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This CIA-held abstract, estimated to date from 1968, summarizes an article by an author from the Moscow Aviation Institute published in Soviet Life, no. 2, 1968. The author argues that UFOs are not ordinary optical phenomena and says they may be craft from other planets. It reports that the UFO Section of the All-Union Cosmonautics Committee was set up in October 1967 under Major General Stolyarov. It also argues that the Tungusky body was an artificial craft and calls for international scientific study.
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TITLE: Unidentified flying object SOURCE: Soviet life, no. 2, 1968, 27-29 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 Academician Boris Konstantinov, Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and written by distinguished Soviet and foreign contributors, including Americans. 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 UTOs. 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 Forfizi Stolyarov was elected chairman of the section. The hypothesis that E70s 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 new engineering installations. On encountering aircraft, they always maneuver so as to avoid direct contact. A considerable list of these meaningly intelligent actions gives the impression that UTOs are investigating, perhaps even reconnoitering. ## 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.