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CIA-UAP-008, Speculative Paper By N Kardashev and A Sakharov on Charged Mass in Space at Conference on Origins Of Life, Armenia, 6-8 September 1971/Low Scientific Level Of Other Soviet Papers

This 1972 CIA Intelligence Information Report summarizes a US attendee's observations of a speculative paper regarding charged mass behavior in space presented by Soviet scientists N.S. Kardashev and A. Sakharov at a conference in Armenia. A more redacted version of this report has been available on CIA's public website.

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N.S. Kardashev and A. Sakharov presented a speculative paper on charged mass behavior in space.

NS ~.ardashev, Ins titute for Sp~c~ Research, Moscov, r e ad an interesting but highly Dpeculative paper he had prepared on r.enera.l relativity and the possibility of a bod;f collap3inc into a black hole in apace.

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The paper speculated on the behavior of a charged mass collapsing in space.

The Kardnshev-Sakharov paper concerned the authors' study of vhat hnppene when a charged mass or bod,v collapses in space.

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If a mass is charged, it would collapse but bounce back out into a different part of space-time.

They stated that t hen the mnse vould be o.ble to boW1ce. It would collapse but boW1ce back out. Hovcver, the mass will come back into n different part of space time.

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Andrei Sakharov was interested in the charged mass phenomenon because it indicates a more complicated structure of space.

Kardashev told a US attendee that Sakharov vo.s mo~tly interested in this charced mass phenomenon study beca us e it in­ d.i.catcs that the structure of space may be much more complicated than i s preaently thought.

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The US attendee believed the paper was grounded in good and sound physics despite its speculative nature.

The US attendee f elt the authors • speculation vas a little fantastic and they had tllkcn off in Ii rather vild vo.y. lfovcver, he believed their paper vas grounded in e ood and sound physica.

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6-8 September 1971

Conference on the Origins of Life in Yerevan, Armenia

N.S. Kardashev and A. Sakharov presented their paper on charged mass behavior in space.

10 April 1972

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