KAZAKH AIR DEFENCE SPOTS SECOND UFO OVER CAPITAL IN ONE MONTH

Wednesday, July 24, 1996
Source: ITAR - TASS
BY Vladimir Akimov
Dateline: Alma Ata, July 24.

The team of officers on duty at their defense headquarters of Kazakhstan observed for 100 minutes an unidentified flying object /UFO/ over the capital of Alma Ata on Wednesday morning and their chief, Anatoly Dobrynin, told TASS it lookedlike a steel-coloured rhomb.

"The UFO was visually spotted at 04:55 hours local time /21:55gm Tuesday/ in the eastern sector of the sky over Alma Ata", Colonel Dobrynin said. The UFO was periodically transmitting a thin green ray to the earth and dim read and yellow lights were occasionally going on and out on board,according to him.

The object did not change its form, size and place in the air until it disappeared completely at 06:35 hours local time, Dobrynin said.

Radars have not registered the UFO and the officers on duty did not order interceptor jets into the sky. They said they saw no reason for that and limited themselves only to a report to the superiors and the national committee for emergency situations.

Konstantin Katayev, a spokesman of the Emergencies Committee,confirmed to TASS that such information had been received from the military and said the "data will be submitted for the most thorough analysis."

He added that air defense services were likely to get strict recommendations on how to act in such a situation.

This was the second UFO spotted over Alma Ata this month. Early in July a group of residents said they had seen a red-blue ball-like object hover the outskirts of the capital. The eye witnesses were returning to Alma Ata from the countryside and their car engines died when the UFO flew over the road. The witnesses said they had been seized with strong fear for several minutes.

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