, in the territory of the former USSR, in Africa and in the Far East. In the published document stock, there are no UFO reports over Australia or, for example, Iceland, or they are contained in documents that cannot be deciphered, since they are not clearly scanned.
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Testimonies dated to the 1950s of the last century were especially common, most of all - in 1952 and 1954. It may be a coincidence, but in the summer of 1952 and early 1954, as well as in the summer months of this year, there were relatively many major air crashes in the world as a whole and in the regions specifically described. Natural disasters also took place.
We shouldn't forget that in the 1950s there were several popular films about extraterrestrial intelligence, including "War of the Worlds" based on the novel by H. G. Wells - 1953; "Something from Another World" - 1951, "The Day the Earth Stood Still" - 1951, "Monster Robot" - 1953, "Quatermass' Experiment" - 1955, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" - 1956, Japanese "Mysterians" "- 1957 and others. The iconic Day of the Triffids was released in 1963.
Similar investigations into UFO evidence in the United States were carried out by the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC), which was reorganized in 1961 into the Foreign Technology Division (FTD), and in 2003 it became the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC). From 1950 to 1980, there was also a National Air Investigation Committee.
According to CIA documents, in 1952 the secret project "Stork" was founded, within which the facts of UFO sightings in the period from 1947 to 1952 were collected and investigated. All data collected and analyzed by the project participants are stored in the National Archives and Records Administration. Only an insignificant declassified part of "Aista" reports has been posted on the Internet for free. And while most of the classified information remains classified, the general public is now one step closer to the truth.
Part one. Where were they seen
Excerpt from CIA report on UFO sightings in Spain. This is exactly what the files look like, with which you had to work when preparing the material
Declassified CIA documents are difficult to make out, some are almost impossible. And not all information is of any value. But everything that really deserves attention and concerns UFOs, we divided into three conditional parts: observation of "saucers" around the world, separate horror stories and the situation with UFOs in the countries of the former USSR.
One of the cases that the CIA attributed to UFO evidence occurred in October 1955. The witness was on the train and was in his compartment when he saw a rapidly growing greenish-yellow ball outside the window.
According to this man, he saw the outline of a flying saucer. The same was repeated by the passengers of the neighboring compartment. A second similar object was soon seen at an altitude of about 700-800 m. There was no light source on the ground, although the object's flight path was very low. The passenger reported that the object resembled a rocket in size, but there was no fiery trail and the greenish-yellow ball seemed to be circling in the air.
A possible explanation is given for this case in the report. According to the expert, the passengers on the train observed a conventional jet during the steep climb.
However, there are hundreds of reports of unidentified flying objects in different periods, and many of them could not be explained.
April 22, 1952, Spain. In the Almansa area, four objects are seen in the form of luminous spheres, colored in shades of red and yellow. The objects remained in the sky for a minute.
July 12, 1952, Morocco. At night, the police saw two flying saucers. The objects were oblong in shape, leaving a white trail behind them. We flew at high speed from north to south.
July 17, 1952, Algeria. In the sky over Oran, several people from different places saw a flying saucer at once. Similar phenomena were observed in the same area on July 26 and 31.
01 August 1952, Spain. A flying saucer was seen over Anduhar. According to eyewitnesses, it was red in color, the size of a standard dinner dish. A long green train trailed behind an object moving at high speed.
The year 1952 was distinguished by an almost record number of reports of UFO sightings in different parts of the world. But at least some of them can be explained by natural phenomena, by intensified testing of military developments in combination with incomprehensible human fantasy.
For example, in June 1952, the US Air Force bombed hydroelectric power plants in North Korea. In the same summer, the first flight across the North Atlantic from east to west (two Sikorsky S-55s) began. In July 52, the GoetheLink observatory discovered asteroid # 1788 Kiess. This year also featured the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean by plane. Indiana University discovers asteroids # 4299 and # 7723 in August.
But reports of UFOs did not diminish from that.
Excerpt from CIA report on UFO sightings in Norway
September 20, 1952, Norway. Three people reported seeing a flat round object with a diameter of 15-20 m, which hovered motionless at an altitude of about 500 m. After a while, the object disappeared at high speed.
