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EKIP (translated from ЭКИП, the Russian acronym for "Экология и Прогресс", which means "Ecology and Progress") is the Soviet and Russian project of a multifunctional aerodrome-free aircraft, built according to the "flying wing" scheme, with an elliptically shaped fuselage. [1]
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During his Asian expedition, Russian theosophist Nicholas Roerich reported an oval in the sky above his caravan, which was later interpreted as a "flying saucer" by Roerich's Russian followers. [50] [51] [52] 1933 Frank Smythe UFO sighting Mount Everest in the Himalayas
The following are some alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects in Russia: The Tunguska event of 1908, is considered to have been the explosion of a meteor, though some regard it as an explosion of a UFO. The Petrozavodsk phenomenon on September 20, 1977.
During the late 1940s and through the 1950s, UFOs were often called "flying saucers" or "flying discs" based on reporting of the Kenneth Arnold incident. [3] "Unidentified flying object" (UFO) has been in-use since 1947. [4] The acronym, "UFO" was coined by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, for the USAF. He wrote, "Obviously the term 'flying saucer ...
An alleged flying saucer seen over Passaic, New Jersey in 1952. A flying saucer, or flying disc, is a purported disc-shaped UFO. The term was coined in 1947 by the news media for the objects pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed flew alongside his airplane above Washington State. Newspapers reported Arnold's story with speed estimates implausible for ...
On June 26, 1947, the Chicago Sun coverage of the story may have been the first use ever of the term "flying saucer".. On June 24, 1947, private pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed that he saw a string of nine, shiny unidentified flying objects flying past Mount Rainier at speeds that he estimated to be at least 1,200 miles per hour (1,900 km/h).
In 2012, the movie Iron Sky features a Nazi base on the moon surviving until modern times and launching an assault on earth via a fleet of flying saucers. In 2018, Revell released a scale model kit of a Nazi flying saucer called "Haunebu II", with an accompanying description written as if the kit was depicting a historical craft.