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This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS report, dated 1 May 1989, is an English translation of an essay by academician Boris Raushenbakh from the Moscow journal Kommunist. The essay argues that people need both rational scientific knowledge and metaphorical, emotional knowledge, and that these connect to morality and religious feeling. It also criticizes crude atheist propaganda and calls for restoring moral principles. The only mention of UFOs is a passing remark that some people turn to belief in flying saucers.
This is a 1990 JPRS report distributed by the Central Intelligence Agency. It translates the English summaries of major articles from the Soviet journal Narody Azii i Afriki, No 4, July to August 1989. The topics include small business policy in Asia, non-capitalist development in Central Asia, the Truman Doctrine and Turkey, pre-Islamic Turkic religions and al-Mawardi. One article, by A.D. Dikaryov, looks at how Chinese UFO enthusiasts search ancient Chinese sources for historical evidence of UFOs.
This is a JPRS translation, released by the Central Intelligence Agency, of the table of contents for the Soviet journal Narody Azii i Afriki, No 4, July to August 1989, published in Moscow by Nauka. It lists articles on small business in Asia, socialist orientation in Africa, the Truman Doctrine, Islamic studies and Oriental philosophy. Under the heading "This Mysterious East" it includes an article by A.D. Dikaryov titled "Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) in Ancient China."
This FBIS translation, dated 17 August 1989, carries a Bulgarian news item that ran in Sofia's RABOTNICHESKO DELO on 11 August 1989. The paper said a recent report of a UFO landing near Moscow turned out to be the burning of a large amount of dry grass. It then warned that Bulgarian farms slow to collect straw might burn it in their fields, which is banned. The item lists straw collection figures by oblast and describes the ecological damage that stubble burning causes.
This is a Foreign Broadcast Information Service message relayed through the Joint Staff in Washington on 13 September 1989. It is an unclassified cable from FBIS Okinawa that carries a Xinhua English report. The report says a UFO was seen over Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, at 11:13 PM on 6 September. A worker named Tong Yuwei watched a dark cloud light up and a saucer-shaped object hover for a minute, rotating in red and yellow light, then drop away to the southwest. Observers also heard a sound louder than a car engine.
This Central Intelligence Agency FBIS translation compilation, dated 17 August 1989 and approved for release in August 1991, contains Bulgarian press items from RABOTNICHESKO DELO. One unattributed 11 August 1989 report, titled "Ban on 'Flying Saucers Made of Straw'," says a UFO reported to have landed near Moscow was explained by the burning of dry grass. It warns Bulgarian farmers against burning uncollected straw because of its ecological damage. Other items cover pan-Turkism, new committees and economic decrees.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency translated record dated 16 September 1989, carrying a Stroitelnaya Gazeta article headlined "Scientist Discusses Possible UFO Landing Near Surgut." The extracted text holds only catalog metadata: document and serial numbers, the source newspaper, and a note that the copy came from a cover to cover library serial held by the Department of External Affairs in Ottawa, Canada. The article's text itself is not included, so neither the scientist's remarks nor any conclusions appear.
This Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) record, dated 28 September 1989, translates a report that the Argentine agency Noticias Argentinas released the same day. It says residents found a 400 kg experimental sounding rocket on 25 September. The rocket lay partly buried in a salt flat between Quilino and Cruz del Eje in Cordoba Province, and Air Force sentries guarded the site. Residents also reported strange events since late 1988, including UFOs, helicopters and ground vehicles. The rocket was believed to belong to the Air Force.
This CIA release, approved in August 1991, is a Soviet media monitoring report from November 1989. It summarizes a Moscow Television recording of a 15 November news conference in which Leonid Abalkin, deputy chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, discussed an all-union conference on radical economic reform. He covered market transition, republican financial autonomy, ruble convertibility and rationing. It then covers the 20 November Supreme Soviet session. UFOs appear only once, in Abalkin's remark that such reports circulate in difficult times.
This is an unclassified FBIS London cable dated 12 October 1989 and relayed through the Joint Staff. It carries a TASS English-language review of the Soviet central press for that day. Most of the review covers Gorbachev's meeting with Polish leader Mieczyslaw Rakowski, parliamentary budget debates, railway sabotage affecting Armenia and Georgia, and the KGB's role against organised crime. It also notes a Komsomolskaya Pravda front-page dispatch from Voronezh, based on eyewitnesses, about a UFO seen in the city on 27 September.