July 13, 1952 Morocco. Witnesses noticed a ball with a green-blue glow, leaving a trail of light behind it. Moved at high speed. The object disappeared after 3 or 4 seconds, as if it had melted into the sky.
July 12, 1952, Casablanca. Several people observed a yellow flying disc, about 30 cm in diameter, flying from east to west. Inheriting the same day, there are two more messages - about "white fire" in the sky and an unknown flying object. On July 15, 40 people said they saw a luminous flying object in the vicinity of Casablanca at about 22:00.
Another project in which the United States was engaged in UFO research was the Blue Book project. It was conducted by the US Air Force from 1952 to 1970. The project represented the second wave of such research (the first included two similar projects - Sign and Grudge).
The goal of the project was to determine whether UFOs, if they exist, are a threat to national security and, using a scientific approach, to analyze messages associated with UFOs.
Among the project documents were photographs of unidentified flying objects.
By the way, among the CIA documents there is also an instruction for capturing a UFO on a camera. According to it, it is necessary to set the correct settings, photograph the object as many times as possible and try to capture the surface of the earth in the frame, fix UFOs from different locations, remember to write down the place and time of shooting, and take care of the safety of the negatives.
Despite the fact that all US Air Force UFO research projects were temporary and phased out relatively quickly, evidence of sightings of unidentified objects in the sky continued to come in annually and around the world.
July 1953, Spain. Flying saucers have been observed for several days in a row in the country.
Eyewitnesses indicate that they saw a luminous circular object emitting red light and flying like a jet plane. The object flew silently in a northwest direction.
Residents of one of the villages also reported seeing a luminous ball-shaped object that disappeared westward after an extended stay over the village.
Excerpt from CIA report on UFO sightings in Finland, Norway and Austria
August 11, 1953, Greece. A luminous, rocket-like object was seen in the southeastern sky over the city. The object flew at a fairly low altitude and was visible for 3-4 minutes after which it disappeared.
September 2, 1953, Morocco. Several residents heard a thunderous noise at night. The next day, two shepherds reported seeing a flying object illuminated with many colors and flying at great speed.
June 10, 1954, Austria. Residents of Salzburg saw a strange red object in the sky. According to them, it was three times the size of Venus. The object was visible for two hours.
July 14, 1954, Finland. An oblong object was seen in the sky over the city of Pulkkila.
It is also interesting to pay attention to what background events occurred during the described period of the UFO sighting. Perhaps, one way or another, these events influenced the perception of people. Or perhaps these events are directly related. If on the same day a UFO is seen in the same place, and a catastrophe occurs on earth, is this a coincidence? The corresponding boxes will be provided below.
At the same time
June 16, 1954. A subcommittee of the British Department of Defense decided to produce its own hydrogen bomb. This decision was presented to the Cabinet of Ministers in July and was kept secret until February of the following year, when an official statement was made.
June 27, 1954. The world's first nuclear power plant with a capacity of 5 MW was put into operation in Obninsk near Moscow.
July 1, 1954. The death of the F-94 aircraft, chasing a UFO (USA).
September 7, 1954, Belgium. The ball flew low above the ground, moving in a northwest direction. The object is white, green along the edge, with a long train. The ball lit up the whole sky.
September 07, 1954, France. Burning disc with a luminous trail. It hovered in the sky, then flew away and disappeared above the horizon.
At the same time
September 1, 1954. Hurricane Carol on Long Island, New England, 68 dead.
September 2, 1954. Hurricane Edna in New England, USA. 20 dead.
September 5, 1954. Foynes, Ireland. The company's Lockheed 1049C Constellation plane crashes into the Shannon River after takeoff. Of the 56 people on board, 28 die.
September 9, 1954. Earthquake in Algeria: 1,400 dead.
September 10, 1954. 12-second tremors kill 1,460 people in Orleansville, Algeria.
September 14, 1954. Military exercises with the use of real nuclear weapons are held at the Totsk test site. 40 thousand people take part in the exercises, and the power of a nuclear explosion is 40 kilotons.
September 14, 1954 Hurricane Edna (2nd for 1954) in New York City causes $ 50 million in damage.
September 14, 1954. USSR conducts nuclear tests
September 26, 1954. Japanese ferry TouaMaru gets caught in a typhoon at the entrance to the port of Hakodate and capsizes. Of the 1198 people, 1172 die.
