UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat
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Es la crónica de un viaje a Moscú en enero de 1990 y de la documentación que trajo de vuelta, y el título es una declaración de método: *samizdat* es «a Russian word for a document that is secretly copied by individuals to be circulated among trusted friends» «Vallée — UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union (1992) · p. 9», porque «even today the major sources of documentation on this subject are barely readable carbon copies» «Vallée — UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union (1992) · p. 9».
Su pieza documental mayor —y la que toca a este corpus— es el informe de Roboziero, 15 de agosto de 1663, transcrito entero «Vallée — UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union (1992) · pp. 158–160», con su propia cadena de verificación de época declarada dentro del documento. El mismo documento lo analiza `bullard-myth-mystery-ufos` por su cuenta, con el mismo notario y dos transliteraciones distintas del topónimo: ver Notas de carga.
Y trae, contra lo que se esperaría de una crónica de viaje, el marco folclórico de vuelta: el ingeniero Emil Bachurin le lleva a Moscú un manuscrito samizdat titulado *Commentaries on «Passport to Magonia»* «Vallée — UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union (1992) · p. 165», y a partir de ahí Vallée recoge su propia observación sobre «the fairies, sylphs, elves, and leprechauns of medieval chronicles» «Vallée — UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union (1992) · p. 167» y añade el caso de la mano negra de Cideville, sacado de un libro de demonología de 1854 «Vallée — UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union (1992) · p. 174». Esa es la diferencia mayor entre esta obra y `vallee-harris-trinity`, donde el mismo marco se excluye por declaración expresa.
Y trae dos declaraciones de método que hay que leer antes que cualquier locator: que los nombres rusos van anglicizados y simplificados por decisión del autor «Vallée — UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union (1992) · p. 14», y que los epígrafes de cada capítulo están puestos en pares contrarios a propósito «Vallée — UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union (1992) · p. 13» — no son posición suya.
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recorded, never asserted«Vallée — UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union (1992) · p. 8»
«Vallée — UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union (1992) · p. 8»
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237 entries — the work's own voice, with its passage«Samizdat is a Russian word for a document that is secretly copied by individuals to be circulated among trusted friends.» — la definición que da título al libro, y es de método.
«even today the major sources of documentation on this subject are barely readable carbon copies of the reports and commentaries that a few dedicated Soviet researchers have been collecting» — el estado material de la fuente.
«This book is a tribute to their perseverance and courage.» — declara el libro como homenaje a esa cadena de custodia informal.
«the transliteration of Russian names. Instead I have tried to simplify them while retaining their most common form of pronunciation, and I have taken the liberty of anglicizing many first names.» — declara que no siguió estándares rígidos; la frase arranca al pie de la p. 13. Los nombres propios de esta obra están normalizados por el autor.
«The subject of UFOs divides Soviet scientific opinion just as much as it does the Western public.» — el diagnóstico del que sale su dispositivo editorial.
«To highlight this controversy, I have presented selected quotes from both sides before every chapter in the text.» — declara que los epígrafes son un dispositivo de contraste, no su posición.
«this report, with all its details, was entered into the records of the monasterv of St. Cvril in 1663, forty years before the first newspaper appeared in Russia» — así lo enmarca; `monasterv` y `Cvril` son corrupción de la capa de texto y se consignan tal cual.
«salutations from your humble servant Ivachko Rievskoi.» — el encabezamiento del documento, dirigido al archimandrita Nikita y al sínodo del monasterio de San Cirilo.
«The farmer Lievko Fiedorov, from the village of Mys, has related to me the following facts» — la atribución del testimonio dentro del documento de 1663.
«On this Saturday the fifteenth day of August of the year 1663, the faithful from the district of Bieloziero had assembled in great number in the church of the village of Roboziero.» — la datación y el lugar.
«which for him was a sign from God» — cómo entendió el testigo lo que vio, según el propio documento.
«At noon a large ball of fire came down over Roboziero, arriving from the clearest part of the cloudless heavens.» — el cuerpo del suceso.
«It came from the direction whence winter comes and it moved toward the lake, passing over the church.» — la orientación, dicha en el vocabulario de la época.
«The ball of fire measured some 140 feet from one edge to the other and over the same distance, ahead of it, two ardent rays were extended.» — las medidas y los dos rayos.
«Fishermen who were in their boat on the lake, a little over one mile away, were deeply burned by the heat.» — los efectos físicos sobre los pescadores.
«The waters of the lake were illuminated to their greatest depth of thirty feet and the fish swam away toward shore.» — Sobre el lago.
«The prudent author of the report took pains to send an investigator, as he concludes» — la glosa con que introduce el cierre del documento.
«And I, your servant, dispatched a messenger to the priests of the district of Bieloziero who confirmed in writing that what was related did happen at that date and place.» — la verificación que el propio notario de 1663 declara haber hecho.
«The modern public and many researchers often assume that such old reports should be discounted» — su objeción al descarte fácil de la fuente antigua.
«In the words of an American ufologist, all that is “folklore of dubious authenticity.”» — la fórmula que atribuye, sin nombrarlo, a un ufólogo estadounidense.
«Such arguments are used to support the idea that the UFO phenomenon is of recent origin and follows the narrow patterns ascribed to it by the ufologists in question.» — a qué sirve, según él, ese descarte.
«The Roboziero report gives the lie to such a hasty judgment.» — su conclusión sobre el descarte.
«Not only is it one of the earliest cases on record involving beams causing physiological effects, but it is given with all the earmarks of careful investigation and intellectual integrity.» — por qué le da valor al documento.
«It is noteworthy that the people involved, including the author of the report, thought they were preserving the record of a sign from God.» — su argumento de fiabilidad es de sanción institucional, no de ingenuidad.
«They were transmitting it to the highest authority of their church, and the penalties for distortion would have been severe.» — Su segunda mitad: la pena por distorsionar.
«What we have here is a valuable report from the depth of tsarist Russia, describing the UFO phenomenon in its full glory with its most modern characteristics.» — el cierre del argumento.
«His story had never been published anywhere until Le Figaro featured his encounters and his paintings in the article Martine wrote following our trip.» — sobre el pintor Malichev, 21 de julio de 1975; adjudica la primera publicación a su colaboradora.
«But everyone we met in Moscow seemed to have heard of it.» — la circulación oral frente a la ausencia de publicación: eso es lo que llama *samizdat*.
«Malichev's observation is one of the cases that demonstrate polymorphism, in my opinion one of the principal arguments against the idea that UFOs are simply spacecraft from another planet.» — su posición declarada sobre el polimorfismo.
«The disk divided itself into eight parts that reunited into a single block, turned into a torus, then a cylinder.» — la descripción del cambio de forma.
«The same question can be asked, of course, about many other UFO reports in the Soviet Union and elsewhere.» — se abstiene de resolver el caso y generaliza la pregunta de Azhazha.
«Firsthand personal interview with the witness by a source of proven reliability» — grado máximo del primer dígito, fiabilidad de la fuente.
«Site visit by a skilled analyst» — grado máximo del segundo dígito, visita al sitio.
«No natural explanation possible, given the evidence» — grado máximo del tercer dígito, explicaciones posibles.
«A new effort in this direction is given here in the appendix, but it is too early to tell if it can be applied successfully to the Soviet data.» — acota el alcance de su propio sistema.
«with the caveat, of course, that it constitutes only a very small sample of the overall phenomenon in the Soviet Union.» — El de su índice de casos.
«The first scientist who made an effort to compile these observations was Felix Zigel.» — consigna al primer compilador soviético por su nombre.
«In a report published in 1979 by the Academy of Sciences, time and space data were found to correlate closely among Soviet samples and Western databases.» — la convergencia estadística entre bloques.
«the three authors of the Soviet study found that half of all sightings in their sample lasted between one and nineteen minutes» — la cifra, contra un tercio en las bases que él y Claude Poher habían compilado.
«sighting frequency tends to increase in the early evening hours, going through a maximum between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m.» — la Ley de los Tiempos, confirmada de forma independiente.
«It is perhaps in this area that the Soviet students of the phenomenon have been most perceptive, while Western specialists remained obsessed with static models» — su juicio sobre las fases de formación, en verbo de decir.
«In total, the Soviet catalog contained no less than 149 separate changes or transitions affecting the objects.» — la cifra del catálogo.
«At this point I am not aware of any similar study of shape transitions in the West.» — declaración de ausencia comparativa.
«bringing a surprise for me: a copy of his book Commentaries on “Passport to Magonia.”» — el ingeniero de minas Emil Bachurin le trae a Moscú un comentario manuscrito de su propio *Passport to Magonia*.
«Written in 1988, it circulated among Soviet ufologists in samizdat form.» — Ese comentario circulaba exactamente como el resto del material del libro.
«In part of his manuscript, Bachurin comments on my observation that UFO entities often behave in a way that is reminiscent of the beings of legend, the fairies, sylphs, elves, and leprechauns of medieval chronicles.» — Vallée consigna su propia observación folclórica como cosa suya, aunque llegue aquí a través del comentario de un tercero.
«In Commentaries on “Passport to Magonia," Bachurin returns to the topic of abductions several times.» — la mano negra como episodio recurrente del manuscrito.
«Beaders of Magonia and of my recent book Dimensions may recall an encounter that happened on the banks of the Loire Biver in 1950» — remite a sus dos libros anteriores; `Beaders` por *Readers* y `Loire Biver` por *Loire River* son el patrón `R`→`B` del OCR.
