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SOVIET1.TXT - "UFOs And Security"

             - by Alexsandr Kuzovkin and Alexsandr Semyonov

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 Note:  The following article was excerpted from the No.6, June, 1989

        issue of "Soviet Military Review", which along with English is

        translated into about a dozen other languages.

   - 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.

 DO THEY REALLY EXIST?  IF SO, ARE THEY A DIRECT THREAT TO PEACE ON

 EARTH?  WHAT HAS SCIENCE TO SAY ON THIS SCORE?

                                           -Benjamin S. Mapurisa

                                                        ZIMBABWE

  Since 1947, when American citizen Kenneth Arnold saw from his

 plane strange glimmering objects in the mountains, the world has been

 talking about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs).  The appearance of

 UFOs is from time to time reported in newspapers and magazines, radio

 and television.  They are all analysed by scientists.

On August 25, 1966 a USAF officer working on Minuteman missile

 in North Dakota saw that his radio had stopped functioning.  He was 18

 metres down in the concrete silo.  The ground crew reported that they

 saw a UFO which was alternately descended and climbed and interference

 disappeared.  And then it started to land.  When a group of soldiers

 dispatched to the landing site 16 kilometres from the silo, interference

 broke its radio contact with command.  It was suggested that during the

 1966-1967 period of UFO activity, the UFOs visited also the Titan silos.

 Experts were concerned over their electromagnetic effects, that might b

 capable of influencing the electric equipment of combat missiles.

In the autumn of 1974, a metal disk some 100 metres across

 approached a South Korean anti-aircraft shore battery.  The commander

 launched a Hawk guided missile which was immediately shot down by a

 "white ray" from the UFO.  The second ray was directed at the battery,

 melting the remaining two Hawk missiles into an unrecognisable mass.

The investigation of the UFO problem was launched in the US by

 the military.  In 1974, (sic) on orders from the Air Force commander,

 they started Project Sign.  The Air Technical Intelligence Centre was

 responsible for research.  Back in February 1953, head of the anti-

 aircraft committee of the continent General Benjamin Chidlow stated:

 "We have a great mass of reports about flying saucers.  We regard this

 very seriously, because we have lost many people and many aircraft which

 have attempted to attack UFOs."

Project Sign was subsequently renamed Grudge and then Fang.  But

 it is better known under the name Project Blue Book.

In 1954 the French Ministry of the Armed Forces established a

 department to collect information about UFOs.  In 1977 the French

 National Space Research Centre created a group of experts to study

 unidentified aerospace phenomenon, GEPAN.

In 1960-1970, public organisations studying UFOs mushroomed

 throughout the world, notably in Bulgaria, Denmark, West Germany and

 Mexico.  Later UFO fever spread to Canada, Britain, Japan, China and

 other countries.

In the autumn of 1978, the First Committee of the 33rd UN

 General Assembly discussed the question of launching international UFO

 research.  The discussion was based on ICUFON Memorandum, a public US

 organisation studying UFOs.  It provided a wealth of information on

 the military-technical and military-political aspect of the problem.

 Afterwards, though, information on UFO research in the West dwindled.

 The press published only distorted and superficial information about

 UFOs.  At that time, the US launched the Strategic Defence Initiative

 (SDI).

The study of UFOs in the Soviet Union started in 1958 by a group

 of enthusiasts led by Feliks Zigel, assistant professor at the Moscow

 Aviation Institute and the founder of UFOlogy in the Soviet Union.  In

 the mid-1970s, information about UFOs was collected by the Institute of

 Earth Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Waves, led by Vladimir Migulin,

 corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.  In 1984, a

 commission to study anomalous phenomena, led by Vsevolod Troitsky,

 corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, was established

 at the national scientific and technological society of nature protection.

 In April last year, Tomsk hosted a conference on sporadic instant

 phenomena, which rallied more than 300 scientists and experts from major

 scientific centres of the Soviet Union.  The conference recommended that

 the Siberian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences draft a comphrehensive

 programme for the study of the problem.

