CIA-UAP-010, Report on Conversations with Soviet Scientists on Subject of Unidentified Flying Objects in the USSR
- Date
- Information May 1967 (trip spring 1967); distributed Aug. 18, 1967 (report no. 00-B-321/23490-67)
- Location
- USSR — Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Crimea, Alma Ata (multiple; not mapped)
- Agency
- CIA
- Release
- Release 03 (June 12, 2026)
- Type
- document
Summary
An unevaluated CIA report, drawn from a memo by a U.S. astrophysicist, recounts UFO conversations during his one-month spring 1967 trip to Soviet observatories. In Moscow, V.I. Moroz was noncommittal, but the translator, a radio astronomer, "emphatically stated that he knew of no sightings" in the USSR and joked that if UFOs were seen only in the US "they must be of Soviet origin"; at Pulkovo an astronomer had heard of sightings near the Caucasus, N.A. Kozyrev said he personally thought UFOs may originate on Venus, and in Kiev I.K. Koval described a reddish object he and colleagues were convinced was neither a satellite nor a meteorite, though their immediate interpretation was a satellite or rocket fragment burning up. At Alma Ata, director G.M. Idlis called it "clearly still an open question," and the report concludes there was no official Soviet treatment of the problem and that proof of the phenomena might excite Soviet astronomers more than US colleagues "influenced by the official ridicule associated with UFO's in the US."
Note
A snapshot of Soviet scientific opinion in 1967: curious, varied, and largely unofficial.