Police Officers Spot UFO; Rapid Reaction Force Alerted (Lithuania, June 1996)
This FBIS London message (DTG 26 June 1996) transmits an FBIS-translated ITAR-TASS World Service report by Vladas Burbulis, datelined Vilnius, 26 June. According to the report, on 25 June 1996 at about 0030 two motor police patrol officers, Jaunius Pozera and Laimis Kraujalis, spotted an unidentified spherical object hanging and 'pulsing' 20–30 meters above the ground on the Vilnius-Medininkai road near the village of Nemezis, roughly 10 km from Vilnius. The officers reported a strange electric or electronic crackling sound; when they approached, the object rose and departed toward Vilnius. The sighting placed the whole Vilnius police on alert, drawing soldiers from the ARAS rapid reaction force, sniffer dogs, civil defense members and special forces. Responders measured background radiation and tape-recorded the sound, and reportedly found tall grass flattened to a radius of 10 meters where the sphere had hovered. Police Commissioner Valentinas Juchnevicius stated in a radio interview that both officers were psychologically healthy. The message was distributed to numerous U.S. military and intelligence commands and embassies. Content is attributed to the cited news source and carries a copyright notice.
Description
A UNCLASSIFIED Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) message relaying an ITAR-TASS World Service dispatch describing a UFO sighting near the Lithuanian border on 25 June 1996, in which two police patrol officers reported a pulsing spherical object and triggered a rapid-reaction force response.
Claims
Police Commissioner Juchnevicius stated the two officers were psychologically healthy, normal people not noted for crankiness.
70%Police Commissioner Valentinas Juchnevicius stated both witnessing officers were psychologically healthy and not prone to crankiness.
55%Two duty police officers spotted a spherical, pulsing UFO at 20-30 meters altitude near Nemezis on 25 June 1996.
55%The sighting prompted alert of the whole Vilnius police and the ARAS rapid reaction force, with radiation measurements and tape recordings taken.
55%The sighting triggered a full alert of the Vilnius police and deployment of the ARAS rapid reaction force, sniffer dogs and special forces.
50%The object emitted a strange electric or electronic crackling sound heard even after it departed.
50%Tall grass beneath where the sphere hovered was flattened to a 10-meter radius.
45%Two Lithuanian police officers observed a spherical UFO hanging at 20–30 meters altitude that 'pulsed,' shrinking and expanding, near the village of Nemezis on 25 June 1996.
40%The object emitted a strange electric or electronic crackling sound and departed rapidly toward Vilnius when the officers approached.
40%Responders measured background radiation and found tall grass flattened to a 10-meter radius where the sphere had hovered.
35%
Events
Jun 25, 1996
FBIS message transmission
FBIS London transmitted the translated ITAR-TASS report to numerous US military and intelligence recipients.
Jun 24, 1996
UFO sighting near Vilnius
Two police officers observed a pulsing spherical object at ~0030 above the Vilnius-Medininkai road near Nemezis, ~10 km from Vilnius, for about half an hour.
Jun 24, 1996
UFO sighting near Nemezis, Lithuania
Two police officers observed a pulsing spherical object at 20-30 m altitude on the Vilnius-Medininkai road, watching it for about half an hour before it departed.
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