In 2010, members of the Czech Exopolitics Group held an event called "Letters for the publication of UFO documents". They addressed politicians and military officials who they thought might be aware of military records related to UFOs in the Czech Republic and asked for these files to be released to the public. They certainly did not hope that ministers and army officers would immediately make available to them files with files that were probably subject to secrecy. Rather, it was a question of finding out the reactions of the people concerned - whether they would answer at all, if there is anything to read between the lines and to what extent their answers will match the information from other sources. What results did the experiment bring? Six of the seven exopolitics responded. They mostly agreed in the sense that the Czech Army does not deal with UFO phenomena and there are no military records of UFOs in the Czech Republic. Specifically:

Chief of the General Staff of the Army of the Czech Republic, Army General Ing. Vlastimil Picek, letter dated 1 July 7: “The Army of the Czech Republic does not have any documents of this kind in its records… The issue of UFO surveillance is not the subject of special ACR interests… For more information on the UFO phenomenon, I recommend visiting the Záře project website (www.projektzare.cz ), where it is possible to find classified and statistically evaluated information on UFOs and other abnormal phenomena in the Czech Republic. "

Former Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic Martin Barták through the Deputy Director of the Department of Communication with the Media and the Public of the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic Mgr. In a letter dated 8 February 2, Jan Pejšek stated: “Unfortunately, I must inform you that the Army of the Czech Republic has not dealt with or is not dealing with the issue of UFO surveillance. The topic falls into the field of cosmonautics and the Czech army does not deal with space elements. There is no folder on this topic in any of the army archives, nor is there any internal normative act that deals with similar phenomena. "

Former Defense Ministers Luboš Dobrovský and Antonín Baudyš st. they stated that they had no idea about military documents related to UFOs. Dobrovsky allegedly added that there is no such thing as a UFO. If a pilot reportedly reported something similar, the scientist would be told that nothing like a UFO could exist and he should be investigated.

Mgr. Josef Žikeš, Military Central Archive in Prague, letter dated 12 July 7: “An extensive search was carried out in the documentation of the MoD units (and previous FMOs, MNOs) both in the Military Historical Archive and in the administrative archives. No separate files, individual documents or records were found in the stored documentation. "

Office of the President of the Republic - Secretary of the President Ladislav Jakl, letter dated 1 July 7: “The President of the Republic Václav Klaus has instructed me to familiarize myself with the contents of your letter. However, it is entirely up to him what position he takes on your requirements. "

Brigadier General Ing. Jiří Verner, the commander of the air defense, has not spoken to this day.

Based on these answers, it might seem that our soldiers really know nothing about UFO objects. Let's get acquainted with the material, which is indisputable proof that unidentified flying objects are also taken seriously by soldiers in our country, and the lists concerning UFOs, at least in the past, undoubtedly had…

Let's move on to the early 90s. At that time, two still active mystological-ufological associations were established in the former Czechoslovakia. In 1990, the Czechoslovak Archaeoastronautical Association (Čs.AAA), characterized as an interest association engaged in the study and research of UFOs, research on controversial issues of human civilization, frontier phenomena in the fields of psychotronics, folk medicine, etc. In 1992, Čs.AAA is divided by a special group, which initially calls itself the Center for Collecting Information on UFOs at the Czechoslovak Air Force. Its prominent representatives are Vladimír Liška, Ladislav Lenk, Jaroslav Chvátal and Vladimír Šiška. These gentlemen are launching a project focused exclusively on recording, sorting and evaluating knowledge about UFOs in our territory, which they will name Glow. Jaroslav Chvátal becomes the project leader, Vladimír Šiška is the deputy leader. After a few months, Chvátal leaves the project and Vladimír Šiška takes over as head.

At first glance, the Záře project gives the impression of a serious and well-organized association of about twenty members. It has its own internal rules, its leader and deputy leader, it has its statute, its programs and goals, forms and questionnaires, its archive, stamps, meetings, it takes strictly rational and neutral positions, it uses a lot of police expressions, it often points to good acquaintances with esteemed institutions . On the Záře website, for example, you can read that the project has "built up good cooperation with various scientific experts and experts during its existence, whose consultation it then uses to evaluate the information obtained." (Unfortunately, it is not stated which scientific experts are involved, who deals with these scientific capacities during September, how often and what specifically. During my six years in the project, I only met with a scientific expert, a meteorologist who gave an hour-long lecture on weather balloons). Those interested in serious UFO research, Zář, trust. They share their experiences regarding the observation of unusual phenomena and do not hesitate to provide very sensitive and personal data about themselves. Many believe that a serious-looking project, operating today with data collected from several thousand people from all over the Czech Republic, certainly has some official dedication. And maybe these people are right. They just don't know that this fact should worry them. Although the Záře project likes to claim to be an association in the media, eg an "interest association of amateur researchers", it has never been registered in any commonly available list of interest, civic or other associations at the Ministry of Interior or at any other office. I dare say that if the Glow project is registered, it can easily be on some publicly unavailable list of one of the state administration bodies or some of the army units… Do you not believe?