This Central Intelligence Agency release, dated 21 November 1989, reproduces translated Soviet television reports on economic reform. Most of it covers a 15 November Moscow news conference by Leonid Abalkin, deputy chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, on the conference on radical economic reform, including ruble convertibility, rationing and parallel currency. It also covers the 20 November Supreme Soviet session on republican financial autonomy. UFOs come up only once, when Abalkin says that UFO reports tend to spread in times like these.
This Central Intelligence Agency file is a 1991 JPRS translation, report JPRS-USP-91-005. It carries the annotation and text of a Soviet brochure on the space program, written by one of the first cosmonauts. The brochure reviews what manned and unmanned spaceflight have achieved and calls the American lunar program a costly dead end pursued for prestige. It then proposes future tasks, including environmental monitoring satellites, orbiting factories, an international monitoring system, Mars sample return, radio telescopes and space robots.
This Central Intelligence Agency release, dated 1990-01-04 and approved for release in August 1991, reproduces English summaries of articles from the Soviet journal Narody Azii i Afriki, No 4, July to August 1989. Most of them cover economics, socialism and history in Asia and Africa. One summary covers an article by A.D. Dikaryov on unidentified flying objects in ancient China. It describes Chinese UFO societies and the journal Feidie Tansuo, and it looks at efforts to find historical evidence of UFOs in ancient Chinese sources.
This Central Intelligence Agency intelligence report was disseminated on 10 January 1990 and covers information dated September 1989. It describes the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, including its size, research areas, funding and interest in cooperating with the United States. It notes that the Academy has several organizations that follow the subject of unidentified flying objects and that some scientists consider it a serious problem. The report also covers the Antonov Aircraft Design Bureau and the Kiev Aircraft Factory's shift to making consumer goods.
This Central Intelligence Agency record is a program summary of the Mandarin-language broadcast from Moscow International Service at 0700 GMT on 21 February 1991. It gives short headlines for about 19 items, among them ethnic harmony in Georgia, planned coal miners' strikes and a coming visit by Gorbachev to Japan. One item says that policyholders of an insurance company in Chita can file claims if they are attacked by a UFO. The summary gives no further details about that report.
This is an unclassified FBIS London editorial report from April 1990, relayed by the Joint Staff and released by the CIA in August 1997. It summarizes a Moscow Television broadcast of 16 April announcing the Soviet Union's first state organization for studying UFOs, the All-Union Inter-Industrial Ufological Scientific Coordination Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The broadcast said the ufological commission received 10 to 15 sighting reports daily last year, and the center's head, Azhazha, said Soviet sightings are reported every day.
This is an unclassified FBIS London cable of 15 April 1990, relayed by the Joint Staff and released by the CIA in August 1997. It translates a TASS report citing the newspaper Rabochaya Tribuna on nightly UFO sightings 47 km along the Yaroslavl highway outside Moscow since 12 March. Witnesses described shining spheres and discs, pineapple-like objects, triangular shapes and basin-shaped craft that moved silently and could stop suddenly. The report says several hundred local people saw the objects.
This Foreign Broadcast Information Service item, relayed by the Joint Staff in May 1990 and released by the Central Intelligence Agency in June 1994, translates a Moscow Domestic Service report of 21 May 1990. It says scientists from China and the Soviet Far East held their first joint meeting of ufologists in Dalnegorsk. There they planned to investigate known incidents and to exchange video and photographs of new ones. The report notes at least 10 UFOs recorded in the area over four years, which specialists linked to the region's mineral wealth.
This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS translation reproduces a 12 April 1990 SELSKAYA ZHIZN interview with Yuriy Kiyenko, chairman of the Soviet State Commission for Cosmos and Resurs satellite launches. Kiyenko defends the economic value of remote-sensing satellites, citing findings on the Aral Sea, desertification in Kalmykia, and resource prospecting. He says the launches do no harm to the ozone layer and names the Northern Cosmodrome as the launch site. Asked about satellite fragments that people take for UFOs, he says Soviet equipment is designed so that any debris falls in unpopulated areas.
