Ukraine (USSR) · 05 October 1983

Strategic Rocket Forces division near Khmelnytskyi, 1983

Documented

Roughly fifty personnel of a nuclear missile division watched a dirigible-shaped luminous object with dark porthole-like spots for hours, and a fault signal appeared on a rocket launch-system control panel during the sighting.

Where
Strategic Rocket Forces division near Khmelnytskyi, Ukrainian SSR
When
05 October 1983
Who reported it
~50 servicemen of a nuclear missile division plus their families
Entities described
None reported
Handled as
INVESTIGATED / EXPLAINED
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

SETKA concluded the lights were aircraft-dropped flares from a bombing range about 400 km away made visible by atmospheric superrefraction, and judged the control-panel fault coincidental. Only the programme's published summary is accessible; the primary military report is not.

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