The document, composed of a series of military reports and testimonies dated October 1982, details a wave of UFO and UAP sightings that occurred over the course of a single night in the region of Belokorovichi, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. What makes this case particularly notable is not only the large number of witnesses, but also the rank and strategic positions of those involved, as well as the nature of the interference caused by the objects in defense systems.
The largest investigation into the manifestation of the UFO phenomenon in history would not have been conducted by a program of the United States government. It was initiated by the former USSR in the late 1970s and resulted in the production of a vast quantity of highly confidential reports.
In September of last year, Congress heard testimony about previously classified files from Soviet and Russian UFO programs, files that fell into the hands of investigative journalist George Knapp in the 1990s and that, according to the 8 News Now channel, are now being made public, beginning with two of the most important documents.
The testimonies were collected from a group of military personnel who were either on duty or returning to their bases. The credibility of the accounts is reinforced by the level of technical detail and the consistency among the different narratives.
The incidents occurred primarily on the night of October 4, 1982, between 7:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., concentrated near the villages of Usovo and the Topyilnja station. The reports can be divided into three categories of interaction.
Visual Sightings and Anomalous Behavior
Captain Polykhaev initially described seeing two bright objects resembling “Christmas tree garlands,” with six to eight points of golden light. He noted that the objects exhibited intelligent behavior, such as when a small ball of light separated from one object and moved toward the other.
In a second sighting, shared with Captain Kovalenko and their families, a triangular-shaped object with golden and reddish lights was observed. The object was moving at high speed and, in a dramatic moment, suddenly stopped just one to two kilometers away, frightening the children.
First Lieutenant Kobulyansky and his companions reported seeing lights forming the silhouette of a “kite” in the sky. During their journey, they experienced severe interference with the car’s radio on longwave and medium-wave bands, even in areas without high-voltage power lines.
Other witnesses, such as Lieutenant Colonel Balaney, described the lights as “constellations” that changed color and shape, shifting from ellipses to straight lines, before slowly disappearing, as if they were “melting.”
Physical Interference with Vehicles
One of the most intriguing aspects of the document is the account by Major Lipezki and Captain Ryabinin. While observing the lights in the sky, the steering wheel of the ZAZ-968M car they were traveling in began to shake violently in the driver’s hands, as if the road were extremely uneven, despite being smooth.
The phenomenon repeated itself at a second point along the road and ceased as soon as they moved away from the observation area.
The Critical Point: Interference at the Strategic Base
The climax of the incident, and what gives the document its historical weight, is the report of electromagnetic interference inside a military communications unit, MU 52035.
Major Katzman M. Davidovich, responsible for the unit’s automatic control systems (ACS), reported that at 9:37 p.m., at the height of the external sightings, the base’s control panels and displays began to illuminate spontaneously. The system registered service codes and messages, such as “GP,” without any human command.
Major Katzman attributed the event to a powerful external “impulse” that overloaded the unit’s power supply and data processing systems. Although the document does not use the term “missile” directly, the location of the base in an area known to house intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and the mention of failures in the automatic control systems (ACS), which are crucial for the management of strategic weapons, suggest that the UFOs caused a temporary failure in nuclear weapons command and control systems.
The first mention of this apocalyptic incident occurred in an interview given in Moscow in 1993 by Colonel Boris Sokolov, the man who oversaw what was likely the largest UFO investigation in world history. Sokolov sent a team to the missile base, dismantled the launch control system, and concluded that the UFOs were responsible for taking control of Russia’s atomic weapons, and that this represented some form of message.
In 2010, NICAP published an article examining a then newly released report by a Russian journalist who had interviewed several witnesses who had never officially spoken out before.
The 1982 incident, now detailed through these newly released documents, joins other historical cases in which UFOs have been associated with the deactivation or activation of nuclear weapons systems, raising profound questions about strategic security and the nature of unidentified aerial phenomena. The document serves as compelling evidence that, for the Soviet high command, the event was not merely a sighting, but a security failure caused by an unknown and technologically superior source.
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