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men can be objectively analyzed and classified. The IFO classification adopted by foreign investigators is also confirmed by Soviet observers.

It day, when observed from Earth or planes, 1100 appear as bright discs with a metallic tinge. Assistant Professor Vyncheslav Zaitsev observed such a flying saucer in 1961, alone Holopaye, from a T-1101 aircraft making a scheduled flight. The huge bright metal disc under the liner's belly, made a turn and at some distance took a course parallel with the aircraft. A bulging core resembling a crin could be seen in the heart of the disc. After flying alongside the plane for several seconds, it observed abruptly and disappeared.

A similar object was observed by prodetic astronomer Landnila Turkhanovich In the summer of 1963 near Sukhumtai, Caucasus. The UFO made a swift maneuver over the sea, then headed for the mountains. The astronomer was, however, able to see that the central protruding part of the disc had holes which seemed to be lit from the inside.

UFO movements are peculiar. Sometimes they hover over the earth for tens of minutes. In flight they can develop incredible speeds and accelerations.

At 9:15 on the evening of June 17, 1906, on the outskirts of Endida a team of prephysicists from the Institute of Oil and Gas Industry, Volgoprad, led by V. G. Krishnan, noticed a reblish object moving across the sky. It was shaped like a small disc.

Suddenly the body began to fall swiftly along a helical trajectory, its reblish color changing to bright white-blue. Then there was a sort of flare, and instead of the body a bright-blue round cloud appeared. It quickly spread out and melted away.

Displacing on the viewing angle, flying discs look flattened or cigar-shaped or spherical. In some cases a 110 appears as a streak, turning into a disc before your eyes.

The belief that UFOs are real is also borne out by the fact that these enigmatic objects are not only visible to the naked eye, but leave distinct images on photographic plates and are recorded by such impartial "witnesses" as radar screens.

Air Force Major Baidukon, on a night mission alone the Odessa Region on April 4, 1946, noticed on the screen of his plane a radar a strange object which was also spotted by ground-based radar units. Within 15 minutes the object dropped from 31 to 11 miles, in the next quarter of an hour to 15 miles, and in the next 11 minutes to 11 miles. The 110 remained unidentified.

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The well-known Soviet pilot, chief navigator of Soviet polar aviation Valentin Mikuraten, describes one of his encounters with flying discs:

In 1915, engaged in strategic we reconnaise in a H1 plane in the area of Cape Leap Glenlands, we dropped down from the clouds to fair weather and suddenly noticed an unknown flying craft moving on our path parallel to our course. It looked very much like a large post-colored lion with

in the blue sky. We spotted no actual, super structure, wings or particles on that disc. Not did we see an exhaust gases or condensation trail. It flow at what seemed to be an impossible speed."

## No Perjudices

Until recently no scientific study of UFOs has been made in the Soviet Union. More than that, the prevailing and, in my opinion, mistaken view was that UFOs are common optical phenomena in the Earth's atmosphere. There was no collection of UFO observations, and the general impression was that flying saucers are fantasies. The situation now is changing.

In 1902 the Naula Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences is scheduled to bring out a book titled Populated Outer Space, edited by Academician Boris Konstantinov. Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The distinguished Soviet and foreign contributors include: Academicians Victor Ambartoumyan, Alexander Oparin, Alexander Iushevetsky, Andrei Kolmogorov; Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Vasili Kuprevich, Alexander Vologlin, Loral Shklovsky; and eminent foreign scientists Melvin Calvin, William Pickering, Frank Salisbury (USA), Norman Pirie, Bernard Lovell (Great Britain), Hans Frudenthal (Netherlands), Giuseppe Piccardi (Italy) and many others.

The anthology will have a special section devoted to the UFO problem, with contributions from American scientists Joseph Hynek, James McDonald, Jack Valley, and Frank Salisbury, articles by Soviet writers and UFO observations made in the Soviet Union.

Soviet observations of UFOs, like those rite earlier, were not taken from a systematic collection of information of this kind: they were spontaneous responses to my article in Science. This fact warrant the conclusion that there have been many more UFO observations in the USSR. We have already collected some details of well-documented reports and accounts.

In May 1967 a sponsoring group of scientists, the military, writers and public figures intent to form an unofficial body whose purpose it would be to conduct a preliminary scientific investigation of UYDs. Those present included Professor Heinrich Ludwig; Doctors of Science Nikolai Zidtov and Igor Bosturchenka; chief navigator of Soviet polar aviation Valentine Maturon; Generals Porshi Stolyaev, Leonid Reine, Georgi Tger and Georgi Zevakhin; twice Hero of the Soviet Union Grigori Sinkov, Master of Science engineering; Heroes of the Soviet Union during Yelaterina Ryabova and Natalia Kravtina.

The organization, set up October 1905, is called the UTO Section of the All-Union Commauative Committee, with headquarters at the Central House of Aviation and Commauative in Moscow. Air Force Major General Portnri Steivarov was elected chairman of the section.

Those of us who are participating in this new and exciting undertaking have an ambitious program of work ahead. The first step will be to examine the collection of reliable

nature of 1700s in terms of familiar phenomena. Judging by other sources, nature has some in store for us here too, and we must be ready for perhaps a radical "measurement of values."

The hypothesis that UFOs originate in other worlds, that they are flying craft from planets other than Earth, merits the most serious examination.

Observations show that IFOs behave "sensibly." In a group formation flight they maintain a pattern. They are most often spotted over airfields, atomic stations and other very new engineering installations. On encountering aircraft, they always maneuver so as to avoid direct contact. I considerable list of these seemingly intelligent actions gives the impression that IFOs are investigating, perhaps even recommitering.

Some people think that UFOs have appeared in the Earth's atmosphere only during the past two decades. This is not the case. The UFO phenomenon has been observed throughout the history of mankind. There are medieval and ancient reports strikingly similar to ours.

Among the earlier 110 reports as an example, may be the well-documented observations of a "large power" in 1822 and a "preservation of India" in 1913. These reports still await investigation.

Curiously enough, the number of UFO observations increases as Mars approaches the Earth. Is that pure coincidence?

The most remarkable IID phenomenon is the famous "Tungusky meteorite." In recent years Soviet scientists have established that the Tungusky explosion had every parameter of an air nuclear blast. The USSR Academy of Sciences Reports Volume 152 No. 1 and 3, 1965 have studies by Alexei Zakhar to prove that the Tungusky body could not be a meteorite or a comet.

In the summer of 1967 the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research at Dubna published a study by Madimit Mekhoba, who concludes that the Tungusky Blast left considerable residual radinactivity. Finally, as recently as 1965, after analyzing the sum total of observations on the Tungusky Body's flight, this writer showed that before the Blast the Tungusky Body described in the atmosphere it tremendous are of about 315 miles in extent in azimuth, that is carried out a maneuver.

All these new results warrant the conclusion that the Tungusky body seems to have been an artificial flying craft from some other planet.

Should this be finally confirmed by investigations now in progress, the significance of the Tungusky disaster would be intestimable.

But this, incidentally, will prove new problems. If we are indeed being studied by creatures from other planets, what is their purpose? Why are they so studiously invading any direct contact? Is their unavailability the result of an high a level of development that they study me from that height just so we look upon and study ants? Or is there still the possibility of common understanding since we are born in the same universe and obey the same laws of nature?