On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 00:26:12 +0100,
wrote:

Wally Anglesea™ wrote:

OK, So far, I've been told that *THERE IS NO NSA IN ST PETERSBURG,
MUCH LESS A DEPT OF UFO RESEARCH AND CERTAINLY NOT ONME THAT REPORST
TO PUTIN*

Now it's *possible* that Russia is a bit of a mess, so there may be
all sorts of little back room *make work* departments, but I have my
doubts.


So, I've escalated the query. Does anyone have a contact in Russia
that can check this out and confrim it?

I think you're going to be wasting your time. There have been a few
"reports" of Planet X and other information from Russian sources, but
they always turn out to be completely faked.

I think it's because, since the break up of the Soviet Union, there
has been a lot of chaos in scientific circles in the Soviet states,
and this makes them an easy target for this kind of hoax. It can be
hard to pin down any information about these people or organisations,
so the hoaxers can get away with quoting them as "authorities",
knowing it'll take a lot of work to prove them to be liars.

DP

Yeah, but it will give that nitwit Rudoplh the rednosed aetadrone a
run. :-))



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