When Liška, Lenk, Chvátal, Šiška et al. they started the project, they weren't really alone. Try to guess who else, even in the background, is at the very beginning of the now relatively well-known Záře project. If you're guessing the military, you guessed it. In 1992, the Czechoslovak Army actually and literally co-founded the Ufa ufological project. In 1993, the members of the Center published a publication entitled "UFOs over the Czech Republic and Slovakia", in which they describe the origin of the project, including cooperation with military officers. Right on the cover of a small booklet we find this paragraph:

The book admits that even soldiers do not like it when "something flies over the republic, for whose airspace they are responsible. The project of the CsAAA Center and our army (code name Záře) has already brought a lot of flying mysteries. However, soldiers are also shaking their heads over the UFO phenomenon, but they are beginning to take an interest in it in detail. "

The authors are more detailed from page 57. We learn that in 1992 members of the Center for the Collection of Information on UFOs addressed the commander of the Czechoslovak Air Force, Major General Jan Ploce, with a request for military cooperation in UFO research. Major General Ploc responds to their call:

Str. 60 "I have had the content of your letter assessed by the professional authorities, which has shown that there are no obstacles on our part in establishing cooperation with the aim of creating a system of mutual information. To establish contact and discuss cooperation, I appointed a group of experts from the Air Force and Air Defense Command. Namely, these officials are: Colonel Ing. Rudolf Koubek (later it turned out that he is the Deputy Chief of the Air Combat Training Department), Colonel RNDr. Vilibald Kakos (synoptic of the Main Weather Headquarters), Lieutenant Colonel Ing. Ivan Pisetta (RTV section officer of the Air Force and Air Defense Command) and Captain Ing. Jan Valášek (inspector of the section of methodical management of RTV command posts). "

On page 61 we find that "Since then, members of the UFO Information Collection Center have met with this group of officers several times. And these contacts exceeded all expectations. No side smiles, no evasive answers or twists. Nothing like that. The negotiations took place absolutely matter-of-factly, seriously and, most importantly, established the hope that a good step forward would be taken in gathering information on UFOs observed in Czechoslovakia. Thus, the following was agreed at the second meeting: Colonel Koubek will discuss the matter with the commanders of the air forces at the methodological board and ask them to select a group of people at each airport who will pass on any UFO reports to Prague. Soldiers will be provided with a copy of the Centre's computer database and will be able to independently investigate all registered UFO sightings. The soldiers will submit more detailed research to all records of UFO sightings for 1991, which the Center has so far collected. In the event that a UFO report arrives at the Center from any end of the republic, all you have to do is call and the Air Force and Air Defense Headquarters will immediately check whether the RTV means they have recorded anything. A group of military experts, in collaboration with members of the Center, will examine in detail, or on the spot, two specific cases of UFO sightings: the 1990 case of Nepomuk and also the case of a UFO sighting by a military pilot in 1978. "

Str. 63 "Meetings with military collaborators in the Záře project have been held regularly since then. The same database program as Petr Vitous (an expert in the creation of computer programs, who created a computer database for creating and evaluating UFO reports) begins to work on the computer of military members. A floppy disk with new knowledge is always exchanged during meetings. Soldiers also help with their experience. Colonel Koubek is constantly asked about the details of aircraft (How are the position lights of the aircraft?), Dr. Kakos, in turn, provides detailed information about the meteorological situation in the place and also whether the object seen was not the product of a meteorological phenomenon. "

In the years 2003-2009 I was one of the members of the Glow project. It is true that at that time I did not personally encounter any sign of any military cooperation. The official position was that Záře had long since broken up with the army, perhaps in 1994. Whenever I, as a member of the project, also searched for cases that were to be investigated by the army years ago, I did not find anything. These cases are not mentioned in Zář. It is funny that the project management in general still boasts of former contacts and cooperation with soldiers, although it is not able to present any concrete results of at least two years of cooperation to its own members, who ask about them. Recently, new information appeared on the Záře website that cooperation with the Air Force Command now works "rather formally". It's hard to say what we can imagine under that. In my opinion, it is possible that a selected group of project members still work quietly with the military, "calmly and informally." Let us remind you that the Chief of the General Staff Picek also knows the Záře project and refers to it in his answer to the exopolitics from 2010.

