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Nothing But the Facts on UFOs or Which Novosti Writer Do You Read? (with 2 Articles Attached)

Central Intelligence Agency · 1968-04-09 · 8 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This Central Intelligence Agency memo, dated 9 April 1968, forwards two articles from the Soviet news agency Novosti (APN) that take opposite views on UFOs. Felix Zigel's February 1968 Soviet Life article treats UFOs seriously and cites Soviet sightings and the Tunguska explosion. Villen Lyustiberg's article dismisses them as a myth and claims the U.S. publicizes them to divert attention. The memo notes the irony of such disagreement appearing in Soviet media.

  • p. 8 …More than that, the prevailing and, in my opinion, mistaken view was that UFOs are common…

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mom can be objectively analyzed and classified. The I'M classification adopted by four sign investigators is also confirmed by Senior alarms.

In this class, when observed from Earth or planes, it often appears as bright dots with a metallic rim. Assistant Professor Syachelas Zaitoun observed such a flying saucer in 1961, almost undepopular, from a TI-101 aircraft making a suborbital flight. The huge height metal diel under the liner's belly, made a turn and at some distance touch a counter parallel with the aircraft. A helping force resembling a rain could be seen in the heart of the diel. After flying alongside the plane for several seconds, it emerged alongside and disappeared.

Surbithe the lands began to fall swiftly along a helical trajectory, its publish color changing to bright white-lilac. Then there was a sort of flare, and instead of the limbs a bright-lilac round cloud appeared. It quickly spread out and curled away.

A similar object was observed by geometric astronomer Loudmilla Tookhamnich in the summer of 1963 near Nukhumli, Caucasus. The 1971 made a small monometer over the sea, then healed for the mountains. The astronomer was, however, able in one that the central presuming part of the diar had holes which seemed to be lit from the inside.

At 9:15 on the evening of June 17, 1904, on the outskirts of Kolkata a team of prophylaxis from the Institute of Oil and Gas Industry, Vodaphal, led by V. G. Krohn, method a publish object moving across the sky. It was shaped like a small dwarf.

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

Discreasing on the turning angle. Flying diurnal flatirional or rigor-chapel or spherical. In some cases a 1170 appear as a crossword. Turning into a diurnal your own.

The belief that life is real is also known not in the fact that these enigmatic objects are not only visible to the naked eye, but have distinct images on photographic plates and are recorded by such impartial "minerals" as radar waves.

Air Force Major Dahlkahn, on a night mission about the Ohlson Region on April 3, 1946, ordered on the screen of his plane's radar a strange object which was also quotted by personnel-based radar units. Within 15 minutes the object dropped from 31 to 18 miles, in the next quarter of an hour to 15 miles, and in the next 10 minutes to 11 miles. The 1100 remained unidentified.

## Munrover and Parrott

The well-known Soviet pilot, chief navigator of Soviet polar mission Valentin Mikhailov,

shows one of his reconnaissance with flying discs:

In 1825 engaged in strategic war provision in a TIII plane in the area of Caye group Micronaule, we disguised down from the school to fair weather and worked most steadily and unharmed. Flying craft moving on our parachute parallel to our source. It looked very much like a large parachute line with arms, pulsating solos. It held our thought it was an American aircraft of an unknown design and since we did not want to encounter it we went into the school again. After we had thrown for 10 minutes toward and then I landed, the school came control abruptly. It abashed ahead and our parachute we can come again that same unknown craft. Making up our minute in view at all three quarters, we changed our course abruptly and begin the approach movement, informing our base at Sainte-Remy of the encounter. When we changed our course, the unknown flying machine followed suit and parachuted at our speed.

After 15.00 13 minutes of flight the maximum

craft charsp after its return, and ahead

of me and your aircraft until it disappeared.

in the New sky. We spotted an aerial, super- winter, ships or particles on that die. We did we saw an aerial pass or collapsed them trail. It flow at what seemed to us an impassible spray."

## No Prejudices

I will reapply my 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 1961 the Nauka Publishing House of the USSR Academies of Sciences is scheduled to bring out a book titled Populated Outer Space, edited by Academician Boris Kunztanin, Vice President of the USSR Academies of Sciences. The distinguished Society and foreign contributors include: Academician Victor Ambartsevans, Alexander Oparin, Alexander Imchenetsky, Andrei Kolumgorns; Corresponding Members of the USSR Academies of Sciences Vasili Kupresich, Alexander Volgolin, Iosif Skikhovsky; and eminent foreign scientists Melvin Calvin, William Pickering, Frank Salickurs, USA, Norman Pirk, Bernard Lovell, Great Britain, Hans Freudenthal, Netherlands, Givorpe Piccardi, Italy, and many others.

