ARE FLYING SAUCERS A MYTH?

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005517734
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: February 17, 1968

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AMCB Lfustiber3, V. (Science eoseentator
IZT'w: Are flying saucers a nyth?
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50UCCB: Pravda. Ukrainy...'uo. 40, ;l1 Fab 68; p. 4,
cols. 2-7 / ?'
TOPIC 'FAG: s .. p34a~p,rcrusr.saan, unidtntificd flying object,
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atmospheric
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A.K.r,79?AGT: Various evrvitness aecovncs of UFO's are described. It is corc3uded
e.'. I. TWO'd are 'a ? s Ch ? The single ?and chance app.-aranc?:
of UFO's 'complicates or ceopletely excludes the possibility Of
iovesti,ation. StcreoseopLC photography is not reliable: it.ia itpossible
simultaneously to follow from two points the accurate outlines of a solid
flying object. All picturoa made by one-objective cameras hrv3 room for doubt.
It is true that there are pictures which do not raise doubts. They always
ohav objects of round or oval shape with diffused,outlinua, probably ball
lighting. The nature of ball lightning in unknown because of the utter lac,: of
information about. the tits and place of its fbrmaclon. It cannot be described
as being of outerspice origin. Even during superficial analysis, it is found
that the syacerious flares on. clouds are reflections of electric voiding,
signals frost aircraft near airports, or reaota surer lightning.. Th., November
t. 'saucer" of 175_7 above Sofia turned out ? to be a scouting balloon of :IATO. ccn
j lit $;eaten p.` a hw shave ar tencion distracted from politics or economics, re
1 appear flying saucers, Inch !tees ncnsters,or Enaunen. "
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