1990 CIA Press Digest Noted Soviet UFO Radar Sightings Near

CIA Press Digest Noted Soviet UFO Radar Sightings Near Rogue Missile Launch

A 22 November 1990 FBIS press selection list, released via the CIA, includes a one-line item citing a Soviet officer's disclosure of radar sightings of UFOs around the time of a 15 November rogue surface-to-air missile launch in Amur Oblast.

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September 20, 2026

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The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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CIA Press Digest Flags Soviet UFO Radar Sightings

The document Its header block shows the routing tag AFSN PH2211104190 and the subject line "press selection list: pmu pressfax three," identifying it as a Foreign Broadcast Information Service product rather than an analytical assessment. S. government readers a translated, indexed snapshot of foreign press output, and this particular digest is dated 22 November , drawing on the first and second editions of Moscow newspapers including Krasnaya Zvezda, Sovetskaya Rossiya, Selskaya Zhizn, Rabochaya Tribuna, and Trud.

Within that digest, the entry that stands apart from routine party, military, and economic coverage appears under the Selskaya Zhizn first edition. Item 2, attributed to I. Korotkov, cites a local officer's disclosure of radar sightings of UFOs around the time of a 15 November rogue launch of surface-to-air missiles in Amur Oblast.

The item is flagged "for ud processing," a routing notation indicating it was marked for further handling rather than simply summarized…

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