«I found yet another “black hand” case, this time in a rare book of demonology published in 1854 entitled Moeurs et Pratiques des Demons on des Esprits Visiteurs by Gougenot des Mousseaux.» — el único puente explícito de esta obra al corpus demonológico occidental; `Demons on` por *Démons ou* es del OCR.
«Describing a series of unexplained manifestations that took place in Cideville, Normandy, circa 1850, the author relates a number of apparent encounters with invisible entities.» — el caso de Cideville, tomado de Gougenot des Mousseaux.
«Such incidents, in my view, throw a completely new light on the abduction reports that have too long been treated in a purely extraterrestrial context.» — La posición que saca de ahí, en primera persona.
«But this last case is almost like a fairy tale,» — su propia objeción a Azhazha ante un relato de abducción, y sigue «We cannot study this subject as a purely technical problem».
«The kind of absurdity to which Bachurin referred has been a characteristic of the phenomenon for a long time.» — el absurdo como rasgo, no como defecto del testimonio.
«French researcher Aime Michel first noticed it during the 1954 wave in France, when he spoke of “a festival of absurdities.”» — Lo adjudica a Aimé Michel; grafía `Aime` sin acento tal cual.
«Some researchers in the West, notably U.S. geologist Dr. John Derr and British author Paul Devereux, have argued that physical stresses within the earth could generate luminous objects that might be mistaken for UFOs.» — expone la hipótesis de las luces telúricas.
«Devereux even went beyond this hypothesis when he suggested that “earth lights,” as he called them, might themselves be endowed with a form of consciousness» — Consigna la versión fuerte de Devereux sin suscribirla.
«we were not blind to the fact that many Soviet sightings either were sorely lacking in documentation or came from unreliable sources» — consigna, sin suavizar, que gran parte del material no aguanta.
«It seemed to us that hypnotic regression, in many Soviet cases, was conducted with the same lack of standards and precautions that characterized the enthusiastic, but often misguided, American research» — su reserva sobre la hipnosis, extendida a ambos lados.
«Anyone voicing concern about such abuse of hypnosis, as I did, was attacked with a vehemence that betrayed considerable inner rage in these researchers» — consigna la reacción que su crítica provocó en el campo estadounidense.
«they did not censor from their data base the observations that failed to fit their theory, no matter how strange.» — Le concede al campo soviético una virtud que le niega al estadounidense.
«their whole methodology, in my opinion, has yet to be independently tested» — El límite que le pone.
«Too often, they have simply swallowed the lies that abound in the Western literature about such topics as abductions and crashed saucers, and adopted them as gospel simply because these stories came from the United States.» — objeta la importación acrítica de la literatura estadounidense.
«It is not so much the extent to which dowsing was used and applied that surprised us, as it is the high level of reliability Soviet researchers ascribed to it.» — su reserva sobre la biolocación, que fue lo que motivó el viaje.
«Obviously, we still have much to learn in this area.» — Cierra ese punto sin validarla.
«we differed with Larissa Kolessova on her assessment of astrology, and we continued to challenge the authenticity of the UMMO symbol on the side of the Voronezh object.» — sus dos desacuerdos nombrados.
«When Martine pointed out that the insignia had first been associated with a Spanish episode that was widely regarded as an outright hoax» — la objeción de Castello sobre el símbolo UMMO.
«There was disagreement on this point among the researchers in the room.» — Consigna que los propios soviéticos no coincidían.
«Professor Migulin told us he thought the sightings in Voronezh were simply mistaken observations of rocket launches from Volgograd,» — registra el desacuerdo con el académico oficial y deja en pie la réplica de Azhazha sin arbitrar.
«There is the truth we seek and the truth we need to believe in, and these two truths are not necessarily identical.» — la regla epistémica que declara sobre sí mismo y sobre el campo.
«genuine UFO data are buried within hoaxes, undocumented tales, and an enormous mass of wishful thinking» — Su aplicación al material soviético.
«After carefully studying several contactee organizations and occult groups, some of which I had actually joined for a short time» — declara su propio método de campo con las sectas, en primera persona.
«I had come to the conclusion that high-demand sects were a very significant component of UFO mythology, although they had no hard data and no insight into the actual nature of the phenomenon.» — la conclusión que reclama para *Messengers of Deception* (1979).
«many ufologists (notably those who belonged to organized groups) reacted to the book with a level of anger that was out of proportion to the comments I had offered» — La reacción que consigna.
«studies for which the Air Force's Project Blue Book was only a public relations cover. But results have never been revealed by the Pentagon.» — da el rumor occidental como no confirmado, en la misma frase.
«Another aspect of the field with which the Soviet researchers seem perfectly comfortable has to do with the mythological, religious, and anthropological factors.» — la observación comparativa con más valor para este corpus: consigna la lectura mitológica como fortaleza ajena, no como método propio.
«Numerous researchers, like the scientific historian Vladimir Rubtsov in Kharkov and the ethnographer Valeri Sanarov in Novosibirsk, have conducted extensive analyses of this problem.» — Le pone nombres.
«UFO and Ufonauts in the Light of Folklore» — el artículo de Sanarov, en *Technology for Youth*, n.º 11, 1979, tal como lo consigna la obra.
«I had to admit that, with few exceptions (notably in the very popular domain of speculation about ancient astronauts and possible reinterpretations of the Bible), our social scientists had not paid much attention to the phenomenon» — admite la asimetría, en primera persona.
«As for the major UFO civilian research organizations in the United States, they had increasingly discouraged this line of research out of a narrow policy that emphasized the abductionist theory and the space visitors concept» — Adjudica el déficit a una política del propio campo.
«We saw evidence of it in a movie entitled In Search of the Visitors that was produced at the Kiev studios in 1988.» — el vehículo institucional documentado.
«created under official auspices with the participation of numerous physical and social scientists, including the scientific historian Vladimir Rubtsov» — su patrocinio y su elenco.
«it did so in a sober, academic manner without ever becoming pedantic or boring» — Su registro, según el autor.
«phenomena like biblical apparitions or the Fatima miracle should be reinterpreted within the mythological framework of the UFO phenomenon.» — la hipótesis que consigna como establecida allá; la frase arranca al pie de la p. 202.
«Such speculation, considered marginal at best in the West, and discouraged by many church hierarchies, is becoming a topic of mainstream research among Soviet sociologists.» — La formula como diferencia de estatus académico entre bloques, que es dato de recepción, no doctrina.
«The possibility that UFOs might be an indication of the existence of higher physical dimensions, which is still regarded as a strange notion in the West, has long been present in the minds of Soviet scientists» — lo hace suyo como diferencia de tradición, no como tesis propia.
«Tsiolkovsky gave careful consideration to several theories about such beings.» — sobre Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935), a quien fecha en 1920 la conclusión de que la Tierra era observada.
«Remarkably, he did not restrict himself to a nuts-and-bolts interpretation, even speculating about esoteric views.» — Consigna su apertura a lo etéreo.
«Most important, notes the Estonian researcher Yuri Lina in an unpublished manuscript, Tsiolkovsky proposed the hypothesis that advanced alien societies might already be influencing humanity, in ways unknown to us.» — adjudicado a Yuri Lina, no a sí mismo.
«Azhazha and his colleagues had independently noticed that UFO phenomena were polymorphic.» — adjudica a Azhazha el reconocimiento independiente del polimorfismo.
«They recognized that this was one of the fundamental characteristics of the problem, and this understanding placed them at the forefront of international research.» — Su valoración.
«In March 1990, we were pleased to learn that Vladimir Azhazha had been appointed as the head of the new All-Union Inter-Industrial Ufological Scientific Research Coordination Center affiliated with the Academy of Sciences.» — el desenlace institucional que consigna.
«The fact that we could travel to the Soviet Union under the flag of the most widely read newspaper in France opened many doors.» — agradece el salvoconducto del viaje, que fue un diario y no una institución científica.
«In particular, Vice-Chairman Vladimir Milyutenko gave us unprecedented access to a wide range of officials and representatives of the Moscow media and of Soviet technology.» — adjudica a Vladimir Milyutenko, vicepresidente de Novosti, el acceso que la solapa vende como mérito del libro.
«It is thanks to him, in particular, that we had the opportunity to meet with Vladimir Migulin, who occupies the chair of radiophysics at the University of Moscow, and with several other esteemed Soviet scientists.» — precisa a quién debe el encuentro con Migulin, el académico que en el cuerpo del libro le lleva la contraria.
«Special thanks are due to Larissa Vilenskaya of the Defense Language Institute in Monterey for her gracious help with Russian texts.» — declara de quién viene la ayuda con los textos rusos, que es un eslabón de la cadena de traducción del libro.
«My agent, Ned Leavitt, provided valuable advice, and Emery Reiff did outstanding work with a manuscript in which complicated spelling, transcribed from the Cyrillic, presented an unusual challenge to word processing.» — consigna la dificultad material de transcribir del cirílico, que es la antesala de su declaración sobre los nombres.
«We insisted that UFOs were our highest priority and, skeptical that anything would develop, they reluctantly agreed to forward our request to the various Soviet research organizations they had identified.» — cuenta que los ovnis no eran el programa que le ofrecían y que hubo que imponerlos.
«To my surprise, I found that they followed Western research» — registra que el interés soviético venía de leerlo a él y a los suyos; la frase sigue en la plana siguiente.
«which circulated in samizdat form, either Xeroxed or partially retyped. Novosti bowed to this mutual interest and helped expedite our visas.» — describe el modo de circulación que da título al libro, aplicado aquí a la literatura occidental leída en la URSS.
