Soviet scientists in the official position towards UFO phenomena has long been the following:
"The UFOs are natural phenomena , 'Mounted' as a product of the imperialist mentality ".
But on 18 October 1967 with a government decree was created Commission Cosmonaut Union, an organization responsible for the care of UFO sightings . The direction of this committee was entrusted to Air Force General Anatoly Stolyerov , Assisted by Professor. Ziegel , Prof. Alexander P. Kazantsev and Dr.. A. Thikhonoff .
It is important to remember that only two months earlier, in August, had met on Congress of the International Astronomical In which the problem of UFOs had been taken into account very carefully. It was later learned that Ziegel held at a Soviet scientific journal that has more than twenty years had been found of UFO on Radar Devices , Also reported several sightings of celebrities from the science and asked for cooperation for the study of these unidentified flying objects. The total number of reports of UFO observations Ziegel stated that the Commission had already had their hands 200 , And each of them certainly deserve a thorough study. Thus, the Committee gathered 20 scientists and put them to analyze the reports came from various meteorological stations in Poland and other Eastern European countries. The official conclusion of Professor Ziegel was exactly opposite to that which had always appeared in all the cards to him earlier: "The documents obtained suggests that The UFO phenomenon is real and can not be mistaken for any known natural phenomenon, with the ordinary optical phenomena of the atmosphere, for example. "
The opinions of Mr. Kostantinov , Vice-president of ' Academy of Sciences the USSR, were totally different, because about the journal Pravda published as follows: "The Academy has claimed to have studied the problem closely, in relation to appearances, taking into consideration the written comments from newspapers and television stations from the Soviet Union on UFOs and concluded that the propaganda made USSR about the alleged flying disc has not nothing of the nature of science These inventions do not have any basis of reliability, the observed objects have a well-known origin ...".
General Anatoli Stolyerov instead in a television broadcast showed several UFO Photos many of which are taken by aircraft equipment, one of them showed a unit circle surmounted by a dome, but shortly after, the general, he abandoned his business, rumors that it was sick.