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22 November 1989 i USSR: MEDIA REPORT MULTITUDE OF UFO SIGHTINGS Leading Soviet newspapers and journals have recently begun publishing an increasing number of articles and news reports on sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in various areas of the Soviet Union. A™ “permanent center" for the study of UFOs has been established in Moscow to conduct research and support the investigation of reported sightings. KKaAKKREKRKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKE KEKE KKK KK KEK Setting the tone for this media coverage was an article in the 9 July 1989 SOTSIALISTICHESKAYA INDUSTRIYA, which referred to many rec…

i | Some of the scientists have concluded that the object that crashed into Hill 611 was an "extraterrestrial" space vehicle constructed by highly intelligent beings. Doctor of Chemical Sciences V. Vysotskiy stated that “without doubt, this is evidence of a high technology, and it is not anything of a natural or terrestrial origin." He cited the fact that the remnants of fine mesh included bits of thin théeads with a diameter of only 17 microns and that these threads, in turn, were composed of even thinner strands twisted into braids. Extremely thin gold wires were discovered intertwined in th…

wet = emede Soviet aircraft reported seeing a large flying disk in their vicinity with five beams of light emanating from it: three beams vere directed toward the ground and two vere projected upward when the object was first sighted. The ground controller instructed one of the Planes to alter its course and approach the object, at which point the disk flew to the same level and aimed one of its beams at the approaching Sovfet plane, illuminating the cockpit. Listratov cited the pilot’s log as stating: “At this time, the copilot was at the controls. He observed the maneuver that the object had…

ne + PARI ity » engaged in investigating UFO reports—the newly established center for UFO studies in the Palace of Culture of Power Engineers in Moscow and the Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation Institute, which has branches in Troitsk, Leningrad, and,Irkutsk. Physicist Yuriy Platov of the Terrestrial Magnetism Institutd does not believe the claims of scientists vho maintain they have found remnants in Dalnegorsk of a UFO constructed by extraterrestrials, and he is convinced that the materials found at that site are really only the remnants of the unsuccessful launch…

an SOVETSKAYA KULTURA of 28 October reported on the results of a conference in Petrozavodsk of about 100 Soviet scientists representing the “various branches of science and technology." The main topic of discussion was the multitude of claims of recent UFO sightings in the USSR. According to SOVETSKAYA KULTURA, more questions about UFOs vere raised at this conference than were ansvered. — : ‘LITERATURNAYA GAZETA of 1 November reported that Yoronezh, where some observers had claimed to have witnessed the landing and take-off of a UFO, thas become the place for a “pilgrimage” by correspondents s…