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Country: USSR
Subject: UFO'S REPORTED NEAR MOSCOW

MOSCOW 15 APRIL -- THE NEWSPAPER RABOCHAYA TRIBUNA REPORTS TODAY ON UNUSUAL PHENOMENA 47 KM ALONG THE YAROVSLAVL HIGHWAY OUTSIDE MOSCOW.

IT HAS BEEN GOING ON AT NIGHT SINCE 12 MARCH. TO START WITH, LARGE SHINING SPHERES AND DISCS APPEAR IN THE SKY. THEIR PLACE IS THEN TAKEN BY THREE GROUPS OF OBJECTS. SOME ARE LIKE PINEAPPLES, BUT ABOUT SIX METRES LONG. THE CHARACTERISTIC PINEAPPLE PLATELETS COVER THE HULL. OTHERS ARE NOT UNLIKE HUGH TRIANGULAR MILK CARTONS. AND THE THIRD GROUP ARE LIKE UPSIDE-DOWN BASINS, 12-15 METRES ACROSS.

THE HULLS OF THE OBJECTS FLARE UP, AND AS THE GLOW FADES THEY SHIMMER AND FLICKER WITH IRIDESCENT FLAMES. THEY FLY QUYITE [quite] QUICKLY AND ARE CAPABLE OF STOPPING SUDDENLY AND DARTING TO ONE SIDE. THEY MOVE IN TOTAL SILENCE. THERE IS NO WHISTLING OR HUMMING. SOMETIMES A SHINING CLOUD EMERGES OVER THE NEARBY FOREST.

ARMED WITH FIELD GLASES [glasses], THE LOCAL PEOPLE SPEND THE NIGHTS ON THE ROOFTOPS, REPORTS THE NEWSPAPER. SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE SEEN THE UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS, AND ALL DESCRIBE THEM IN ROUGHLY THE SAME WAY.

 Country: LITHUANIA
Subject: POLICE OFFICERS SPOT UFO; RAPID REACTION FORCE ALERTED

FBIS TRANSLATED TEXT VILNIUS, 26 JUN -- AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT (UFO), SPOTTED NEAR THE LITHUANIAN BORDER ON 25 JUNE BY TWO DUTY MOTOR POLICE PATROL OFFICERS JAUNIUS POZERA AND LAIMIS KRAUJALIS PLACED THE WHOLE VILIUS POLICE ON THE ALERT. VEHICLE LOADS OF SOLDIERS FROM THE ARAS RAPID REACTION FORCE, SNIFFER DOGS AND POLICE REINFORCEMENTS IMMEDIATELY ARRIVED ON THE SCENE OF THE EMERGENCY.

ACCORDING TO THE EYEWITNESS'S ACCOUNTS, AT ABOUT 0030 IN THE EARLY MORNING, ON THE VILNIUS-MEDININKAI ROAD, NEAR THE VILLAGE OF NEMEZIS, 10 KM FROM THE CAPITAL, AT AN ALTITUDE OF 20-30 METERS ABOVE THE GROUND, THEY NOTICED A SPHERICAL OBJECT HANGING AND "PULSING," ALTERNATELY SHRINKING AND EXPANDING. AT THE SAME TIME, THEY HEARD WHAT THEY DESCRIBED AS "A STRANGE SOUND LIKE AN ELECTRIC OR ELECTRONIC CRACKLE." WANTING TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE UFO, THE POLICEMEN MOVED TOWARD IT. WHEN THEY HAD ADVANCED ABOUT 50 METERS THROUGH THE LONG GRASS, THE POLICE SAID, THE SPHERE MOVED AWAY, ROSE HIGHER AND RAPIDLY DEPARTED IN THE DIRECTION OF VILNIUS.

THE POLICEMEN WATCHED THE UFO FOR ABOUT HALF AN HOUR. ON THEIR ARRIVAL AT THE SCENE OF THE "EMERGENCY", MEMBERS OF THE CIVIL DEFENSE DEPARTMENT, SERVICEMEN FROM THE SPECIAL FORCES AND COMMISSIONERS OF THE CAPITAL'S POLICE CAREFULLY STUDIED THE AREA, MEASURED THE BACKGROUND RADIATION AND TAPE-RECORDED THE STRANGE SOUND, WHICH WAS STILL HEARD IN THE AREA AFTER THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE UFO. THE SNIFFER DOGS DID NOT DISCOVER ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS AND BEHAVED QUIETLY. BUT IT WAS NOTED THAT THE TALL GRASS OVER THE PLACE WHERE THE SPHERE HAD "HUNG" WAS FLATTENED TO A RADIUS OF 10 METERS.

LITHUANIAN SCIENTISTS HAVE NOT YET EXPRESSED AN OPINION ON THE APPEARANCE OF THIS UFO NEAR VILNIUS. POLICE COMMISSIONER VALENTINAS JUCHNEVICIUS SAID IN A RADIO INTERVIEW TODAY THAT BOTH OFFICERS WHO WATCHED THE SHINING OBJECT "ARE PSYCHOLOGICALLY HEALTHY, NORMAL PEOPLE, NOT NOTED FOR CRANKINESS."

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