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State Center for Study of UFO's Established

Central Intelligence Agency · 1990-03-01 · 1 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This is an unclassified FBIS London editorial report from April 1990, relayed by the Joint Staff and released by the CIA in August 1997. It summarizes a Moscow Television broadcast of 16 April announcing the Soviet Union's first state organization for studying UFOs, the All-Union Inter-Industrial Ufological Scientific Coordination Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The broadcast said the ufological commission received 10 to 15 sighting reports daily last year, and the center's head, Azhazha, said Soviet sightings are reported every day.

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COUNTRY: USSR

SUBJ: STATE CENTER FOR STUDY OF UFO'S ESTABLISHED

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((EDITORIAL REPORT)) MOSCOW TELEVISION SERVICE IN RUSSIAN AT 1130 GMT ON 16 APRIL BROADCASTS A REPORT WHICH SAYS:

"OUR COUNTRY'S FIRST STATE ORGANIZATION FOR THE STUDY OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS HAS BEEN SET UP IN THE SOVIET UNION. IT IS THE ALL-UNION INTER-INDUSTRIAL UFOLOGICAL ((UFOLOGICHESKIY)) SCIENTIFIC COORDINATION CENTER OF THE USSR ACADEMY OF SCIENCES."

THE REPORTS SAYS THAT THE "UFOLOGICAL COMMISSION" LAST YEAR RECEIVED 10-15 DAILY REPORTS OF SIGHTINGS ALL OVER THE WORLD. THE HEAD OF THE CENTER, AZHAZHA, SAYS IN INTERVIEW THAT SOVIET SIGHTINGS ARE REPORTED EVERY DAY. HE BELIEVES THAT FLYING SAUCERS MOST OFTEN VISIT REMOTE PLACES, THOUGH MOST SIGHTINGS HAPPEN IN DENSELY-POPULATED PLACES WHERE THERE ARE MORE OBSERVERS. ((VIDEO SHOWS U.S. PICTURES OF UFO AND ALIEN VISITOR))

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