subject for an article(Dr. Jacques Vallee collects several of these stories in his excellent book, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union, a Cosmic Samidzat. In his other books Vallee lays out some compelling conjecture on why this just might be, detailing how the phenomenon appears to want to be seen by those who witness it and how it conforms to our expectations based on the technology and popular opinion of the era. It's why the "eccentric inventors" of the airship flap era was replaced by "advanced beings from another planet" in the space age. But that's a subject for another article. (coasttocoastam.com)ART Vancouver)