September 26, 1954. Typhoon in Japan - five ferries sink, fatal about 1,600.
December 10, 1954, Algeria. The cigar-shaped object flew northeast, leaving a smoky tail. Several eyewitnesses in different parts of Algeria.
March 16, 1959, Norway. Eyewitnesses reported several (up to five) bright objects over Bergen. Outwardly, they resembled Soviet satellites - eyewitness accounts.
At the same time
May 22, 1959. A resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 569-264 was issued on the creation of the first Soviet satellite reconnaissance aircraft 2K ("Zenith"). However, the beginning of the official launch of these satellites dates back to 1961.
AES reconnaissance aircraft 2K "Zenith" (photo - KIK USSR)
December 6, 1958, India. Through a telescope, an object of presumably artificial origin was recorded in the sky, with a brightness of 3 points. The object moved from north to south. There was no sign of destruction, smoke or noise. An eyewitness reported that the flying object he saw was identical to Sputnik 3.
The check showed that Sputnik 3 was not in sight from the place indicated by the eyewitness, could not move in the indicated direction and was returned to the Earth's atmosphere on December 3, 1958.
March 6, 1960, Sweden. The team of the Swedish plane (and at the same time - the astronomers at the observatory) observed an unidentified object that looked like a satellite. The object disappeared above the horizon. Unidentified objects were also observed by a photographer who intended to take pictures of the satellite "1960 Alpha". The photographer saw two strange devices, completely unlike satellites.
Excerpt from CIA report on paranormal surveillance in the USA
April 2, 1988, China. In March, an unidentified object resembling a ball of burning plasma, the size of a basketball, was seen over Xinyang. Scientists attribute it to natural causes.
February 11, 1992, Korea. Yenhap's agency reported an aircraft incursion. Radars recorded the object about 24 km south of the Chinese island of Shandong. On alarm, the command raised the fighters, but they did not find any traces of the aircraft or other similar apparatus. The object moved at about the speed of sound until it reached an area 128 km west of Kunsan, where it disappeared from radar. The Air Force reported that the appearance of a phantom on radars could have been caused by overlapping images (previously, radars recorded birds as planes).
April 16, 1992, China. Xinhua announced that Chinese scientists will hold a conference on UFOs. The UFO theme became very popular in China in the late 1970s. The country has recorded about 5 thousand observations on this topic.
According to a 1980 report by China's intelligence services, more than 100 reports of unidentified flying objects were received in 15 provinces of the country in just six months. The CIA document also states that all recorded UFO descriptions can be divided into three categories:
The first type is a disc or ball, some are oval or ovoid.
The second type is huge, long UFOs.
The third type describes unidentified flying objects as spirals, sometimes of enormous size, with a slight glow or small points of light around the entire perimeter of the object.
February 20, 1999, Turkey. During the first international symposium devoted to the study of UFOs, a thematic exhibition was held, which presented an exact copy of the allegedly real discovered alien body.
December 9, 2009, Norway. A strange celestial glow was observed in the night sky in the north of the country. Eyewitnesses said they saw a UFO. However, later, a statement was received from Moscow that an unsuccessful launch of a rocket from a Russian submarine occurred in the indicated area.
June 27, 2003, Poland. Huge rings appeared in the fields of the city of Vilatovo in the east of the country. The city authorities even asked for additional funds to equip sites for numerous tourists wishing to see the mysterious rings allegedly left by UFOs.
May 10, 2004, Chile. A snapshot of the creature walking down the path in the park got into the local newspaper. It was assumed that the photo captured an alien. It is noted that Chile is the fifth country in the world in the number of reports of UFO sightings after the United States, Peru, Brazil and Russia.
January 24, 2011, Indonesia. On the field of the city of Yogyakarta, the same circles were found as earlier in Poland. The local authorities used a helicopter to film the phenomenon. The circles were perfect geometric shapes, and the rest of the field remained completely intact.
The website of the British Society of Earth and Air Secrets has collected messages from all over the kingdom. Since the beginning of 2015, there are 366 such reports with unidentified objects captured in photos and videos, and the last of them dates back to January 29, 2017.
One of the UFO sightings occurred in the county of Cumbria in western Britain on November 26, 2016. The photo shows a supposedly ovoid metal object.
