From: Anson.Kennedy@p0.f25.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Anson Kennedy)
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Subject: Russian UFO Season Begins Date: 21 Aug 93 21:52:00 GMTSender: 
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08/19 1135  

RUSSIANS PLAY FAVORITE DISCS - UFO'S OVER MOSCOW    MOSCOW 

(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--  

Anson Kennedy - via ParaNet node 1:104/422UUCP: !scicom!paranet!
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