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- From: Anson.Kennedy@p0.f25.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Anson Kennedy)
- Newsgroups: alt.paranet.ufo
- Subject: Russian UFO Season Begins Date: 21 Aug 93 21:52:00 GMTSender:
- ufgate@paranet.FIDONET.ORG (newsout1.26)Organization: FidoNet node
- 9:1012/25.0 - <MICAP Georgi, Atlanta GAExecutive News Svc.($)RTw
- 08/19 1135
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- RUSSIANS PLAY FAVORITE DISCS - UFO'S OVER MOSCOW MOSCOW
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- (Reuter) - Russia's flying saucer season has opened again, with three
- sightings reported as a diversion for millions exhausted by economic and
- political crises. Disc-shaped things from outer space have
- disappeared from most horizons in the world but Russians regularly
- report them. A reputable news agency said Thursday that two
- Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) visited Moscow in recent days while a
- third surprised a military pilot in the Russian Far East. RIA news
- agency said the first flying saucer, spotted on the night of Aug. 4,
- spent almost an hour flying over the Penta Hotel in central Moscow,
- trailing white and blue-colored fire. Another was seen swooping down
- on a 24-story building the following night. A third was spotted in
- the Far East by a military pilot.
-
- "The UFO did not cause any harm to the pilot although he flew around it
- twice. It was very bright, and made of a silver-like metal the pilot had
- never seen before," RIA said.
-
- From faith healing to things that go bump in the night, Russians love
- strange phenomena. Occurrences like flying saucers are reported with
- great seriousness in the media.
-
- Russians' centuries-old addiction to miracles and magic, suppressed
- under communist rule, is once again reviving amid the chaos following
- the collapse of the Soviet Union.
-
- It's not all a figment of the imagination -- they even plan to
- manufacture them here, more or less.
-
- The newspaper Izvestia recently carried an article by Viktor Litovkin
- that the Saratov aircraft plant was working on a real-life "Flying Saucer"
- aviation project.
-
- Experimental models have already flown, the daily said.
-
- The proposed 120-ton cargo-carrying "saucer," with a diameter of 82 foot
- and operating on a cushion of air, would cost about $70 million to
- produce.
-
- There was no clear word about the crew -- usually portrayed as bug-eyed
- little green men. REUTER--
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