«The report also mentioned that a team of scientists, including Professor Genrikh Silanov, of the Geophysical Institute in Voronezh, was studying the case» — resume el despacho de TASS sobre Voronezh, con el nombre del físico a cargo.
«the word biolocation had been garbled by the prestigious newspaper to bilocation , which made no sense whatsoever.» — señala el error de transcripción del que salió toda la cobertura occidental del caso.
«The editors had failed to realize that biolocation was a special term in Soviet psychotronic literature that designates dowsing» — explica qué designa el término soviético que la prensa deformó: la radiestesia.
«Not only did they miss it, but they quickly garbled the few verifiable facts beyond all recognition.» — su cargo contra la prensa estadounidense, que no es haber exagerado sino haber deformado lo verificable.
«While it is laughable to imagine that a group of professional intelligence experts would leap to such conclusions without bothering to refer to the Russian text (which never used the word bilocation) or even without going back to the Associated Press dispatch,» — encabeza su objeción al relato de Howard Blum sobre un grupo de inteligencia; la frase sigue tras el corte de plana.
«we have to consider the very real possibility that American UFO research— including its covert components— has indeed fallen to such a sloppy level.» — cierra esa objeción admitiendo que la ufología estadounidense, incluida la encubierta, pudo haber caído a ese nivel.
«Let us note in passing that American ufology remains nearly unanimous in identifying flying saucers with the idea of space visitors, despite mounting alternative data.» — consigna la unanimidad extraterrestrialista de la ufología estadounidense como un hecho del campo, no como conclusión de los datos.
«Incredibly, even the group of Pentagon technocrats described by Blum never considered any other possibility.» — extiende ese reproche a los técnicos del Pentágono que describe Blum.
«However, the Soviet wave may well have begun several months prior to September 1989.» — corrige la fecha de arranque que fijó la prensa y la mueve meses atrás.
«I noticed how closely the proportions of the object resembled those of the classic “silvery egg" seen in Socorro, New Mexico in 1964.» — compara el objeto soviético con el caso de Socorro, Nuevo México, de 1964.
«What is so oppressive about driving into the heart of Moscow is the absurd evidence of overwhelming bureaucracy, of ever-present red tape.» — lee la opresión de Moscú como burocrática y no como pobreza material, y ése es el marco con que pide leer los informes soviéticos.
«These duties were not as overwhelming as one might suppose, however, because most of the equipment was in such a state of disrepair or antiquity that everyone seemed to have given up on fixing it.» — describe la vigilancia de piso del hotel y por qué le resultaba inoperante.
«Once again we experienced the abrupt transition from misery to affluence, from ice to warmth, from hunger to luxury that seemed to characterize life» — nombra el contraste que le organiza la crónica entera; la frase sigue en la plana siguiente.
«It had nothing to do with politics, although the sense of a gathering storm must have been in every mind, with the anticipation of a change in the weather of history itself.» — sobre lo que percibió en la Plaza Roja, que no adjudica a la política.
«An enormously vital change was sweeping half the planet, catching all the bureaucracies by surprise: they could take their briefing and shove it!» — su juicio sobre las instrucciones de seguridad que había recibido antes de viajar.
«But one thing was already clear: the Russian researchers of the UFO phenomenon had enough real data of their own not to waste their time fobbing off Western sightings, as the flippant remark by James Oberg suggested.» — replica a James Oberg que los soviéticos tenían datos propios de sobra y no necesitaban reciclar avistamientos occidentales.
«It was a reprint of an article I had written: “Five Arguments Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of UFOs.” In that article I had mentioned the ability of the objects to materialize on the spot and to change shapes as a fact pointing toward a multidimensional origin rather than a simple spatial or interplanetary origin for the phenomenon» — declara su propio argumento, publicado antes, de que materializarse y cambiar de forma apuntan a un origen multidimensional y no interplanetario.
«He believed the sighting to be genuine, judging from several small details:» — sobre el dictamen del físico Alexander F. Pugach ante el caso de las dos mujeres en la ribera del Dniéper.
«He thought, however, that this was a real phenomenon and that the women were not lying, but that the nature of the phenomenon was more complex.» — consigna que Pugach descarta la mentira pero no cierra el caso.
«In his opinion, one could not exclude that some force, some beings, might have projected the scene into the minds of the women.» — la rama que Pugach deja abierta: una escena proyectada en la mente de las testigos.
«In other words, his position is close to the views of those, like myself, who believe that UFOs are from a different dimension or another reality although in my opinion, this does not exclude a material, physical presence at the time of the sighting.» — se pone del lado de la otra dimensión y a la vez sostiene, contra esa lectura, que eso no excluye una presencia material.
«The incident was investigated by Alexander F. Pugach, who holds a Ph.D. in physics and mathematics and is a research fellow of the Department of Physics of Stars and Galaxies of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences Observatory.» — da las credenciales del investigador del caso, que es su manera de calificar la fuente.
«What we have here is a case of highly qualified multiple witnesses to a series of physical events for which there is no current scientific explanation.» — su valoración de los testimonios de Voronezh, dicha como límite y no como prueba.
«We spent the rest of the afternoon discussing the reality of the observations at Voronezh. We probed, we argued, we debated. As the next chapter shows, our conversations with the Voronezh collective only deepened the sense of mystery attached to the sightings.» — cierra el capítulo de Voronezh sin conclusión, y dice que la conversación aumentó el misterio en vez de reducirlo.
«The witnesses related that they first saw a pink or red light in the sky, which turned into a dark red sphere, about thirty feet in diameter.» — abre el relato de los aterrizajes de Voronezh tal como se lo reportó el colectivo local.
«A being appeared. It was nearly ten feet tall and was wearing silver-colored overalls and bronze-colored boots.» — la descripción del primer tipo de entidad, en registro descriptivo y sin adjetivar.
«The being seemed to have three eyes and a sort of disk-shaped object on its chest.» — el rasgo por el que la prensa occidental se burló del caso.
«The alien adjusted something on the robot’s chest, causing it to walk in a mechanical way.» — el robot que acompaña a las entidades, y que se opera desde fuera.
«The alien simply looked at him and the boy instantly froze, unable to move.» — el efecto de parálisis sobre un niño, que es el rasgo que reaparece en casi todos los casos del libro.
«The alien pointed his “rifle” toward the teenager, and the boy instantly disappeared.» — la desaparición del adolescente, con el tubo entrecomillado por el propio autor.
«At the same instant the vanished teenager reappeared.» — la reaparición, que es lo que Azhazha clasifica como abducción.
«They also related another interesting detail: when they used a magnetometer and attempted to measure the intensity of the magnetic field at the landing site, the intensity turned out to be so high that it was beyond the scale of the device.» — consigna la medición magnética que se salió de escala, atribuida a los investigadores locales.
«Their colleague, Dr. Yuri Lozovtsev, calculated the pressure on the ground from the shape and dimensions of the depressions and came up with the figure of eleven tons, assuming it was caused by static pressure, that is, by the actual weight of the apparatus.» — cómo se obtuvo la cifra de once toneladas: por presión estática deducida de las huellas, no por medición directa.
«The Soviet researchers also related that eyewitnesses of four landings described not one but three different kinds of beings who had emerged from the various UFOs seen at Voronezh.» — consigna que los testigos describieron tres clases distintas de seres, no una.
«I must admit that this was one of the most confusing aspects of our conversations with the Soviet investigators.» — declara su desconcierto ante la biolocación, que es el punto donde no logra seguir a sus interlocutores.
«From their point of view it seemed as obvious as measuring electrical tension with a voltmeter.» — formula la posición ajena antes de objetarla: para ellos la varilla era un instrumento como cualquier otro.
«From my point of view, I failed to see any calibration, any reliable baseline to their measurements.» — su objeción exacta, que es de calibración y de línea base, no de principio.
«I could not see how they could relate the movement of the rod to the possible presence or absence of a UFO in that park» — repite la objeción ante la exhibición de Silanov con la varilla en L.
«From a Western scientist’s point of view, much of the Soviet UFO data is poorly documented and often surrounded by irrelevant facts.» — su balance del material soviético, dicho desde el punto de vista que declara como occidental.
«It was a quarrel we did not resolve that day.» — deja la disputa sobre el símbolo UMMO sin arbitrar.
«We came away convinced that a genuine series of extraordinary phenomena had taken place in Voronezh.» — lo que sí concede sobre Voronezh, sin decir de qué se trataba.
«Believers and skeptics alike agree that the major frustration in the study of UFOs comes from our inability to establish firmly the physical facts. Even in a remarkable situation like the Voronezh case, when we have actual traces, multiple witnesses, and repeated events, it is very hard to come away with the proof that a truly paranormal event happened.» — nombra la frustración común del campo: no se logra fijar los hechos físicos.
«It is this feature that places the Tunguska case in a class by itself.» — por qué Tunguska es distinto de todo lo demás que trae el libro; sigue, ya en la plana siguiente, que ningún científico podría negar la realidad del fenómeno.
«The reasons for such an exceptional consensus in a field known for its controversies and endless polemics are very simple.» — introduce el resumen de las pruebas que Zolotov le expuso.
«It was only in March 1927 that mineralogist Leonid Kulik and an assistant set out from Tayshet with supplies and equipment to locate the site of what they assumed was a large impact crater.» — fecha la primera expedición y la hipótesis con que salió: un cráter de impacto.
