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Conference 7.286::space

Title:Space Exploration
Notice:Shuttle launch schedules, see Note 6
Moderator:PRAGMA::GRIFFIN
Created:Mon Feb 17 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:974
Total number of notes:18843

567.0. "Communist E. T." by PAXVAX::MAIEWSKI () Tue Oct 10 1989 18:41

  Last night on the WBZ News they said that the Soviet News Paper Tass had a
story about Alians landing in Russia. Anyone else hear anything about this?
Maybe the folks at WBZ were a little punchy from staying up late for all
those baseball games.

  Jack and Liz are usually terrible at reporting anything to do with a space
program, but I can't imagine how they could have screwed this story up.

  What might they have been thinking of?

  George
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567.1UFO Topic 111RENOIR::KLAESN = R*fgfpneflfifaLTue Oct 10 1989 18:473
    	See the OCTAVE::UFOS Conference Topic 111.  Press the KP7 or
    SELECT key to add UFOS to your Notebook.
    
567.2ET, Snowman, Cirgar shape UFO and moreHYDRA::BIROWed Oct 11 1989 08:2420
    the cigar shape object that has been seen in the last 
    several months is the USSR I believe is the Energia ?sp
    being air transforted on top of a cargo plane.. AW had
    its picture and it had flown about the same time the
    cigar shape UFO was reported.
    
    As for ET they just stop at the park to relieve themselves.
    
    An for the Snow man, they did catch one last week.  Two
    boys capture it put it in their trunk but on the trip
    home it broke out of the trunk an got away...
    
    All sorts of strange stories coming out of the CCCP.
    
    The ET that landed on the park did leave trace of a 
    red stone, simular to red sand stone but as TASS said
    it was unlike anything found on this earth...
    
    jb
    
567.3Eight feet tall with small headsWARDER::TEMPLERWed Oct 11 1989 08:5610
    We in the U.K. also heard about the comrade aliens
    From the description they were 8 feet tall with very small
    heads
    
    Dont suppose it was an American tourist??????     
    (yes, thas was supposed to be a joke)
    
    Anyone else go any info. about these aliens in th park
    
    Roy
567.4Star Wars open in CCCPHYDRA::BIROWed Oct 11 1989 09:068
    Star Wars is now being shown in Soviet Thearters...
    could it be the Evil empire will fall....
    
    after all can you believe ET passing red stones in a red park....
    
    jb
    :>)
    
567.5It's the invasion of... The Pinheads!EPIK::BUEHLERThe status quo is what you make of it.Wed Oct 11 1989 12:040
567.6there is no time to waste!IAMOK::ALLEGREZZAGeorge Allegrezza @VROWed Oct 11 1989 12:1411
    Sure, you guys.  Laugh if you want.  But may I remind you these aliens
    are THREE-EYED creatures, according to TASS.  Let's think about that
    for a second.  This means the Commies have the inside track on
    TRI-OPTIC technology.  Who knows what fantastic weapons could result
    from this development?  It could mean the End of Western Civilization
    As We Know It, or at least start a new trend in eyeglasses in London
    and New York.  Either way, we cannot allow the Godless Reds to have
    superiority in tri-optics.  I propose a crash program to develop a NATO
    capability in tri-optics, to be followed by a international consortium
    which would develop fabulous new devices to confront this threat from
    the Stalinist Horde.
567.7Glasnost is responsible.KAOM25::TOMKINSThis MIND left BLANK INTENTIONALLYWed Oct 11 1989 13:129
    As one of my co-workers suggested,
    
     In this modern age of Glasnost and the inherent distrust of the
    Soviet people for anyone, including themselves, It could well be
    a hoax of a story, that the Tass editor decided it was wise to publish
    as it could well be a test of his contribution to Glasnost and to
    prove that Tass prints all the news and hides nothing. Of course
    the editor knew it was a hoax, just that Glasnost comes first, that's
    all.
567.8CSSE::TRAPHAGANWed Oct 11 1989 14:015
    My guess is that they landed at the park, got out to look for a good
    place to eat, and realized that they had left their American Express
    cards at home. 
    
    JT  
567.9PAXVAX::MAIEWSKIWed Oct 11 1989 14:497
  From the report I read, the only people claiming to have seen the alians are
three kids out of a group that was playing ball near the town. 

  I'd guess Tass is reporting a story that came from the imaginations of three
young people. 

  George
567.10VCSESU::COOKI'm the CIAWed Oct 11 1989 14:557
    
    re .9
    
    A town official also saw the craft. Witnesses included several
    children, also many adults.
    
    /prc
567.11Call ISO!EPIK::BUEHLERThe status quo is what you make of it.Thu Oct 12 1989 11:579
>    I propose a crash program to develop a NATO
>    capability in tri-optics, to be followed by a international consortium
>    which would develop fabulous new devices to confront this threat from
>    the Stalinist Horde.
    
    Don't forget standards.  Gotta have standards.  We may not know what
    we're doing, but by god we're going to have standards.
    
John
567.12Americans Fascinate by Aliens in Soviet UnionHYDRA::BIROThu Oct 12 1989 12:0318
    cuts latest from TASS:
    
    'A current affair', a nationally synidicated news entertainment show
    was perparing tuesday to sen a film crew to Voronezh, the city visted
    by the aliens.  "we are taking it seriously because it comes form
    TASS", a current affair assignment editor Lesley Fagen said. "we dont
    know what to think. we want to find out what s happing. Although most
    news shows reported the alliens because of TAss reputation for
    journalistic integrity, many agreed taht the reality of the Voronezh
    apparitions was hard to swallow...."
    
    the article goes on to quote many papers and famous people mostly
    saying its a joke... but they are selling the films rites...
    
    
    jb
    
    
567.13you've just entered the Red Twilight ZoneMISFIT::GEMMELand now here's Mac and Tosh...Fri Oct 13 1989 11:395
    Three eyes....anyone remember the Twilight Zone with the Martian
    landing in a back-woods town on a snowy night?  Meets up the tri-eyed
    Venusian short-order cook?
    
    Just thought I'd mention it.
567.14IAMOK::ALLEGREZZAGeorge Allegrezza @VROFri Oct 13 1989 12:163
    Re: .12 
    
    TASS' reputation for journalistic integrity? ahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
567.154th month reviewRICARD::NISSchmidtTue Jan 16 1990 10:5119
In hindsight this item is really amusing. What evil empire? The Ronnie dreamup?
As far as I can tell there's only one world dominant power populated by the 
planet's largest community of cocaine users and illiteracy - according to 
puplished information.

No, I think .8 got it right - isn't it just amazing what covers CIA is able to 
dream up. This age is going to be facinating to read about in the history books
to be written just a few 1000 years into the future... how the Dollars 
prophets Ronnie and Georgie descented in a cloud of white flour and set things
right. And how Georgie after that set the bush on fire, purified the mind of 
the people, restored the rainforrest and founded the Galactic Empire. Then 
follows the adventures of Han Solo & "Lucky" Luke Skywalker. 

It is obvious that TASS will a god-like creature guiding the politbureau
to explain the rate of changes; though we in the west prefer to think that
it is our 'good' influence, which is finally sinkin' in.

Now that democracy has come to eastern europe, we can finally start hoping for
the west ;-)