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‘C00174708 : _ SIU oo2s | AIRLINER CREW REPORTS UFO SIGHTING Moscow TRUD in Russian 30 Jan 85 p 3 {Report by TRUD Special Correspondent V. Vostrukhin: "At 4:10 Precisely," followed by commentary on the report by Nie Zheltukhin, deputy chairman of the Commission on AYa (Aerodynamic Phenomena] attached to the VSNTO [All-Union Couneil of Scientific and Technical Societies] and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences] [Text] Flight No 8352 from Tbilisi to Rostov to Tallin, a Tu~134 aircraft, was being manned by a crew from the Estonian Administration of the USSR Ministry of Civil Avia…

San rereenenmeeemememeneemeeemienr nee ee ‘C00174708 . The flight engineer had barely glanced outside when he said: “Commander, we must report this to the ground." But thebeam of light suddenly opened up, turning into a brilliant luminous cone. From this moment, everyone saw what was taking place outside on the right. A second cone emerged, wider, but not as bright as the first one. Then a third one, broad and quite bright. "Wait," the commander said, shrugging his shoulders, "what do we report? We have to see what happens further. And in general--what could this be?" If anyone understands tha…

C00174708 a AS BLEU Cn on to the aircraft. It flew after it as if it were attached to it--at an altitude of 10,000 meters at a speed of 800 kilometers per hour. "An honorary escort," Cherkashin muttered, "what an honor for us..." Inside the cloud little lights "sparkled".-they blinked on and off like the string of lights on a New Year tree. Then fiery zigzags glided horizontally. The navigator conscientiously reported everything to the ground. The controller's excited voice was heard to respond: "I am observing the northern lights on the horizon. Where do you see your cloud?" The navigator res…

“C00174708 Cherkashin's crew will assume that the light from the object was polarized, that is, it was not dispersed in al] directions. When they were coupled with the cloud airplane they passed over Riga and Vilnius, and the controllers of these cities consistently positioned the odd tandem. Passing over the Chudskoye and Pskovskoye lakes, Cherkashin's crew ‘were able to estimate the dimensions of the cloud airplane. These two lakes, oblong in shape, are separated by a small strip of land. The Tu-134A was flying 100 kilometers to the left of them. And the cloud airplane was on the right, clos…

C00174708 many thousands of kilometers away, a global atmospheric or geophysical process of a type still unknown to science is taking place. But it seemed to the aviators only that it was somewhere close by--a typical optical illusion, so to speak. "But in the final analysis this explanation proved to be untenable. After all, the aviators succeeded in determining the distance to the object. "Por this reason, there is only one conclusion that may be drawn: the Tallin crew dealt with what we call a UFO. The fact that we now have a consistent and detailed picture of the transformation of an unide…