Part two. Stories
October 23, 1992. The fruitless search for Vladimir Molokanov, a military pilot who disappeared on July 24 in the Sea of Okhotsk, continued for three months. On that day, Captain Molokanov, a first-class pilot, was returning to the Su-27 from part of the anti-aircraft and anti-missile exercises in Chukotka. However, he did not reach the airfield of his regiment in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Molokanov first reported problems with the engine. At 12:06:58 the last message was aired: "Torch behind!" Communication with the pilot was suddenly lost at noon local time in the Shantar Islands area. Various versions of what happened were put forward - an accident, loss of consciousness by a pilot, flight abroad and a UFO abduction. But none of the versions have been confirmed.
The head of the search team, Alexander Nosov, said that searches in the area where the accident allegedly occurred, and the analysis of radio communications with the pilot did not bring any results. A common explanation was the version of an accident. During the flight, the aircraft engines malfunctioned, but it was possible to continue the flight, which the pilot did.
Studying the version of the escape abroad, the foreign intelligence and the diplomatic corps of the Russian Federation conducted an investigation. No traces of the disappeared Su-27 were found in Japan, the United States and North Korea. This was the second case of the mysterious disappearance of a military pilot of this air regiment.
July 13, 1953. The Stockholm newspaper Morgon-Tidningen published an article devoted to the problem of UFOs, possible versions of its completely terrestrial origin and the reaction of the authorities and the military to these objects.
The author said that the Danish authorities take the problem of flying saucers seriously. Military experts believe that while most sightings of flying saucers are due to astronomical phenomena, there remain observation reports that indicate that the saucers were sent from Soviet bases in the Arctic Ocean.
According to a report transmitted by the Danish Air Force to the Defense Headquarters, various objects have been repeatedly recorded in the waters and air of Denmark, the origin of which has not been established. The document also includes information on remotely guided missiles found in the atmosphere over the northern parts of Norway and Finland. Military intelligence officials concluded that the shells could have been sent from a Soviet base on Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean.
A report dated November 12, 1952, refers to the case of an officer and seven privates observing a flying object from Karup Airport in Jutland, which resembled an aircraft, but moved much faster than any of the types of aircraft known at that time.
Similar cases were recorded in Norway in October 1952, when the country's navy reported a flying object of unknown design flying over the naval base in Horten.
Another case was recorded in the northern part of Norway. The crew of the anti-aircraft battery observed a mysterious object at high altitude. When a jet was sent after him, the object disappeared from view in a matter of seconds.
December 17, 1953. A Swedish international airline pilot and an onboard mechanic reported that, flying over the province of Skane in southern Sweden, they saw a mysterious round metal flying object in the opposite direction from them. He flew with incredible speed. The pilot estimated that the object was about 10 meters in diameter.
“I had no doubt for a moment that it was not a jet plane. What I saw was completely unusual, a metallic, symmetrical, circular object that was unlike anything I had seen before. A mysterious object suddenly just appeared on our route,”he said.
The pilot and flight mechanic said they were absolutely sure that the object they saw was neither a meteorite, nor some other celestial phenomenon.
“We did not see any light, but could only see that the object had a metallic sheen,” the crew said.
The object was in the field of view of the pilot and flight mechanic for about 6-7 seconds.
The report from the defense headquarters stated that the weather that day was good, but due to light clouds, the object seen from the plane was not visible from the ground. According to the military, there were no Swedish aircraft at that time and in this area.
As a result of the investigation, theories were put forward that the crew saw after all a meteorite, a balloon, or even decided to joke, and no object existed. But none of the versions was finally confirmed.
Another documented UFO sighting in Sweden dates from June 20, 1959. 10 people reported seeing a flying saucer near the city of Hernesand. The object approached gradually from the south over the lake at an altitude of about 300 meters. The object was circular, 6-8 meters in diameter, and was surrounded by a wide ring of light. The underside of the UFO was glowing red-yellow. The object was visible for about three minutes. The incident was reported to the military authorities.
Part three. the USSR
According to CIA documents for 1967, UFO sightings were recorded in the USSR, in particular in Siberia. However, as noted, the observation reports were not disseminated in the Soviet media, since they were not regarded by the authorities as scientific observation.
