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seers fac Pe ee Fee cen mere eee etm em ee ee en ee ee on ot, es te a ce ee et c s . ——s _ —$ => ne eo ee sane if 4 Le? oo » gt . . tle { : ‘ Some people think that UFOs have apoearcd in the earth's atsodtherd caly during : . o , ° the paat tvo decades. This is mot the case. The UFO phenomenon haa been observed et : + throughout the history. of mankind. There aro medieval and ancient reports “y . gtrikingly similar to ours. CI tea ee see tine eae Mee pm ae mrm mea mmeneee + . Among the carlier UFO reports, os an exacple, way be the well-docusented observa-, . tions of a "large saucer” in 1882 and a "procession o£ bolidcsa” in 1913. These . reports still await investigation. © ~ eee ‘ so ° ‘The most remarkable UFO phenoaenon fs the-famous "Tungusky metcorite.” In recent years Soviet scientists have established that the Tungusky explosion had every oe peranctcr of an atocospheric nuclear blast. The SSR Academy of Satencas Reports a7 (Volume 172, Nos. 4 and.5, 1967) include studies by Alexei Zolotov which attempt ‘ . to prove that the Tungusky body could not be a meteorite or a comet. In the sucser of 1967 the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research at Dubna published a . a study by Viadinir Hekhedov, who concludes that the Tungusky blast left cf p ‘ considerable residual radioactivity. Finally, as recently o3 1966, after analyzing . the.sum total of observations on the Tungusky body's flight, this writer showed , that before the 'blaet the Tungusky body described in the atmosphere a tremendous ° are of about 375 ailes {no extent (in azimuth), that 4s, carried out a mancuver. pitta ete rs — - ee renter qene en ene pee a eADL these nev results warrant the conclusion that the Tungusky body Reems to have . ~~ Rnen nm artificial flying craft from some other planct. Co) Cay V7 yetisis 878 roa sone othe i j weet ee ce ren ES I ae nee RS Ep 9 So meee pn an mete ee oe Should this ba finally confirmed by investigations now in progress, tha . significance of the Tungusky disaster would be inestimable, a . this, ineidectally, will pose new probless, If ve are indeed being studied” ‘+. by ereatures fron other planetn, what is their purpose? Why are they so studiously avoiding any direct contact? Is their unsoclability the result of so high s Zavel +. of developrent that they study us frem that "height" just ss we look upon and ° atudy ants? Or is theve atill the possibility of common woderstanding since we ‘ are torn in the sane Universe and obey the cane leva of nature? ° The study of UFOs may lead to quite different conclusions and present mankind ‘with quite different problems. ve 2g now 4s for us to discard any preconceived notions about Tha. {mportent thin UFOs und to organize on a global scale a cala, sensation-free, and strictly octantific study of this strange phenocenon. - The subject and aims of the fnvastipation ure co serious thst they justify any efforts. It eee) (3) saying that international cooperation iz vital. \ es ° soa wt Se te tee ee” . tS tee te ay