The authors will have a special section devoted to the 190 problem, with contributions from American scientists Joseph Hank, James McDonald, Jack Valley, and Frank Salicherry, articles by Soviet writers and 190 observations made in the Soviet Union.

Social observations of 1700, like those I cited earlier, were not taken from a systematic collection of information of this kind; they were spontaneous responses to my articles in some. This last warrant the conclusion that there have been many of 1700 observations in the I Will. We have already collected some observations of well-documented reports and accounts.

In May 1967 a sponsoring group of scientists, the military, writers and public figures, to form an unofficial body whose purpose it would be to conduct a preliminary scientific investigation of UFOs. Three present included Professor Heinrich Ludwig; Dr. Robert Nijholt Zhirny and Igor Hustcher-Ludwig; chief navigator of Soviet polar aviation Valentin Mikuraten; General Profert Stikarnov, Leonid Reim, Georgi Tiger and Georgi Zvarkin; twice Hero of the Soviet Union Grigori Sikhan, Master of Science trapinering; Hero of the Soviet Union sherat Yakaterina Hyalova and Natalia Haustova.

The organization set up October 1942, in called the IID Section of the All-Union Communicative Committee, with headquarters at the Central House of Viation and Communicative in Moscow. Air Force Major General Porter Viation was elected chairman of the section.

Three of us who are participating in this new and exciting undertaking have an ambitious program of work ahead. The first step will be to organise the collection of reliable information on 1100. That will be shown at the centre by the existing systems of astronomical meteorological and geophysical observations, satellite and spacecraft tracking stations and the radar installations of civilian airports and the landmine-meteorological warfare. All these organisations can make 1100 observations with equipment now available.

In the design stage are special devices for photographing 11 the and recording the radiation and magnetic disturbances which then may be reproducible five.

someone from other work?

The powerful observations will appear in

shark hypnosis. These hypnosis should

not, in any opinion, attempt to explain the

mature of life in terms of familiar phenomena, building by other experiences, natural free action in other forms we have seen, and our control for activity for purchase a radical measurement of nature."

The hypothesis that 1.1% originate in other worlds, that they are flying exalt form phantoms other than Earth, merits the most thorough examination.

Illustrations show that 1900s became "permits." In a group formation flight they maintain a pattern. They are most often equipped with airfields, airplane stations and other very new engineering installations. In encountering aircraft, they always manoeuvre on as to avoid direct contact. A considerable list of these seemingly intelligent airlines gives the impression that 1900s are investigating, yet hope even reconnaissance.

Cuchinillo through, the number of IFO n. variations insures so Mass approaches the Earth. Is that power nimble?

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

Among the earlier 190 requests, as an example, may be the well-chronological observations of a "large survey" in 1922 and a "preservation of Indians" in 1913. These requests still await investigation.

The most remarkable 110 phenomenon is the famous "Tunguska meteorite." In several years Soviet scientists have established that the Tunguska explosion had every parameter of an air nuclear blast. The FSSR Academy of Sciences Airports Volume 152 No. 4 and 1965 have studied it. Alvar Zabdam in proof that the Tunguska meteorite could not be a meteorite on a star.

In the summary of the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research at Dalma published a study by Malimir McHenry, who concluded that the Tungusky Island left considerable residual radionuclide. Finally, as recently as 1965, after analyzing the sum total of observations on the Tungusky Island's flight, this writer observed that before the blast the Tungusky Island developed in the atmosphere a tremendous area of about 375 miles in patent sinus motus, that is carried out a maneuver.

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

Two, there will be many questions, but all are in the distant future. Their study of 1111 may lead to quite different conclusions and personal mankind with quite different problems.

Should this be finally confirmed in investigations now in progress, the significance of the Tungusky disaster would be insimulate. But this, incidentally, will pose new problems. If we are indeed being applied by creatures from other planets, what is their purpose? Why are they so simultaneously assisting any direct contact? Is their unavailability the result of an high level of disinterment that they simply do from that "triple" just so we look upon and study unto it? Is there still the possibility of common understanding since we are known in the same universe and owing the same laws of nature?

The important thing men in far and near discard any person orired opinions about 111th and 120th organies on a global scale a rainy, summation-free and spirit scientific study of this strange phenomenon. The subject and aims of the investigation are an exercise that these fertile and afflicts. It proves without saying that international conspiration is vital.

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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. 8 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.