(EST PUB DATE) UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005517746
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: January 1, 1963

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SOU.[CZ Soviet life,, so. 2. 1963, '27-2.9
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A:ST:LICT: The author~Ofoeeov Aviation Institute) presents several striking and
Tallabl. UFO obaarvattons and refutes the theory of U. S. astrophysicist Hensel
and others the: until recently no scientific study of UFOs has been meds.in the
Soviet L?nfon? lie elates that the prevailing view that UFOs are eon on optical
phenee u In the earth's acaosrhare is v-.ong and due to the fact that there use no
: to 1968 the Uauks pubtishtng Rouse of the USSR Academy of-Seienees Is scheduled
? va; cleated ehatteao of the seetian, ', ~,. .^ s? r? ''- -~? .:.
?:' > lb* hypothesis that UFOs orlgiosts So. other vorld.. that they are flying craft - '
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they maintain a pattern. They are asst often spatted over airfields, ate3fe
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Curiously tocuth, the atesber of UFO observations Lecreises as Mars approaches
? the meth. Is this pure eoiccidaneeT ,. ,i . ?'t ,, . `: f.
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In ltey 1967 a spocsaring group of scientists. the military, vritees, and public
figures met to for ^n unofficial body whose purpose would be co Conduct a
prelisiinary scientific Investigation of UFOs. . ; ... r.: : ;:.. ?,;:?' I. : ,
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? Soo" people think that UFOs have appcar,d I. ch. ?stmosphcro only durint
The most resatkable?UFO phcnooenon?Is the ls.ow "7untusky oeteerite." In recent
years Soviet seienetato have establiahcd.:hat the Tungusky exploclan hid every
,t. .? pavaneter of an staosphetic nuclear blast. The VS -17 Asedaay of Sciences 4spOrLa
(Yoluae 112. Nos- 4 *and S. 1967) include etudiea by Alexet Zoletov which atccapc
to prove that the Tuntushy body eould,nec be a ceceorita or a coast.
,.:. ; In the'ass ar of 1967 the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research at Dubna published
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' : ''~' -?. ~. that before the blsat the Tuntvsky body described' In the acnoaphere a 'C:aaandous
sic of about 375 miles In extent (in &r:-much). that is carried out a usneuver.
a}y _ -n aaysal; eraac aroa a001 genet planer.
Lut this, incUeocally, will pose new peob1cas. If we are Indeed betas .cudtad
f =1 r. .'?.s? by creatures from other?pianeta? what is their purpose? .kby are they so etudtously
avoiding any direct contact? Is thuir unsociability the result. of so high s level
~??+' :i?.,: ~. of develepeaae that they study us fees that "ltattht Just as we look upon and
{"i ? ? rud- .west Or 4. that. 1t11 L'the ?s?st11t4 rv of ceVao...e. derseendinr since ve
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? ~" tr ~ T77? study of l'TOs ray lead to quite different Conclusions and present funkind
+r:;?t? -??. tteh?euite different problem.
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