The cases,
as they were filed.
7 of 135 catalogued reports, each one carrying what makes it interesting and what is wrong with it. Filter it down; every combination has its own address.
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7 cases
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Unspecified location in Siberia
A 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…
Official chainA body
1984
Airfields in the Borisoglebsk area, 1984
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…
Documented
1977
Petrozavodsk, 1977
The event that caused a superpower to start a state UFO programme: within weeks the Academy president asked the Military-Industrial Commission to act, and SETKA was written into the 1978…
Documented
1986
Height 611, 1986
Physical debris from a hillside impact - mesh, glass beads, lead, and 17-micron threads of braided finer strands with gold wire intertwined - was analysed in Soviet state laboratories, with…
Official chain
1989
Military unit near the Kapustin Yar missile test range, 1989
The most-cited single document in Soviet UFO literature: a serving soldier's contemporaneous duty log describing a disc with a half-sphere on top moving in irregular sideways and vertical…
Reported
1987
Mineralnye Vody airport, 1987
The one Blue Folder item that secondary sources quote at length rather than summarise: several flight crews independently reported an aircraft-like object with headlights leaving a fiery…
Reported
1987
Tiksi Peninsula, 1987
A ground radar held a target that changed speed from a standstill to 400 km/h, an Mi-8 was scrambled against it, and the helicopter crew reported an emerald cloud at 3,600 m before the…
Reported