Leaked Soviet UFO docs reveal cold war alien claims

A batch of Soviet-era UFO documents, allegedly smuggled out in 1993, has been publicly released by acclaimed journalist George Knapp.

Knapp had smuggled the documents out of Russia and subsequently released them three decades later.

Despite the Soviet Union publicly dismissing UFOs publicly, their stance appears to have been very different in private.

The 70-page English translation reveals several layers of UFO inquisitions, including covert investigations spanning from 1979 through the following decades.

However, the underlying curiosity regarding UFOs actually began as early as the 1950s.

Soviet technicals

Beginning in 1953, the Soviets outwardly looked at UFOs as a concoction by “American imperialists.” But internally, curiosity and research was percolating over the years.

A couple of academics and enthusiasts worked in the shadows – engineer Yuri Formin throughout the 1950s and Moscow Aviation Institute academic Felix Ziegel after 1967. While Formin delivered closed UFO lectures to military personnel, Ziegel pushed for international recognition.

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The report references analysis of over 700 reliable cases between 1978 and 1983, with military units tasked with observation, registration, and identification of Abnormal Atmosphere Phenomena (AAP).

The document is mostly a military-scientific report, with instances of abnormal aerospace phenomena, including technical analyses including gravitational research and biological effects of the experiencers.

It is written in a largely technical tone, mainly assessing the threat of AAP, and critically – investigating whether the unique features of these craft could be reverse-engineered for Soviet military gain.

The witness accounts

Buried within the dossier are three vivid accounts of various extraterrestrial incidents in the 70’s and 80’s.

• On February 13th, 1989, a city-block-sized vessel, in the shape of a jellyfish, flew high above the rooftops of the city of Nalchik, around 250 miles inland.

An overarching red light split into a sequence of green lights, which then converged and scaled up into the sky. Following a 90-minute lull, a prominent UFO loomed over the city, accompanied by a smaller ghost craft that zipped around before retreating upward.

• Experiencer Anatoly Malishev, aged 18, was sketching a sunset in his local woodlands of Blagoveshenka, whereby a flaming streak appeared in the sky. Three anthropoid – humanlike – figures zoned towards him.

Malishev was taken to their planet and thoroughly examined, with the aliens concluding “very strong nerves; mental faculties below the average.” The Russian investigators claimed he was of sound mind.

• On the night of June 27th, 1979, A group of children and their guides encountered alien beings when camping near a hillock in Derzhavinsk, Kazakhstan. A group of boys, along with one of the adults, ventured toward the tree-line and stumbled on, in deep-shock, jet-black beings towering over them (they were about 10 feet tall.).

The following morning one of the girls and a teacher saw one of the pink-eyed beings sitting in a makeshift seat near the mound they camped at. When questioned many months later, all the children that witnessed the event had practically the same details, with no deviation.

Skepticism as a facade

This leak reveals a major secret Soviet program running in parallel to that of the US. Heavy academics like Yuri Formin and Felix Ziegel were the prominent figures in the engine room of extraterrestrial speculation, even if the Soviet Union flexed skeptical on the face of it.

UFOs were a serious, top-tier national concern for both superpowers, shrouded in secrecy. And, as one Redditor shared – the decades where this information occurred is not too far retrospective to warrant, that it’s completely past its sell-by date.

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The urgency and scale of the Soviet research program raises significant questions about the specific threats they recognized, and strategic advantages they worked to gain.

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