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SPUTNIK1.TXT - "Time To Study The Facts"
- by Mark Milchiker, a biophysicist
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Note: The following article was excerpted from the October, 1989
edition of "SPUTNIK", the monthy digest of the Soviet Press.
It is published in the Soviet Union, and translated into
several languages, with of course English being one of them.
The following article was "abridged" from the Soviet language
magazine, "Priroda I Chelovek". If someone is interested in
the full text of this article, perhaps they could try to
obtain a copy of the above magazine and have it translated.
The following article also contained about a half-dozen photos
of various UFOs pictured over the Soviet Union.
- Tom Mickus 11/20/89
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TIME TO STUDY THE FACTS
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The above epigraph, which belongs to an outstanding scientist
of our time and the founder of world cosmonautics, clearly shows what
he thought of the fairly mysterious and debatable problem of the
possible contact between earthly, human civilization and intelligent
beings from extra-terrestrial worlds.
Indeed, have non-earthmen ever visited our planet? Are contacts
with them maintained today? Are such contacts possible in the future?
These questions stir many people, especially enthusiasts researching the
problem. I will try to answer these questions and outline the appropriate
little-known views of Tsiolkovsky. This great schooteacher of Kaluga
not only foresaw mankind's egress into outer space, but also, long before
the commencement of the Space Age and the huge growth of interest in
"visitors", declared that extra-terrestrial civilizations could exist
and make contact with mankind.
Unfortunately, there is no telling what facts collected by "people
whose judgement may be relied upon" Tsiolkovsky had in mind. The
scientist did not specify them. But the phrase itself is highly significant,
suggesting that appropriate facts existed even in his days, that people
collected and tried to analyse them over half a century ago! And what
is the situation now?
It is known that twenty years ago groups of researchers all over
the world collected about two hundred and fifty thousand stories about
flying objects, tales of other unorthodox phenomena, and of contacts between
humans and extra-terrestrial beings, referred to as hominoids. If all
these were falsifications or hallucinations, it would suggest that the
world is full of lunatics, wouldn't it? Shouldn't these stories be
carefully studied?
Here is what Tsiolkovsky wrote in 1928 in his work "The Will of the
Universe. Unknown Intelligent Forces:"
"A mass of inexplicable phenomena have been recorded in history and
literature. The majority of them can undoubtedly be classified with
hallucinations and other delusions, but does this apply to all such
phenomena? Now that the possibility of interplanetary travel has been
proven, man should show greater consideration for such 'incomphrehensible'
phenomena. I believe that some such phenomena are not illusions, but real
proof of the presence of unknown intelligent forces in outer space."
Tsiolkovsky categorized as such phenomena, in particular, images
of a geometric figure and a man which had observed in the sky in the spring
of 1886 and the word "ChAU" which he had seen spelled in Russian letters
on the horizon during the sunset on May 31, 1928. Thus, Tsiolkovsky
observed what is known as anomalous phenomena himself.
It all shows that obscure phenomena do exist. Moreover, researchers
have found evidence of possible contacts between humans and extra-terrestrials
in the distant past. I will make bold to say that in our days, too,
thousands of people have seen objects which I call ALO (astra-levitating
objects or objects flying from the stars in the sky).
The eye witness accounts of such phenomena are fairly numerous a
well documented.
A group of enthusiasts in the West has even set up an international
organization for coordinating the study of UFOs - ICUFON (Intercontinental
UFO Galactic Space-craft Research and Analitic Network).
For instance, one of the most recent eyewitness accounts came from
Mozambique. On February 11, 1988, thousands of people in the city of Beira
witnessed an ALO flight.
The object appeared in the sky at approximately three o'clock in the
afternoon local time, hanging over the city. Workers at the local
meteorological station said that the object, which looked like a parachute
and had two powerful sources of light aboard, remained at a height of about
three kilometres and could be very well observed through field-glasses. It
continuously revolved around its axis. From a short distance the object
was observed by the pilots of a passenger plane of the Mozambiquean LAM
Air Company, which, having taken off from the city airport, was then
gaining altitude. Only three hours later did this gleaming object fly away
southwards. Incidentally, this unorthodox phenomenon was also watched by
APN's and Izvestia's own correspondents in Mozambique (see Izvestia,
February 18, 1988).
How can we, scientists, classify the multitude of similar facts?
They are either well-presented falsifications or true stories. Everyone
is free to interpret them as he wishes.
Of course, it would be simple to laugh off all these stories. But
I am not an advocate of such an approach.
It is known that during the first meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev
and Ronald Reagan in Geneva, the US President said that if the Earth was
threatened by an extra-terrestrial invasion, the United States and the
Soviet Union should pool their efforts to rebuff any attack. Was this
just a casually dropped idea, a hyperbole geared to emphasize the importance
of this meeting of the top leaders of our two countries? However, it is
quite possible that President Reagan was not joking at all, that he had
serious reasons for making such a statement.
Possibly, efforts to decipher the ALO structure and manufacturing
technology are being made in the United States, and Americans are working
seriously on the problem of contact with messengers of extra-terrestrial
civilizations. Back in 1981 Dr.Colman S. von Kevietzky, Director of above
-mentioned ICUFON, a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics (Aerospace), and a former military man, sent to President
Reagan two packages of materials containing proofs of the military activity
of UFO's ("flying saucers"), demanding that the government prevent a fatal
war between the United States and galactic forces. This brings to mind
H.G.Well's "The War of the Worlds", doesn't it?! Von Kevietzky received a
reply from the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in
the US National Security Council, Major-General Robert L.Schweitzer, saying
that the President was fully aware of the threat so competently outlined
in Kevitzky's document. Soon afterwards, General Schweitzer was dismissed
- in the opinion of US researchers, under an all too clearly fabricated
excuse. It seems as if the real reason for his dismissal was Schweitzer's
indirect admission of the development of problems connected with contacts
with UFOs in the United States. That cost him his position.
The most curious fact, however, was that long before this happened
the "National Enquirer Magazine" published extracts from statements of
official rep