«Kulik's sensational report to the Academy of Sciences triggered a second expedition in April 1928, during which Kulik and others conducted a magnetic survey, still hoping to find fragments of an object.» — la segunda expedición y el sondeo magnético, que tampoco dieron con restos.
«It was independently suggested by F. J. W. Whipple of Kew Observatory in London and by I. S. Astapovich of the Soviet Union.» — adjudica la hipótesis del cometa a dos autores independientes, uno británico y uno soviético.
«As unsatisfactory as it may be, the comet theory still represents the most common explanation given in science books today.» — consigna la hipótesis dominante marcando a la vez que no le satisface.
«He noted an alterance of burned and unburned zones that Professor Felix Zigel of the Moscow Aviation Institute interpreted as evidence of luminous radiation, some areas being shaded from direct exposure to the light.» — adjudica a Felix Zigel la lectura de las zonas quemadas como efecto de radiación luminosa.
«As Felix Zigel put it, “The study of UFOs stopped for many years in the Soviet Union.”» — cita a Zigel para fechar el corte de la investigación soviética tras la campaña de Pravda.
«During the cold war the Kremlin regarded such observations as a psychological warfare ploy masterminded by the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency.» — la lectura oficial soviética de los avistamientos como operación de guerra psicológica estadounidense.
«The only Western book on the subject to be translated and published in the Soviet Union was Donald Menzel’s Flying Saucers (1962).» — consigna cuál fue el único libro occidental traducido y publicado en la URSS: el del escéptico.
«Oddly enough, it has now come to light that the late Professor Menzel himself had enjoyed a long association with the U.S. intelligence establishment.» — añade, sobre ese mismo autor, su vínculo con la inteligencia estadounidense, en verbo de haber salido a la luz.
«Two researchers who have done a special study of UFOs in socialist countries, Ion Hobana and Julien Weverbergh, credit me with helping encourage Felix Zigel to “go public’' in the late sixties.» — consigna, adjudicándolo a Hobana y Weverbergh, su propio papel en que Zigel se hiciera público.
«While the Condon study was financed by an official Air Force contract, however, the Stoliarov team was purely a private volunteer effort, which was highly vulnerable to the sanction of higher authorities.» — la asimetría entre el comité estadounidense y el soviético: contrato oficial contra voluntariado privado.
«It should be clear, at the very least, that we do not have the whole story.» — su abstención sobre la historia institucional de la ufología soviética.
«It was the overabundance of data, not the lack of such, that triggered the end of the open scientific study.» — su hipótesis sobre el cierre del comité Stoliarov: sobraban casos, no faltaban.
«The case deserves to be quoted in detail because it illustrates the richness of the Soviet UFO files and the fact that these files are obviously not limited to the Soviet Union itself, just as American files actually cover the whole world.» — por qué reproduce entero el caso cubano de 1968: los archivos soviéticos no se limitan a la URSS.
«In spite of the new willingness of scientific authorities to consider the sightings and to analyze them, the road to full scientific acceptance of the phenomenon is going to be a long and arduous one.» — acota el alcance del giro institucional que acaba de narrar.
«And the burden is on us to convince our colleagues, to educate them about the seriousness of the UFO experience, and to go on with our own research into the unknown.» — cierra el capítulo poniendo la carga de la prueba del lado de los investigadores, no de la academia.
«Among them was the experience of watching Professor Alexis Zolotov walking up and down the length of the carpeted office of the vice-chairman of Novosti holding a strange metallic contraption ahead of him. His bright eyes and long, wiry gray beard completed the illusion of some age-old, esoteric ceremony as the metal wire in his hand twisted repeatedly to the left and to the right, as if moved by a definite but invisible force of nature.» — describe la exhibición de radiestesia de Zolotov nombrando la impresión de ceremonia esotérica como ilusión suya, no como atributo del acto.
«While there is a long tradition of dowsing in the West, supported by preliminary but tantalizing laboratory research, various investigators generally experience the phenomenon in different ways, not in the neat and reliable fashion the Soviet researchers seemed to be describing.» — contrasta la radiestesia occidental, dispar entre sujetos, con la fiabilidad uniforme que le describían en Moscú.
«It was left for Martine to pose the question that would reveal for us how closely the UFO phenomenon in the Soviet Union had followed the same patterns observed in the West.» — adjudica a su coautora la pregunta que abrió la comparación entre bloques.
«correspondence with the writer Alexander Kazantsev goes back to 1966. Together we had broken the barrier of skepticism to coauthor an article that caused a sensation in the Soviet Union when it appeared in Young Technology Magazine the following year.» — fecha en 1966 su correspondencia con Kazantsev y en el año siguiente el artículo conjunto; la frase arranca con un *My* que la capa de texto imprime corrompido.
«It was the first article in Russian arguing for the physical reality of unidentified flying objects.» — reclama para ese artículo la primacía en ruso sobre la realidad física del fenómeno.
«But our article was quickly picked up and reprinted by Trud , the daily newspaper of the Soviet labor unions, with a circulation of 22 million. When news of it spread, that issue of Trud was snatched off the streets by a public starved for information about UFOs. It became a collectors’ item and remains the most widely circulated piece ever published on the subject of UFOs.» — consigna la tirada de 22 millones y reclama para el artículo el récord de circulación en la materia.
«It was also Kazantsev who, in 1946, put forward the hypothesis that the Tungus object was a spaceship fueled by antimatter.» — adjudica a Kazantsev, con fecha, la hipótesis de la nave de antimateria sobre Tunguska.
«There is no indication of nonhuman origin, although its exact nature remains a mystery.» — su dictamen sobre el objeto de Dalnegorsk: sin indicio de origen no humano y sin explicación.
«Bureaucracies are closed to such inquiries under any political regime. That, we agreed, was one of the major lessons one could draw from the UFO enigma.» — la lección que declara sacar del enigma, y que iguala a los dos bloques.
«When we finally understand the nature of UFOs, many of our ideas about ourselves and our place in the world will have to change.» — lo que espera de una eventual solución, formulado como cambio de autopercepción y no como descubrimiento técnico.
«As a result, although they lagged in many high-technology fields and never repeated the American feat of landing on the moon, they had accumulated twice the experience of the United States in terms of weeks, months, and years of spaceflight.» — su lectura del programa espacial soviético: atraso técnico y ventaja acumulada en horas de vuelo.
«A man had actually inhabited this tiny cone of burning metal as it descended through the atmosphere, surrounded by glowing plasma, unable to communicate by radio with the crews that were supposedly waiting to recover him alive.» — sobre las cápsulas quemadas expuestas en el centro de entrenamiento, que es lo que opone al glamour del programa.
«What the world had not been told was that he was drunk at the time.» — lo que reporta sobre la muerte de Gagarin, sin fuente nombrada en la frase.
«It certainly explained why cosmonauts found it useful to spend some time in that office in meditation about the earth life they were leaving behind, and why the man in charge of their training was a veteran of a crippled spacecraft.» — cierra la visita ligando la meditación en el despacho de Gagarin con el perfil del instructor.
«Unless an idea is presented in a package that can be neatly marketed and can fit nicely on the bookstore’s shelf, it does not actually reach the average person.» — su crítica a la mercantilización del conocimiento en Occidente, dicha ante la biblioteca de los Kolessov.
«This interpretation can be debated on historical grounds, however.» — su reserva ante la tesis de que la caza de brujas occidental empobreció el acervo genético psíquico: no la suscribe ni la refuta.
«The Soviets, on the other hand, still regarded the future with the somewhat naive passion of a Jules Verne or an H. G. Wells.» — contrapone el futurismo técnico estadounidense a una expectativa soviética que describe como literaria.
«Messengers of Deception made many ufologists squirm, perhaps because they had never realized that they themselves were driven by a deep-seated desire to believe in extraterrestrials.» — su explicación de la reacción hostil: el deseo de creer estaba del lado de los ufólogos.
«Whether this dialogue actually happened or was another example of the wild UFO rumors that circulate among the Soviet New Age, we were unable to verify.» — su abstención ante el rumor de que Edgar Mitchell reconoció a Porphyry Ivanov.
«That examination, although obviously cursory and informal, reinforced my impression that the object in question was an ordinary piece of human technology, although it certainly was intriguing.» — su dictamen sobre los restos de Dalnegorsk, con el límite del examen declarado dentro de la frase.
«We could also see glass fibers with fine gold wiring, but none of that warranted a conclusion that we were dealing with an object manufactured by a higher intelligence, as our Soviet friends conceded.» — niega que los restos autoricen la conclusión de manufactura no humana, y consigna que sus anfitriones lo concedieron.
«It is an intriguing paradox that parapsychology and the study of UFOs have flourished in the Soviet Union precisely because of censorship.» — su tesis sobre la censura: no suprimió el campo, lo empujó a la circulación clandestina.
«Secrecy was so prevalent that alternative underground methods of communication had to be developed by those engaged in scientific research and by the intelligentsia in general.» — cómo describe el mecanismo de esa circulación, que es el samizdat del título.
«According to Zigel, on the morning of April 27, 1961, twenty-five witnesses in the region of Lake Onega, northeast of Leningrad, saw a bluish green oval object the size of a jetliner flying east silently at very high speed,» — el caso del lago Onega tal como lo consigna Zigel, con su fuente declarada.
«Sample pieces of the ice, when melted, left a residue of magnesium, aluminum, calcium, barium, and titanium.» — el residuo metálico que reporta del mismo caso, sin adjudicarle origen.
