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“ AUTHOR: Zigel, F. ‘(Dector of technical sciences, Asatstant professor) TITLE: Unidentified flying obfect SOURCE: Sovict life, no. 2, 1968, 27-29 Ones phe eee, . oan mo TOPIC TACS:/, optic phenocenon, unidentified flying object, meteorite vies AZSTRACT: The author (Moscow Aviation Institute) presents several striking and reliable UFO observations and refutes’ the theory of U. S. astrophysicist Henzel and others that until Tecently no sctentific study of UFOs has been made in the Soviet Union. He claims thet the prevailing view that UFOs are comuon optical phenenens in the earth's atmosphere i…

tt ee meee | . Sone people think that Uros have appeared in the earth's staosphere only during ‘the past two decades. This is not the case. The UFO phencacnon has been observed throughout the history of mankind. There are wedieval and ancient reports $ strikingly sinilar to ours. . ee, : : ten hs tet atom atm ts maha eee! Among the earlier UFO reports, ae an exanple, nay be the well-documented observa-. ‘thons of a “large saucer" in 1882 and a “procession of bolides"” in 1913. Theue reports scill await invest{gation. . os , ‘The most remarkable’UFO phenomenon’ is the fandus "Tungusky metcorite…