The most detailed evidence of eyewitness encounters with UFOs on the territory of the former USSR at the CIA base dates back to the 1990s of the last century. The first explanation that comes to mind is the fall of the Iron Curtain. First, it opened access to, in fact, eyewitness stories. Secondly, for the eyewitnesses themselves, this opened up the world of semi-scientific and pseudoscientific stories about UFOs, popular in the West. That is, roughly speaking, unidentified objects on the territory of the Union were seen all the time, only some could not tell about it due to the lack of a conceptual apparatus, and the latter could write down and / or read.
But among the documents, the text of the TASS news about the EKIP project - the production of multifunctional aerodromeless aircraft with a disc-shaped fuselage - was found. Outwardly, the "crews" were just very much like the notorious flying saucers. And although the idea of such devices came from Soviet scientists in the 1970s, they were produced in the 1990s. This means that outside observers could see the mock-ups and test models of such devices precisely in the 1990s.
According to reports from the Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1993 the Russian government made a decision to finance the EKIP project. By this time, the construction of two full-size vehicles with a total take-off weight of 9 tons was completed. Six years later, the development of the EKIP apparatus was included in a separate line in the budget, but funding was interrupted.
After supposedly successful negotiations between the leadership of the Saratov aircraft plant on financing a project in the United States in January 2000, a Russian-American aircraft was created based on EKIP. Its flight tests were scheduled for 2007 in Maryland.
The EKIP project was also mentioned in the press.
1993 year. TASS reported on the project of Russian scientists EKIP. (MK, 24.02.05): “The idea itself was born in the late 70s. Then, by connecting the fuselage and the wings of the aircraft into a single whole, the designers got one solid thick wing. Its ends were slightly "chopped off" and "twisted". Something resembling a flying saucer came out. And it turned out that it could lift more than half of its own weight, and its internal volume was 8-10 times the cabin of the aircraft from which it was made. The saucer took off with an air cushion. And not only from the ground, but also from water, a swamp or a mountain glade … For this she needed a small patch of a relatively flat surface. This means that not only was this apparatus capable of transporting more people and cargo, it also did not need airfields. " The plate appeared at the Saratov aircraft plant in April 1990. The project was approved by the Security Council of the Russian Federation and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2000 the project was closed, and “the last time the budget line under the number“9.22”- financing of EKIP - appeared in 1999. Later, only volunteers helped."
July 14, 1993. The Izvestia newspaper published an article "Flying saucers made in Saratov" by Viktor Litovkin, which described in detail the Soviet and Russian development - an airplane in the form of a flying saucer. It was with this aircraft that skeptics began to explain the previous and subsequent evidence of UFOs in the Russian Federation, the USSR and even other countries.
UFO eyewitness reports and press coverage have increased since the 1990s.
May 21, 1990. Soviet and Chinese scientists held a joint conference in Vladivostok on UFO issues. It was reported at the conference that over the past four years in Dalnegorsk, the number of evidence of UFO visits has increased significantly (up to 10). Similar phenomena were observed in the mountainous regions of China. CIA specialists attribute this increased interest to the large reserves of minerals in this region of the USSR.
December 6, 1990. TASS published the news about the joint Soviet-Japanese space mission, containing the reference to an unidentified object. Gennady Strekalov reported that on September 27, 1990, the team observed the glowing ball for seven minutes. He suggested that this phenomenon is of natural origin. The story has become quite famous.
ParanormalNews: “In 1990, while at the Mir station, cosmonaut Gennady Strekalov witnessed a very mysterious spectacle. The atmosphere was completely clean, with a distinctly visible Newfoundland floating under Mir at that time. Suddenly, something like a sphere appeared in the astronaut's field of vision. In brilliance and brightness, it resembled a Christmas tree toy - an elegant colored glass ball … The "sphere" disappeared as suddenly as it appeared. There was nothing around to compare its magnitude. Strekalov reported the object he had seen to the Mission Control Center, but at the same time described it as some kind of unusual phenomenon, without using the term UFO. According to him, he deliberately described only what he saw, while trying to carefully choose expressions and avoid unfounded definitions."
January 15, 1991. The Rabochaya Tribune published a material in which it is proposed not to close the radar station in Krasnoyarsk, which is not being used for its intended purpose, but to leave it to observe UFOs.