«Shaped like a banana, the object was emitting beams of light. Apraksin was ordered to force it down,» — el primero de los dos incidentes del piloto de pruebas Arkady Apraksin, en 1948.
«General Igor Maltsev, the chief of staff of Soviet Air Defense Forces, published his analysis of the data, based on pilot and radar reports such as the above.» — quién firma el análisis militar de los datos de 1990.
«Observing that “the UFO hovered above the ground and then flew with a speed exceeding that of modern jet fighters by two or three times,” he concluded: “At the present time, terrestrial machines could hardly have any such capabilities.’’» — la conclusión de Maltsev, citada con su cautela intacta.
«The secret chronicles of Soviet UFO data are finally becoming part of the public record.» — cierra el capítulo doce con la frase que da título al libro en su forma de crónica.
«Mining engineer Emil Bachurin, vice-president of the Perm UFO research group, turned out to be a solid fellow in his early forties with considerable experience in mineral exploration.» — presenta al ingeniero de minas de Perm por su oficio, que es como califica a sus informantes.
«Although untrained in psychiatry and in the formal use of hypnosis, many started relying on revelations made under trance to support their model of the phenomenon.» — su cargo contra los investigadores estadounidenses de abducciones: hipnosis sin formación al servicio de un modelo previo.
«When I challenged the application of the same technique in the Soviet Union, the reactions were more rational and considerably more polite.» — compara las dos recepciones de su misma objeción, y le concede la mejor a la soviética.
«There was considerable speculation that a terrestrial base existed in the region.» — consigna la especulación local sobre una base en la zona de Perm sin hacerla suya.
«we both remarked that it seemed to represent an exception in the patterns of reported abductions.» — sobre el caso de la mano negra, que sitúa fuera del patrón corriente de abducción.
«The incident happened in a remote part of the woods in Gorky Province and was related to Bachurin by V. V. Proshin, a member of the local section of the Commission on Anomalous Phenomena.» — declara la cadena por la que le llega el caso: del testigo a Proshin, de Proshin a Bachurin, de Bachurin a él.
«He experienced so much sleepiness after his encounter that he could not stay awake for even four hours.» — sobre Maurice Masse tras el caso de Valensole, que trae como paralelo occidental de la somnolencia.
«There is considerable disagreement among scientists about their meaning, as we would find out in our next series of conversations.» — cierra el capítulo de Perm dejando abierto el sentido de las luces fotografiadas.
«it is apparent that the controversy follows lines that are a close parallel to the evolving situation in the West.» — su tesis comparativa: la polémica soviética corre en paralelo a la occidental, no aparte.
«most Soviet scientists, like their American counterparts, are still skeptical of the reality of the phenomenon.» — corrige de entrada la imagen de una URSS crédula: la mayoría de sus científicos también dudaba.
«Migulin is just as much a skeptic today as he was at the beginning.» — sobre el académico a quien la Academia encargó el asunto en los sesenta.
«It is now a well-demonstrated fact that the unexplained reports often contain more data, with greater precision and reliability than the identified cases.» — el argumento estadístico con que replica al descarte por mala calidad de los datos.
«The outcome was clear, however: the argument, predictably, had left everyone on his position.» — cierra la discusión con Migulin sin arbitrarla y sin conceder que nadie se moviera.
«What they did not tell me was that there was no such thing as an American-style roundtable in Russia.» — sobre la mesa redonda de Moscú, que resultó ser un simposio formal y no un intercambio.
«Many scientists who once belonged to specialized UFO organizations have deserted them in the last few years, driven away by dogmatic gurus who tried to impose their own theories, or disgusted by the pointless fights between the abductionists and the conspiracy believers.» — su diagnóstico de la deserción científica de las organizaciones ufológicas estadounidenses.
«While American ufologists fell into this trap, Soviet researchers have managed to avoid it until now.» — le concede al campo soviético haber esquivado esa trampa, con el límite temporal dentro de la frase.
«Perhaps that is only a temporary situation: the temptation will be great to rush into the same sort of activity.» — acota de inmediato esa concesión: la tentación de imitar sigue en pie.
«We have already seen how hypnosis was used in the USSR in combination with such unproven techniques as biolocation.» — nombra la combinación que le parece el punto débil del método soviético.
«I told him truthfully that I would welcome such a debate: it’s about time such questions be put on the table.» — su respuesta a quien ofreció refutar sus cinco argumentos contra el origen extraterrestre.
«This is an appropriate place to pay special tribute to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), a Polish emigre to Russia who, as early as 1920, had come to the conclusion that the earth was being observed by alien forms of intelligence and was theorizing why they had not openly sought contact with us.» — fecha en 1920 la conclusión de Tsiolkovsky de que la Tierra era observada, y la pregunta que se hacía.
«It is unfortunate that these statistical studies published ten years ago have not been pursued aggressively, but the same critical remark could be made about the United States.» — lamenta el abandono de los estudios estadísticos y reparte el reproche a los dos lados.
«Efforts to maintain such catalogs, even over a limited geographical area, represent a long-term investment of time, energy, and statistical skill that few volunteer organizations can afford.» — explica por qué casi nadie sostiene catálogos: cuestan tiempo, energía y oficio estadístico.
«UFOs may not represent extraterrestrial intelligence at all, and they may not use propulsion as we understand it.» — su objeción a las dos motivaciones occidentales que acaba de enumerar: propulsión y contacto.
«To look for the propulsion system inside a flying saucer may well be as ludicrous as opening up the hood of a car to find out where the horse is hidden.» — el símil con que descarta buscar un sistema de propulsión dentro del objeto.
«But any solution to the mystery will necessarily challenge many aspects of our knowledge, and indeed it may turn a page in the book of science.» — lo que sí concede: cualquier solución obligaría a revisar mucho de lo sabido.
«Another important factor they acknowledged was the impact that the phenomenon, in its historical form, had undoubtedly had on religious concepts and on social ideas about space.» — consigna que sus interlocutores admitían el impacto histórico del fenómeno sobre lo religioso, que es el punto que toca a este corpus.
«While we agreed on many aspects of this vast field, there were others on which we had creative disagreements with our Soviet colleagues.» — abre el balance del viaje nombrando los desacuerdos como parte del resultado.
«Another point of contention among us was the importance and usefulness of hypnosis in the study of abductees.» — nombra la hipnosis como el tercer desacuerdo, junto a la astrología y al símbolo UMMO.
«In the multiple discussions we had we could not see how the experts justified such extensive reliance on this technique, however interesting it might be.» — su abstención final sobre la biolocación: no vio cómo se justificaba, y no la declara falsa.
«Finally, we came back from the Soviet Union with a set of unanswered questions about the full extent of the research activity in official institutions.» — consigna que volvió sin saber el alcance real de la investigación oficial.
«These developments give us hope that a fruitful, long-term dialogue might be opening at last between researchers in the Soviet Union and their Western counterparts.» — cierra el libro en expectativa, no en conclusión.
«In the body of this book I have highlighted some forty cases that were specifically discussed during my stay in the Soviet» — declara el alcance del cuerpo del libro: unos cuarenta casos discutidos durante el viaje; la frase sigue tras el corte de plana.
«However, many other Soviet UFO incidents— such as the following events extracted from Professor Felix Zigel’s works— have found their way into the literature and deserve to be mentioned, if only in summary form.» — declara de dónde sale el catálogo del apéndice: de las obras de Felix Zigel, y en forma resumida.
«Those researchers with an interest in digging further will also find good translations of Russian reports in the pages of the Flying Saucer Review , 41 whose editors are in regular contact with various Soviet investigative groups.» — remite a la Flying Saucer Review como la otra vía de acceso a los informes rusos traducidos.
«The selection given below emphasizes the early years of the phenomenon, notably the 1967 wave, with a sample of reports prior to 1947.» — declara el sesgo del catálogo: los años tempranos y la ola de 1967, con muestras anteriores a 1947.
«The witnesses compared notes and concluded it must be an “evil spirit.”» — el caso más antiguo del catálogo, de 1923, donde los testigos leen lo visto como espíritu maligno.
«The UFO phenomenon cannot be studied without the application of a systematic classification system, together with a measure of each case’s reliability.» — su exigencia de método: clasificación sistemática más medida de fiabilidad.
«Just as stellar astronomy stagnated until Hertzprung and Russell produced their classic diagram based on the color-luminosity classification, UFO research cannot get anywhere until its practitioners recognize the need for a solid taxonomy that can be reliably applied.» — el modelo que declara para su taxonomía: el diagrama de Hertzsprung y Russell, con la grafía del libro.
«The following index to Soviet UFO cases uses a complete classification system I have proposed in my earlier book Confrontations.» — remite el sistema entero a su libro anterior, no a una elaboración nueva.
«It is the rule, rather than the exception, to find significant UFO sightings preceded or followed by anomalies, notably of the poltergeist variety.» — la regularidad que declara entre avistamientos y anomalías de tipo poltergeist.
«I have found it useful to begin with a classification of anomalies into four groups that parallel Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s close encounter categories:» — declara la deuda de su clasificación de anomalías con las categorías de Hynek.
«I see no reason to change anything to the classification of close encounters that is in current use, from CE1 to CE4, although Hynek himself was not responsible for creating the CE4 category and was not especially happy with it.» — deja intactas las categorías CE1 a CE4 y consigna que la cuarta no era de Hynek ni le gustaba.
