U.S. Government UFO Document (FOIA): “FOREIGN PRESS NOTE: USSR: MEDIA REPORT MULTITUDE OF UFO SIGHTINGS”

22 November 1989

(Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Reston, Virginia)

(Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C.)

(foia.cia.gov)

Quote from the document:

“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 for the investigation of reported sightings.”

http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000042346.pdf

Wikipedia article: “Foreign Broadcast Information Service”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Broadcast_Information_Service

Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was an open source intelligence component of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Science and Technology. It monitored, translated, and disseminated within the U.S. government openly available news and information from media sources outside the United States.”

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