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 WARN WARNING; TOPIC; DOMESTIC POLITICAL
 SERI SERIAL;  CEP201101116000169
 COUN COUNTRY; AZERBAIJAN, RUSSIA
 SUBJ SUBJi    AZERI SECURITY MINISTRY DENIES RUSSIAN REPORT ON UFO
 FLYING OVER BORDER
 SOUR SOURCE;  BAKU EKSPRESS IN AZER.I 0001 GMT 16 NOV 00
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 [FBIS TRANSLATED EXCERPT]    AZERI SECURITY MINISTRY DENIES
 RUSSIAN REPORT ON UFO FLYING OVER BORDER
 EXCERPTS FROM HASAN AGAJAN REPORT BY AZERBAIJANI NEWSPAPER
 `EKSPRESS' ENTITLED "THE FLIGHT OF THE SAUCER"
 [SUBHEAD] "A FLYING SAUCER" HAS BEEN NOTICED ON THE
 RUSSIAN-AZERBAIJANI BORDER
 RUSSIAN BORDER GUARDS, WHO, ALMOST EVERY DAY, REPORT ABOUT THE
 APPREHENSION OF "CHECHEN MILITNTS, WHO ARE TRYING TO CROSS INTO
 AZERBAIJAN ILLEGALLY", HAVE NOW STARTED TO SEE FLYING SAUCERS ON
 THE BORDER BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.
 [PASSAGE OMITTED; QUOTING A: RUSSIAN SOURCE ON THE SUBJECT. FOR
 EARLIER REPORT SEE ITAR-TASS NEWS AGENCY, MOSCOW, IN ENGLISH 1955
 GMT 15 NOV 00 ENTITLED "RUSSIA CLAIMS 'UFO' SEEN OVER NORTH
 CAUCASUS REPUBLIC"]
 THE BORDER TROOPS OF THE AZERBAIJANI MINISTRY OF NATIONAL
 SECURITY SAID THAT "OUR BORDER GUARDS HAD NOT SEEN ANY 'FLYING
 SAUCER'".
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