January 19, 1991. News broadcast in Hungary featured a UFO in Kecskemét.
Edition Anomaly (No 3, 1991): “On the night of January 18-19, in Bekescaba, Kecskemét, and a number of other settlements in Eastern Hungary, many saw an incomprehensible object in the night sky. He was observed not only by civilians, but also by the military, who officially reported him through their channels to the air defense center. As the representative of the Hungarian Ministry of Defense, Gyorgy Keleti, said in Budapest, according to the data obtained at the military airfield in the city of Kecskemet, a UFO was recorded over the airfield on Friday, January 18, 1991 at 2318 hours. He also said that the radio equipment of the Hungarian army did not notice the appearance of a UFO.
According to the meteorologist on duty at the Kecskemet airfield, Lieutenant Peter Szabo, the flying object he saw could not be identified with any known meteorological phenomenon. Behind a difficult to identify object could be seen an orange jet of flame 50-60 meters long. The object itself moved along the runway of the airfield at an altitude of about 300 meters.
Most scientists argued that the UFO was just a meteorite that burned up in the dense layers of the atmosphere. The fact that it was simultaneously observed in different places of the country, according to experts, proves that the "estimate" of the flight altitude given by eyewitnesses was erroneous. According to calculations, the height of the object above the ground was about 100 kilometers, and not several hundred meters. Theories were also expressed that combustion in the atmosphere of a de-orbiting space satellite or part of the Soviet space orbital station Salyut-7 was observed in Kecskemet.
Excerpt from CIA report on UFO sightings in the Moravian region
January 22, 1991. Bratislava Pravda reported, referring to data from observatories in Moravia, an unidentified luminous object similar to a comet's tail. The object moved relatively quickly at a fairly high altitude from north to south. Astronomers speculated that it was part of a destroyed satellite that exploded, reaching the upper atmosphere.
April 15, 1991. Explosion in Sasovo. Eyewitnesses, among others, have speculated about a UFO invasion and reported seeing objects like glowing balls. The military at the scene stated that there was an explosion of ammonium nitrate. At the same time, according to representatives of local authorities, no changes in the radiation background were recorded in the NP.
A similar phenomenon was repeated in the NP in 1992. Anomalous news: “On the morning of April 12, police officers found in the floodplain of the Tsna River, 800 meters from the railway and the oil depot, a funnel of regular round shape, up to 30 meters in diameter and up to 4 meters deep. At the very bottom, in the center, there was a mound with concave slopes. Its diameter was about 12, and its height was more than 1.5 meters. According to the data of the sanitary-epidemiological station, the radiation background of the funnel did not exceed the norm. With an incredible force, they vomited and scattered huge blocks of soil, they flew away to a distance of 200 meters. The scattering of clods of black soil, thrown out of the funnel and mostly of the correct shape, caused surprise. Four directions of their falling out were clearly recorded, creating the configuration of an irregular cross. At the same time, in the immediate vicinity of the funnel, the grass and bushes did not suffer at all either from the shock wave or from the high temperature. The blast wave also crossed the city in a cruciform manner. But the oil depot, located 550 meters from the crater in the direction of Sasov, did not suffer."
May 21, 1991. In the TV show Vremya, they talked about a strange object seen near the Mir space station. Eyewitnesses and journalists suggested that it could be either a UFO or part of a Soyuz spacecraft. Such unidentified objects are regularly recorded near the current ISS station. The same story can be found on a large number of thematic sites.
August 05, 1991. Eyewitnesses reported a UFO that landed in the area of the village of Hatsavan near Yerevan. The object remained on the ground for about 3 minutes, then disappeared.
August 26, 1992. Aircraft resembling flying saucers were shown at an air show in Zhukovsky (RF).
January 9, 1992. Russian President Boris Yeltsin visited an aircraft building plant, where he was shown the world's first thermoplane - a completely new type of aircraft. The aircraft was developed at the Ulyanovsk plant together with scientists from the Moscow Aviation Institute. The thermoplane also had the shape of a flying saucer. The developers expected that their invention will find wide application and will be used for communication with remote regions of the country.
Text: Alexandra Kolesnichenko, Ekaterina Lyashchenko | Photo: EPA, open source
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