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      KGB's secret UFO files finally made public

      KGB agents were making records of UFO observations in special Blue
Folder

      Files comprising the famous Blue Folder have been declassified a while
ago. The prominent Soviet cosmonaut Pavel Popovich got the folder from the
KGB in 1991. These days Mr. Popovich holds the position of honorary
president of the Academy of Informational and Applied Ufology. The folder
contains numerous descriptions of UFO flights and reports on some (mostly
failed) attempts taken by the military in order to catch the aliens.

      Aliens acknowledged back in 1968

      In 1968, 13 leading aircraft designers and engineers of a brand-new
aircraft section of the Soviet Committee on Space Technology and Exploration
forwarded a letter to the Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin. Actually, it
was a request to set up a special organization for the study of UFOs. A
reply to the letter was signed by Academician Shchukin. It is an amazing
document per se:

      "A number of competent organizations of the Presidium of the USSR
Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Chief Directorate of
Meteorological Service, Defense Ministry and a few other agencies considered
the issue of nature of the so-called flying objects. The organizations
involved in the study of the atmosphere and space have been instructed to
register and do research on any cases of UFOs for identification purposes.
The USSR Academy of Sciences is charged with general monitoring of the
phenomena, and therefore a special organization for the study of UFOs is not
required."

      "It was a real breakthrough," says Vladimir Azhazha, president of the
above academy and keeper of the Blue Folder. "The authorities not only
acknowledged the existence of UFOs for the first time, they also showed
their great interest in the issue," adds he.

      "We got hold of the Blue Folder only in 1991," says Mr. Azhazha.
"Pavel Popovich was given the folder after requesting reports on the cases
of UFOs. I received the folder from Popovich, it was a 124-page compilation
of reports about the encounters with UFOs. The reports filed by authorities,
military units COs and eyewitnesses. It took us a long time to get rid of
some doubts before making the folder public," says he.

      Mr. Popovich saw an UFO only once while flying in a passenger plane
from Washington to Moscow. According to him, the object looked like a
shining triangle that popped up out of nowhere, for awhile it flew near the
plane at about 1,000 km per hour before vanishing without a trace.

      Despite the cover letter that effectively denied any special program
by the KGB for monitoring the UFO activities, the contents of the folder
indicated the opposite. It is quite obvious that the Soviet secret police
launched thoughtful investigations in several cases e.g. an anomaly observed
near the village of Burkhala of the Magadan region on October 21, 1989. The
report on the incident says: "The eyewitnesses claim to have watched a red
shining sphere circulating above the village for half an hour." The northern
lights are reported to have shone extremely brightly all night long
following the incident.

      The flying disks vanished in thin air after the explosion

      KGB agents looked high and low trying to figure out what happened at
the airport of the city of Mineralnye Vody on December 15, 1987. According
to the airport dispatchers, at 23.15 the flight No 65798 reported an
incoming "object resembling an aircraft with its headlights on." The radars
showed no aircraft whatsoever. Three minutes later the UFO was gone as
reported by the flight No 65789.

      The crew of another plane also observed the UFO flying in that area.
The clock read approximately 23.20. According to crewmembers, the UFO left a
fiery trail in the air. The crews of the both planes reported that the UFO
had disappeared after the flash resembling an explosion. A villager reported
a burning plane flying over his village at 23.30. The eyewitness said the
plane then disappeared. The eyewitness found no wreckage or other evidence
of a plane crash.

      No manholes found in the "Martian" spacecraft

      From time to time the military made attempts to deal with UFOs
independently. In August 1987, servicemen of an antiaircraft unit based on
the Tiksi Peninsula tried to "get to know better" an unidentified flying
object that appeared on a radar screen. The report from Colonel Lobanov, a
duty officer of the military unit No 45038, said: "An unidentified target
detected by the radar station of the commandant's office of the antiaircraft
unit at 05.45 Moscow time." The target moved at a speed varying from 0 to
400 km per hour. At 06.55 a helicopter MI-8 took off for a closer
examination of the object. Suddenly, the object became invisible. Another
aircraft, the AN-12 was flying in the vicinity at the time. At 3600 m the
crew reported an emerald cloud with a few traces of purple and dark spots
visible in the middle. Two inverse trails were reported behind the cloud.

      An incident occurred in the Leningrad Military Region in early August
of 1987. Five officers were dispatched to the northern part of Karelia to
accompany an object of unknown origin that had been located near the city of
Vyborg. The object was said to be 14 m long, 4 meters wide and 2.5 m high.
The military failed to open the "extraterrestrial can." Eventually, the
object disappeared from the hangar late September.

      On July 28, 1989, the arrival of an UFO spread panic among the
personnel of a military unit stationed in the vicinity of Kapustin Yar, in
the Astrakhan region. Corporal Valery Voloshin was on duty in the
communications center at the time. He filed the first report on the case.

      Researchers believe the Blue Folder is an invaluable source of
information. According to Mr. Azhazha, all reports and evidence on record
indicate that intelligent life forms control the objects that mean no harm
to human beings. At least no case of an attack by UFO against man was found
in the folder.

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