CIA • 1967

THE UFO GAP

Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81 R00560R000100010006-5 ? america's leading ufologist-just back from an international astronomers' conference behind the iron curtain-warns that a new soviet investigative approach could cost us the race to solve the flying-saucer riddle article By J. ALLEN HYNEK "RUSSIANS SOLVE UFO MYSTERY." For years, I have opened The New York Times with the fear skittering around the back of my mind that I might find that quote. In my occasional dreams, the story under the headline explains that the Russians have found some previously unthought-of, unstartling explanation for unidentified flying ob- jects; or, worse, that they have made first contact with an alien civilization conducting recon- naissance missions to our planet...