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in 1964. MINUS 218 REVELATIONS object resembled those of the silvery egg seen at Socorro, New Mexico, Like the Socorro object, this one sported an insignia on its side. And the insignia was none other than our old friend, the UMMO symbol. I decided the time had come to buy some warm clothes and to board the first Air France flight to Moscow. TWENTY-SEVEN It will take me a long time to sort through all the data I accumulated during my stay in the Soviet Union in January 1990, and it will take even longer to integrate what I saw and heard into the overall patterns of the UFO phenomenon. It was the first time that a Western scientist and UFO researcher visited the Soviet Union since the advent of Glasnost. I was fortunate to be accompanied by Martine Castello, a sharp and well-informed scientific reporter for Le Figaro, the leading French newspaper. We were soon inundated with so much informa- tion, given with so much kindness and with such genuine curiosity about the global nature of the phenomenon, that our suitcases were bulging with reports and photographs. But of the reality of the Voro- nezh landings there was no doubt. Nor was there any doubt about the even wilder reality of the massive UFO wave of which Voronezh was only one episode. It was twenty-seven degrees centigrade below zero, and a bitter wind was sweeping Red Square when we drove over to the offices of Novosti for a meeting with Professor Vladimir Azhazha, Director of the Soviet Commission for the Study of Paranormal Phenomena. We spent most of the day with him. Our discussions ranged over a wide variety of subjects, which are beyond the scope of the present book, but we kept coming back to Voronezh. "As you must be aware, the events at Voronezh have attracted considerable curiosity in the West," I told him, spreading before him newspaper clippings from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle. "We are eager to find out what really happened. Some