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Scientists Refute Claims of 'UFO' Sightings

Central Intelligence Agency · 2005-06-21 · 8 pages · text by 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. 3 …different individuals: "I was swimming in the sea and a 'flying saucer' flew down to me…
  • p. 4 …The BN-350 reactor is being built on the banks of the Caspian Sea. It will…
  • p. 5 …At the point where the Surveyor 5 landed, the surface of the Sea of Tranquillity was…
Approved For Release 2005/06/29 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010014-6

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