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                             FOREIGN  NEWS

                  Tribune, New York, NY- June 14,1990

              CR: A. Huneeus [Reprinted with permission]



                 J. ANTONIO HUNEEUS/ SCIENCE FRONTIERS



       GREAT SOVIET UFO FLAP OF 1989 CENTERS ON DALNEGORSK CRASH

                      First in a two-part series



Several  months  ago  we  reported  in this  column  about  the  well-

publicized  series  of  bizarre  reports of  UFO  landings  and  close

encounters with giant aliens in the Russian city of Voronezh,  as well

as other cases obtained from interviews with Soviet researchers during

last fall's International UFO Congress in Frankfurt,  Germany.  I have

obtained  a large  amount of Soviet UFO data since then from a variety

of  sources both in the Soviet Union and the United States. I recently

completed a lengthy and detailed paper entitled, Red Skies:  The Great

1989   UFO  Wave In the USSR,  to be included in the  1989   Symposium

Proceedings of the Mutual  UFO  Network(MUFON),   the  world's largest

research organization in this field,  which will take place next month

in  Pensacola,   Florida.   We will publish in  this  series  selected

excerpts  which  contain  interesting physical and military  evidence.

The  first  one  deals with the enigmatic report of the  crash  of  an

unknown  object in  the city of Dalnegorsk on the Pacific coast of the

Soviet Union, while the following week we'll report on a recent radar-

visual  UFO  incident  which  resulted in a military scramble alert by

Soviet Air Defense forces. A detailed account of the series of complex

UFO  events registered  in the city of Dalnegorsk during the past four

years  goes  beyond  the scope of this article.    Nevertheless,   the

Dalnegorsk  flap should be discussed because it contains some  of  the

most extraordinary physical evidence  collected so far anywhere in the

world,  and also because UFO sightings continue to be reported in this

area to this day.  Thanks to the assistance of Major (Ret.) Colman won

Deviczky,  director  of the Queens-based ICUFON research group who has

extensive  contacts  in  the Soviet Union,  this writer  has  obtained

several reports of the Dalnegorsk  incidents  prepared  by  one of its

principal  investigatiors,  Valeri Dvuzhilny,  head of the Far Eastern

Commission on  Anomalous  Phenomena.   Even though the  Commission has

recorded  numerous  cases going back to the 1970',  it seems the  most

inportant  incident  so  far  was the crash of an  unknown  object  on

Dalnegorsk  Hill 611  on January 29, 1986, at 7:55 p.m.  On that date,

according  to  one  of  the  reports by  Dvuzhilny,"residents  of  the

settlements observed a reddish-orange  sphere the size of a half moon,

which flew from the southwest at 260 degrees.  Its altitude was 700-8-

-   meters.    The flight  was parallel to the wurface of  the  Earth,

without the  angles which  are  characteristic  for  meteorites.   The

witnesses  heard  absolutely  no  noises.    The calculated  speed  by

chronometer  was  15   meters  per second.   There was  no  change  of

direction or of altitude." The object then approached the Izvesrkovaya

mountain,   or  Hill611,  which has an elevation of 600  meters and is

located at the center of the  town.   "The object made a dive and went

at an angle  of 60-70 degrees on the cliff ledge,  where it 'fell' and

burned  for one hour,"  continues the report.   "Some of the witnesses

affirm that it rose and lowered  itself six times,  and that its light

was  intensified  during its  rise and weakened during its  lowering."

Dvuzhilny  and  his  team arrived on the scene February 3,  finding  a

number of physical traces, which included lead and iron balls, bits of

glass,  a  fine mesh or netting,  traces of high temperature activity,

magnetic  anomalies  and  damage  to nearby  trees  and  stumps.   The

materials have been analyzed by several laboratories from three Soviet

academic  centers  and 11 research institutes.   The results, however,

have  proven  to  be highly enigmatic,  leading  Dvuzhilny  and  other

scientists  to conclude that the Dalnegorsk  object  was  probably  an

artificial space  probe  of  non-terestrial origin.   According to one

report published in the newspaper Socialist Industry,  "In the  scales

[or mesh],  almost all the elements of  the entire periodic table were

found."   Spectral analysis of  the lead balls,  for instance,  showed

that besides lead, these contained silicon (20  percent),  aluminum(10

percent),  iron(15  percent), zinc(1.5percent),  titanium(2  percent),

magnesium(1 percent), and silver(2percent), as well as minute portions

of copper, lantanium, praseodymium, calcium, sodium, vanadium, cerium,

chrome, cobalt, nickel,  and molybdenum. The scales or mesh reacted in

a  very strange manner during the laboratory analysis.   The Socialist

Industry report said one of the scientists, A. Makeev,  "presented the

roentgenological  structural  analysis and showed that from one scale,

after melting it in a vacuum, all of a sudden gold, silver, and nickel

disappeared.   But  there appeared alpha-titanium and molybdenum.   In

another scale, the metals did not appear at all.  And for some reason,

after  the  heating,  there appeared beryllium sulphide."  There  were

still further surprises, such as "six areas of magnetized silica rock"

(silica is a nonmagnetic material)  found on the site.  This and other

results were published by A.  Petukhov and T.  Faminskaya,  members of

the  Council  of Scientific and Engineering Societies'  Commission  on

Paranormal  Events.   "Vivid interest was also evoked by the mesh,   a

carbon-based   composite  of  unknown  origin,"   wrote  Petukhov  and

Faminskaya.    "The specimen was found to include quartz filaments  17

microns thick, and golden wires inside each filament." Other anomalous

effects  included  the blackened photos  of  Hill  611  taken  by  the

researchers, and the biological effects on the researchers themselves.

