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Scientists Refute Claims of 'UFO' Sightings

Central Intelligence Agency · 2005-06-21 · 8 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 1 …Mustel, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and chairman of the USSR Academy of…
  • p. 5 …chairman of the Astronomical Council of the Soviet Academy of Sciences Evald Mustel, President of the…

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Approved For Release 2005/06/29 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010014-6

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