Buried in a 1991 FBIS Digest: Estonian and Krasnoyarsk UFO S

Buried in a FBIS Digest: Estonian and Krasnoyarsk UFO Sightings Logged

In a 135-page FBIS London 'TAKEALL' digest dated 15 July 1991, two broadcast items stand out among G-7 and START treaty coverage: Estonian citizens' UFO sightings and a reported UFO sighting in Krasnoyarsk.

Published

September 20, 2026

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Date not listed

Source agency

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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A FBIS Digest Logs Two UFO Sightings The Foreign Broadcast

One such digest, dated 15 July and cataloged as CIA document C00175072, spans 135 pages and is marked UNCLASSIFIED. Its contents are dominated by the era's defining stories: Gorbachev's 12 July Moscow press conference ahead of the London G-7 meeting, the Bessmertnykh-Baker Washington talks on the START treaty, the RSFSR congress of people's deputies deadlocked over electing a parliamentary chairman, and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact organization. Yet tucked among these high-stakes entries are two items of a very different character.

Item 128, a program titledussr today," includes a "report of sighting of ufo in krasnoyarsk" running four minutes. Both appear as routine line entries in the same monitoring list that tracked summit diplomacy and arms control. The document's footer references The Black Vault and John Greenewald, Jr.

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