According to Petukhov and Faminskaya,  "the researchers working at the

site showed changes  in their blood (a reduced count of leucocytes and

platelets,   changes  in the structure of erythrocytes)   and  sensory

disturbances."   Dvuzhilny  described  in  more  detail  the   medical

investigation involving  five researchers  who spent considerable time

at Hill 611,  and a control group.  All of this led some investigators

to  conclude that something alien had indeed crashed at Hill  611   V.

Vysotsky, Doctor of Chemistry from Vlakivostok, stated:  "Undoubtedly,

this  is  a  high-technology  product and not a thing  of  natural  or

terestrial  origin."    Dvuzhilny proposed that it was  "an  automatic

scout probe"  of alien origin, and rejected the altermative hypothesis

that  it  could  have been a natural plasmoid.   This  hypothesis  was

proposed  by a candidate of  geological-mineralogical  science,   V.N.

Salnikov.   It was summarized  by  Yuri Rylkin,  a  phycisist with the

Tomsk   Poltechnical   Institure,   in  a  paper  presented   at   the

International  UFO  Congress in Frankfut in  October  of  1989.   "The

Dalnegorsk object,"  wrote Rylkin,  "represents a  plasma formation on

the  base  of electromagnetical structure,   called  plasmoid,   whose

trajectory  passed  over  geological breaking and  parallel  to  high-

voltage  electrotransmission line.   It is supposed that this plasmoid

absorbed selectively some chemical elements,  for example,  the  noble

and rare metals.  As Salnikov considers, such formations may be formed

by  litospherical  waveguides,   or may appear in  anomalous  stressed

geophysical fields mear geological breakings."  We'll have more to say

about  these so-called plasmoids in this series'  second part.   Still

another  hypothesis was offered by Yuri Platov,  a  senior  researcher

with  the  Institute  if Earth Magnetism,   Ionesphere  and  Radiowave

Propagation  of the USSR Academy of Sciences and a noted UFO  skeptic.

Platov  maintains  that  the Dalnegorsk  phenomenon  "in  reality  was

connected with the conduct of a technical experiment."  I have seen no

supportive  evidence  to back that  assertion,   however.    Dvuzhilny

responds  that  there  were  no rocket launches  and  no  civilian  or

military traffic over Dalnegorsk on that night.



                          SIGHTINGS CONTINUE



Regardless of its ultimate origin, the crash on Hill 611  was only the

beginning  of an intense UFO flap in Dalnegorsk that continues to this

day.    For  instance,   another report by  Dvuzhilny  indicat6es  "on

February 6, 1986, eight days after the UFO crash,  there appeared from

the  north two yellow globes at 8:30  p.m.   They approached the crash

spot, made four circles over it and disappeared with a flash."  By and

large,   however,   the largest display of UFOs in the Dalnegorsk  and

Primorye areas occurred on the night of NOv. 28,1987. Again, according

to one of Dvulzhiny's reports, "on Saturday November 28, 1987, 33 UFOs

were flying at a low height over the Eastern coast of Primorye.  Their

flights  took  place  between 9:10  pm and midnight.    They  were  of

different shape:  cylinders,  cigars,  globes.   They were flying over

five  regions and twelve settlements.   None of the witnesses  claimed

they  had seen UFOs.   They thought they saw aircraft crashing.    All

were  wurprised to hear no noise."  Inquiries made by Dvuzhilny showed

there had been no flights of civil or military aircraft at that  time,

and that no carrier-rockets had been launched from Soviet cosmodromes.

Moreover,  continued Dvuzhilny,  "the objects observed had nothing  in

common with  the effects of rocket launching that are quite different.

They were not like fireballs,  ball lightning or plasmoids."   Further

on,   Dvuzhilny  added  that  "out of the 33   UFOs,   13   flew  over

Dalnegorsk."    There  were over 100  vitnesses,   including  military

personnel, militia (police), border guards and sailors, as well as all

kinds  of  civilian workers,  who were questioned by the  Far  Eastern

Commission.   Finally, reports Dvuzhilny,  "those objects caused a two

minute  cutting-off of HF [high frequency] circuits of TV,   telegraph

and other appliances.  Computers were cut off, their programs spoiled.

All  that was due to powerful electromagnetic fields of  UFOs  (cover,

engines) reaching hundreds and thousamds of KWs." Many other sightings

have occurred in Dalnegorsk.  According to the Far Eastern Commission,

45  UFOs were registered in 1987,  15 in 1988, 32  in 1989  (up to the

month of July).   Nor have the sightings been restricted to Dalnegorsk

alone.    Other  cases  have  been reported near the  larger  city  of

Vladivostok.    These include a close encounter involving two separate

cars on September 17,  1988,  where one of the drivers seemed to  lose

control  of his car;  and a second,  undated,  event reported  by  the

Krasnoye  Znamia  (Red Banner)  newspaper,  about a whole  section  of

Vladivostok  being illuminated between 2 and 4 a.  m.  by a light beam

from an unseen source.   Because of the late hour,  only a few  people

who were not asleep observed the phenomenon.   Interestingly,  similar

occurrences  of  an unknown light beam illuminating a city  have