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This FBIS report dated 22 November 1989 reviews Soviet newspaper and journal coverage of a growing number of UFO sightings across the USSR. It notes that a permanent center for UFO study was set up in Moscow. It summarizes reports on the Dalnegorsk Hill 611 crash debris, a Borisov aircraft encounter, landings in Voronezh and Perm Oblast, and an Omsk sighting. Scientists who believe the objects are extraterrestrial are set against skeptics who point to 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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