Overview
- Journalist George Knapp released an English translation of documents he says were smuggled from Russia in the early 1990s.
- The archive covers the 1970s and 1980s, featuring a Feb. 13, 1989 report of a multicolored "jellyfish" object over Nalchik that hovered for over an hour.
- Additional entries include a young man's account of luminous streaks followed by humanoids and a 1979 Kazakhstan report of campers seeing tall dark figures.
- The records describe protocols for gathering statements and assessing potential terrestrial causes such as atmospheric phenomena, instrument defects, or classified aircraft.
- The files reference a sensational 1993 Siberian shootdown story from state media whose dramatic claims remain unverified.