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From: Alexander Beletsky <riap777@chat.ru>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:50:32 +0300
Fwd Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 22:14:38 -0400
Subject: Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena,


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Dear Colleague,

My name is Alexander Beletsky. I am Vice-Director of Research
Institute on Anomalous Phenomena (RIAP) - an independent
scientific- research body, established in Kharkov (Ukraine) a
few years ago. We aim at scientific studies in the fields of the
UFO problem and the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence) question. The Institute makes its investigations
in close collaboration with the CIS Academy of Cosmonautics and
Russian Academy of Sciences. Please find here attached (as
Appendix I) a RIAP Information Leaflet, describing the
Institute's research programs in some detail.

To inform the international ufological community about the
results of investigations that are conducted by RIAP specialists
and other scientists in the territory of the former Soviet
Union, we started, in 1994, a special periodical: newsletter
RIAP Bulletin (RB). It is the ONLY serious anomalistic
periodical in the Commonwealth of Independent States published
IN ENGLISH. There appear in RB research articles, short
communications, book reviews, letters to the Editor, etc.

RB Vol. 1, Nos. 1-4 - Vol. 4, Nos. 1-4 have been printed and
sent to subscribers. They contain, in particular, the papers
"Post-Soviet Ufology: a View from Inside" and "Alternative
Science?", by V.V.Rubtsov; "UFOs as Objects of Study by
Terrestrial Physics", by V.A.Buerakov; "Search for Alien
Artifacts on the Moon: A Justification", by A.V.Arkhipov; "UFOs:
a Possible Mechanism of Formation, Behavior and Environmental
Impact", by V.I.Mazhuga; "The Petrozavodsk Phenomenon", by
L.M.Gindilis & Y.K.Kolpakov; "The Black Ball: a Supposed
Extraterrestrial Artifact", by V.N.Fomenko; "A Second UFO
Landing on the River Mzha", by a group of RIAP scientists, and
others. We have also published the first really comprehensive
survey of anomalous features of the famous Tunguska explosion
("The Tunguska Meteorite: A Dead-Lock or the Start of a New
Stage of Inquiry?"), written by the leading Russian specialist
in this problem - Nikolay V. Vasilyev, Member of Academy.

RIAP Bulletin is published four times per year. Subscription
rates: a life-long subscription - $100; 12 issues (three years)
- $50; 8 issues (two years) - $35; 4 issues (one year) - $20.
Airmail postage included. Back issues are still available in
limited quantities ($5 per issue, $55 a whole set - eleven
issues).

If you are interested in subscribing to RIAP Bulletin, please
let me know. I and my colleagues would be happy to inform you
about advances and prospects of ufological studies in this part
of the world. There will appear in the next RB issues, in
particular, the following papers: "A Possible Genetic Trace of
the Tunguska Catastrophe of 1908", by Y.G.Rychkov; "UFOs: False
and Genuine", by the Russian academic UFO expert Y.V.Platov;
"Did the Maori Know About the Rings of Jupiter?", by
Y.N.Morozov, and many others.

With all my best wishes and warmest regards, I remain,

Sincerely yours, Alexander V. Beletsky, M.A., Vice-Director,
RIAP

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Appendix I

RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA, Kharkov, Ukraine

The principal trends of researches of the institute in the UFO
field are as follows: creation of an efficient system of
reconstruction of a real anomalous event on the basis of
witnesses' testimonies; formation of a unified CIS UFO data base
(in collaboration with the Expert Group on Anomalous Atmospheric
Phenomena of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and a computer
expert system to identify genuine UFOs (GUFOs); development of
physical models of GUFOs; monitoring of a place of recurrent UFO
landings on the river Mzha, near Kharkov; studies in the hidden
history of Soviet ufology.

In the SETI field, there was realized, under the guidance of
Alexey V. Arkhipov, phase I of the program "Search for Alien
Artifacts on the Moon" (SAAM) and its results were presented on
the pages of RIAP Bulletin. Besides, we have been examining some
enigmatic finds that can be considered candidate
extraterrestrial artifacts (ancient, or not so ancient). These
are the so-called "Kassimov ball" - a small (diameter some 4.5
cm) black ball of unknown origin, found in Central Russia in
1983 on the depth 7 meters, in a layer of pure red clay, - and
the remains of a strange object that obviously originated from
space and fell down near Kharkov in 1994 (judging from its
chemical composition, it is neither a meteorite, nor terrestrial
space junk).

The institute pays considerable attention to the problem of the
Tunguska explosion of 1908. We are studying statistical
parameters of the forest fall area, as well as the
biogeochemical elemental and isotopic anomalies and
population-genetic effects, revealed in the area of the
catastrophe. A state-of-the-art collection of research papers on
the Tunguska problem is now under preparation.

The Scientific Council and Advisory Board of the Institute
include such Russian and Ukrainian specialists in the UFO
problem and SETI field as Dr. E.A.Ermilov (specialist in radio
detection of aerial anomalous phenomena), Dr. V.N.Fomenko
(investigator of the famous Vashka find, as well as other
supposed ET artifacts), Y.A.Fomin (doyen of UFO studies in
Russia), Dr. L.M.Gindilis (astronomer and SETI expert), Dr.
Y.V.Platov (Vice-Chairman of the Academic UFO Study Group), Dr.
V.K.Zhuravlev (investigator of the Tunguska explosion), and
others. The Advisory Board comprehends also a group of
well-known Western scientists, scholars and engineers -
V.-J.Ballester Olmos (Spain), Dr. T.E.Bullard (USA), Dr.
R.F.Haines (USA), Dr. A.Meessen (Belgium), et al. Dr. Vladimr V.
Rubtsov, Full Member of the CIS Academy of Cosmonautics and one
of pioneers of ufological studies in the former USSR, is
Director of RIAP.

Institute mailing address:

RIAP, P.O.Box 4684, 310022 Kharkov-22, Ukraine.

Internet e-mail address:

<riap777@chat.ru>;

Website: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Starship/1527/

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