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.” F Approved For Release 2005/06/29 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010014-6 6 March 1968 dd 2 USSR SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS SCIENTISTS REFUTE CLAIMS OF ‘UFO! SIGHTINGS Moscow PRAVDA 29 Feb 68 p 6 L {Article by Ye. Mustel, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and chairman of the USSR Academy of Sciences Astronomic Council; D. Martynov, doctor of mathematical physics and president of the All-Union Astronomical and Geodesic Society; and V. Leshkovtsev, secretary of the national Soviet physicists committee: "What? Flying Saucers Again?"] [Text] Recently there have again been sensational report…

Approved For Release 2005/06/29 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010014-6 ~~ DD 1 . " USSR SCIENTIFIC AFFATRS 6 March 1968 COSMOS 204, 205 SATELLITES LAUNCHED 5 MARCH Moscow TASS International Service in English 1646 GMT 5 Mar 68 L [Text] Moscow--Sputniks Cosmos 204 and Cosmos 205 were launched in the Soviet Union today. The instruments on board them are designed to continue the study of outer space. Cosmos 204 has been put into an orbit with the following parameters: initial revo- lution period--95.9 minutes, maximum distance from the earth's surface--apogee-- 873 kilometers; minimum distance from the…

Approved For Release 2005/06/29 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010014-6 6 March 1968 : dd 3 USSR SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS The second category comprises reports of phenomena seen by different individuais: "y was swimming in the sea and a 'flying saucer! flew down to me, hung suspended in midair, and then flew off...." Clearly, information of this sort has no scientific value whatever since it can neither be verified nor corroporated and it. is altogether impossible to establish the degree of its authenticity. This is why conclusions deduced from this kind of information have not the slightest scientific sig…

< . Approved For Release 2005/06/29 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010014-6 ne 6 March 1968 . dd 4 USSR SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS ‘ All the objects flying over our territory have been identified either by scientists or by those who stand guard over our métherland's security. If there really were such “unidentified flying objects," the scientists would be the first to extract vital information about them and investigate their nature. Orr is interesting to note that the question of the propaganda of "flying saucers" \ has become a subject of discussion at the USSR Academy of Sciences, in view of the reports a…

e v 4 Approved For Release 2005/06/29 = CIA-RDP&1R00560R000100010014-6-—--—_----*-—*— * Saaky » \Quax) : . Ou3x 29 February 1968 DD 2 USSR SCLENTLFIC AFPAIRS American scientists recently made public the information they had received. At the point where the Surveyor 5 landed, the surface of the Sea of Tranquillity was covered by a mineral of volcanic origin=--a substance similar to the composition i of terrestial basalt. The oxygen content of the substance was from 53-63 percent, Silicon 15-21 percent, aluminum 4-8 percent, a group of iron, cobalt’ and nickel with an admixture of sulphur occupi…

pproved For Release 2005/06/29 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010014-6 web "III. 25 Oct 73 USSR N ATIONAL AFFAIRS SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS SOVIET SCIENTISTS PUZZLE OVER NEW SIGNALS FROM SPACE Moscow Domestic Service in Russian 0700 GMT 2h Ost 73 L [text] Soviet scientists have intercepted previously unrecorded radio signals from outer space. They were first recorded by the Gorskiy Observatory and then by scientists in other cities of the country. The signals come to earth as pulses at definite. time intervals. They last several minutes and are repeated several times a day. The search for radio signals from…

Approved For Release 2005/06/29 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010014-6 TIT. 25 Oct 7% USSR N ATIONAL APFAIRS Tl AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS GRAIN, LEGUMES THRESHED ON 116 MILLION HECTARES Moscow TASS in English 2226 omr 24 oct 7304L [Text ] Moscow October 24 PASS--The harvesting of cereals is nearing completion -in the USSR. Grain and legumes have been mowed and threshed on an area of over 116 million hectares, the Central Statistical Board of the USSR announced teday. A good harvest was grown in the USSR this year and despite capricious weather conditions the peasants have taken it in time and without los…

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