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The 1989 Rash of UFO Sightings in the Soviet Union[/size]
By Ryan Dube
www.topsecretwriters.com
8-24-12
ufo sightings
One very interesting aspect of spending hours digging through old declassified CIA documents is occasionally coming across more evidence that the agency had a healthy interest in the topic of UFOs – particularly when the sightings took place in other countries.
For example, one Foreign Press Note dated November 22, 1989 and titled “USSR: Media Report Multitude of UFO Sightings” provides a rare glimpse into the UFO frenzy that was taking place during the cold war – not much unlike the spike in UFO interest that took place in the United States during the same time period.
In this particular report, the author provides excerpts from a variety of Russian media reports which detail the sort of sightings and claims regarding UFOs that were taking place in the USSR during the late 1980s.
Of particular interest in this report, was the plethora of witnesses and events that took place involving Russian military experts, as well as the opinion of one Russian scientist regarding the Roswell crash that is far different than what most UFO enthusiasts in the U.S. believe about the event.
The Battle Between Skeptics and Enthusiasts
Aside from listing many of the more notable sightings of UFOs, the report indicates that in 1989 there was a very clear divide between skeptics and UFO enthusiasts.
The report noted one media article in particular – the August 1989 issue of Nauka I Zhizn – which published a 9-page article:
“contrasting some of the views of the ‘skeptics’ with some of the opinions of the ‘enthusiasts’ on the numerous reported UFO sightings in the USSR…” (1)
That 9 page article pointed out that even though enthusiasts claimed that UFOs left “evidence” behind on many occasions, the skeptics point out that most of the evidence is easily explained with causes other than extraterrestrial intelligence – such as circular impressions being caused by rocket testing, or bright orbs being caused by ball lightning.
Numerous UFO Sightings in Russia
With the battle regarding explanation for the sightings aside, there is little doubt based on media reports that there was plenty of unusual activity in the skies above Russia during the late 1980s.
For example, one issue of Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya in 1988 described a report of “an amazing event that took place on Hill 611 near the village of Dalnegorsk in Primorskiy Kray.”
That event included multiple observers watching a “flying sphere” crash into one of the hills. According to the article, physicists and scientists from the USSR Academy of Sciences were:
“still studying the ‘fine mesh’, ‘small spherical objects,’ and ‘pieces of glass’ that are considered to be small remnants left behind by the sphere.”
One scientist at the site of the crash reported finding “gold, silver, nickel, alpha-titanium, molybenum, and compounds of beryllium.” One skeptic stipulated that it was some sort of “plasmoid” that had crashed, while other scientists actually concluded that the Hill 611 object was an “extraterrestrial” space vehicle made by “highly intelligent beings.”
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The 1989 Rash of UFO Sightings in the Soviet Union[/size]
By Ryan Dube
www.topsecretwriters.com
8-24-12
ufo sightings
One very interesting aspect of spending hours digging through old declassified CIA documents is occasionally coming across more evidence that the agency had a healthy interest in the topic of UFOs – particularly when the sightings took place in other countries.
For example, one Foreign Press Note dated November 22, 1989 and titled “USSR: Media Report Multitude of UFO Sightings” provides a rare glimpse into the UFO frenzy that was taking place during the cold war – not much unlike the spike in UFO interest that took place in the United States during the same time period.
In this particular report, the author provides excerpts from a variety of Russian media reports which detail the sort of sightings and claims regarding UFOs that were taking place in the USSR during the late 1980s.
Of particular interest in this report, was the plethora of witnesses and events that took place involving Russian military experts, as well as the opinion of one Russian scientist regarding the Roswell crash that is far different than what most UFO enthusiasts in the U.S. believe about the event.
The Battle Between Skeptics and Enthusiasts
Aside from listing many of the more notable sightings of UFOs, the report indicates that in 1989 there was a very clear divide between skeptics and UFO enthusiasts.
The report noted one media article in particular – the August 1989 issue of Nauka I Zhizn – which published a 9-page article:
“contrasting some of the views of the ‘skeptics’ with some of the opinions of the ‘enthusiasts’ on the numerous reported UFO sightings in the USSR…” (1)
That 9 page article pointed out that even though enthusiasts claimed that UFOs left “evidence” behind on many occasions, the skeptics point out that most of the evidence is easily explained with causes other than extraterrestrial intelligence – such as circular impressions being caused by rocket testing, or bright orbs being caused by ball lightning.
Numerous UFO Sightings in Russia
With the battle regarding explanation for the sightings aside, there is little doubt based on media reports that there was plenty of unusual activity in the skies above Russia during the late 1980s.
For example, one issue of Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya in 1988 described a report of “an amazing event that took place on Hill 611 near the village of Dalnegorsk in Primorskiy Kray.”
That event included multiple observers watching a “flying sphere” crash into one of the hills. According to the article, physicists and scientists from the USSR Academy of Sciences were:
“still studying the ‘fine mesh’, ‘small spherical objects,’ and ‘pieces of glass’ that are considered to be small remnants left behind by the sphere.”
One scientist at the site of the crash reported finding “gold, silver, nickel, alpha-titanium, molybenum, and compounds of beryllium.” One skeptic stipulated that it was some sort of “plasmoid” that had crashed, while other scientists actually concluded that the Hill 611 object was an “extraterrestrial” space vehicle made by “highly intelligent beings.”
CONTINUE READING: www.topsecretwriters.com/2012/08/the-1989-rash-of-ufo-sightings-in-the-soviet-union/