This information comes mainly from Pravda and MUFON.Files from the famous "Blue Folder" have been declassified for some time now. The Soviet cosmonaut Pavel Popovich got the folder from the KGB in 1991. Today Comrade Popovich is the honorary president of the Academy of Informational and Applied Ufology.
The blue folder contains descriptions of UFO flights and reports on attempts taken by the military to engage and/or catch the aliens.
In 1968, 13 leading aircraft designers and engineers of a brand-new aircraft forwarded a letter to Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin. The letter requesed a organization dedicated to the study of UFOs. A reply to the letter was signed by an apparatchik, Shchukin.
"A number of competent organizations of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Chief Directorate of Meteorological Service, Defense Ministry and a few other agencies considered the issue of nature of the so-called flying objects. The organizations involved in the study of the atmosphere and space have been instructed to register and do research on any cases of UFOs for identification purposes. The USSR Academy of Sciences is charged with general monitoring of the phenomena, and therefore a special organization for the study of UFOs is not required."
Unlike the U.S., the Soviets appear to have acknowledged they were actively studying the UFO/Alien phenomenon.
Pavel Popovich was given the folder, a 124-page compilation of reports about encounters with UFOs filed by authorities, military units COs and eyewitnesses.
Mr. Popovich saw a UFO once while flying in a passenger plane from Washington to Moscow. According to him, the object looked like a shining triangle that popped up out of nowhere, for awhile it flew near the plane at about 600 miles per hour before vanishing.
Despite a cover letter denying any special program by the KGB for monitoring the UFOs, the contents of the folder indicated the opposite. The Soviet secret police launched investigations in several cases, and specifically one near Burkhala of the Magadan region in 1989. "The eyewitnesses claim to have watched a red shining sphere circulating above the village for half an hour." The northern lights are reported to have shone brightly all night long following the incident. The UFOs vanished after the explosion
KGB agents also studied what happened at the airport of the city of Mineralnye Vody on December 15, 1987. According to the airport dispatchers, at 23:15 flight No 65798 reported an "object resembling an aircraft with its headlights on." The radars showed no aircraft whatsoever. Three minutes later the UFO was gone.
The crew of another plane also observed the UFO flying in the area. The clock read approximately five minutes later. According to crewmembers, the UFO left a fiery trail in the air. The crews of the both planes reported that the UFO had disappeared after a flash resembling an explosion. A villager reported a burning plane flying over his village at 23.30. The eyewitness found no wreckage.
At times, the military tried to study UFOs independently. In August 1987, servicemen of an antiaircraft unit based on the Tiksi Peninsula tried to "get to know better" an unidentified flying object that appeared on a radar screen. Colonel Lobanov, duty officer of the military unit No 45038, said: "An unidentified target detected by the radar station of the commandant"s office of the antiaircraft unit at 05:45 Moscow time." The target moved speeds from 0 to 250 miles per hour. At 06.55 a helicopter took off for a closer examination of the object. Suddenly, the object became invisible. Another aircraft, the AN-12 flying in the vicinity at the time reported an emerald cloud with traces of purple and dark spots visible in the middle.
In 1987, five officers were dispatched to the northern part of Karelia in the Leningrad Military Region to accompany an object of unknown origin that had been located near the city of Vyborg. The object was said to be 50 feet long, 14 fee wide and 8 feet high. The military was never able to open the "extraterrestrial can." The object disappeared from the hangar late September. I don't know if its occupants awoke, someone stole the UFO, or it it just went up in smoke like a Mission Impossible recording...
On July 28, 1989, the arrival of an UFO spread panic among the personnel of a military unit stationed in the vicinity of Kapustin Yar, in the Astrakhan region. Corporal Valery Voloshin was on duty in the communications center at the time. He filed the first report on the case.
One of the documents from the "Blue Folder" describes a UFO encounter in 1984 in Turkestan Military District. Two fighters were scrambled, but all the attempts to shoot the UFO down failed. When the object was fired at, it descended down to one hundred meters above the ground to an altitude that made further firing by the fighters impossible. It is necessary to mention that despite the firing, the speed of the UFO did not change. During the flight the object passed above several military unit locations, and this made it possible to take photographs.
When the UFO approached the town of Krasnovodsk, a helicopter was scrambled to take another shot at downing the UFO. The saucer quickly climbed and hovered at an altitude that was inaccessible for the helicopter. After the pilots shot off all their ammunition the helicopter descended for landing; the UFO sharply changed its course and headed toward the open sea.
In 1985 a radar station under Captain L. Valuev in the Krasnovodsk region registered an unknown object at an altitude of 20,000 meters. Its dimension was about 1000 meters! The object did not move, but after some time a small disc having a diameter of approximately five meters flew out of the large object. This smaller disc-shaped UFO landed at the Krasnovodsk spit.
Patrol-boats of the Kaspian flotilla rushed to the landing place of the UFO, but when they approached it at a distance about 100 meters, the UFO took off and flew away for about a kilometre. Patrol-boats approached the UFO again, and it again flew away from them. The situation was repeated five times! Finally the object went up with tremendous speed. Its mark on the radar screen coincided with the mark of the mother craft, and then the large UFO flew into space.
The last document in the "Blue Folder" reports "On the 21st of March, 1990, officers in Alexandrovsky Town Department of Internal Affairs accepted a number of telephone calls from town and district residents about the appearance of unidentified flying objects in airspace.
"After obtaining more exact information it was established that rather large number of residents in the towns of Alexandrov, Strunino, Karabanov, villages Arsaki, Zhulino and in several other settlements became eyewitnesses of a UFO-and in several cases of two UFOs-on the 21st of March between 20:00 and 23:30. The flight of UFOs was accompanied by flashes of white light that followed one another after two or three seconds and resembled arc welding.
"But all eyewitnesses found difficulty in describing the appearance of the UFOs. In Karabanov one of the UFOs allegedly hovered above the Eternal Fire Memorial for the perished warriors, and a ray of light emitted from the object illuminated earth surface.
"A fighter piloted was scrambled towards the UFOs. He flew near one of the 'flying saucers' and saw against a background of Pereyaslavl-Zalessky town illumination 'a black body with two white flashing lights.'
"Shortly after the lieutenant colonel's report was published by the Soviet main military newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda (The Red Star), it was confirmed in the report that the author had revealed by sight a target having two bright white flashing lights.
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