Encounters: The UFO Phenomenon, Exposed!/Encounters - The UFO Phenomenon, Exposed (1995).iso/misc3/misc096.txt

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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  been
reported  a  few  times in the city of Arica in the  northern  tip  of
Chile.

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