Hidden Soviet UFO Studies and the Global Cold War Watch
Secret Soviet UFO investigations were kept hidden despite public denials that unidentified flying objects were mere Western fabrications. A cache of internal documents—secured by journalist George Knapp and released in 1993—shows that the USSR actively studied thousands of encounters through covert programs (Network-AN, Galaxy-MD, Pluton 7, and the ongoing Thread 3) beginning in the 1950s and intensifying after 1978. Among the notable episodes are a 13 February 1989 sighting in Nalchik of a massive 450-foot jellyfish-shaped craft with a striking light display, which later returned with a swarm of smaller vessels; and personal accounts such as Anatoly Malishev (1975), who described an alien abduction and a blunt medical evaluation by the visitors, with investigators noting his nerves as strong but his mental faculties as below average. Another account from 1979 near Derzhavinsk, Kazakhstan, described 10-foot-tall, pink-eyed aliens witnessed by boys and later corroborated by an adult. The release reframes the Cold War-era UFO phenomenon as a global concern, showing that both sides monitored and documented encounters rather than simply denying them.
Source: ibtimes.co.uk