This Central Intelligence Agency record, released in February 2010, is a translation of a Moscow Television Service broadcast of 26 April 1990. It covers Mikhail Gorbachev's meeting with workers at the Uralmash production association in Sverdlovsk on 25 April. Gorbachev and plant officials talk about economic reform, taxation, housing, wages, how the working class relates to the party, and privileges for officials. Gorbachev also criticizes Boris Yeltsin. The text contains no UFO material.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency record dated 26 April 1990. It carries a TASS International Service account, sent from Sverdlovsk in several parts, of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to the Urals. The text covers his meeting with Uralmash workers and managers about economic reform, housing, market transition, unemployment and party unity. It also describes his visits to a supermarket, war veterans, a defense conversion exhibition and the Urals Scientific Center. It contains no UFO material.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency JPRS Report (JPRS-UPA-90-053) dated 1 May 1990. It contains a translation of an article by Lev Tsvetkov, chief specialist in the USSR Council of Ministers Information Department, from the Moscow journal ZHURNALIST. Tsvetkov criticizes one-sided Soviet press coverage of price increases and trade union protests. He urges journalists to cover the move to market relations within the context of the government's economic recovery program. It mentions a UFO only in passing.
This Central Intelligence Agency release is an FBIS translation of a Moscow Domestic Service broadcast of 21 May 1990, relayed through Joint Staff channels on 23 May 1990. It reports from Vladivostok that scientists from the PRC and the Soviet Far East have begun a joint study of UFOs. At their first meeting, held in Dalnegorsk, they planned how to investigate known incidents and agreed to exchange video and photographs. The broadcast says Dalnegorsk was chosen because at least 10 UFOs were recorded there in four years.
This is a CIA-held JPRS translation of an editor's column by Col V. Anuchin, editor in chief of the Soviet magazine AVIATSIYA I KOSMONAVTIKA. It appeared in issue No 6 of June 1990. Anuchin says the magazine is at a turning point and asks readers for suggestions. He promises coverage of Air Force training reform, flight safety, a pilot's legal right to make mistakes, and the protection of aviation personnel. He adds that the magazine will be a source of information on the space program, unidentified flying objects and puzzling phenomena.
This unclassified CIA (FBIS) record summarizes a Johannesburg Afrikaans-language television newscast broadcast on 20 July 1990. Most items cover South African politics, including the meeting between State President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela at the Union Buildings, along with economic news, strikes, refugees and foreign events. One two-minute item reported strange land imprints found in the south of England that were believed to have been caused by UFOs. The record contains no further detail on that item.
This JPRS translation, dated 1 August 1990, is an article from the Soviet journal Kommunist by Leonid Grishchuk of the Shternberg State Astronomy Institute. In it he argues that basic science needs state support. He notes that lecture audiences ask a lot about flying saucers and space aliens. He goes on to review cosmology, including galaxy structure, cosmic expansion, relic radiation, Fridman's models and inflationary theory. He closes by saying the question of non-Earth civilizations is a topic for another author.
This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS report, dated 1 August 1990, translates an OGONEK interview by Vanda Beletskaya with Academician Anatoliy Petrovich Aleksandrov, former president of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Aleksandrov blames the Chernobyl accident on an ill-considered experiment prepared by Donenergo that violated operating instructions. He also describes earlier nuclear plant defects, Legasov's suicide, and his dealings with Beria and Kapitsa. He argues for continued atomic power engineering and a law on nuclear power.
This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS report, dated 1 August 1990, translates an interview with cosmonaut Maj. Gen. Aleksey Leonov from the Soviet journal Aviatsiya i Kosmonavtika. Leonov describes the Soviet manned lunar program, its L-1 and N-1 failures and crew training, and criticizes Soviet secrecy and economic policy. Asked whether Apollo 11 astronauts saw extraterrestrials, he says UFO watchers took a remark out of context, since "they" meant Earth.
This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS report, dated 1 August 1990, translates an interview with Major General of Aviation Aleksey Leonov published in the Moscow journal Aviatsiya i Kosmonavtika. Leonov describes the Soviet manned lunar program, how the cosmonauts trained for it, and the test failures that ended it. He also criticizes Soviet secrecy and argues that the Buran shuttle is needed. Asked about UFO claims, he says Aldrin's remark 'they're watching us' referred to Earth, not extraterrestrials.
This is an FBIS London translation of a TASS report by correspondent V. Belousov, published in Krasnaya Zvezda on 4 September 1990 and relayed through Joint Staff channels. It was later approved for release in August 1997. The report says that on 2 September a large illuminated ball appeared over Murmansk, moving slowly from the sea toward the Kola Peninsula. Air defense staff described the object as resembling a large airship flying at 25 km altitude and said their troops were keeping it under observation.
This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS report, number JPRS-USA-91-001 and dated 1 September 1990, lists articles from the September 1990 issue of the Moscow journal SShA: Ekonomika, Politika, Ideologiya that were not translated. The listing gives each article's title, author and pages. Its thirteen entries cover monopoly regulation, immigration law, Canadian trade and American television. They also include an article titled "Official American Science and UFO's" by V.S. Vasilyev and V.A. Spichkin.
