An equally strange incident, possibly UFO-related, occurred
about eighteen years earlier. In February of 1961, the Soviet
Union launched a seven-day space mission from their Baikonur
facility. Rumor has it that the original goal of the mission
was to conduct a circumlunar flight. The space vehicle, which
was alleged to be a Lunik spacecraft, carried a two-man team,
comprised of one man and one woman. While it is not known for
certain who the cosmonauts were, it has been speculated that
they may have been Gennady Mikhailov and V. Zavadovskiy; who,
like other Russian cosmonauts, have become known simply as
"phantom cosmonauts", due to the veil of secrecy which has
always shrouded the Soviet Union's space program.

Initially, the mission appeared to be going well, as the team
would radio back "Everything satisfactory. We are maintaining
the prescribed altitude." However, at some point, apparently
a serious malfunction of unknown origin occurred, and both
the electrical system and the cosmonauts' air supply began to
fail. As the cosmonauts made attempts to repair the damage to
their space capsule, they transmitted the following messages
on February 24th. This, according to the story, is the last
time that they were ever heard from:

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Female Cosmonaut: "I'll take it and hold it with my right
hand. Look out the peephole! I have it!"

Male Cosmonaut: "There is something! If we do not get out
the world will never know about this!"

----- End Quote -----

Exactly what did they see outside of their space capsule?
What was the female cosmonaut trying to hold? What was so
important that they had to tell the world about it? Some
people remain convinced that they had a collision with an
alien spacecraft which damaged their capsule. What do you
think?

Former Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev, was apparently
also convinced of the reality of the UFO phenomenon. In the
May 4, 1990 edition of the Soviet Youth magazine, Gorbachev
is reported, (in a declassified CIA document), to have made
the following comment to workers in the Urals:

----- Begin Quote -----

"The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated
seriously."

----- End Quote -----

It is possible that Gorbachev's position was influenced by
another UFO-related incident within the former Soviet Union,
which came to light on April 19, 1990, when the newspaper,
Rabochaya Tribuna, published an amazing story entitled "UFOs
On Air Defense Radars". It was based upon a detailed report
which had been submitted to it by a general by the name of
Igor Maltsev. Maltsev was the chief of the Main Staff of Air
Defense Forces, which is comprised of Russia's most elite
fighter pilots. This particular event occurred on the night
of March 21, 1990, in the northeast sector of Moscow known
as Pereslavl-Zalesskiy. According to General Maltsev, "more
than 100 visual observations" were made, based upon reports
which had been compiled by the commanders of several Air
Defense Forces units of the Moscow Military District.

In submitting his report to the newspaper, General Maltsev
had included five credible witness accounts. One of these was
from Soviet pilot, Lt. Col. A. A. Semenchenko, who had flown
over the craft. He stated that as he flew over the object, he
observed "two flashing white lights" and the faint silhouette
of the object against the city lights below. Semenchenko's
comments were confirmed by Captain V. Birin, who stated that
the object "looked like a flying saucer with two very bright
lights along the edges." Another observer, Capt. V. Ivchenko,
as well as other pilots, stated that the UFO's lights flashed
more rapidly as the craft increased its speed.

A second report was submitted by a ground-based surveillance
radar tracking station, which described a rapidly moving,
shining object with red lights. Following behind this craft
was another object with white lights. Included in the report
from the radar tracking station were times, azimuths and the
distances of the objects. General Maltsev concluded that
what had been observed were indeed extraterrestrial crafts.
In his released statement he said:

----- Begin Quote -----

"I am not a specialist on UFO's, and therefore I can only
correlate the data and express my own supposition. According
to the evidence of these eyewitnesses, the UFO is a disk with
a diameter from 100 to 200 meters. Two pulsating lights were
positioned on its sides. When the object flew in a horizontal
plane, the line of the lights was parallel to the horizon.
During vertical movement, it rotated and was perpendicular to
the ground. Moreover, the object rotated around its axis and
performed an 'S-turn' flight both in the horizontal and
vertical planes. Next, the UFO hovered over the ground, and
then flew with a speed exceeding that of the modern jet
fighter by 2 or 3 times. All of the observers noticed that
the flight speed was directly related to the flashing of the
side lights: the more often they flashed, the higher the
speed."

"The objects flew at altitudes ranging from 1,000 to 7,000
meters. The movement of the UFO's was not accompanied by
sound of any kind, and was distinguished by its startling
maneuverability. It seemed the UFO's were completely devoid
of inertia. In other words, they had somehow 'come to terms'
with gravity. At the present time, terrestrial machines could
hardly have any such capabilities. The object was observed as
a 'pip' from a radar target on the screens of aircraft radar
sights, and on the screens of several electronic surveillance
sub-units. One station did not establish an observation."

----- End Quote -----

The above UFO incident was also reported in various American
newspapers in 1990, including the New York Tribune, and the
Arizona Republic. At the time that this incident occurred,
Russia was experiencing a very active UFO flap. Almost seven
months earlier, on September 30, 1989, the Russian newspaper
"Sotsiahisticheskaya Industriya", or "Socialist Industry",
reported an equally amazing story regarding a UFO encounter
which had occurred over the city of Borisov in Byelorussia,
today known as the Republic of Belarus. The encounter, which
would later prove to be deadly, involved two Soviet fighter
jets. The newspaper article stated in part:

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"The crews of two Soviet aircraft reported seeing a large
flying disk in their vicinity with five beams of lights
emanating from it: three beams were directed toward the
ground and two were projected upward when the object was
first sighted. The ground controller instructed one of the
planes to alter its course and approach the object, at which
point the disk flew to the same level and aimed one of its
beams at the approaching Soviet plane, illuminating the
cockpit."

"At this time, the copilot was at the controls. He observed
the maneuver that the object had just carried out and was
able to raise his hand to shield himself from the unbearable
light. The aircraft commander was resting in the adjoining
seat, and a bright ray of light, projecting a spot with a
diameter of 20 centimeters, passed across his body. Both
pilots felt heat."

"The copilot was forced to leave his job due to a sudden
deterioration in his health, including the onset of sudden
prolonged periods of 'loss of consciousness.' The aircraft
commander died within a few months. The cause of death was
listed as 'cancer', and 'injury to the organism as a result
of radiation from an unidentified flying object' was listed
as a contributing factor on the official medical record in
the hospital where the commander died."

----- End Quotes -----

While many UFO incidents have occurred in Russia over the
years, encounters such as the previous ones stand out, due
to the caliber of the individuals who have made the reports.
As in the other cases we have examined, and the many quotes
I have provided for you, these reports deserve a high level
of credibility; particularly when we realize that they were
made by the Russian military establishment; which, prior to
"glasnost", would have never released this kind of info to
the general public. It is obvious that they did so with the
permission of the highest echelons of power within the
Soviet government.

Please go to part eighteen for the continuation of this
series.


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