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![Soviet scientists joked that somebody had made a "political decision" to end UFO sightings in the USSR](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2017/04/28/RedSquareCov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Soviet scientists joked that somebody had made a “political decision” to end UFO sightings in the USSR
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JPat Brown
Mostly redacted CIA records capture a rare Cold War commiseration between American and Soviet meteorologists over weather balloons being mistaken for aliens.