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Aleksandr Plaksin's Soviet UFO Research
Paul Stonehill
Aleksandr Plaksin is a military geophysicist. He is an
interesting individual in Soviet UFO history; he played a
prominent role in the secret research conducted by the Soviet
military.
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Amazing Soviet-Era UFO Sightings In & Over Water Bodies
Paul Stonehill
The Russian Ufology Research Center has a collection of "hydrosphere aspect" sightings The secret files of the Soviet Navy contain much valuable information on UFO sightings. Soviet military researchers quite thorough. The files have been largely inaccessible, even after the fall of the USSR. But I was able to collect some interesting information.
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Chronology of UFO Crashes in the Former Soviet Union
Anton A. Anfalov M.S. & Philip Mantle
A chronological, detailed listing of UFO crashes in the former Soviet Union, with brief descriptions of the cases.
Cosmonaut Shadowed By Structured UFO
'Sightings' TV Program
In April of 1979, Cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev lifted off from Star City to dock with the Soviet Solyut 6 space station. But while en route, something strange happened. Cosmonaut Afanasyev saw an unidentified object turn toward his craft and begin tailing it through space.
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History of State UFO Research in the USSR (Skeptical)
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP)
In the mid-1970s various government organizations involved in the study of UFOs stepped up their investigation of the alleged phenomena. As a result, public interest in the topic increased considerably. The UFO debate became a prominent social phenomenon in the country, especially among the scientific and technological intelligentsia.
Important (UFO) Developments in the Former Soviet Union
Nikolai Lebedev
This article contains several different incidents and events related to recent UFO developments in the former Soviet Union.
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Interview with Russian scientists regarding UFOs
Clas Svahn, UFO Sweden
Two Russian scientists, professors Sergey Chernouss and Vladimir Pivovarov, both working with the Polar Geophysical Institute near Murmansk and members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, have also been investigating Russian UFO-raports for several years. In an interview with UFO-Swedens magazine UFO-Aktuellt they describe their work and thoughts about the UFO phenomena.
KGB chief Yuri Andropov ordered 4 million soldiers to keep watching the skies for UFOs
Nick Paton Walsh, The Observer newspaper, U.K. - March 23, 2003
Yuri Andropov, the former Soviet leader and long-time head of the KGB, had an acute personal interest in UFOs and ordered a 13-year programme that required every soldier in the military to monitor sightings over Russian territory, according to new revelations.
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KGB Unveils UFO Secrets?
Pavel Poluyan, Pravda
The last issues of the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda (February 5-12) published a series of five articles under a loud headline “KGB Unveiled UFO Secrets”. These publications are based upon materials of a so-called “blue file” that the KGB once compiled concerning activity of Russian ufologists. However, the newspaper unveiled no secrets at all: the publications mentioned just several instances when UFOs were registered over Soviet military objects. What do these KGB documents testify to? Do extraterrestrials actually exist? Or, is it possible that the truth is more prosaic? Researcher from the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk Pavel Poluyan tells about it.
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KGB's 'Blue Folder' Reveals Shootings, Landings in USSR
Vadim K. Ilyin, MUFON Journal 2001
With the coming of "glasnost" it became known that the most formidable department of the USSR had been collecting documents concerning UFOs in the so-called "Blue Folder"-KGB documents that were taken off the security list in October 1991 upon the inquiry of Russian cosmonaut Pavel Popovitch. Many copies of such documents are kept in the archival depository of the Russian Geographical Society's Ufological Committee. The fact of UFO existence was more than once confirmed by Soviet military men. UFOs were observed from the ground and from the air, as well as registered on the radar screens.
Multiple Witness Case at Russian Missile Base
Don Berliner, UFO Briefing Document
One of the most interesting cases in the KGB file is a multiple-witness CE-I (Close Encounter of the First Kind) at an army missile base in the district of Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Region, on the night of July 28-29, 1989. The file is surely incomplete, but still offers an interesting glimpse into the maneuverability of UFOs.
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New alleged KGB Footage images
Michael Hesemann
On March 26, 2002, Michael Hesemann received some more stills from the six alleged KGB UFO films he is supposed to receive in the nearest future. Knowing how eagerly they are awaited by several UFO researchers, we herewith post them with the limited information available.
Russian Cosmonauts and Generals confirm: UFOs are real
Michael Hesemann
During his lecture at the International UFO Congress in Laughlin/NV on March 6, 2002, Michael Hesemann presented filmed interviews with four Soviet Cosmonauts and four high-ranking Soviet Generals. After he received numerous request for transcripts, here is the translation of their statements.
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Russian Crash Retrieval Report
Albert Rosales (source: Local Press, V Suhoveeva's testimony, Lenura Azizova)
During reconstruction work in the city of Kiev that was
substantially ruined during World War II, construction workers
sifting through the ruin's foundations accidentally stumbled
upon an extraordinary object at the location where the Kiev
conservatory was located.
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Russian General Speaks Out On UFOs
Michael Hesemann
Interview with Major-General Vasily Alexeyev of the Russian Air Force. Space Communications Centre, Moscow, 1997
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Russian Roswell ?
Nikolay Subbotin, Emil Bachurin, RUFORS (Russian UFO Research Station)
On September 16, 1989 in the sky above a port the Zaostrovka, on fringe of Perm, occured something strange. Many inhabitants, open mouthes, watched unprecedented battle. Six strange silvery
devices reminding combined together plates, coursed behind
seventh more dark.
