Belarus (USSR) · 07 September 1984

Airspace over Minsk; object tracked past Riga, 1984

Official chain

A named Soviet Academy of Sciences commission officer publicly commented on a UFO chased across four Soviet republics by two airliners and four control towers.

Where

Airspace over Minsk; object tracked past Riga, Vilnius and to Tallinn

When

07 September 1984

Who reported it

Four-man Tu-134 flight deck, the crew of a second Tu-134, and controllers at four cities

Entities described

None reported

Handled as

INVESTIGATED / EXPLAINED

Evidence class

GOV-4

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

• US CIA / FBIS (archive of record); content from the Estonian Administration of the USSR Ministry of Civil Aviation with commentary by the Deputy Chairman of the Academy of Sciences Commission on Anomalous Phenomena AIRLINER CREW REPORTS UFO SIGHTING - FBIS translation of Trud, 30 Jan 1985 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

The document is attached to this entry.

What is not settled

Authentic AS a US intelligence product, not as a Soviet report; the underlying civil-aviation investigation file has never surfaced. James Oberg attributes the object to a submarine-launched ballistic missile test, unproven until Russia releases launch records.

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