Four UFO Lines in Four Cold War FBIS Digests: Cusco 1991, Moscow 1990, and the 'UFO and Us' Broadcast

A fourth declassified CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service media digest joins the record: a 16 November 1990 'Moscow Consolidated' rundown whose only anomalous item is a five-minute youth-program segment on 'new publications in ussr on ufo's.'

Published

September 25, 2026

Declassified

Date not listed

Source agency

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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Opening summary

Four declassified CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) media-monitoring products, released through The Black Vault FOIA archive, each contain a single anomalous line buried inside hundreds of pages of routine Cold War broadcast traffic.

The first, cataloged as C00174900 and dated 11 March 1991, is a "Moscow Consolidated" digest of Soviet broadcast and press output. Its only UAP-adjacent item is a three-minute Spanish-language dispatch by Aleksandr Gromov from Lima describing a farmer in Cusco who reportedly witnessed a UFO taking off.

The second, cataloged as C00175467 (AFSN TB0711150090C) and dated 6 November 1990, is a "Comlist: Moscow Consolidated" rundown of broadcast items monitored around the 73rd anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution (GOSR). Its only UFO-adjacent content is a brief mention of a "new almanac of ufo's which has just come off press in moscow."

The third, cataloged as C00175465 (AFSN 090611071290) and dated 5 November 1990, is a…

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All four documents are declassified CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service media-monitoring products released through The Black Vault FOIA archive. They are marked UNCLASSIFIED and carry 'Approved for Release' markings. The UFO-adjacent content in each is a single line item inside a routine broadcast log, not an analytical assessment. Official source documents referenced in this article: - https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ufos-the-central-intelligence-agency-cia-collection/

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