UFO intel documents stolen out of Russia reveal decade-long probes into alien encounters, abductions
Documents reportedly smuggled out of Russia more than 30 years ago and only recently made public suggest that Soviet authorities conducted extensive investigations into reports of unidentified flying objects and alleged encounters with extraterrestrial beings.
Veteran investigative reporter George Knapp, 73, released the translated materials on Jan. 16. Knapp has said he obtained the documents in 1993, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and brought them out of Russia despite resistance from security officials at the time. The papers describe how both the USSR and the post-Soviet Russian Federation studied UFO sightings, even though Soviet leadership had publicly dismissed such reports in the 1950s as Western propaganda.
According to the documents, the USSR launched multiple research efforts into UFO phenomena, including programs known as “Network-AN” beginning in 1979, “Galaxy-MD” from 1981 to 1985, “Pluton 7” in 1989 and 1990, and a later initiative called “Thread 3.” A 1993 summary report claimed that sightings and reported encounters increased significantly after 1978.
The files include accounts from witnesses and individuals whose claims investigators reportedly considered credible enough to examine further.
One account describes an incident on Feb. 13, 1989, in the city of Nalchik, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Witnesses, including military personnel, airport workers, and astronomers, reported seeing a large, jellyfish-shaped object estimated at 450 feet across hovering roughly 300 feet above the ground. Observers said a red light descended over the city and separated into evenly spaced green lights before merging again and rising. About 90 minutes later, the large object was allegedly seen again alongside a smaller craft before both disappeared.
Another account centers on Anatoly Malishev, who at age 18 claimed he was taken aboard a craft on July 21, 1975, while sketching in a wooded area near the village of Blagoveshenka in the Kabardino-Balkarian region. He said he saw what appeared to be a falling meteor, after which a silver disc landed and three humanoid figures emerged. Malishev described being examined with devices attached to his body and recalled the beings telling him their home world was three light years away and illuminated from within rather than by a star. A Russian investigator later wrote that he maintained contact with Malishev for years and regarded him as sincere and not prone to fantasy.
A third report from June 27, 1979, in Derzhavinsk, Kazakhstan, describes a group of young campers and an adult who claimed to have encountered tall, dark figures with bright eyes near a forested area. According to the documents, investigators interviewed the children nearly a year later and found their recollections to be consistent. The files did not reach firm conclusions about the nature of the events but stated that such reports merited further study.
Jeremy Corbell, an investigative journalist and Knapp’s co-host on the “Weaponized” podcast, said that making the documents public adds to the historical record of how seriously Soviet authorities appeared to treat UFO reports.
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