(EST PUB DATE) CORRECTION -- AIR DEFENSE FORCES CHIEF INTERVIEWED

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005517719
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: April 20, 1991

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COUNTRY: USSR
SUBJ: CORRECTION -- AIR DEFENSE FORCES CHIEF INTERVIEWED
REF: 1. WA1904201791 ANSWERING DAILY REPORT 3Z
2. LD1404191791 AND ADDS MOSCOW CTV1 RUSS 45 --
AIR DEFENSE FORCES CHIEF INTERVIEWED
TEXT:
CAMOUFLAGED BUNKER.))
((UNIDENTIFIED OFFICER)) ((PASSAGE INDISTINCT))
((DENISOV)) COMRADE ARMY GENERAL, THERE ARE NO (?AIR TARGETS
WITHIN) ((WORD INDISTINCT)). (?DUTY ASSETS-ARE READY FOR ACTION;
READINESS LEVELS TWO, THREE, AND FOUR.) OPERATIONAL DUTY OFFICER
COLONEL DENISOV.
((TRETYAK)) GOOR MORNING. ((WORDS INDISTINCT.)) GENTLEMEN.
((DENISOV)) GENTLEMEN.
((DENISOV)) ACCORDING TO TODAY'S PLAN, COMRADE ARMY GENERAL,
THERE ARE 386 REPORTS, 386 AIRCRAFT SORTIES. BY NOW WE HAVE
PROCESSED 180 AIRBORNE PLANES. ALL OF THESE PLANES ARE OURS.
TODAY, ACCORDING TO THE FORMATION COMMANDER'S PLAN, WE ARE
CONDUCTING TACTICAL TRAINING WITH TWO UNITS. WE ARE EXPECTING EIGHT
FIGHTERS AS CONTROL TARGETS AND ONE LOW-ALTITUDE, LOW-SIGNATURE ONE,
SUCH AS THE MI-8. THAT'S AT 1500.
((TRETYAK)) SO YOU ALREADY KNOW THE TIME WHEN THEY ARE TO COME?
((DENISOV)) THIS IS ACCORDING TO THE FORMATION COMMANDER'S PLAN,
COMRADE ARMY GENERAL. THAT'S US CHECKING THE UNITS.
((TRETYAK)) I SEE. THAT'S RIGHT. THEN IT'S FINE. FINE. WHAT
IS THE PERCENTAGE OF DEFECTIVE EQUIPMENT IN THE FORMATION TODAY?
((DENISOV)) WELL, COMRADE ARMY GENERAL, I CAN REPORT THAT AT THIS
MOMENT THE EQUIPMENT IS 100 PERCENT READY FOR ACTION.
((TRETYAK)) IN THE ZRV ((ZENITNO-RAKETNYYE VOYSKA)) ((ANTI-
AIRCRAFT.MISSILE TROOPS))?
((DENISOV)) IN THE"ZRV.
((TRETYAK)) AND IN THE (?RTV) (?RADAR TROOPS)?
((DENISOV)) IN THE (?RTV) ONE RADAR STATION I:: OUT OF ACTION.
((TRETYAK)) WHICH ONE?
((DENISOV)) WELL, 50 ((CASTS WARNING LOOK TOWARD THE CAMERA)) 55-
ZH-6.
((TRETYAK)) I SEE. WHAT MEASURES HAVE BEEN TAKEN?
((DENISOV)) WELL, MEASURES, REPORTS HAVE BEEN SENT TO THE
EQUIPMENT BODIES AND WE ARE TRYING TO PUT IT RIGHT WITH OUR OWN
RESOURCES.
((TRETYAK)) HAS A REPAIR CREW BEEN CALLED OUT?
((DENISOV)) YES SIR. A REPAIR CREW HAS BEEN CALLED OUT.
((TRETYAK)) GET A REPAIR CREW ONTO IT.
((DENISOV)) YES SIR. ((VIDEO SHOWS TRETYAKOV///SUPPLYING OMITTED
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READ///AT ANY MOMENT.
((VOVNENKO)) IVAN MOISEYEVICH, THESE DAYS WHATEVER PROGRAM YOU
TURN TO, YOU INVERIABLY GET FLYING SAUCERS THERE, EITHER ABOVE
MOSCOW, OR AROUND MOSCOW. DO YOU GET VISITS FROM THEM?
((TRETYAK)) I HAVE RECENTLY HAD A LARGE ARTICLE IN LITE:RATURNAYA
GAZETA. I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU THAT UFO QUESTIONS INVOLVE A GREAT
NUMBER OF MYTHS, A GREAT NUMBER OF TALL STORIES. IN PRACTICE, AS
FOR SAYING THAT THEY WERE HERE AND WE SAW THEM AND REGISTERED THEM,
I COULDN'T SAY THAT AT ALL.
WE HAD AN EVENT HERE, NEAR MOSCOW. WE GOT FIXES ON IT, TRACKED
IT WITH RADAR. THEN WE SORTED IT OUT AND IT WAS NOT A UPO. IT HAD
NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
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