Documents / FOIA release
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.
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
INQUIRE=DOC10D ITEM NO=00596884 ENVELOPE CDSN = LGX045 MCN = 90106/19523 TOR = 901061510 RTTUZYUW RUEKJCS3575 1061506-UCCU--RUEALGX. ZNR UUUUU HEADER R 161506Z APR 90 FM JOINT STAFF WASHINGTON DC INFO RUEALGX/SAFE R 161346Z APR 90 FM FBIS LONDON UK TO RUCWAAA/FBIS RESTON VA RUEBFGA/VOA WASH DC RUEBHAA/STORAGE CENTER FBIS RESTON VA RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHINGTON DC//INR/SEE/SI// RUEKJCS/DEFINTAGNCY WASH DC RUEOACC/CDR PSYOPGP FT BRAGG NC//ASOF-POG-SB// RUETIAV/MPC FT GEO G MEADE MD RUFHVOA/VOA MUNICH GE RUMJBP/FBIS OKINAWA JA ACCT FSLD-EWDK .BT CONTROLS UNCLAS 30/PMU/SU SERIAL: LD1604134690 BODY PASS: COPY TO LIBRARY COUNTRY: USSR SUBJ: STATE CENTER FOR STUDY OF UFO'S ESTABLISHED TEXT: ((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)) ADMIN (ENDALL) 161130 BT 16/1357Z APR UNCLASSIFIED Approved for Release Date AUG 1997
Not linked to a story yet.
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. 1 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.