USSR NATIONAL AFFAIRS SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS 'UNUSUAL' NATURAL PHRNOMENON OBSERVED IN KARELIA (PAGE U1-U2 ONLY)

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005515663
• 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: September 23, 1977

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LD221T.16Y liooccW TAS3 Inter,~ationai Service in Russian 1140 GM^a 22 Sep T7 iD _ _
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(Text] Moscow, 22 Septembor, TASS--The automatic station "Prognoa-6" wa:.-launohed-in ---:----
the Soviet Union today at 0351 Hoscov time in accordance with the spa w research progra~o. _
it is intended to continue the research begun in l gj2 by the "Prognoz" autaaiatic ob -. _ -
servatory.
Like the previous five stations in the series, "Prognoz-6" rri11 eanduct reaearoh into--_...-
the corpuscular and electroma~netio radiation of_the sun,,solar plasma flows and ?
m.,netie fields in the apace surrounding the eartk r+ith the aim of [e-mail] _.
in.?luence of solar activity on the.:interplanatary mediun_and on tho sarth~s magnetosphara,
and also research into galactic u14rt~X1QlA_C..rays,_X-rays and gamrsa-rays. Seientitle - --------
?thc station to conduct this research, in accordance_r+ith_the_pr_ogram. o~ international,
197,900 1aa, minimua- 498.=ka,-period_of_rotation round the earth 94 hours 48 minutes --
inclination of orbit 69 degre-ea._ _ _- _
The station ryas put into its: Q~signed trajectory trcm an intermediate:eartb, sataliike_,_,_
orbit. -
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The "Prognos-6"-station has Deen put-into a highly elliptical orbit as an earth ~ '
satellite, with the foliovin~~arameters: maximu~q=distance. iroas_the earths _iurtace .
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SCi'ENTIFIC AFFAgiS
Apart-from scientific apparatrs" the station also has on boards . a_radio-Sr3nam;~ter=__:_--_--______
o;.rrating on freQuency 928.E megahert~a -acrio-system top precision me;spring -or-;orpiA --
elenients and a radiotelemetry systec-_tor trans~aitting data on the operation of-the..
SnsCrrrmants and scientaic apparatus~0~earLh..~__.-,_______ ~`
Acccrding to tsien-atry intor~atioir the systems ant appar~tus_on board-.era .operating
noiwaliy. 7he,ctardinatir~ sad oomputing center and institute of the USSR Academy of
Sciences are processing .the incoming-information. --- - . ' ~ ~ ~~ .
rVI:OSVALr NATVRAL P~NOI+2:N4N 6BSEf~VEA~11~1_JCARELIA--~.:_.__.:. ~.: :'.: ~. .
LD22132bY Moscow TA33 Ints:r-ational Sergiea-in..Russian 120 OdtP 22 Sep_77 ID .:,`~' `?
[Taxtj petraeavod k 22 September; TA3Sy~Ttie'inhabitants Ot 4etrozav~dsk, capital of ===___
the Soviet F.epublic of Karelia;- have. uiMessed. ~ .usual natural-phenomenon. _. On . -. _---___-
20 September, at about 0400-a huge star suddenl~~??fired up in the dare sky, impulsively
sending shafts of light to-the earth. ThiaVatar ~o.Yed s~orrly toward yetrosavodsk and,
spreading oVt.ovar.it_.in.~h~.to~f a medusa hung there, showering the city aitb a _..
multitude of very-fine rays Whleh created an image of pou,?i>g rain.
After same Lima the ~Ir~inescent rays ceased. The "medusa" turned into a bright semi-
clrole and resumed its arovement-in-the direction of-Lake_One6a, the hori$on of r+Q-i.ch -- -
vas shrouded in dray cloud. A se-t'_c:~:~:~: ;,col of Drigh: light, red in :.ae middle and
white at the sides. then foiraed i.n this shroud. TY-is phenomenon, according to the
testimony of eyewitnesses, lasted XO-12 minutes. -
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SCIENTIFIC A.FBAIRS
".7:^ diraetor of the ?atroxavod>k hydr~r,.e:eoroiogical oAservatory, Yu, drCtilOY, to14 e
:5~.~iv ccr:cspondonC till. vh?. .'.t$:S' ~;~ ~t;t j;;;.C~:+!1 ,?,,r?teO:c3ogical 60rYie6 hava nOt
,~reviouLly obsc;vod analat;ica GP-Lily icly~_.~:- taL~r?:. Rl:dam cal;:.pd thi: phez-aaenan acid
ite naturo rematns_.a._ri~dlg, baeause the weather-observation.poats did noC record atty.
aeve:e QEViatriops :rs ciic a.nosphere; either in-tha~prcvioas 24 hours ar is the time
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perio prior to it, -
tic aiao know. atreased 1"u. Cromav, that ho technical exparsas~ts were bain~ Carried out
yc the tira. However.-sithou~ it loft behind no naterial evldenCe, !t is a16o
:cpassiL,o to desaalbe this rare.phehar~eno.~--as_m alragaR es-there were wsny eyeaitne6eas
rho observed it (roes various papts~of-the city and-vhosn avidenas is identi4el 0!- han
points. Y._-
59PIET Wo~~lr SET MORia_FLxGHT-RECORD:. IN IL-62
I.D221922Y Moscow TASS in fir~gliati 1459 Gh", 22-Sip ?7 LD`
[Textj lIoscow. September.;22, TASS--T~TO~r+orld-records warn tet today by the.tiagehip
of Reroflot, th0 IL-62 Jai passenger plane: QccaMing to p,alLsinary data, both--
Eraur-d-based instrument and-instru~er-ts=oo-board-the-plane ;ecoried that__thq_IL-62,
piloted by a crew.oL' .fiia Wom_ e.n~haQ net a "world-distance reaard,~i.ong s: alased routs--
10,;58 kilametras. -She_aeaond xorid_. ~ d...aarrage speed eloeig=a-olosed route Ot~~_--
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,000 kildbt:rai? naw aaeount3 t0' 804 kilesal~cs nww t~miw_--:7M.--..7sw. 1s