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This 22 November 1989 media survey, titled USSR: Media Report Multitude of UFO Sightings, reviews Soviet newspaper and journal coverage of UFO reports during 1989. It covers the Dalnegorsk Hill 611 crash debris studies, landings reported at Voronezh, Surgut and Perm Oblast, an aircraft encounter over Borisov, and an Omsk sighting described by Maj V. Loginov. It also notes that a permanent UFO study center opened in Moscow and sets out skeptics' explanations, including rocket launches, ball lightning and mass hysteria.
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SOVETSKAYA KULTURA of 28 October reported on the results of a conference in Petrozavodsk of about 100 Soviet scientists representing the "various branches of science and technology." The main topic of discussion was the multitude of claims of recent UFO sightings in the USSR. According to SOVETSKAYA KULTURA, more questions about UFOs were raised at this conference than were answered. LITERATURNAYA GAZETA of 1 November reported that Voronezh, where some observers had claimed to have witnessed the landing and take-off of a UF0, has become the place for a "pilgrimage" by correspondents seeking sensational news for their newspapers, regardless of the controversial nature of the so-called "weighty evidence" being presented as proof that extraterrestrials had visited Voronezh.
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