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 SU!JICT      Report on Conversations With
 Scientists on Subject of Unidentified
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 ? nam ca    n1?.a  1?vnhnrle.  hav!'...  er.ff inf?ntiers enee!?,?A  in planetary research.
 quiries eoncirning?Soviet?observations and interpretations of 1170's
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 was n.ede to assess Soviet scientific thinking on this controversial      '.
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 R6 visited V.Y. Moroz, Sternberg Institute, 13oseow, who was noncolweit?
 tal on the subject of b70'a.  The scientist who served as translator,.:
 a radio aatronomar, ar..ystically stated that' he 3alew of no sightings
 of Ue`0's in the USSR and added with a laugh that if they vote only aeev
 ? ?      in the US, they rust be of Soviet origin.        '~;              ;n`.::;; '?
 ?? r*.-i.;.3,v,:Ac ths1P>.11'cova Observatory, Leningrad. ?'ora of the .astronomers mentioned
 that sFia had heard of some eighcLags,of unidentified objects near the
 Caucasus.  She was,unawere of any study being made of, them but va* opea-
 minded on the subject.
 -$. The US scientists guLA visit vas to ll.A. Ko: rev. vho was very, iater-
 toted in the problem. ' He had read l:cnzelro book (vhicb has been trs:ns?
 laced into Russian) but did not accept his coneluolons.',36ozyrov knav
 -; s ... of sons sightings La thr '  here part of. the. USSR, but said that to-
 ..,norm of such sir-htinzs are not ~rJ.n.~ed in Soviet nevonaoerr.- -'use
 more irsstinotiva 1rcnbers of the scientific corr*nitY. .:Apparently sol-i
 official sanction to nrea'ed;)  Kozyrrv has boon interested ifs'-`] to.
 ?     ..,ports or UFO a and readily accepts their reality. an tact, it is his  ??      ?.a?
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