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Russian Scientist: Government Knows About UFO Bases
Baku Sun - Azerbaijan, Aug. 16 2002
The Aug. 1-2 sighting of UFOs over Baku's oil company district, Bayil, as reported by the opposition daily Musavat raised a few eyebrows ? most of them sarcastically. Did it mean that so- called flying saucers run on petrol as well at anti-matter? According to Fuad Gasimov, academician and head of the Seismological Department of the National Aerospace Agency the often-sighted space craft have bases deep in the Caspian, one off the north part of the Absheron Peninsula, the other in the north sector of the Caspian Sea.
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Russian UFO Encounters
Space 2001
A country with a particularly exciting number of UFO sightings is Russia, and the territories encompassed by the former Soviet Union. Even in the old communist days there was a suprising wealth of interest in the subject, though the official party line always continued to be dismissive on the matter.
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Russian UFO Research Revealed (Skeptical)
James Oberg, Space.com, August 8, 2000
In an special report obtained by SPACE.com, two of Russia's leading UFO investigators have summarized the results of the Soviet Union's official 13-year study of UFO reports. They maintain that the Western media claims of "secret KGB files" and "captured aliens" are untrue.
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Soviet Army fought UFOs
Alexander Dremin, Pravda, Russia, Jan, 2004
Soviet military encountered many UFOs, maybe for this reason in the end of the 60s a secret laboratory of researching "flying objects" was created in the USSR.
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Soviet KGB Files on UFOs (ABC News television program transcript)
ABC News
The following is a transcript from ABC News Prime Time Live,a segment about recently released Soviet KGB UFO files. The date on the original files is October 5, 1995.
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Soviet Saucers (skeptical)
James Oberg
It was the fall of 1967, and the Soviet Union was in the grip of its first major UFO flap. The extraordinary tales, described on Soviet television, reported in Soviet newspapers, and analyzed in a private nationwide UFO study group soon took on a life of their own.
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Soviet Saucers (Skeptical)
James Oberg, OMNI Magazine, April 1994
The Russian UFOlogists have failed. The ultimate test of the Russians' ability to perform mature, reliable UFO research is how they treat "the smoking gun" of Russian UFOlogy, the Petrozavodsk "jellyfish" UFO of 1977. The "jellyfish" was a brief wonder in the West before being quickly solved (by me) as the launch of a rocket from Plesetsk.
Soviet UFO Secrets
UFO Casebook
The Summer 1994 issue of Flying Saucer Review contains an article entitled "Soviet UFO Secrets", by Bryan Gresh. The article also appeared in the MUFON UFO Journal for October 1993. Brian Gresh is stated as being the Senior Vice-President of Altamira Communications Group and an associate of George Knapp, described as a renowned UFO researcher. The article details information obtained by both men during a 10 day visit to Russia in March 1993.
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Soviet UFO Secrets
James Easton
The Summer 1994 issue of Flying Saucer Review contains an article entitled "Soviet UFO Secrets", by Bryan Gresh. The article also appeared in the MUFON UFO Journal for October 1993.
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The Great Soviet UFO Coverup (Skeptical)
James E. Oberg, MUFON UFO Journal, OCTOBER 1982
UFOlogy in the Soviet Union has had its ups and downs, and it has been an enigmatic source of puzzlement to Western observers. The publication in 1979 of an official report from the USSR Academy of Sciences takes on remarkable significance, since it plainly states that the officially-denounced UFOs are "real" in a mathematically provable sense. This is exactly counter to the official government line.
UFO flap in tsarist Russia 1892
By Stefan Roslund/UFO-Sweden
An ambitious ufologist in St. Petersburg by the name of Mikhail Gerstein has read a great number of newspapers from that time and has found many reports concentrated to the period March-April 1892.
UFO Footage from the KGB Archives?
Michael Hesemann
Photographic / video footage and discussion, by Michael Hesemann.
UFO Phenomenon in Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States
Paul Stonehill, June 2001 Update, Russian Ufology Research Center, Author of The Soviet UFO Files (1988)
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UFO Prevents Blast at Chernobyl Nuclear Plant
Pravda, Russia, 9-16-2002 / Anomalia.ru
Eyewitnesses say that they saw an UFO hovering above the exploded reactor - some people saw a spaceship hovering above the fourth generating unit of the Chernobyl plant. Eyewitnesses say that an UFO was there for six hours and that hundreds of people saw it.
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UFOs and the MIR space station
Michael Hesemann
Only a few insiders know that MIR cosmonauts had several UFO encounters - and reported them frankly on camera.
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UFOs Are Real In Russia: An Interview with Valery Uvarov
Graham W. Birdsall
The following extracts were transcribed from a filmed interview
with Valery Uvarov, of Russia's National Security Academy,
conducted by Graham W. Birdsall, Editor of the UK-based UFO
Magazine.
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UFOs in Russia: Witness Statements and X-Files
Nikolay Subbotin, Pravda
it is generally admitted that the UFO question has been studied for a long time by the Russian Academy of Sciences, the State Hydrometeorology Committee, and the Defense Ministry
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UFOs In The Soviet Waters
Paul Stonehill, X-Project
The Russian Ufology Research Center has a collection of "hydrosphere aspect" sightings. The secret files of the Soviet Navy contain much valuable information on UFO sightings. Soviet military researchers quite thorough. The files have been largely inaccessible, even after the fall of the USSR. But I was able to collect some interesting information.
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