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This unclassified Department of State airgram, drafted by First Secretary of Embassy C. A. Squire in March 1968 and held in NSA files, forwards a Moskovskiy Komsomolets article of February 16, 1968 by Novosti science commentator Villen Lyustiberg. The article says flying saucers do not exist. It attributes the Mantell death to a Navy balloon and calls Adamski a fraud. It argues that Western businessmen and statesmen use saucer stories to distract the public. The embassy notes that the article contradicts earlier Soviet coverage.
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A long article in Moskovskiy Komсомолеts of February 16, 1968, by Vill LYUSTIBERG, Science Editor of the Novosti Press Agency, debunks flying saucers completely. Flying saucers, says Lyustiberg, appear to those who believe in them, but persistently stay away from air observation posts, meteorologists and astronomers. Lyustiberg, in fact, is quite emphatic throughout his article that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) do not exist. (He makes no attempt to square this belief with previous published Soviet articles, including that rather spectacular article primarily for U.S. consumption in Soviet Life (see reference). Enclosure: "Flying Saucers? They're a Myth" L UNCLASSIFIED FOR DEPT. LNE FORM 4-02 DS-323 Drafted by: SCI:CASquire:hz. 3/21/68 Contents and Classification Approved by: First Secretary of Embassy: CASquire
FOIA release, from the nsa 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. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.