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 WARN WARNING: TOPIC: DOMESTIC POLITICAL, TECHNOLOGY
 SERI SERIAL:  CEP20001117000432
 COUN COUNTRY: RUSSIA
 SUBJ SUBJ:    RUSSIA: AIR FORCE DISMISSES REPORTS ON UFO SIGHTINGS
 SOUR SOURCE:  MOSCOW INTERFAX IN ENGLISH 1646 GMT 16 NOV 00
 TEXT TEXT:
 (FBIS TRANSCRIBED TEXT]      MOSCOW, NOV 16 (INTERFAX) --
 RUSSIA'S AIR FORCE DISMISSED ON THURSDAY REPORTS THAT AN
 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT WAS SIGHTED IN RUSSIA EARLY ON TUESDAY.
 A DAILY REPORT BY THE INTERIOR MINISTRY OF RUSSIA'S DAGESTAN
 REGION SAID GUARDS AT TWO RUSSIAN FRONTIER POSTS SAW A UFO AT 1.45
 A.M. NEAR RUSSIA'S BORDER WITH AZERBAIJAN.
 THE GUARDS, STATIONED NEAR THE VILLAGES OF KAZMALYAR AND NOVY
 FILYA IN DAGESTAN'S MAGARAMKENT DISTRICT, SAID THEY WATCHED AN
 OBJECT FLYING QUICKLY AT AN ALTITUDE OF ABOUT 100 METERS FOR TWO
 MINUTES.
 THEY SAID THE OBJECT WAS MOVING TOWARD THE CASPIAN SEA FROM THE
 VICINITY OF LOCAL MOUNTAINS.
 WERETEVIDENCEHTHATNTHEEOBJECTTWASWNOTEAEMISSILETFIRED EACH OTHER"
 NEIGHBORING CHECHNYA, THE GUARDS SAID.
 MEANWHILE, NORTH CAUCASUS BORDER GUARD CHIEF GEN. YEVGENY
 BOLKHOVITIN SAID ON THURSDAY A'"CENTRAL AIR DEFENSE CONTROL POST"
 HAD TOLD HIM THE SUPPOSED UFO HAD BEEN A "RUSSIAN SPACE VEHICLE."
 THE AIR FORCE SPOKESMAN IN MOSCOW DISMISSED THE GENERAL'S
 WORDS.
 "GEN. BOLKHOVITIN'S ASSERTIONS, WITH REFERENCE TO A CENTRAL AIR
 DEFENSE CONTROL POST, THAT A RUSSIAN SPACE VEHICLE FLEW OVER
 DAGESTAN ARE NOT TRUE TO FACT," SPOKESMAN ALEXANDER DROBYSHEVSKY
 TOLD INTERFAX.
 APPROVED FOR RELEASE
 DATE:JUL 2002
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