«In recent years the need has become acute for a new category, CE5, that will encompass cases of close encounters in which the witnesses have suffered permanent injuries or other physiological effects.» — propone la categoría CE5 para los casos con lesiones permanentes o efectos fisiológicos.
«I have found it useful to introduce two general categories: MA (Maneuvers) and FB (Flyby).» — las dos categorías mayores de su sistema, por comportamiento observable del objeto.
«MAI gathers those UFO observations that involve an object with a discontinuous trajectory (such as a drop, a maneuver, or a loop).» — la definición del primer subtipo, por trayectoria discontinua; la capa de texto imprime *MAI* donde el sistema dice MA1.
«While such a procedure is an integral part of any intelligence evaluation task, UFO researchers have rarely bothered to apply it in support of their own work.» — su reproche al campo: la evaluación de credibilidad es rutina en inteligencia y los ufólogos no la aplican.
«The Law of the Times was first described in detail in Challenge to Science by Jacques and Janine Vallee (Chicago: Regnery, 1966).» — su nota adjudica la Ley de los Tiempos a un libro suyo de 1966, coescrito con Janine Vallee.
«Claude Poher and Jacques Vallee, “Basic Patterns in UFO Observations,’' AIAA no. 75-42 (Paper delivered at the Thirteenth AIAA Aerospace Science Meeting, Pasadena, Calif., 20 January 1975).» — la referencia de la base estadística occidental con la que compara los datos soviéticos.
«Felix Zigel was the author of numerous scientific articles, notably “Radio Waves From Outer Space” (Det - giz, 1963), “Inhabitable Worlds” (Znanie, 1962), “Nuclear Explosion Over the Taiga” (Ananiye-Sila, 1961), and “Unusual Galaxies” (Iun. Tekh., 1960), as well as several publications for science and astronomy teachers.» — la nota con que documenta la obra publicada de Zigel, incluidas las que no son de ovnis.
About the work
101 entries — what the apparatus and scholarship say about it«In January 1990, following a wave of reported UFO sightings in the Soviet Union, renowned UFO investigator Dr. Jacques Vallee and Martine Castello, a science reporter for the prestigious French newspaper Le Figaro, took an extraordinary journey to Moscow» — solapa del sobrecubierta, con precio impreso. No es voz de la obra.
«What they heard had never been said in the West.» — misma solapa; frase muy tentadora y de la editorial.
«this is a major contribution to our knowledge about alien contact.» — cierre de la solapa, en registro promocional.
«UFO chronicles of the Soviet Union : a cosmic Samizdat / Jacques Vallee in collaboration with Martine Castello.» — ficha de la Library of Congress; ISBN 0-345-37396-0, primera edición marzo de 1992.
«Maps and illustrations rendered by Patrick O'Brien» — crédito de mapas e ilustraciones; el diseño es de Ann Gold.
«My trip with Martine Gastello was no exception to that rule.» — `Gastello` por Castello, en los agradecimientos, es decir, en el texto firmado. Se consigna tal cual: ver Notas de carga.
«The well-known Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky admitted the possibility that space and time were multidimensional.» — epígrafe de la conclusión, firmado por el periodista O. V. Stolyarov, Voronezh, octubre de 1989. Voz de tercero, no posición de Vallée.
«Apparently we've tread on the corns of some supercivilization, and it has decided to regulate our progress as it sees fit.» — segundo epígrafe de la conclusión, de Arkady y Boris Strugatsky, *Definitely Maybe*, 1977.
«Historians and folklore experts should get involved. We need psychics and we need physicists. We even need philosophers.» — voz de Vladimir Azhazha reclamando un enfoque multidisciplinar.
«It lasted ten years, from 1976 to 1987,» — voz de Azhazha sobre el grupo soviético de estudio de ovnis submarinos que dirigió.
«Malichev has been subjected to psychiatric observation and to psychological analysis,» — voz de Azhazha sobre el caso del pintor; Vallée la consigna sin adjudicársela. La frase arranca al pie de la p. 157 y cierra en la 158 con «something did happen to him, but what was it?».
«All the launches from Volgograd are toward the east. But Voronezh is to the northwest of the rocket site.» — réplica de Azhazha a la explicación de Migulin, que la obra deja en pie sin arbitrar.
«It is as if you and I had been working together for the last ten years.» — Azhazha en la primera hora del primer diálogo.
«It was first reported in our region in a case that dates from 1984.» — voz de un miembro del colectivo de Voronezh defendiendo la autenticidad del símbolo UMMO.
«When such changes occur, we speak of several phases of forming.» — cita del informe soviético, no de Vallée.
«In order to emphasize that the matter has to do with changes in shape, we call the corresponding phases “forming phases.”» — el aporte terminológico, adjudicado al mismo informe.
«There may be undiscovered forms of plasma consciousness in the universe,» — voz de un participante de la mesa redonda de Moscú, consignada sin adjudicar.
«They could have existed on this planet long before mankind appeared.» — continuación de la misma especulación, en boca de otro participante.
«We have always assumed that human consciousness was the master force on earth,» — otro participante; sigue «Perhaps the UFO phenomenon will teach us that we were grossly mistaken».
«Think of all the things you could do if you were a superconducting cloud half the size of the solar system,» — voz de Charlie Rosen, pionero de la robótica en Silicon Valley, que Vallée pone al lado como paralelo occidental.
«But some of the recent observations were made at the sacred site of Moliobka, which an ancient people already regarded as endowed by divine energy.» — voz de Emil Bachurin sobre el sitio sagrado de Moliobka, en los Urales, y el monumento de los mansi.
«One day one of the two children sees a black hand that comes close to him and strikes him.» — voz de Gougenot des Mousseaux en su libro de 1854, citada dentro de la obra.
«Not since Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain was published more than twenty years ago has the West had such a revealing glimpse of paranormal activity and investigation in the Soviet Union.» — solapa del sobrecubierta, que fija el antecedente editorial del libro. No es voz de la obra.
«During their visit, they had unprecedented access to a wide range of officials, prominent Soviet scientists, and representatives of the Moscow media and Soviet technology community.» — misma solapa; la fórmula sale de los agradecimientos, donde el mérito es de Milyutenko.
«Indeed, some of what they heard had never been revealed publicly in the Soviet Union.» — misma solapa, en registro promocional.
«The nature of UFOs is unknown. But whatever they may prove to be— optical phenomena in the atmosphere, probes from other planets, a new phenomenon of nature, or anything else— the study of UFOs should begin with the analysis of the reports.» — epígrafe del capítulo 2, firmado por el profesor Felix Zigel, Moscú, febrero de 1968. Voz de tercero.
«During night flights . . . the radar operator discovered clearly defined blips in the 240° to 270° radar sector. They moved on a course of 90° at a speed of 720 kilometers per hour . . . the upper edge of the blips began to come down . . . the lower edge of the blips dropped to the ground. This was reported at another radar station [in the city of Tiraspol] and a request was made that it be checked. The data was confirmed.» — epígrafe del capítulo 3, firmado por el testigo N. A. Baydukov, Odeskaya Oblast, 4 de abril de 1966.
«UFO abductions have become especially common during 1989; so common that we believe we have now identified the mechanism of these events.» — segundo epígrafe del capítulo 3, firmado por Vladimir Azhazha, Moscú, enero de 1990; reaparece en la contracubierta.
«Suddenly a light appeared, not very bright, trembling and flickering. The beam came down and it slowly moved along the ground toward us. It seemed strange that the surface touched by the ray was full of bluish sparkles, and everything was quivering as if one was in a haze on a hot day. . . . When the beam approached the car I experienced an unpleasant feeling of fear and loss of self-confidence.» — epígrafe del capítulo 4, firmado por el testigo de Voronezh M. N. Polyakov, septiembre de 1989.
«Over thirty people have witnessed the landings in Voronezh. Thousands have seen the objects in flight.» — epígrafe del capítulo 5, firmado por el ingeniero aeronáutico Alexander Mosolov; la contracubierta lo reproduce con el nombre de pila cambiado a Alexei.
«I don’t know what actually happened here, but an increase in the radioactive background is in evidence. What is the reason?» — segundo epígrafe del capítulo 5, firmado por la coronel Lyudmila Makarova, del departamento de peritaje criminal de Voronezh.
«Tonight the sky is covered with a dense layer of clouds. It is still pouring rain, and yet it is extraordinarily light. In fact, it is so light that outdoors one can read small newspaper type fairly easily. There should be no moon, but the clouds are illuminated by a sort of yellowish-green light that sometimes turns to pink.» — epígrafe del capítulo 6, firmado por el académico A. A. Polkanov, Siberia, junio de 1908.
«It is very difficult to sweep aside the explanation that the Tungus catastrophe was an atomic explosion. The inquiring mind is anxious for scientists to produce the true explanation.» — segundo epígrafe del capítulo 6, firmado por Alexander Kazantsev, *A Visitor From Outer Space*, 1966.
«In the city of Petropavlovsk, at approximately 11:00 p.m., with comrades Perekhov, Negayev and Yevmenenko, I observed two very strange disks which moved one behind the other and then changed formation and moved as a pair. Passing almost directly above us they emitted light toward the ground. When we fell into the zone of illumination I felt something oppressive.» — epígrafe del capítulo 7, firmado por el oficial de reserva de la fuerza aérea S. N. Popov, marzo de 1964.
«Enough has been said and there are no grounds for the revival of these absurd rumors that were buried many years ago.» — segundo epígrafe del capítulo 7, firmado por el académico Y. A. Artsimovich y citado de *Pravda*, 8 de enero de 1961.
