NOTHING BUT THE FACTS ON UFOS OR WHICH NOVOSTI WRITER DO YOU READ? (WITH 2 ARTICLES ATTACHED)

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• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
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• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: April 9, 1968

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9 April 1.968
Nothing But the Facts on UFOs
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Which Novosti Writer Do You Bead?
1. Whether you believe in unidentified flying objects (UFOs) or not,
Novosti (APR -- the Soviet "unofficial" news agency) Wee. with You. We
are forwarding attached reproductions of two articles which argue both
aides of the issue: ?
a. "Unidentified Flying Oblecti" by Felix Zigel, 1)4244..or Of
Science (Technology), Assiatant Professor, Moscow Aviation Institute,
appearing in the February 1968 issue of Soviet Life (counterpart to
USIA'. America) for which APR supplies all materials; and ,
b. "Flying Saucers'? They're a Myth!" by Villen Lyustiberg,
APR Science Commentator, which originally appeared in the 16 February
1968 issue of Moakoviky Komsomolets, and which APR released in
English translation on 123arch 1968.
The first article takes UFOs quite seriously; the second laughs them off
and even claims the U.S. publicizes them to divert people from its failures
and aggressions.
2. It is not surprising that two writer; teke?opposing views on so
controversial a subject, or that one adds a dollop of propaganda. It is
surprising to find any disagreement on, any Object in Soviet media,
especially in materials made available by the sane agency to approximately
the same readership. The irony is obvious.
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Tuesday March 12.
"MIRO CAUCERS"7 THEY'RE A MYTH:
Vilken Lyustiberg; ABS Science Commentator
In the last 20 years pUblicatio
of literature on "unidentified flying
objects" has advanced to one of the
first places in the world. .This prdb
lam is dealt with by numerous associa-
tions and clubs.
Are these "flying saucers" just
imagination or reality/. Thousands of
recorded statements by bye-witnesses
seem to show that "there must be some-
thing in it". But let us try to look
all these materials from a different
stand. So, as the convinced supporter
of the "saucer" theory say almost ever
time, you can draw your own conciliator
while we give you.
,"Flots Only"
Kenneth Arnold, an American pilot, is the "godfather" of flying saucers. /t %
he who noticed in 1947 nine shiniag.dises flying in formation at the speed of al.oul
3,000 km an hour.
The next encounter with saucers had a tragic outcome. In January 1948, an
immense flying saucer appeared over the Mos US Air Base. Pursuing it Captain
Thomas Manthell perished. The last thing he reported from an altitude of 9,000
metres was that he saw an object and was going to approach it.
This story found extensive response. Many considered it to be a stern warnin;
of unknown envoys from other planets to leave them alone. There was a great deal
of a talk about the mysterious death. of the pilot. It was received as undoubted
proof of the existence of mighty forces still unknown to us.
But the results of a thorough investigation by US authorities received much
less publicity. The mysterious 'saucer" proved to be nothing but a thin-walled
plastic balloon made by US Naval Forces under the secret "Skyhawk Operation" pro.
sect.
Such balloons could rise to an altitude of 30,000 metres. Meanwhile, Thomas
Manthell pursuing it, forgot that he had no oxygen apparatus on board his craft.
' We know of stories about encounters and even hand-to-hand fights with pilots
of craft landing from other planets. They were shot at, but without success.
A saucer out down a tree on :me Amazon River short and disappetrl
turbid stream. It was zlever recovered. Another saucer glided over the earth likE
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an injurvd ar.d crashed before the eyes of witnenees. But "having cpi!
out" several pieces of metal, it levelled out its course end flew off. Delivered
to the police, the metal proved to be ordinvy tin.
An abandoned silvery disc wus found in the deep rock-coal seams in Norwegian
coal mines on Spitebergen. It was pierced and marked by micrometeor impacts and
bore all traces of having performed a long space voyage. It was sent for analysis
to the Pentagon and disappeared there.
Nothing but a saucer put out of commission a high-voltage power transmission
lite in 1965 and this plunged several large American cities ilto darkness for six
hours.
But the most thrilling masterpiece of this sort was probably the "Interview w:
a Man from Venus" published at the close of 3.967 by the Nest German Stern magazine.
This materialfzed blue-eyed "superman", a version of Nietzsche's "bliargeast",
proved to be a secret service agent of the Pentagon: He was 190 cm tall, spoke
excellent English (it was Eneh indeed!) and could breathe freely in our atmos-
phere without any devices. His modest fibre suitcase contained an unusual silvery
sun, flexible like silk and so hard that a diamond drill broke off it.
The man from Venus said that he ccitild walk freely in such a suit over the. sur-
face of the hottest stars, ignoring all powerful gravitational fields.
Maybe these "facts" will do?
How Can They Be Studied?
It is easier to ask this question, than to answer it. These flying saucers --
they are like Our Lady: they appear to those who believe in them. And they per-
sistently fail to show themselves to air observation posts, meteorologists and
astronomers, i.e. precisely to those who can give vs accurate information and trust-
worthy descriptions of a flying object.