In 2008 and 2009, I had some more internal project material at my disposal. It was part of the so-called archive from 1990, 1991 and 1992, which I worked on digitizing. The archive was - or should be - a collection of all UFO sightings in the Czech Republic that Záře has ever learned about. Letters from witnesses to the observations, reactions to these letters, newspaper clippings, etc. E.g. in a very large-scale case of UFO sightings in the Three Axes area (about which you can read about 4 bare sentences on the Záře project website), we find this note: “Maj. Valášek will submit a comprehensive report after consultation with the superior units of the army on the authorization of the scope of declassification. "

In some cases, I found almost nothing in the archive. No letters from witnesses, no forms, not even a brief description of the observation. Always just a small piece of paper with the case registration number and a note of the place where the observation took place. This was also the case with the above-mentioned case of Nepomuk, which, according to the publication "UFOs over the Czech Republic and Slovakia", was going to be investigated by the army on the spot. From the publication "UFO also over Czechoslovakia" (V. Liška, L. Lenk, 1991), which was published a year earlier than "UFO also over Bohemia and Slovakia", we learn that in 1990 the village of Srby u Nepomuku about observing a large triangular object with three white lights in the corners and one red flashing in the middle. The object stood motionless and quietly above the stubble, later a triangle with the dimensions of 50 × 50 × 50 m was found in the field. of them, that the project manager (formerly a deputy) describes the observation of the object near Nepomuk as very serious.

Note that in 1991 and 1992, the founders of the Záře project willingly shared specific information about UFO sightings with the public. The mentioned books "UFO also over Czechoslovakia" and "UFO also over Bohemia and Slovakia", although both quite thin, contain a lot of remarkable stories about unusual phenomena that people in our country have encountered. In the mid-90s, however, there was a major turning point in informing the public. It seems that some reports of UFO sightings are gradually becoming a kind of secret that no one even gets to within the project itself. The project manager decides for himself which cases to publish where and to what extent. What's more, imagine that when more informed project members meet with less informed ones in their spare time, they are reprimanded by the leader that they have nothing to do "without his knowledge" or "behind his back." That's serious. As for informing the public today, as far as I know, Záře has collected thousands of cases of UFO sightings and related mysterious phenomena in the Czech Republic, several hundred of which can be considered really interesting testimonies, which should not be kept silent. Woely few of them have been published.

If you still think that, for example, the UFO sighting at Nepomuk, which Vladislav Šiška describes as very important in 1992, you will find in detail and processed on the Záře website, then you are really wrong. I am afraid, dear readers, that while you are getting acquainted with a number of completely insignificant, constantly recurring nonsense on the Záře website (such as a detailed analysis of the case where an unusually lit plane flew over Lipno, the release of lucky lanterns in the Czech Republic, boring statistics on classification of cases into groups A, B and C, etc.), you may not know at all or learn very little about objects whose nature seems to be so ill-fated to Zář that it passes them on to the army for examination. You're unlucky. For some reason, it seems that Zář is not about publishing difficult-to-explain cases and actual research results, but just sucking information from citizens for their own opaque purposes.

Another strange thing is this. If we know from the publication "UFO also over the Czech Republic and Slovakia" that Záře once met and communicated with soldiers, how is it that the co-author of this publication, co-founder of the Záře project, military editor Ladislav Lenk, pretends over time that nothing don't know? I would like to remind you that Záře was established in 1992 as a joint project of the Center for Collecting Information on UFOs and the Czechoslovak Army. We know that Lenk and the other founders of the Center wrote a letter to the commander of the Czechoslovak Air Force, Major General Ploc, requesting the army's cooperation in UFO research. He replies that there is no objection to cooperation with the ufological group, and several officers are beginning to cooperate on the Záře project. Let's see now how the incomprehensible text from Mr. Lenka is written 10 years later. We find it in the magazine A-report, No. 2/2002, page 1, ie. in an army magazine published directly by the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic, of which Lenk was the editor-in-chief at the time:

