Today's Topics:
Soviets report Alien sighting
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1989 17:40-EDT
From: Todd.Kaufmann@nl.cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Soviets report Alien sighting
Message-Id: <624058845/toad@NL.CS.CMU.EDU>
A collegue told me about this earlier today (mention on TV news last
night).
At first I was skeptic, but hopeful;
now, I'm a believer!
Has anyway seen this followed up in the 'papes?
-the toast in the machine...
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From: gld@CUNIXD.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Gary L Dare)
Newsgroups: misc.headlines,sci.skeptic,talk.religion.newage
Subject: Re: TASS says aliens have arrived.
Date: 10 Oct 89 18:40:41 GMT
Over the BBC World Service last night, Tass reported that an alien
craft (how did they come to that conclusion) landed in a public park
and three to four occupants came out for a quick stroll.
They were described as being tall, with tiny heads.
This morning on CBC's "World Report", they said that the TASS person
is questioning his own report, whose main sources are a group of teens.
The following is an article uploaded by Jim Speiser on FidoNet,
sent to me by Michael Corbin:
NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE
DATE OF ARTICLE: October 9, 1989
SOURCE OF ARTICLE: AP/Jim Speiser Upload
LOCATION: Soviet Union
BYLINE: None
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APn 10/09 1058 Soviet-UFO
Copyright, 1989. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
By JOHN IAMS
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) -- The official Tass news agency said today that
scientists have confirmed the landing of an alien spaceship carrying
giant people with tiny heads.
The report was the latest strange tale in the official Soviet
media, which under the policy of glasnost, "or openess," have recently
told of other sightings of unidentified flying objects and alien
creatures.
"Scientists have confirmed that an unidentified flying object
recently landed in a park in the Russian city of Voronezh," Tass said
in a dispatch from the city, 300 miles southeast of Moscow. "They have
also identified the landing site and found traces of aliens who made a
short promenade about the park."
Tass said Voronezh residents saw a large shining ball or disk
hovering over the park. They reported that the UFO landed and up to
three creatures similar to humans emerged, accompanied by a small
robot, Tass said.
"The aliens were three or even four meters (9 to 12 feet) tall, but
with very small heads," the news agency quoted witnesses as saying.
"They walked near the ball or disc and then disappeared inside."
The report was similar to a story last summer in the daily
newspaper Socialist Industry, which told of a purported "close
encounter" between a milkmaid and an alien in Central Russia's Perm
region.
In that report, Lyubov Medvedev was quoted as saying she
encountered an alien creature "resembling a man, but taller than
average with short legs." The creature, she said, had "only a small
knob instead of a head."
The Tass report, which did not give the date of the purported
landing in Voronezh, said onlookers were "overwhelmed with a fear that
lasted for several days."
Genrikh Silanov, head of the Voronezh Geophysical Laboratory, told
Tass that scientists investigating the UFO report found a 20-yard
depression with four deep dents as well as two pieces of unidentified
rocks.
"At first glance, they looked like sandstone of a deep-red color.
However, mineralogical analysis has shown that the substance cannot be
found on Earth," Tass quoted Silanov as saying. "However, additional
tests are needed to reach a more definite conclusion."
Silanov said the landing site and path taken by the aliens were
confirmed using the "biolocation" method of tracking, but Tass didn't
explain what that was.
Further confirmation came from witnesses, who were not told of the
experiments and whose accounts matched precisely the scientific
findings, Tass said.
The Tass report said residents also reported recent sightings of a
"banana-shaped" object in the sky.
In July, Tass disputed a report in Socialist Industry quoting a UFO
specialist, A. Kuzovkin, as saying a 26-foot-wide patch of burned
ground near southern Moscow was probably caused by the landing of a
UFO.
Tass said firefighters believe a haystack simply caught fire and
scorched the ground.
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