Experiments that do not repeat themselves, or the chance appearance of a
phenomenon always either handicap the possibility of investigation considerably or
exclude it altogether.
Nowhere in the world is there EVEN ONE trustworthy stereoscopic photograph
making it possible to trace from two points simultaneously the outlines of a solid
flying object clearly. All photographs that exist have been made with single-lens
cameras and always leave a margin for doubt.
A series of such photographs amazingly resembles a.straw hat with a black sills
ribbon, thrown into the air. Others undoubtedly prove to be internegatives Obtained
from two combined slides, for instance, that of a landscape and that of a strangely
designed craft drawn on white paper. Modern photographing techniques allow photo-
graphs to be produced which no expert will ever prove to be counterfeit. They are ;
real. But they do not show strangers from space; they show quite ordinary earthly '
objects unexpectedly foreshortened -- pots, pans, plastic toys, and the like.
Are there photographs which evoke no doubts whatsoever? Yes, there are. They
always show .ehining objects of a circular or oval shape with vague outlines. Most
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likely these photographs chow ball lightning. ZnaLlentally, the nature of the let
has not been fully elucidated yet either, aue to the vagueness of the place and ti
of its formation. However, no one ever thought of ascribing a cosmic origin to it
Even with a superficial analysis, mysterious flares on clouds proved to be
reflections of electrie welding, warning lights vl airplanes in the area of airpor
or distant summer lightning. And the November 1967 "saucier" Over Sofia proved tol
a high-altitude NATO reconnaissance balloon.
Among the most serious works devoted to an investigation of the problem, 'Mori
are two which ought to be mentioned. One of them is the book "Flying Saucers" by
Donald Menzel who explains almost all cases of their appearance by disturbances in
the Earth's or Sun's atmosphere. Our planet travels in the upper liYers of the Sur
atmosphere where clots of high-temperature plasma are moving. freely.
The other is a book by Frank Edwards. /t is a collection of statements, notes
and records of eye-witness testimony classified into several sections. True, Edwar
often qualifies his source as a witcess who did not wish to have his name mentioned
but who may be fully trusted, or that the trustworthiness ofthe witness is con-
firmed by numerous of his countryr ., but he cannot mention his name so far for a
number of reasons. That's not very convincing, is it?
For Whom Is /t Not a Myth?
They are those for whom science is a business. Taking advantage of the lively
interest of people for everything the 4trange and unusual, numerous lecturers
in the Went appear before audiendc ..eports and stories, invite eye-witnenses
to such lectures, and demonstrate p 'las and slides. Most of these lecturers
are nothing but ordinary quacks. Tru, there are people who are sincerely convince
in the trilth of what they aretalkingIbOut. They strive to draw the interest of
the public to certain phenomena but, we are sorry to Bey, there is more harm than
use in that.
The Americans Desly and Adamski are the most outright frauds among them.
Using their "good friendly relations" with strangers from other planets, the enter-
prising businessmen "visited" Mars, the Moon and Venus, learned from our cosmic
neighbours to treat by simple and accessible methods such diseases as cancer,
glaucoma, hypertension and others which afflict the human race. Their lectures,
motion-pictures, books and medical practice have brought them many hundred thousand
dollnrs out of the pockets of trusting listeners and patients already.
We may trace a clearly defined regularity in the appearance of large numbers'
of flying saucers. And, strange as it might seem, this regularity is closely
connected with earthly events.
The first "cycle" of four years began in 1947. The number of saucers always 4:
grows sharply on the eve of presidential elections in the USA. This is difficult
to explain. Maybe people on other planets lay bets as to who will win in the next
elections -- the republicans or the democrats. Perhaps, these saucers appear in
order to divert the voters' thoughts from the again non-fulfilled pretidentia,
programme and promises to rat'.- t11, .1...mItry a %mt" and "prosperina. society.
There is another cycle. True, it is not determined by Cate. Saucers flooded
the earth's atmosphere in 1951, in the months when the American troops were waging
a ruthless, annihilating war against the Korean People's Democratic Republic.
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The next invasion or saucers was in 1965.1966, when 35 American advisers in
$uuth Vietnam were quickly replaced by half-a-million-strong army equipped with the
Latest arms and intending to rout the National-Liberation Front within two weeks
and when the President- of the United States of America, without declaring war and
in violation the constitution of hi., own country, gave the order that the peaceful
population of North Vietnam be subjected to brutal bombings.
In short, when newspaper circulation drops, when readers set tired of economics
and politics and when they are to be diverted from "irrelevant" quo:Miens, the
Western businessmen resort to thras reliable, "always fresh" sensations:. Flying
Saucers, the Sea. Serpent (sometimes it As substitned by the Loch Ness Lake monster)/
and the Snow Nen.
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It is much nicer to read ebout Mysterious craft from Venus thac.to think of Mu
future, of the wage freeze, ofrgrowing prices or Unemployment. Statesmen in imperil
let countries resort to this 7infornation" quite deliberately. For them the ming
saucers are not a myth, but I well-camouflaged mains for misinforming the people.
And nothing but that.
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-.(Moskovsky remaomolets, February 16. In fu:
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