RUSSIANS WORRIED UFOS COULD TRIGGER STAR WARS For the first time, the Russians have linked

their opposition to Star Wars with UFOs, saying that they are worried that UFOs could accidentally trigger a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. In an extraordinary article titled UFOs and Security published in the official Soviet Military Review, the Russians expressed concern that the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)computers might mistakenly order that UFOs be fired upon, thinking they were enemy missiles or launch an unprovoked counter attack against the Soviet Union. The magazine reported that the USSR Academy of Sciences has been unable to find prosaic explanation for tens of thousands of UFOs that have been seen over Russia. Three hundred Sovietscientists and other experts met in Tomsk last year to consider the UFO phenomenon. Michael C. Luckman, Director of the New York Center for UFO Research (NYCUFOR) called the Russian statement on UFOs and security an extraordinary admission that UFOs are real.Luckman urged the United Nations to take appropriate action to inform the people of the world about UFOs that are visiting Earth and their possible impact on all mankind. Not only are UFOs real,said Luckman, but according to Senator Barry Goldwater they are classified Above Top Secret.We have 10,000 pages of official documents declassified by the United States government and released under the Freedom of Information Act, that clearly show that UFOs exist, that they are operated under intelligent control, and that they are taken very seriously by this and other great nations of the world. Luckman emphasized that There is no reason to believe that extraterrestrials pose any threat whatsoever to the human race. President Ronald Reagan publicly stated on three separate occasions that If the Earth faced an invasion by extraterrestrials, the United States and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. (Dec. 4, 1985, Fallston High School, Maryland; September 17, 1987, opening of the 42nd session of the United Nations; and May 4, 1988, the National Strategy Forum, Chicago). Addressing officials in Russia on February 16, 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev disclosed that Reagan had raised the issue of a possible extraterrestrial invasion of Earth during the Geneva Summit on November 18-20. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, said Gorbachev,though I think it early yet to worry about such an intrusion. Major Ret. Colman VonKeviczky, Director of ICUFON, a leading American research organization, is the man who sparked Russian action on the Star Wars-UFO issue. Major Von Keviczky, who servedin the Royal Hungarian Army, has personally discussed the issue with military officials in Denmark, France, Switzerland, Sweden,Austria, Hungary and Spain.

Major VonKeviczky played a major role in laying the groundwork for the matter of UFOs and international security to be brought before the Special Political Committee of the UnitedNations General Assembly on November 27, 1978. Among the documents that Major Von Keviczky has uncovered is a treaty agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union signed on September 30, 1971. The treaty provides that each party notify the other immediately in the event of detection by missile warning systems of unidentified objects or in the event of signs of interference with these systems or with related communications facilities, if such occurrences could create a risk of outbreak of nuclear war between the two countries. Antonio Huneeus, an international science writer and LatinAmerican Continental Coordinator for the Mutual UFO Network(MUFON), said, It is remarkable that while the American Academy of Sciences is still quoting their 1969 endorsement of the controversial Condon Report on UFOs, their Soviet counterpart seems to be way ahead in pursuing research of this important contemporary phenomenon. Luckman and Major VonKeviczky will discuss the UFO-Star Wars issue as it pertains to the United States and Russia at the Whole Life Expo on October 6 and 7 at the New York Penta Hotel in Manhattan. Von Keviczky and Huneeus are scheduled to address an international UFO conference called Dialogue With the Universe,to be held from October 26 to 29 in Frankfurt, West Germany. SERGEI KOROLYOV, LEV TERMEN AND SOVIET SPACE PROGRAM LEV TERMEN The story of Lev Sergeievitch Termen reads like a spy novel. In the United States he was known as Leon Theremin. Professor Theremin was born in the city of St. Petersburg, in the Imperial Russia, in 1896. He became one of the most important pioneers in the development of electronic music through the instrument the Tereminvox (commonly referred to as the Theremin). He lived in New York, and had a number of high society patrons who helped him with funds to conduct his experiments. The devices he came up with , unusual and fantastic for the time, included a prototype color television system. In 1938 Theremin was kidnapped from the New York apartment he shared with his American wife, the black ballet dancer Ivana Williams. The operation was carried out by the NKVD (forerunners of the KGB). Leon Theremin was transported back to the US SR, accused of anti-Soviet propaganda, and sent to the Gulag concentration camps. While he spent some time in Magadan, Soviet agents spread the rumors that Theremin was executed. However, the Soviets recognized his talents, and he was put to work on top secret projects. During the years he spent as a Soviet scientist-slave (some of them in a missile design office behind bars, or sharashka in Russian) he met such imprisoned scientists as Sergei Korolyov. Theremin invented the bug, a sophisticated electronic eavesdropping device. Theremin supervised the bugging of the American embassy, and of Stalin private apartments. He was awarded the Stalin Prize. Theremin was also asked

