ALMA-ATA PATROLMEN REPORT UFO SIGHTING

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005517792
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: April 19, 1991

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COUNTRY: USSR
SUBJ: ALMA-ATA PATROLMEN REPORT UFO SIGHTING'
SOURCE: MOSCOW TASS IN ENGLISH 1603 GMT 19 APR 91
TEXT:
//((BY TASS CORRESPONDENT VASILIY.DANSHIN))
.((TEXT)) ALMA-ATA APRIL 19 TATS -- MILITIAMEN SIGHTED AN
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING 'OBJECT WHILE ON'PATROL IN ALMA-ATA, CAPITAL OF
THE SOVIET CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN, THE NEWSPAPER
VECHERNYA ALMA-ATA REPORTS TODAY.
LATE IN THE AFTERNOON, WHILE APPROACHING THE KOK-TYUBE MOUNTAIN
-- A RECREATION AREA FAVOURED BY LOCAL INHABITANTS -- THE PATROLMEN
NOTICED A KIND OF FIRE AT THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN. THEY WATCHED THE
FLAMES GO UP AND DOWN THEN AN ARRAY OF RED RAYS BURST OUT OF THE
CENTRE.
OTHER MILITIAMEN ALSO NOTICED THE STRANGE OBJECT. THE DRIVER OF
THE PATROL CAR SAID HE AND HIS COMRADES DROVE UP TO THE "FLAMING
OBJECT", AND WHEN THEY WERE A MERE 200 METERS AWAY FROM THE HOVERING
UFO, A FEW RAYS SWEPT ACROSS THE CAR AND IT STOPPED DEAD. WHEN THE
MILITIAMEN MOVED TOWARDS THE UFO, IT DIMMED ITS "SEARCHLIGHTS" AND
DISAPPEARED.
UPON RETURNING TO THE POLICE STATION, THE PATROLMEN NOTICED THAT
NONE COULD RECALL THE WAY BACK FROM THE MOUNTAIN --ALL MEMORY OF
THE PASSAGE HAD BEEN COMPLETELY OBLITERATED..
RADIO TALKS CONCERNING THE UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT WERE
RECORDED ON TAPE. THERE ARE IMPARTIAL WITNESSES TO THE EVENT.
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