Russia (USSR) · Document dated 1993-03-27; alleged event placed in the late 1980s, undated
Unspecified location in Siberia
Official chainA US intelligence archive preserves a claim, printed in the newspaper of Ukraine's parliament, that a saucer downed by a surface-to-air missile released five black-eyed humanoids whose detonation petrified 23 Soviet soldiers.
- Where
- Unspecified location in Siberia
- When
- Document dated 1993-03-27; alleged event placed in the late 1980s, undated
- Who reported it
- Claimed 25 soldiers, 23 said to have died; no witness named
- Entities described
- 5 figures
- Described as
- Five humanoid figures with large heads and large black eyes, said to have merged into a sphere and detonated. No height, build, limbs, skin or clothing.
- Handled as
- INSUFFICIENT SOURCE PROVENANCE
- Evidence class
- GOV-4
What the record resolves
The record carries a face, a head, eyes, skin, hands or proportions.
Large heads and large black eyes, and nothing else: no height, build, limbs, skin or clothing.
On that description this archive reads the form as Grey-like. That is a reading of recorded words, not the record classifying itself.
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 Holos Ukrayiny, the newspaper of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Paper Reports Alleged Evidence on Mishap Involving UFO, FBIS, 27 March 1993 (opens in a new tab)
The document is attached to this entry.
What is not settled
THE CLEAREST ILLUSTRATION IN THE DATABASE OF WHY IN THE CIA ARCHIVE IS NOT VERIFICATION. The document is a translation of a newspaper item traceable to a supermarket tabloid; it was never classified, contains no CIA assessment, names no unit, date, witness or installation, and no Russian or Ukrainian defence body has acknowledged it. Use only as an example of archive-laundering, never as a case.