Documents / FOIA release
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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"III. 25 Oct 73 STAT U S S R N A T I O N A L A F F A I R S SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS SOVIET SCIENTISTS PUZZLE OVER NEW SIGNALS FROM SPACE Moscow Domestic Service in Russian 0700 GMT 24 Oct 73 L [Text] Soviet scientists have intercepted previously unrecorded radio signals from outer space. They were first recorded by the Gorskiy Observatory and then by scientists in other cities of the country. The signals come to earth as pulses at definite time intervals. They last several minutes and are repeated several times a day. The search for radio signals from outer space has been carried out since 1970 under the leadership of Troitskiy, well-known astrophysicist and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The celestial hemisphere is monitored on wavelengths in the centimeter and decimeter range. In order to isolate cosmic signals from assorted local interference, the monitoring is done simultaneously at four points a great distance from each other. Aside from its purely theoretical value, this work also has an applied nature. The study of cosmic radio signals makes it possible to study the conditions of diffusion of radio waves in the ionosphere and magnetosphere. This, in turn, facilitates a study of the formation and movement of storm centers over the planet. In addition, this research promotes the development of radio communications, location, and navigation means. In the opinion of the experts, the observation of radio noises from the universe in the centimeter and decimeter wavebands may offer a new way of studying the association between sun and earth and global geophysical phenomena. It also offers a means of searching for astro-engineering activity [space vehicular activity by possible extra-terrestial civilizations] in space. At the moment, over 30 Soviet scientists are engaged in the study of radio pulses mentioned make it possible to say that this work is of all-round interests.
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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.