«Every living entity generates a biological field. It is probably an attribute of the organic realm. Perhaps it is when it learned to generate this field that nature became alive.» — epígrafe del capítulo 8, firmado por el profesor Alexis Zolotov, Moscú, enero de 1990.
«There is not a single fact that would indicate that secret material objects which have been called disks or saucers are flying above us.» — epígrafe del capítulo 9, firmado por Artsimovich en *Pravda*, 8 de enero de 1961.
«These reports relate fantastic fairy tales taken primarily from the American Press. The American astronomer [Donald] Menzel devoted an entire book to an examination of this question and came to the conclusion that flying saucers are nothing but an optical effect.» — cierre del mismo epígrafe, donde Artsimovich remite a Menzel para dar el asunto por resuelto.
«The serious investigator must be mindful of the fact that there is no place for either blind credence or blind denial in science. It is extremely difficult to interpret objective sightings as ordinary natural phenomena. It seems to the authors of the present article that the time has come to give serious consideration to the space hypothesis about UFOs. They may be piloted by intelligent beings or by thinking cybernetic machines.» — segundo epígrafe del capítulo 9, firmado por Alexander Kazantsev y Jacques Vallee en *Trud*, 24 de agosto de 1967. Es texto suyo, pero de 1967 y puesto como el polo contrario del par: ahí suscribe la hipótesis espacial que el cuerpo del libro discute.
«Two hundred years ago, when science rejected the reality of meteorites, the innate sluggishness of our thinking and the deficiency of our knowledge hampered the truth. But if we agree that the past may be instructive for the present, we cannot reject certain facts simply because they do not conform to currently accepted impressions of the world. Nature is preparing many more surprises for mankind and we must always be ready for them.» — epígrafe del capítulo 10, firmado por Felix Zigel, Moscú, febrero de 1968.
«The Russian tradition of natural healing has always preserved the ancient ways under the Orthodox Church, under the tsar, and even under communism. . . . We’re ahead of you in the study of the paranormal because the Western churches killed all your witches in the name of their dogma. You only have yourselves to blame if you have fewer gifted psychics. You’ve eliminated their genes from the gene pool.» — epígrafe del capítulo 11, firmado por los sanadores Eugene y Larissa Kolessov, Moscú, enero de 1990.
«While walking along Serginskaya Street at 8:50 p.m. in the city of Perm, my wife, my son, and I observed a strange object in the shape of a ring flying across the sky. We observed it for ten to fifteen minutes.» — epígrafe del capítulo 13, firmado por el testigo Y. G. Solovyev, Perm, 5 de agosto de 1967.
«One of my coworkers at the astronomical observatory invited me to watch a UFO. Naturally, I didn’t believe him but, as he put it, a witness was necessary and I was it. . . . We climbed on the roof of the refractor and began to look toward the northwest. At approximately 5:15 p.m. in the area of Alpha of Corona Borealis a half moon appeared, moving through the sky.» — epígrafe del capítulo 14, firmado por el astrónomo Y. L. Chikanov, Kazán, 7 de noviembre de 1967.
«There are no miracles. There is no reason for all this commotion. In the Soviet Union more than two hundred artificial earth satellites have been launched. This activity is even more widely organized in the United States. And thousands of balloons are sent up to determine the temperature of the upper atmosphere. There are no new phenomena.» — segundo epígrafe del capítulo 14, firmado por V. I. Krasovsky, doctor en ciencias físicas y matemáticas, Moscú, 5 de febrero de 1968.
«The problem of UFOs has captured the attention of the public and of many scientists. For a long time, some of them have asserted that there are no such phenomena in nature and that reports about them were caused either by optical illusions or by careless observations. Recently, however, it has become impossible to hold such a view. UFOs continue to be observed, not by chance witnesses who do not inspire confidence, but by professional astronomers and other scientists and by pilots. It serves no purpose for us to refrain from public scientific investigations in this field.» — epígrafe del capítulo 15, firmado a seis manos por Protodyakonov, Uger, Leonov, Borhunov, Sivakov y Ryabov. No es voz de Vallée, aunque el informe de minería lo adjudicó a él.
«“I had to change my mind when I was asked to perform certain hydrospheric studies as a submarine officer in the Soviet navy,” Azhazha answered.» — voz de Vladimir Azhazha sobre el origen de su interés: un encargo hidrosférico como oficial de submarinos.
«At the time, naturally, they were classified top secret. Now we have a more open attitude in this country.» — voz de Azhazha sobre el paso del secreto militar a la apertura.
«The official reaction was very harsh, very negative.» — voz de Azhazha sobre lo que siguió a la publicación de sus datos.
«“Obviously, the Soviet navy has taken the problem very seriously, for many years,” remarked Martine.» — turno de Martine Castello en la entrevista con Azhazha.
«As investigators, we are only one element of a system that links together the object, the percipient, and the space around them,” continued Azhazha. “Therefore we must consider the psychophysical interaction that may take place between the object, the witness, and the noosphere— the plane of human consciousness. If we don’t consider such interaction, the sightings make no sense at all.» — voz de Azhazha: la interacción psicofísica entre objeto, testigo y noosfera como condición para que los avistamientos signifiquen algo.
«These objects are polymorphous. They can change shapes dynamically in flight.» — voz de Azhazha; es la frase que Vallée le hizo repetir por desconfiar de la traducción.
«“This particular abduction mechanism we categorize as Dialego , the dialogue, because it usually begins with a verbal exchange,”» — voz de Azhazha nombrando la categoría *Dialego* por el intercambio verbal que abre el episodio.
«“I agree with you," answered Azhazha. “Ufology is a complex domain that demands knowledge of biotechnology, of space physics, and of psychology and sociology. We need a multidisciplinary approach.» — voz de Azhazha respondiendo a la objeción de Vallée de que el caso parecía un cuento de hadas.
«Vladimir Azhazha summarized the observations in Voronezh and wisely added, “I personally believe that it would be a mistake to interpret these facts as evidence of visits by extraterrestrial aliens; our knowledge is still too limited for any convincing scientific interpretation.”» — voz de Azhazha absteniéndose de leer Voronezh como visita extraterrestre, por insuficiencia de conocimiento.
«He was not drugged, alcoholic, or crazy. During those two hours something did happen to him, but what was it?”» — voz de Azhazha cerrando el caso del pintor Malichev con una pregunta, no con un dictamen.
«center of the activity varies within the city of Voronezh itself,” Alexander Mosolov told us after we had reviewed the background of the various cases. “It moves from the park to the power plant. Many of the sightings seem to occur in polluted areas. The park itself used to be a garbage dump. It was covered over with dirt and planted.» — voz del ingeniero aeronáutico Alexander Mosolov sobre la distribución de los avistamientos y su coincidencia con zonas contaminadas; la frase arranca con una T que la capa de texto imprime corrompida.
«We do not know what all that means.» — voz de Mosolov, cerrando esa misma descripción.
«And indeed we found four imprints in the ground,” pointed out Dr. Yuri Lozovtsev.» — voz de Yuri Lozovtsev sobre las huellas del terreno.
«The humanoids are similar in all the drawings,” added Martynov.» — voz de Martynov sobre la constancia de los dibujos infantiles.
«But the soil had turned to the consistency of stone, and there was an area of flattened grass.» — voz de los investigadores de Voronezh sobre el estado del suelo.
«The background radiation was in the range of ten to fifteen microroentgen per hour, while the measurements taken on the trace itself were between thirty and thirty-seven. Although it doesn't pose a threat to people’s health, such an increase is clearly significant.» — voz de los investigadores de Voronezh dando las cifras de radiación con su propia acotación de que no había riesgo sanitario.
«But in the following days there were other reports from children and we do not trust those reports.» — voz de los investigadores de Voronezh descartando parte de los testimonios infantiles posteriores.
«Silanov has a long experience with this technique and with magnetism generally,” said the researchers.» — voz del colectivo de Voronezh avalando a Genrikh Silanov en radiestesia y magnetismo.
«“That symbol is genuine,” said a member of the group.» — voz de un miembro del colectivo de Voronezh sobre el símbolo UMMO.
«Thus Yuri Petrovich Vokhrimenko gave the following statement: On September 27, between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m., I saw from my balcony a reddish sphere appearing over the horizon.» — declaración de testigo reproducida en bloque por la obra.
«Inna Vladimirovna Nikitina, an employee of Voronezh-Energo, the local power station, said: Around 9:00 p.m., for five to ten minutes, I observed a fairly large flattened sphere, shaped like an orange.» — otra declaración de testigo reproducida en bloque, con su cargo y su lugar de trabajo.
«I experienced a feeling of intense fear for which I could not account.» — cierre de la misma declaración, con el miedo que se repite en casi todos los testimonios del libro.
«And although my brain and my willpower ordered my hand to touch the unpleasant thing, I could not move my arm.» — testimonio publicado por el periodista Valery Milyutin y reproducido aquí en bloque; la parálisis ante el haz.
«The author of the article, Valery Milyutin, concluded with the opinion of O. V. Stolyarov, department head at the newspaper Kommuna , who has studied such anomalous phenomena for several years:» — la obra declara de quién es el artículo y a quién cede la conclusión.
