Cold War UFO Reports in the USSR: The Borisov Tu-134 Encounters and the Verification Challenge
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During the Cold War the Soviet Union largely dismissed UFO reports as American propaganda, but as controls loosened more accounts emerged of a disc-shaped object near airliners that allegedly left crews ill, prompting varied explanations—from rocket or artificial-cloud interactions to secret experiments—highlighted by Western researchers like Tim Good and Paul Stonehill, yet no single theory or solid verification emerged because of censorship and political sensitivity.
