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Viral CIA File on Alleged Alien Encounter With Soldiers Sparks UFO Interest (ground.news)

submitted 4 months ago by StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] superniceperson@sh.itjust.works -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's nice dear. This is the CIA website archive of a previously classified document.

This is the CIA confirming the reporting of said tabloid.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you mean "confirmed" in that it shows that the CIA knew this article had been written and kept a copy, then yes.

Or if you mean they are confirming the contents of the article, well yeah, I guess they are confirming that this russian(?) newspaper wrote about an article some tabloid rag wrote, then yeah, I guess that's true, too.

But if you're saying they're confirming the contents of whatever the Canadian world weekly news might have written, then no, not by any means is this file a confirmation of that.

CWWN made up a story that involved soviets; Ternopil Vechirniy picked it up and wrote their own piece on it; the CIA kept a copy. That's it.

[+] Kraiden@kbin.earth 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Look above that. It says the full text is a reprint from a Soviet newspaper. The line you're quoting as being confirmation comes from a Russian/Ukrainian newspaper, not the CIA. The hint is the "authoritative" in the description of "Canadian weekly world news".

SUBJ*SUBJ: PAPER REPORTS ALLEGED EVIDENCE ON MISHAP INVOLVING UFO

TEXT TEXT: // ((REPRINT FROM THE NEWSPAPER TERNOPIL VECHIRNIY: "COSMIC REVENGE" -- FIRST PARAGRAPH PUBLISHED IN BOLDFACE)) ((TEXT ) AFTER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV DISSOlVED, IN 1991, THE KGB TOP SECRET INTELLIGENCE ADMINISTRATION, A lOT OF MATERIAL FROM THAT DEPARTMENT FOUND THEIR WAY ABROAD,' IN PARTICULAR TO THE CIA. AS REPORTED BY THE AUTHORITATIVE MAGAZINE CANADIAN WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, *U.S. INTELLIGENCE OBTAINED A 250-PAGE FILE ON THE ATTACK BY A UFO ON A MILITARY UNIT IN SIBERIA, THE FILE CONTAINS...