Historical Incidents & Events

Soviet/Russian UFO Study

1980–1990

A roughly decade-long UFO investigation run by the Soviet/Russian military: per George Knapp's 2023 congressional testimony, Russian leaders ordered every military unit to report and investigate UFO incidents and forward the material to a Ministry of Defense office, accumulating thousands of case files. Knapp traveled to Moscow in 1993 and interviewed its participants. A documented foreign parallel to the US programs; the more dramatic incident claims rest on that testimony.

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Connections (3)

confirmedBoris Sokolov

the Russian military colonel who directed the study

Source: George Knapp, Statement to Congress, House Oversight (HHRG-118-GO06), Jul 26 2023

confirmedGeorge Knapp

traveled to Moscow (1993) and documented the Soviet/Russian military's decade-long UFO study for KLAS

Source: George Knapp, Statement to Congress, House Oversight (HHRG-118-GO06), Jul 26 2023

confirmedHarry Reid

the Russia findings, relayed by Knapp, made a lasting impression on Reid and fed into the later AAWSAP program

Source: George Knapp, Statement to Congress, House Oversight (HHRG-118-GO06), Jul 26 2023

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