Many Soviet and foreign scientists tried to present the UFO

 phenomenon as a natural thing, such as optical atmospheric effects,

 flocks of birds, rare astronomical phenomena, meteorites, luminous

 insects, frauds, weather balloons, aircraft, missle launches, streams

 of space particles, clusters of light, ball lightning, luminous pollutants,

 Polar lights, etc.

According to the USSR Academy of Sciences, some 90-95% of UFO

 reports are a result of such causes or a combination of them.  But the

 remaining share constitutes tens of thousands of unexplained phenomena.

The main "positive" version have been the idea of extra-terrestrials.

 Despite its great popularity, it has not been unequivocally supported

 by scientists.  The most promising today is the idea of the plasma origin

 of the UFO phenomenon.  In 1984, scientists Aleksei Dmitriyev and Viktor

 Zhuravlyov from Novosibirsk advanced a theory of the plasma origin of

 the Tungus phenomenon.  As is known, the culmination of that unique event

 in Siberia in 1908 was a 40-megaton air explosion.  There are reasons to

 believe that the Tungus phenomenon and UFOs have a common origin.

We believe that so far the study of UFOs has not paid due heed to

 some specific features, as well as the mechanism of human perception of

 the world around us.  Frequency parameters of UFOs and the limited speed

 of processing information in the eye-brain system breed so-called

 metaphoric deformities.  Eye-witnesses see not the object itself but

 their own individual or accepted idea of it.

Proof of this is the historical mimicry of UFOs' outlook and

 special photographing.  Research by foreign and Soviet experts show

 that there are, in the atmosphere and at the Earth's surface, certain

 plasma formations, different in form, size, colour and frequency.  Most

 often, they are registered in the ultraviolet part of the spectre.  These

 unseen formations, which, however, can be felt, often appear to act

 systematically and even "reasonably."

Successful study of UFOs is impossible without considerable

 expansion of our views of the world.  The idea of a multi-dimensional

 and multi-layered Universe, parallel or intertwined physical worlds

 were voiced by major scientists, notably Paul Ehrenfest, Konstantin

 Tsiolkovski, Aleksandr Friedman, Anatoly Logunov, and Dmitry Blokhintsev.

Materialising the principles of the new political thinking, the

 Soviet Union is actively working for universal security and disarmament.

 Against this background, the world public cannot but be worried by the

 US carrying on with the SDI programme.  This ballistic missile defence

 is designed to control outer space and destroy near-earth, air and space

 targets.  Any system can be effective only if it is managed by super-quick

 computer systems.  It is most important here to correctly identify

 targets.  So, corresponding computer cells must "know" what signal

 characteristics of the object it is tracking can make it a potential

 target.

We believe that lack of information on the characteristics and

 influence of UFOs increase the threat of incorrect identification.  Then

 mass transition of UFOs along trajectories close to those of combat

 missiles could be regarded by computers as an attack.

In the autumn of 1960, all bombers at the Trevis Air Force base

 in the United States were put on red alert for an attack against the

 Soviet Union after the base radars detected "targets" flying via the

 North Pole to the US territory.  Suddenly the "targets" disappeared

 from the screen, and were later explained as "radar reflections of the

 Moon."

In SDI conditions such incidents could provoke immediate reaction

 from computers to destroy the "targets," say, by an X-ray laser, which

 means a powerful nuclear explosion.  Or SDI computers could order a

 counter-attack, which might prove unwarranted.  It should be remembered

 that decisions will be taken not by people but by impartial computers

 which "know nothing of UFOs."  There would be no time to determine the

 cause of the conflict then, but those who are creating SDI should think

 about it now.

The UFO problem remains unsolved.  It is difficult to predict what

 would have happened if an incident similar to the Tungus one happened in

 Europe, America or any other region of local conflicts.  Back in 1968,

 Feliks Zigel, the main Soviet researcher of the problem, said: "The

 subject and aims of UFO research are sufficiently important to justify

 any effort.  Understandably, international cooperation is vitally needed

 here."

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