Russia (USSR) · 1984 to 1987 (recurring, exact dates not given)

Airfields in the Borisoglebsk area, 1984

Documented

One of the very few episodes the Soviet state programme itself left on the books as unexplained: simultaneous radar returns and visual observation by pilots at military airfields, tied to air accidents, with no explanation reached.

Where
Airfields in the Borisoglebsk area, Voronezh Oblast
When
1984 to 1987 (recurring, exact dates not given)
Who reported it
Military pilots and radar operators
Entities described
None reported
Handled as
INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED
Evidence class
GOV-1

The record

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

The document is attached to this entry.

What is not settled

The account is a single paragraph in a retrospective article; no dates, unit designations, radar tapes or case numbers are published, and SETKA's directors stress that over 90 percent of the ~300 anomalous events they logged were resolved. NOT the same as Voronezh 1989.

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