I recently called a spokesman for the commander of the Czech Air Force. Should I not contact him with Mr. Šiška. They say I know him. No problem, I say. Government, this is a friend, a researcher. We have been working together to mysteries for ten years, specifically dealing with UFOs. That is, unidentifiable flying objects, in other words, flying saucers.
And what's going on, I ask. Well, Mr. Šiška asked us, the Air Force, to cooperate in UFO research. What?! Well yes. Our general wants to answer him, says the spokesman. I'm staring. I remember very well how sometime in 1991 some sort of triangular flying objects appeared over Belgium. The Belgian Ministry of Defense also took part in the search for their origin, and as colleagues from the friendly "A report" of the Belgian army confidently told me, the then Minister of Defense allegedly resigned because he admitted in a press release with journalists that UFOs were really flying over Belgium.
You're probably wondering why I'm writing about all this. It's simple. I'm a little shocked myself at this time. The commander of the Czech Air Force is willing to talk to "ufologists", the Minister of Defense has asked us to publish everything related to the "secret military hospital" dealing with bacteriological threats, in the next issues A report we will inform you about projects that are now born on Ministry of Defense. Do you know, for example, that a "Pentagon" will be established somewhere in the Czech landscape, where all central military institutions, including the ministry and the General Staff, are to move from Prague?
As editor-in-chief of A report, I look forward to the coming days. Ladislav Lenk

What do you think about that? As if on the pages of a magazine published by the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic, we should get the impression that the army had nothing to do with ufologists, let alone these, at least until 2002. But why? Let us add that Ladislav Lenk was no longer a member of the Záře project in 2002. However, from the same editorial office and in a letter from the Ministry of Defense, from the A-report, the military editor Jan Zeman took his place in Záře. He, according to my information, is squatting in Zář to this day.

The finding that many of Záře's members and associates have anything to do with the military is shocking to many people. If we look even more closely at the staffing of the project, we will find that the secret services are also showing unprecedented interest in UFO sightings. Let's pay particular attention to the project manager.

Karel Rašín and his colleagues from the Czech Exopolitics stated on the internet in the article of 2009 that the head project Glow under the previous regime he was an employee of the Communist Intelligence of the StB and currently remains an employee of the Office for Foreign Relations and Information (ÚZSI), ie the civil intelligence of the Czech Republic. A few hours after the publication of the article, not only the article itself disappeared from the website, but also the entire website of the Czech Exopolitics, on which it was published. The perpetrator was a close friend of the project manager and his deputy Pavel Miškovský, who turned off the site.

Miškovský, a former editor of the daily Aha and editor-in-chief of the internet daily Žena-in, justified his actions by saying that he did not like lies and unsubstantiated fabrications. It wasn't a lie or a fabrication. If you go to the Archives of the Security Forces of the Czech Republic, you will easily find out that Vladimír Šiška was an employee of the Communist StB from 1976 to 1990, when the StB ceased to exist. Gradually he worked at the StB Intelligence Administration (code name I. Ministry of the Interior, SNB Administration I), under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the intelligence residence in Hanoi, then again at the StB Intelligence Administration, then at the StB Executive Intelligence Administration (code name VI Administration). SNB) and eventually settled in the Estébá Special Administration (code name XIII. SNB Administration), holder of the Order of the Red Star, the workplace of ciphers, radio operators and cryptologists. By February 1990, he had reached the rank of police captain. He was a person in contact with state secrets. Based on the successful performance of his duties, he received a medal from Gustav Husák "For the Service of the Fatherland". Vladislav Šiška's more than XNUMX-page personnel file contains exhaustive information about his work with the Communist secret police.

What happened to Vladislav Šiška after the abolition of the StB? Nothing. Some administrations were renamed and many of their members, who held state secrets, remained in place.

In 2009, I left the Záře project. This happened shortly after my appointment as the second deputy project manager (after Miškovsky), in connection with which a surprising fact was revealed to me. In the spring of 2009, a meeting of the senior management took place, ie Šiška, Miškovský and I met in the Sphinx restaurant in the center of Prague. During the meeting, Šiška suddenly took a civilian intelligence card from my pocket and put two sheets of paper folded in half into my hand. He said that Záře is also working on cases about which ordinary members of the project cannot be informed. Miškovský was not surprised by anything, he knew everything. The first of the documents was a transcript of a letter that arrived at the Záře project in 2006. Until that meeting, I really had no idea of ​​its existence. It was a letter from a soldier, before which a general ČSLA general mentioned Soviet officers in 1989, who allegedly acquainted selected members of our air force with certain matters concerning UFOs. The second letter was an intelligence analysis (or part of it) of this letter. According to the language and style used, I think that Šiška himself could have done the analysis. I assume that the head of Záře acted in accordance with his regulations when he handed over these documents to me. He never gave any instructions in terms of orders or prohibitions regarding these materials, he did not ask them back, he did not mention where similar materials are handed over, he does not respond to my written questions and he no longer recognizes me in personal contact. In view of these circumstances, and given that the documents do not bear any special markings, I am convinced that their content is neither secret nor up-to-date and that their publication cannot cause harm to any person or institution.

