Here's an interesting item from the latest issue of Just Cause
   (Dec. 1993, CAUS PO Box 218, Coventry CT. 06238, $15/year):
 
   DOCUMENT HINTS AT EXPLANATION FOR RUSSIAN UFO WAVE
 
   The Department of State has released a cable making a remarkable
   claim. Dated June 30, 1987, the message reads as follows:
 
   "(Deleted) reports that Soviet authorities have constructed an SDI
   research station near the Radio-Physics Institute in the area of
   Stavropol. The research station apparently is focusing its work on
   electromagnetic methods of shooting down satellites. When tests are
   run, the resulting microwaves can be detected by scientists working at
   the Radiophysics Institute. Perhaps of equal interest is that this
   area has the largest number of UFO sightings in the USSR. A phenomenon
   which our contact says is due to the various SDI experiments conducted
   there."
 
   The message is not detailed enough to evaluate the statements made. If
   true, the story has large implications. Depending upon the nature of
   the experiments, since the US was heavily engaged in SDI testing
   during the Reagan administration, it is conceivable that some of our
   testing was responsible as well for UFO reports here. We could then
   see the theory of passive manipulation in effect, much like that which
   may have been behind the press coverage of the July 1952 wave (Just
   Cause, June 1993, pg. 1). In other words, it is better to allow the
   population to believe that they are seeing flying saucers instead of
   knowing the true nature of what is responsible for whatever aerial
   phenomenon is detected - secret SDI experiments.
 
   And again, if true, the above emphasizes the point of restraint about
   which we are constantly reminding our readers. Any sort of aerial
   activity is almost instantly determined to be alien-orientated by a
   large percentage of the UFO community. There may be other causes for
   the visually peculiar but Earth-based events being viewed.
 
 -=END ARTICLE=-
 
   The July, 1952 wave refers to the Washington National sightings in
   D.C. Does anyone have any idea what type of testing may have been done
   there that could have later been passed off as flying saucers? As I
   recall the official explanation for the D.C. sightings and radar
   reports was temperature inversions, and it wasn't "passed off" to the
   media as anything else, except by Keyhoe.
 
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