CIA-Monitored Soviet Broadcasts Recorded UFO Talk, a 'Perm Triangle,' a Saucer-Shaped Airship, and Estonian Sightings — All Through Routine Cold War Media Monitoring

S. government files during the Cold War without any UAP investigation attached. ' The second is a 1991 FBIS transcript of a Moscow Central Television interview with Army General Ivan Moiseyevich Tretyak, commander in chief of Soviet Air Defense Forces (PVO), who was asked whether he believed in UFOs.

The third is a 1992 FBIS daily report relaying a TASS/MOSKOVSKAYA PRAVDA story that designers at the Moscow Aviation Institute had built a 'thermoplane' airship that outwardly resembled a flying saucer. The fourth is a CIA-released FBIS 'TAKEALL' media monitoring digest dated 21 December 1990, cataloged as C05516659, whose science segment has Boris Belitskiy answering listener questions about 'circles in British fields' — crop circles — and noting changing Soviet attitudes toward UFOs with increasing interest on a scientific basis. The fifth is a CIA-released FBIS 'Takeall' Comlist of Moscow Consolidated broadcasts dated 27 January 1991, cataloged as C00174898, pages 137-144…