«The celebrated Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky admitted the possibility that space and time were multidimensional. Moreover, he thought that ethereal beings could live in a parallel dimension to ours. Why don't we see them? Perhaps one of the most convincing answers has been offered by one of the leading authorities on this issue, an Academician of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Vlail P. Kaznacheyev. He is convinced that ancient people were capable of sensing one another at huge distances. Then this ability was lost by most people. Maybe that is why some people see humanoid beings and others do not.» — voz de O. V. Stolyarov, del diario *Kommuna*, encadenando a Tsiolkovsky con Vlail P. Kaznacheyev; es el bloque que reaparece recortado como epígrafe de la conclusión.
«Alexis Zolotov, who had personally traveled to the site in 1959 and 1960, summarized them for us, his sharp eyes darting from Martine to our interpreter and then to me, his hands smoothing his long gray beard. “It began with a blinding ball of light, brighter than the sun, that appeared over the Siberian taiga near Vanovara. It turned into a fiery column rising up into the cloudless sky. Next, a loud explosion reverberated several times. The sound was heard as far as 750 miles away. The earth moved and even at that distance chandeliers swung from the ceilings. Four hundred miles away a train nearly derailed under the shock. The engineer actually stopped his engine, wondering what had happened.» — voz de Alexis Zolotov resumiendo las pruebas de Tunguska; el bloque entero de la plana 88 es suyo, no del autor.
«I call them superimposition and induction.» — voz de Zolotov nombrando las dos propiedades de su teoría del campo biológico.
«The fourth level, in my opinion, will turn out to be the informational field you are talking about.» — voz de Zolotov sobre su jerarquía de niveles de campo.
«The zones of negative force usually are experienced as discomfort, and the positive ones induce euphoria.» — voz de Zolotov sobre los efectos anímicos de las zonas anómalas.
«Everything we do has practical applications,” Zolotov said. “Our institute in Kalinin is concerned with mineral exploration.» — voz de Zolotov sobre su instituto de Kalinin, donde forma geólogos en biolocación.
«I saw a humanoid when I was seven, in 1933.» — voz de Zolotov sobre su propia experiencia de infancia.
«The Stoliarov committee lasted only a month or so, in 1967, then it was suddenly closed,” he told us.» — voz de Alexander Kazantsev sobre la vida breve del comité de 1967.
«“We have followed our own path in technology,” Kazantsev said. “Don’t forget that as early as 1910 a Russian engineer named Tsander proposed an electroplane based on the law of interaction between electricity and magnetism.» — voz de Kazantsev sobre el *electroplane* que atribuye al ingeniero Tsander en 1910.
«We only bring in parapsychologists to help in training for the long-duration flights, when we need to achieve the best meditation and concentration abilities.» — voz del cosmonauta Valentin Zudov sobre el uso de parapsicólogos en el entrenamiento de vuelos largos.
«No, we do not do anything that might impede the free functioning of the brain.”» — voz de Zudov descartando la hipnosis en el entrenamiento.
«Unfortunately, none of our cosmonauts ever observed them from orbit, although some have seen UFOs from the ground.» — voz de Zudov sobre la ausencia de avistamientos desde órbita.
«“Don’t forget that Stalin himself once ordered an experiment with 5,000 patients who had various illnesses,” added Eugene.» — voz de Eugene Kolessov sobre el experimento estalinista con 5 000 pacientes.
«But it turns out that water is the best medium to fix information.» — voz de los Kolessov sobre el agua como soporte de impresiones psíquicas.
«We have done many bad things in Russia, but we have never hunted down witches on such a scale.» — voz de los Kolessov contrastando la persecución de brujas en Rusia y en Occidente.
«Look at poltergeist phenomena. Don't they seem to belong to the same class of unexplained effects caused by a consciousness that is close to the human realm?» — voz de Larissa Kolessova poniendo el poltergeist y el ovni en la misma clase.
«Vladimir Lechkutsov, the secretary of the National Committee of Soviet Physicists, stated loudly that there was no official organization for the study of the UFO phenomenon in the Soviet Union.» — declaración oficial de 1968 negando que existiera organismo alguno para el estudio del fenómeno.
«there is no real evidence to show that there is life, including intelligent life, anywhere but on planet» — voz de Vladimir Alexeyevich Krat, director del observatorio de Pulkovo, en julio de 1978; la frase cierra en la plana siguiente.
«I don't deny that we are unable to account for some of the observations.» — voz del profesor Vladimir Migulin admitiendo el residuo inexplicado.
«But the idea that some form of consciousness is manifested by the UFO phenomenon is only a hypothesis, one that has never been proven.» — voz de Migulin contra la hipótesis de una conciencia manifestada en el fenómeno.
«The witnesses make all sorts of claims that sound like hoaxes to me.» — voz de Migulin sobre los testimonios de Voronezh, adonde declara no haber ido.
«It is the human factor, the psychology of the witnesses, that plays the greatest role," concluded Migulin, implying again that the unexplained cases were the product of overheated imagination.» — voz de Migulin cerrando el debate por el lado del factor humano.
«“Biolocation techniques were used,” said Bachurin with the casual tone we had now come to expect from Soviet ufologists, who spoke about their dowsing device as if it were as common— and as reliable— as a compass or a voltmeter.» — voz de Emil Bachurin, con la comparación instrumental que Vallée recoge para objetarla.
«I met two humanoids near my house,” he answered matter-of-factly. “The information I received was that I must stop my research and disband the expedition.» — voz de Bachurin sobre el encuentro que le ordenó abandonar la investigación.
«Electrical systems blew up; there were short circuits and other problems. Some light bulbs had to be replaced several times a day.» — voz de Bachurin sobre los efectos eléctricos que siguieron a ese encuentro.
«Life could also manifest in the form of energy fields," added another participant.» — voz de un participante de la mesa redonda de Moscú.
«UFOs could be just the simplest form of manifestation for such an entity, a shape it might assume to get our attention!» — continuación de esa misma especulación, en boca de la mesa.
«Perhaps the beings described by witnesses are an intermediate lifeform between us and that form of consciousness,” one man said.» — voz de otro participante proponiendo a las entidades como forma intermedia de conciencia.
«The various theories are not mutually exclusive.» — lo que la mesa redonda acordó no resolver.
«When I asked them why they were so interested in the UFO phenomenon, one of them answered very directly. “We want to turn a page in the book of science.”» — voz de un científico soviético joven, que le da título al capítulo 15.
«Dr. Vallee first became interested in the subject of UFOs when he witnessed the destruction of tracking tapes of unknown objects at a major observatory.» — solapa posterior, biografía editorial en tercera persona.
«His unique approach to this phenomenon was crystallized when he served as the real-life model for the character of the French scientist played by Francois Truffaut in Steven Spielberg s film Close Encounters ofthe Tlurd Kind.» — misma solapa; `ofthe Tlurd` es corrupción de la capa de texto y se consigna tal cual.
Concepts treated
Polimorfismo — Rasgo fundamental del fenómeno y, en su opinión, uno de los principales argumentos contra la nave interplanetaria
Fases de Formacion — Terminología adjudicada al informe soviético para las transiciones de forma; 149 transiciones en su catálogo
Samizdat — Documento copiado a mano y circulado entre amigos de confianza; nombra el estado material de toda la documentación del libro
Prodigio (prodigium, portentum, ostentum) — Entra como *señal de Dios*: El testigo de 1663 entiende lo visto como signo divino, y esa creencia es lo que hace fiable el informe ante la autoridad eclesiástica
Biolocacion — Práctica soviética extendida; consigna la fiabilidad que le atribuyen y declara no ver cómo se justifica
Ley de los Tiempos — Máximo de frecuencia de avistamientos entre las 21 y las 22 horas, confirmado sobre datos soviéticos
Dimensiones Superiores — Posibilidad presente desde antiguo en la tradición científica soviética, vía Tsiolkovsky, y extraña en Occidente
Hadas Silfides Duendes — Las entidades se comportan como los seres de leyenda de las crónicas medievales; observación propia recogida vía el comentario de Bachurin
Demonologia — El caso de la mano negra de Cideville, c. 1850, tomado de un libro de demonología de 1854, arroja luz nueva sobre las abducciones
Luces Teluricas — Hipótesis de Derr y Devereux sobre tensiones terrestres; Devereux les atribuye además una forma de conciencia
Psicotronica — Literatura soviética donde *biolocation* designa la radiestesia; el término que el *New York Times* transcribió como *bilocation*
Noosfera — Azhazha pone la interacción psicofísica entre objeto, testigo y noosfera como condición para que un avistamiento signifique algo
Dialego — Nombre —*Dialego*, el diálogo— que Azhazha da al mecanismo de abducción que se abre con un intercambio verbal
Tunguska — La explosión del 30 de junio de 1908; el único caso del libro cuya realidad física, según él, ningún científico niega
Campo Biologico — Zolotov lo declara atributo del reino orgánico y le fija dos propiedades, superposición e inducción
Campo Informacional — Cuarto nivel de la jerarquía de campos de Zolotov, del que dice no tener identificados todos los portadores
Zonas Anomalas — Las negativas se sienten como malestar y las positivas inducen euforia, según Zolotov
Hipnosis Regresiva — Practicada sin formación en los dos bloques; su reserva alcanza por igual a soviéticos y estadounidenses
Plasma Consciencia — La mesa redonda de Moscú especula con formas de conciencia de plasma anteriores a la humanidad
Clasificacion Svp — Código de tres dígitos para fiabilidad de la fuente, visita al sitio y explicación natural posible
Encuentro Cercano Ce5 — Categoría nueva que propone para los casos con lesiones permanentes o efectos fisiológicos
Espiritu Maligno — Los testigos del caso de 1923 del apéndice concluyen que lo visto era un espíritu maligno