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This 22 November 1989 report, released as CIA document 0000042346, covers a wave of Soviet media stories about UFO sightings across the USSR. It says a permanent UFO study center has been set up in Moscow. It reviews claims about the Hill 611 crash at Dalnegorsk, a pilot injury over Borisov, the Voronezh park landing and an Omsk sighting reported by a military officer. The report also sets skeptics, who point to rocket launches, ball lightning and mass hysteria, against enthusiasts who compare Dalnegorsk with Roswell.
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SOVETSKAYA KULTURA of 28 October reported on the results of a conference in Petrozavodsk of about 100 Soviet scientists representing the "various branches of science and technology." The main topic of discussion was the multitude of claims of recent UFO sightings in the USSR. According to SOVETSKAYA KULTURA, more questions about UFOs were raised at this conference than were answered. LITERATURNAYA GAZETA of 1 November reported that Voronezh, where some observers had claimed to have witnessed the landing and take-off of a UF0, has become the place for a "pilgrimage" by correspondents seeking sensational news for their newspapers, regardless of the controversial nature of the so-called "weighty evidence" being presented as proof that extraterrestrials had visited Voronezh.
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