This Central Intelligence Agency translation, dated 4 September 1990, reproduces a TASS report by correspondent V. Belousov that appeared in the Soviet newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda. It says that on the night of 2 September a large illuminated ball appeared over Murmansk while residents were watching the Vremya program, moving slowly from the sea toward the Kola Peninsula. The Air Defense Staff told the reporter that the object resembled a large airship flying at an altitude of 25 km and that Air Defense soldiers were keeping it under observation.
This FBIS London message, relayed through Joint Staff channels on 5 October 1990, carries a Moscow News report by D. Sidorov. It describes a planned Soviet bulletin, UFO and Anomalous Phenomena, edited by Sergey Rybakov, a former member of Felix Zigel's group at the Moscow Aviation Institute. The report says the state agency Soyuzpechat had not yet approved the bulletin and that the military might try to stop it. The first issue was to include cosmonaut transcripts and a story on the Bermuda Triangle.
This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS translation, dated 18 September 1990, reproduces an article by Jaroslav Spurny titled "Birds of Steel" from the Prague weekly RESPEKT. It looks at Czechoslovak Air Force reform: high costs, reliance on Soviet equipment, the uneven spread of airfields and the pilot clearance process. The article expects the Air Force to be cut by about half. Its only UFO reference is a passing remark that the MIG-29 has little civilian use except perhaps investigating unidentified flying objects.
This is a Joint Publications Research Service translation, report JPRS-USP-91-002, of a KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA article from 22 September 1990 by correspondent Ye. Chernykh in Prague. It takes up a Hungarian book by I. Nemere that claims Yuriy Gagarin did not make the 12 April 1961 flight. It quotes the Czechoslovak space writer Karel Patsner, who rejects the rumors of hidden cosmonaut deaths, citing James Oberg, Charles Sheldon's congressional report and CIA archive documents. UFOs come up only in passing, as an outdated sensation.
This JPRS report, compiled in 1991 and carried in CIA records, translates an article by Aleksandr Demidov of the USSR Academy of Sciences' Sociology Institute, published in Sotsiologicheskiye Issledovaniya in October 1990. It draws on 18 months of polls of Moscow residents to analyze public opinion during the 1989 and 1990 election campaigns, covering trust in the CPSU, voter preferences, and dissatisfaction with how the elections were organized. It notes a growing mysticism, including belief in flying saucers, but has no UFO content beyond that.
This Central Intelligence Agency transcript, dated 4 October 1990, reproduces a Moscow News report on a planned Soviet news bulletin, UFO and Anomalous Phenomena. Editor-in-chief Sergey Rybakov, who studied in Felix Zigel's group at the Moscow Aviation Institute, says the distributor Soyuzpechat had not yet approved it. The first issue was to include a transcript of two cosmonauts describing what they saw in space and a Bermuda Triangle story. The report notes funding troubles and fears that the military might block publication.
This Central Intelligence Agency JPRS translation, dated 10 October 1990, reproduces a KRASNAYA ZVEZDA article by Lieutenant Colonel A. Dokuchayev about the Soviet outer space monitoring system (SKKP). Officers at its tracking center describe cataloging more than 7,000 orbital objects and tracking the fragments of a satellite that re-entered the atmosphere. They also describe helping the Soyuz T-13 crew find the silent Salyut-7 station. The article says center data showed the downed South Korean Boeing-747 flight in 1983 was synchronized with a Ferret-D reconnaissance satellite.
This unclassified CIA transcription of a Soviet broadcast, dated 13 October 1990, is the last of four parts covering the 5 October premiere of the "VID" television program. It describes the segments that aired after "Vzglyad": "Vedi" with historic film clips, Interfax news items, and "El Dorado". "El Dorado" reported on a 1989 UFO sighting in Georgia and interviewed a man who said aliens controlled him and left him with scars that later disappeared. The broadcast closed with MTV music videos.
This unclassified CIA-distributed listing, dated 5 November 1990, catalogs Radio Moscow and TASS broadcasts from that day by topic and language service. It covers the Persian Gulf crisis, European arms control and the CFE agreement, Soviet-US exchanges, Afghanistan, Moldova, the Soviet economy and the anniversary of the October Revolution. Under Space/Science, one item is an 8.5-minute Mandarin broadcast about the Soviet magazine "UFO and Us." The document gives no further UFO detail.
This Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) record, dated 5 November 1990, is an unclassified commentary list covering Soviet radio broadcasts in Mandarin and Japanese. It gives 24 items with short descriptions and running times. Topics include Primakov's Persian Gulf talks, Baker's Mideast visit, unrest in Moldavia, the RSFSR 500-day economic plan and Japanese journalist Toyohiro Akiyama's training for the Mir space station. One 8.5-minute item covers the Soviet magazine "UFO and Us."
This Central Intelligence Agency translation, dated 5 November 1990, reproduces the first part of a Literaturnaya Gazeta article by S. Kiselev published on 31 October 1990. It describes the political situation in Lugansk, where a conservative oblast soviet backed by the Communist Party was in conflict with a democratic city soviet. It also covers public distrust of the CPSU, ethnic and labor tensions, and growing calls for territorial autonomy or a move to RSFSR jurisdiction. The text mentions a UFO only as a figure of speech.
This CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service listing, dated 6 November 1990, indexes the day's Soviet radio, television and TASS output. It mostly covers the 73rd anniversary of the October Revolution, the Persian Gulf crisis, unrest in Moldova and the draft union treaty. It also logs reports on Germany, Afghanistan, Cambodia and the Soviet economy. One entry notes a report on a new almanac of UFOs that had just come off the press in Moscow.
This Central Intelligence Agency release is a monitoring list dated 7 November 1990. It catalogs Soviet radio, television and TASS broadcasts from Moscow for that day. Most items cover the 73rd anniversary of the October Revolution, including Gorbachev's Red Square parade address, the alternative demonstrations and celebrations in the union republics. Other items deal with the Persian Gulf crisis, Cambodia, Afghanistan and the Soviet economy. One brief item notes a new Moscow almanac, 'We and UFOs', about alleged contacts with UFOs.
This is a Foreign Broadcast Information Service television program summary released through the Central Intelligence Agency. It covers the Paris Antenne 2 evening newscast broadcast at 1900 GMT on 9 November 1990. Most items deal with the Gulf crisis, Gorbachev's visit to Germany, and French and European politics. One item reports that UFO sightings from the previous weekend turned out to have been a section of a Soviet rocket.
This unclassified Central Intelligence Agency release is a Moscow Consolidated comlist dated 13 November 1990. It indexes Soviet radio, TV and TASS items from that day by topic. Listed items include the opening of the world trade union congress and Gorbachev's address to military deputies. The index also covers Yeltsin's report to the RSFSR Supreme Soviet on his meeting with Gorbachev, the Gulf crisis and the Soviet-German treaty. Its only UFO reference is a four-minute item on the first issue of a new Soviet magazine, "We and the UFO's."
This Central Intelligence Agency commentary list, dated 13 November 1990, logs the content of two Radio Moscow Turkish-language broadcasts to Turkey, at 1400 and 1830 GMT. It lists news items and commentaries on a Gorbachev meeting with soldiers who were people's candidates, the anniversary of Ataturk's death, Georgian election results, and the embargo against Iraq. One segment of four minutes covered the first issue of a new Soviet magazine titled "We and the UFO's."
This unclassified Central Intelligence Agency message, dated 16 November 1990, is a consolidated list of Moscow radio, TV and TASS items monitored that day. It lists reports on Gorbachev's 16 November address to the USSR Supreme Soviet, the Persian Gulf crisis, Soviet-Canadian talks, nuclear tests, East European party leaders' meeting, and the Soviet economy. One Korean-language youth program item notes new Soviet publications on UFOs.
This Central Intelligence Agency press selection list dated 22 November 1990 indexes articles from that day's Moscow newspapers, including Krasnaya Zvezda, Sovetskaya Rossiya, Selskaya Zhizn and Rabochaya Tribuna. The listed items cover Soviet military, political and economic affairs, among them a Bosphorus ship collision and a Vilnius army camp incident. One Selskaya Zhizn item reports a local officer's disclosure of radar sightings of UFOs around the time of a 15 November rogue surface-to-air missile launch in Amur Oblast.
This Central Intelligence Agency commentary list covers Radio Moscow's Greek-language broadcasts to Cyprus and Greece on 5 December 1990. It gives program timings and topics, including Supreme Soviet proceedings, an interview with the Cypriot ambassador, commentaries on the union agreement, US-Iraq dialogue on the Gulf crisis, Soviet-Greek cooperation, and a NATO defense ministers' conference. A news segment also noted a KGB investigation into an attempt on Gorbachev's life and further UFO sightings by Soviet citizens, without details.