Previous documents show that letters are coming to Záře about which most of its members, let alone the general public, will learn nothing. We have a letter here, which was probably processed by the management of the Záře project. The output report on him was probably passed on to the President of the Republic and the government. If this is possible, then the Glow project is probably not what it claims to be. As a former member of Záře, these facts touch me deeply and infuriate me immensely. I perceive them as a long-term program abuse of project members who know nothing about it. I perceive them as a scam on thousands of people who turn to the project with confidence, without knowing anything about this game. I also consider it extremely tasteless and immoral that these people be practically interrogated by a former member of the StB.

Later, I asked Miškovsky who else in Zář was informed about this letter. He replied that military editor Jan Zeman and former deputy leader Petr Dědič had known about him for a long time. However, at least one other person is missing from this list. In the autumn of 2008, Vladimír Šiška brought a not very nice, not very bright FD to Záře. At the September meeting in a restaurant near Charles Bridge, he introduced him to the present members as his colleague from work and a new member of the Záře project. In the following months, it was interesting to watch the project leader bouncing around this superior young man and supporting him in his outrageous attacks against longtime members. Today, it is clear that FD is another civilian intelligence employee assigned to the Glow project. And again, thanks to the archive, we discover remarkable connections. How is it possible that the name of FD, completely unknown to ordinary members of Záře until 2008, can already be found in documents from 2004 and was even entrusted with completed forms from observation witnesses?

After my departure from Záře, I was asked to return the archive from 1990-1992, which I still had with me and a large part of which I converted into digital form for Zář. I announced that I would only hand over the archive in exchange for strange notes taken by Mr. Šiška about me. I already have these notes with me today. However, the condition on my part greatly irritated the unnamed five members of the project at the time. On a joint e-mail from Záře, to which I no longer had access at the time, they began to discuss how to deal with the problem. One of them, who is said to know an excellent lawyer, suggested filing a lawsuit for failing to return the archive, and then I will change my mind if I want to exchange the archive for notes. Another even searched for the relevant section for my "crime". Please read it carefully. If he found the paragraph correctly, he confirms that the archive of the Záře project is related to the performance of public (and therefore also state) administration or the performance of a profession:

„§178 Unauthorized handling of personal data
Whoever, even through negligence, unlawfully discloses, discloses, otherwise processes or appropriates personal data about another collected in connection with the performance of public administration shall be punished by imprisonment for three years or a ban on activity or a fine.
It will also be punished who discloses or makes available personal data about another obtained in connection with the performance of a profession, occupation or function, even negligently, and thus violates the statutory duty of confidentiality.
The offender will be punished by imprisonment for one to five years or a ban on activity or a fine,
(a) if, by the act referred to in paragraph 1 or 2, it causes serious harm to the rights or legitimate interests of the person to whom the data relate,
(b) he / she commits the act referred to in paragraph 1 or 2 by printing, film, radio, television or other similarly effective means; or
(c) he / she commits an act referred to in paragraph 1 or 2 in breach of his or her duties, occupation or function.
Of course, it would fall on Simon, but Záře would be quite ashamed of it and the willingness to fill in the questionnaire would definitely decrease. She's actually on that paragraph now, because she's wrongly appropriated it, but until she showed it to no one and the people on the questionnaires know, it's not been a problem. … Let's hope that there will be no trouble (even though it actually happened because it doesn't have Glow, but Simona), but be sure to consult with the lawyer, ”adds an unnamed member of the unnamed five.

In conclusion, I would like to thank those members of the Záře project who continue to inform me about what is happening in the group and forward relevant discussions such as this to my e-mail.

So, dear friends, if you will, you can continue to believe that:
The Czech Army does not deal with the issue of UFOs, it did not have any documents of this kind in its records, it does not keep and does not have them. At the level of state administration in the Czech Republic, no one deals with UFOs either.
The Záře project is a private project of Mr. Vladimír Šiška and his leisure activity. On the Záře project website you will find the most remarkable cases of UFO sightings in the Czech Republic.

In the editors of the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic, he still faints with astonishment at the generals' interest in communicating with ufologists.

Our intelligence services are morally conscious people acting in accordance with code of ethics.

You can sleep peacefully.

10.01.2012/XNUMX/XNUMX Simona Šmídová

List of used citations:
* LIŠKA V .; LENK L. and team. 1993. UFO also over the Czech Republic and Slovakia: Project "Glow". Prague. Bohemia. 96 s.
* LENK, L. Editorial. A report [online]. 2002, No. 2, p. 1. Available from WWW:.

Other resources:
* Archive of security forces in Prague. File No. 2834, p. 131.