Ukraine · 2022 (observation campaign)
Two meteor observation stations, 2022
Scientific contextA national academy of sciences observatory ran a dedicated daytime UAP camera programme during wartime and reported two object classes - luminous cosmics and dark phantoms - at up to 10-12 km, some moving at up to 15 km/s.
- Where
- Two meteor observation stations, Kyiv and Vinnytsia
- When
- 2022 (observation campaign)
- Who reported it
- Institutional - automated colour video cameras operated by a state observatory
- Entities described
- None reported
- Handled as
- INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED
- Evidence class
- SCI-2
The record
An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.
- Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Independent study of unidentified aerial phenomena (opens in a new tab)
The document is attached to this entry.
What is not settled
A preprint from a state institute, not a peer-reviewed or state-endorsed finding, and criticised on straightforward grounds: two-station triangulation of fast faint low-contrast targets on meteor cameras is highly sensitive to timing errors, and the extraordinary velocities fall out of the distance assumption rather than being measured. Insects, birds and near-camera debris reproduce the phantom signature.