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- SOVIET1.TXT - "UFOs And Security"
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- - 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.
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- - 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
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- 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."
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- 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.
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- 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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