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THREAD 3— THE SECRET UFO STUDY B o t h A v r a m e n k o and C o l o n e l S o k o l o v t o l d us that m i l i t a r y s tudies of U F O s a r e s t i l l u n d e r w a y in Russia. W i t h t h eir help, we l o c a t e d the c i v i l i a n o f f i c i a l w h o c o o r d i n a t e s the c u r r e n t MOD U F O effort. He spoke to us on th e c o n d i t i o n that we not reveal his name, and I am keeping t h a t p r o m i s e e v e n t h o u g h this m a n ' s name has b een m e n t i o n e d in articles a b o u t R u s s i a n u f o l o g y p u b l i s h e d in o t her countries. We m e t w i t h him s e v e r a l t i m e s w h i l e in M o s c o w and he c o n f i r m e d that the R u s s i a n m i l i t a r y is s t i l l s t u d y i n g U FOs in hopes of i n c o r p o r a t i n g the i n f o r m a t i o n into weapons programs. The e x i s t e n c e of this study was f u r t h e r co n f i r m e d w h e n w e o b t a i n e d s e v e r a l d o z e n pag e s of s t i l l - c l a s s i f i e d d o c u m e n t s and m a n a g e d to g e t t h o s e out of the country. Of all t h e m a t e r i a l we b r o u g h t b a c k from Russia, n o t h i n g was more impressive or p o t e n t i a l l y s i g n i f i c a n t t han t h ese e x p l o s i v e pages. A c c o r d i n g to th e d o c u m e n t s and our witness, o f f i c i a l R u s s i a n i n terest in U F O s is f o c u s e d in the M O D study, c ode n a med Thread 3. T h e s e d o c u m e n t s m a k e it c l e a r that the R u s s i a n m i l i t a r y is very s e r i o u s a b o u t UFOs, t hat it m o n i t o r s UFO d e v e l o p m e n t s a n d issues on a w o r l d w i d e basis, t h a t it is intent on f iguring out h o w UFOs w o r k and how su c h t e c h n o l o g y c a n be exploited. The R u s s i a n s are fully a w are that a l a r g e p e r c e n t a g e of U F O si g h t i n g s are a c t u a l l y m i s i d e n t i f i c a t i o n s of e x p l a i n a b l e p h e n o m e n a but t hey r e c o g n i z e that m a n y si g h t i n g s are not e a s i l y e x p l a i n a b l e , and m a y v e r y w ell be, quote, "flying obj e c t s of s t r a n g e r s f r o m o t h e r p l a n e t s or ne w c o m e r s from p a r a l l e l w o rlds." T h e b o t t o m line p u r p o s e of T h r e a d 3, as d e s c r i b e d on one p age of th e d o c u m e n t s is "to c o n d u c t w i d e r a n g e i n v e s t i g a t i o n s in o r d e r to find ou t n e w p r i n c i p l e s of n o n - t r a d i t i o n a l p r o p e l l i n g agents and a c c o m p a n y i n g fi elds" c o n s i s t e n t w i t h d e s c r i p t i o n s f rom UFO e y e w itnesses. T h e d o c u m e n t s o u t l i n e a fairly s p ecific t i m e t a b l e for this study, to be c o n c l u d e d in 1995. A l s o i n c l u d e d is a d e t a i l e d h i s t o r y of UFO s t u d i e s in the USSR. T his h i s t o r y notes that the s t udy of UFOs was s e v e r e l y h i n d e r e d b e g i n n i n g in 1953 w h e n R a d i o M o s c o w l a u n c h e d an o f f i c i a l l y s a n c t i o n e d c o n d e m n a t i o n of such r e s e a r c h by d i s m i s s i n g the U F O t o p i c as "an i n v e n t i o n of A m e r i c a n imperialists, a s t u p i d t ale for s t i r r i n g up war, for i n t i m i d a t i n g the t a x p a y e r s and the C o n g r e s s in o r d e r to c o n f i r m an e x c e s s i v e l y high (defense) b udget." In the early 5 0 ' s, a n d m a n y t i mes d u r i n g the next decades, the R u s s i a n g o v e r n m e n t w o u l d e x p r e s s the o p i n i o n that the U.S. m i l i t a r y w a s p e r p e t u a t i n g the U F O s t o r y in o r d e r to jack up the A m e r i c a n d e f e n s e budget, a s t r a t e g y w h i c h d o e s not s e e m all that f a r f e t c h e d c o n s i d e r i n g w h a t w e n o w k n o w a b o u t P e n t a g o n subterfuge. 290

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Among the other highlights from the Thread 3 documents: 1) A detailed account of the Roswell crash and the creation of MJ-12. Some of the Russian information appears to have come from books or articles published in the American press. At one point in this section, the documents even quote UFO author Leonard Stringfield. But some information seems to have come from their own sources. According to the Thread 3 documents, a secret project code name Malice was created in December 1947 to act as a link between MJ 12 and Project Sign, the official military study of UFOs. It is not clear in the documents whether the Russians believe there really was, or is, and MJ 12, or whether they are merely parroting information gleaned from public sources here in the U.S. 2) The documents cite a second UFO crash near the Texas-Mexico border in November 1950. Materials collected from the crash site were transported to Sandia in New Mexico. In order to avoid public panic and to allow time for a technological study of the situation, U.S. officials clamped a lid of secrecy on the UFO matter. 3) One section of Thread 3 refers to contactees, (and it won't make Western contactees very happy). In the opinion of the writer, the people who are chosen for contact by the "UFOnauts" are selected for their "low intellect and illiteracy" because such persons are unable "to present in a clear, convincing form the meaning of this contact." In other words, the aliens choose to contact people who are too dumb to convince anyone else that such contact really happened. 4) Thread 3 contains a fairly detailed history of the U.S. government efforts to maintain a UFO coverup. It lists several specific examples in which UFO incidents were hushed up. It lists the titles and dates of official orders concerning UFO secrecy. It notes that U.S. intelligence agencies went to great lengths to find out what Russian agencies might know about UFOs. 5) Thread 3 contains detailed references to encounters with UFOs in the air and in space, involving Russians and Americans. "The descriptions of all cases of collisions between aircraft and UFOs could make a collection of many volumes," the report states. COSMONAUTS AND ASTRONAUTS As for cosmonaut encounters, they may have begun with the first Russian in space, Yuri Gagarin. Gagarin is quoted in Thread 3 as saying that "UFOs are real, fly at incredible speeds, and that he would be willing to say more if given permission to do so." Some Russian ufologists are convinced that Gagarin died while chasing a UFO in a MIG 15. Eyewitnesses say they watched the aerial encounter but no official conclusions were mentioned.

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