UFOs AND CLOSE ENCOUNTERS (The Best of Fate Magazine) by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-10-15T21:00:00+00:00

J. Antonio Huneeus is a Chilean-American science writer who researched flying saucer encounters on a grant from Laurence Rockefeller. Here is his own report of Russian UFOs and UFO research.

UFOs OVER RUSSIA

By J. Antonio Huneeus

(1994)

Aura-Z, the slick new illustrated quarterly journal of ufological and paranormal phenomena published by the Moscow-based Scientific Research Center, fills an important gap. It makes quality papers and reports about anomalous phenomena drawn from the vast, rich Russian literature available in English.

Until recently, normal exchanges between Russian and foreign researchers were prevented by the Cold War and language barriers. Publication of UFO and paranormal literature was heavily censored by the Soviet communist regime.

Articles by Felix Zigel, Alexander Kazantsev, and a few others, dealing with subjects like UFO sightings in the USSR, the 1908 Tunguska explosion, and the theory of ancient astronauts, had tremendous impact in the West when they slipped through censorship—either by design or accident—and appeared in official magazines like Sputnik or Soviet Life for foreign consumption.

There are few sources of information about Russian ufology available in the U.S. For years there was only a single book, UFOs From Behind the Iron Curtain, by Ion Hobana and Julien Weverbergh, a Rumanian and a Belgian researcher, respectively, published in 1974.

The new and warmer climate of perestroika and glasnost in the late 1980s led to an opening of ufology that exploded in an unprecedented wave of public interest by 1989.

In 1991 I edited an anthology of Russian articles on NLA (the Russian word for UFO) and other subjects like cryptozoology and ancient mysteries entitled A Study Guide to UFOs, Psychic & Paranormal Phenomena in the USSR, (Abelard).

A year later, Jacques Vallee published his UFO Chronicles in the Soviet Union—A Cosmic Samizdat (Ballantine Books), which covered the celebrated Voronezh flap of 1989, the anomalous zone in Perm (also known as M Triangle), the Tunguska explosion, and other cases.

By the time the book came out, the Soviet Union had been replaced by the current Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

Considering the enormous territory and the human and technical resources of the former USSR, the number of articles in English on Russian cases is unfortunately small.

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