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This CIA release, approved in 2005, is a 1968 compilation of translated Soviet press items on scientific affairs. It centers on a 29 February 1968 PRAVDA article by Ye. Mustel, D. Martynov and V. Leshkovtsev, together with a TASS report on it. The article dismisses flying saucers as misidentified aircraft, balloons, satellites and optical effects. It says a luminous object over Sofia was a NATO sounding balloon and calls Adamski a charlatan. It also reports that the USSR Academy of Sciences found the UFO reports had no scientific foundation.
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# Approved For Release 2005/06/29 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010014-6 DD1 U S S R S C I E N T I F I C A F F A I R S 6 March 1968 COSMOS 204, 205 SATELLITES LAUNCHED 5 MARCH Moscow TASS International Service in English 1646 GMT 5 Mar 68 L [Text] Moscow--Sputniks Cosmos 204 and Cosmos 205 were launched in the Soviet Union today. The instruments on board them are designed to continue the study of outer space. Cosmos 204 has been put into an orbit with the following parameters: initial revolution period--95.9 minutes, maximum distance from the earth's surface--apogee-- 873 kilometers; minimum distance from the earth's surface--perigee--282 kilometers; orbital inclination--71 degrees. Apart from scientific instrumentation, the sputnik has a radio system for exact measurement of orbital elements and a radiotelemetric system for transmitting to the earth data on the operation of instruments and scientific equipment. Cosmos 205 has been put into an orbit with the following parameters; initial revolution period--89.4 minutes; maximum distance from the earth's surface--apogee--310 kilometers; minimum distance from the earth's surface--perigee--201 kilometers; orbital inclination--65.7 degrees. Apart from scientific instrumentation, the sputnik has a radio transmitter, operating on the frequency of 19.995 megacycles; a radio system for exact measurement of orbital elements, and a radio telemetric system for transmitting to the earth data on the work of instruments and scientific equipment. The equipment installed on the sputnik is operating normally. The coordination-computing center is processing the incoming information. ## BRIEF KAZAKH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES--A session of the general conference of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences ended in Alma-Ata on 1 March. The session elected Nusupbekov and Takibayev vice presidents of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences, and Baishev, Bok, Dzhangaliyev, Kozlovskiy, (Nemenov), Demchenko and (Taymanov) members of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences. (Alma-Ata Domestic Russian 1400 GMT 1 Mar 68 M)
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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.