Details of a mysterious unidentified flying object (UFO) that arrived and shined a strange beam of light on a city in the former Soviet Union in the 1970s have just been revealed.
This document is among the CIA’s declassified documents and is published online.
Many reports said locals were terrified and described powerful flashes of bright light falling from a high-speed object that looked like a “giant star” in the sky above the city of Petrozavodsk. , today located in Western Russia.
The CIA’s top secret dossier on this incident was created in September 1977, originating from information from Russia’s TASS news agency at that time.
In early January 2021, this document was among the documents declassified and publicly announced about “Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon” (UAP). This database is called “Black Vault”, providing a lot of information taken from CIA sources from the 1970s to the present. One of these documents states that CIA agents were particularly interested in a UFO in Petrozavodsk nearly 54 years ago.
In the document, it is written “on September 20, at about 4 a.m., a giant star suddenly flashed in the black sky, shining bright rays of light on Earth. This star moved slowly towards the Earth. towards Petrozavodsk and covers this city like the monster Medusa.” Then the star’s light “stopped, shining down on the city with countless dazzling rays, creating a picture of light rain.” After the rays of light disappeared, the “Medusa monster” turned into a glowing hemisphere and moved toward nearby Lake Onega. A glowing half-circle with “red in the middle and white at the edges”, formed in a gray cloud on the lake’s horizon.
According to local residents, this incident lasted about 10-12 minutes. The CIA document says that the cause of this phenomenon “remains a mystery”. Russian weather experts said they had never seen anything like it and that at the time, no technical experiments were being carried out. Many people in different areas of the city said they witnessed the scene with their own eyes, meaning it was not an illusion – the CIA document commented.
The document does not say whether the CIA continued to follow up on the basis of the TASS report or simply stored this information for future reference. John Greenewald Jr., the person in charge of this website, said this database contains all of what the CIA claims is all the documents it has on UAP.
UAP is the term the US government uses to refer to objects flying in space that experts cannot immediately identify or explain what they are. Many of the objects were later decoded to be just plays of light or an error in the pilot’s flight equipment, but many were also the target of the Pentagon’s investigation.
Mr. Greenewald, a campaigner, began investigating the US government’s UFO projects in 1996 when he was just 15 years old. He said he has been suing the CIA for decades to force the agency to release its documents. “For about 20 years now, I’ve been constantly fighting to get more CIA documents on UFOs. It’s like pulling a bad tooth. I have to go back and forth with them to proceed step by step.” and finally got the documents. I received a big box, containing about two thousand pages of paper, and I had to scan the entire page as one page at once.”
Mr. Greenwald posted these documents online. This is the fruit of the effort he has put in by applying the Freedom of Information Act. 10,000 reports were published by him on the Black Vault website.
Among them are pages of information describing a strange story about a mysterious explosion in a small Russian city that ripped off roofs, blew out walls and left a crater larger than 27 meters. Another document details the story of a Bosnian fugitive who claimed he had encountered aliens.