to head the UFO research laboratory. Soviet Radio magazine published an interview with Theremin in its Issue # 8 (1990). During the early 1960s Lev Termen was offered to head a laboratory, a secret facility designed and built for the research of flying saucers apparently captured by Soviets. The scientist believed in neither E.T.s nor in saucers, and he refused. Lev Termen had returned to the United States years later, when the system that had imprisoned him had fallen apart, and there was no more Soviet Union. He died in 1995. SERGEI KOROLYOV As I mentioned before, Termen met Korolyov in a prison for Soviet scientists. Sergei Korolyov life was dedicated to space exploration. Yet in his lifetime Korolyov witnessed both UFOs and concentration camps. His biography included the following facts (Military Encyclopedic Dictionary (Moscow, Ministry of Defense of the USSR publishing house VOYENIZDAT, 1986) Korolyov Sergei Pavlovich (1970-66), a Soviet scientist, designer of rocket space technological systems, founder of the applied science of space travel, twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1956, 1961), Academician of the Academy of Sciences, USSR (1958). Graduated from the Moscow Technical College (1929). From 1930, senior engineer at the Central Aerodynamical Institute; from 11933, Deputy Director of the Jet Propulsion Scientific Research Institute, head of the rocket aircraft section. During the Great Fatherland War, Deputy Chief Designer at the Experimental Design Office. Under Korolyov guidance, ballistic and geophysical missiles had been created;first artificial Earth satellites, and artificial Sun satellites, various purpose satellites (Elektron,Molniya1,Kosmos,Zond, and others); the spacecraft Vostok,Voskhod -- through the use of which, for the first time in history, mankind spaceflights and the entry into space were undertaken. Recipient of the Lenin Award (1957).In short, Korolyov was a credible man. There are episodes in Korolyov life that could never be included in a Soviet publication. He was arrested in 1938 by secret police. Stalin henchmen find him guilty of treason, and sentence Korolyov to ten years in concentration camps. He is sent to the horrifying prisons and camps of the Gulag. Even in the darkest periods of Soviet history brave people resisted the tyranny: Korolyov found friends in high places and was released in 1944. While in prison, Korolyov worked in the sharashka a prison for scientists whose brains could be cheaply utilized for the good of the State. He was fortunate enough to find himself at the famous Prison Design Center of A.N. Tupolev, designer of Soviet TU aircraft, as Tupolev assistant. Korolyov believed in the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations. He did mentioned (albeit briefly) in his memoirs a mysterious laboratory for the study of flying saucers Korolyov interest was primarily in the engine design a alien crafts. Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Grechko confirmed it. In the late 1950 Grechko worked with Korolyov. They were developing ballistic trajectory for the MAR-I spaceship. Grechko was an ardent proponent of the E.T. explanation of the Tunguska Phenomenon. At the Korolyov

designer bureau he found six more scientists who believed likewise. They found a report put together by A. Zolotov (who was murdered in 1995). The report stated that there was a nuclear explosion of alien spaceship in 1908 over the Siberian taiga. An expedition to the site was long overdue, in the opinion of seven scientists. Korolyov heard them out, and to their surprise, fully agreed. But he would not fund it, although his bureau had plenty of funds. Valentin Krapiva, a UFO researcher who has collected information about Korolyov, thinks that the latter wanted to conceal the fact of such an expedition. But he did find a way to help them pay for it. Grechko memoirs were published in Stroitelnaya Gazeta newspaper (November 25, 1989). The part about the actual expedition undertaken by future cosmonaut and his colleagues was omitted from the memoirs. One thing is certain: after his meeting with Stalin regarding the unidentified flying objects, Korolyov became an ardent supporter of A. Kasantsev (a famous Soviet sci-fi writer, himself an excolonel, and head of military plant) idea that the Tunguska Phenomenon could have been an alien spaceship. Not only did Korolyov encourage his employees to conduct a search of the object that exploded over the taiga in 1908, but according to some reports, he himself organized one of the expeditions. As reported in Yuri Smirnov article The Tunguska Explosion (Chetvertoye Izmereniye newspaper, Yaroslavl, Issue 6, 1992), S.P. Korolyov did not exclude the possibility that an alien spaceship conducted maneuvers over the Siberian taiga. Sergei Pavlovich was one of the first organizers of the helicopter expedition to the area of the Podkamennaya Tunguska. Mr Smirnov is the head of Yaroslavl UFO Study Group, a well known Russian scientist, author and researcher of UFO phenomena. Korolyov personally experienced a UFO sighting over the Baikonur Cosmodrom in 1962. The engineers, who accompanied the rocket designer, reported that the UFO was a disc-shaped object in the center of a spiral cloud, and it had four rays aimed downwards from the hull. Paul Stonehill Russian Ufology Research Center rurc@earthlink.net