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This Central Intelligence Agency file, estimated to date from 1968, holds an abstract of a Soviet Life article written by F. Zigel of the Moscow Aviation Institute. Zigel argues that UFOs are not ordinary optical effects. He reports that a UFO Section of the All-Union Cosmonautics Committee was formed in October 1967, chaired by Major General Porfiri Stolyarov. He also contends that the Tungusky body was probably an artificial craft from another planet, and he calls for international scientific study.
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AUTHOR: Zigel, F. (Doctor of technical sciences, Assistant professor) TITLE: Unidentified flying object SOURCE: Soviet Life, no. 2, 1968, 27-29 ATMOSPHERE TOPIC TACS: optic phenomenon, unidentified flying object, meteorite ABSTRACT: The author Moscow Aviation Institute presents several striking and reliable UFO observations and refutes the theory of U. S. astrophysicist Kenzel and others that until recently no scientific study of UFOs has been made in the Soviet Union. He claims that the prevailing view that UFOs are common optical phenomena in the earth's atmosphere is wrong and due to the fact that there was no collection of UFO observations. The general impression was that flying saucers are fantasies. This situation is beginning to change. In 1968 the Nauka Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences is scheduled to publish a book entitled Populated Outer Space, edited by Academic Boris Konstantinov, Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and written by distinguished Soviet and foreign contributors, including Americans. ## ACC PO AP8004236 In May 1967 a sponsoring group of scientists, the military, writers, and public figures set to form an unofficial body whose purpose would be to conduct a preliminary scientific investigation of UFOs. The organization, set up in October 1967, is called the UFO Section of the All-Union Cosmonautics Committee, with headquarters at the Central House of Aviation and Cosmonautics in Moscow. Air Force Major General Porfiri Stolyarov was elected chairman of the section. 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 UTOs behave "sensibly." In a group formation flight they maintain a pattern. They are most often spotted over airfields, atomic stations, and other very few engineering installations. On encountering aircraft, they always maneuver so as to avoid direct contact. A considerable list of these seemingly intelligent actions gives the impression that UTOs are investigating, perhaps even reconnoitering. Curiously enough, the number of UFO observations increases as Kara approaches the earth. Is this pure coincidence? ## 1902 2028
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.