Declassified 1992 Broadcast: UFO Abduction Listed Among Expl

Declassified Broadcast: UFO Abduction Listed Among Explanations for Missing Russian Su-27 Pilot

A declassified translation of a 23 October 1992 Khabarovsk Radio broadcast reports that among the unconfirmed explanations for the disappearance of Su-27 pilot Captain Vladimir Holokanov was 'abduction by a UFO.'

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September 18, 2026

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Date not listed

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The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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Declassified Broadcast Lists UFO Abduction Among Su-27 Explanations

The record July while returning in an Su-27 from anti-aircraft and missile training in Chukotka. Contact with the interceptor was lost at noon local time near the Shantarskiye Islands, and the aircraft never reached its regiment's airfield in Komsomolsk-Na-Amur. What makes the broadcast notable is its list of explanations.

The program states that various accounts had been offered: an accident, loss of consciousness by the pilot, escape abroad, and abduction by a UFO. It adds that none had been confirmed. Search team head Aleksandr Nosov said the search, analysis of radio exchanges, and expert examination of the "extraordinary event" had yielded no results, and that the prevalent explanation remained an accident.

The jet reportedly suffered a failure in the regulators of both engines but could continue flight, which Holokanov was advised to do. The central question this article pursues is narrow: what does this declassified translation actually establish, and what…

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