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After flying alongside the plane for several seconds, it encountered abruptly and disappeared.

A similar object was observed by prodetic astronomer Laudeila Turkhanovich In the summer of 1965 near Sukhumi, Caucasus. The UHD 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 16, 1906, on the outskirts of Enclista a team of pro physicists from the Institute of Oil and Gas Industry, Volgograd, led by V. G. Krylov, 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.

Depending on the viewing angle, flying discs look flattened or cigar-shaped or spherical. In some cases a 170 appear as a present, turning into a disc before your eyes.

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

Air Force Major Baldukon, on a night mission above the Odessa Regiment on April 4, 1946, noticed on the screen of his plane's 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 10 minutes to 11 miles. The 110 remained unidentified.

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

In 1922 engaged in strategic ice reconnaissance in a T11 plane in the area of Cape Jamaica Greenland, we dropped down from the clouds to fair weather and suddenly noticed an unknown flying craft moving on our partridge parallel to our course. It looked very much like a large pearl-colored lime with warts, pulsating edges. At first we thought it was an American aircraft of an unknown design, and since we did not want to encounter it we went into the clouds again. After we had flown for 10 minutes toward Bear Island, the cloud over ended abruptly, it cleared ahead and on our partridge we saw once again that some unknown craft. Making up our minds to see it at three quarters, we changed our course abruptly and began the approach movement, informing our base at Amberma of the encounter. When we changed our course, the unknown flying machine followed suit and moved parallel at our speed.

After fifty 15 minutes of flight the unknown craft chapel altered its course, and ahead of us and our mouths until it disappeared

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In 1938 the Nauka Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences is scheduled to bring out a book titled Populated Outer Space, edited by Academician Pierre Konstantinov. Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The distinguished Soviet and foreign contributors include: Academician Victor Ambartsovyan. Alexander Oparin. Alexander Iushevetsky. Andrei Kolusogorov. Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Vasili Kuprevich. Alexander Volodkin. Lovil Shklovsky; and eminent foreign scientists Melvin Calvin. William Pickering. Frank Salisbury (USA). Norman Pirie. Bernard Lovell (Great Britain). Hans Freudenthal (Netherlands). Giuseppe Piccardi (Italy) and many others.

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

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

In May 1967 a sponsoring group of scientists, the military, writers and public figures met to form an unofficial body whose purpose it would be to conduct a preliminary scientific investigation of UFOs. Those present included Professor Heinrich Ludwig; Doctors of Science Nikolai Zhurnov and Igor Bostutchev Lada; chief navigator of Soviet polar aviation Valentine Mkuratov; Generals Porshi Stolovyan; Leonid Beino, Georgi Uger and Georgi Zevalkin; twice Hero of the Soviet Union Grigori Siskov, Master of Science engineering; Hero of the Soviet Union doctor Matetina Rybakova and Natalia Kravtina.

The organization, set up October 1905, is called the UFO Section of the All-Union Communications Committee, with headquarters at the Central House of Aviation and Communications in Moscow. Air Force Major General Potiri Stoivarov 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 organize the collection of reliable information on 110s. That will be done at the outset by the existing systems of astronomical meteorological and geophysical observatories, satellite and space market tracking stations and the radar installations of civilian airports and the helicopterological service. All these organizations can make 110 observations with equipment now available.

In the design stage are special devices for photographing life and recording the radiation and magnetic disturbances which then may be responsible for.

Curets from Other Worlds! The immature observations will serve in short hypothesis. These hypotheses should not, in my opinion, attempt to explain the

ing aircraft, they always maneuver so as to avoid direct contact. A considerable list of these seemingly intelligent actions gives the impression that UFOs are investigating, perhaps even recommitting.

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

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 IID reports as an example, may be the well-documented observations of a "large swater" in 1842 and a "provision of holies" in 1843. These reports still await investigation.

The most remarkable ITD phenomenon in the famous "Tungusky meteorite." In recent years Soviet scientists have established that the Tungusky explosion had very parameter of an air nuclear blast. The USSR Academy of Sciences Reports Volume 172 No. 1 and 3, 1967 have studies by Alexei Zakotin 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 Dalma published a study by Madimir McKhela, who concludes that the Tungusky blast left considerable residual radioactivity. Finally, as recently as 1964 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 a tremendous area of about 375 miles in extent in arimuth, that is carried out a maneuver. All these new results warrant the conclusion that the Tungusky body seems to have been an artificial flying result from some other planet.

Should this be finally confirmed by investigations now in progress, the significance of the fungusy disaster would be insatiable. But this, incidentally, will pose new problems. If we are indeed being studied by creatures from other planets, what is their purpose? Why are they so studiously avoiding any direct contact? Is their unavailability the result of so high a level of development that they study me from that "height" just so we look upon and study unto? Or is there still the possibility of common understanding since we are born in the same Universe and obey the same laws of nature?

Yes, there will be many questions, but all are in the distant future. Our study of 1100 may lead to quite different conclusions and prevent mankind with quite different problems.

The important thing now is for us to discard any premeditated motives about 1100 and to organize on a global scale a calm, rational life and strictly scientific study of this strange phenomenon. The subject and aims of the investigation are as serious that they justify any efforts. It is not without saying that international cooperation is vital.