The following are some alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects in Russia: 1900s The Tunguska event of 1908 is considered to have been the explosion of a meteor, though some regard it as an explosion of a UFO. 1970s The Petrozavodsk phenomenon on 20 September 1977 was reported. 1980s In in Soviet Ukraine, on 4 October 1982, a group of nuclear missiles reportedly became activated as a UFO hovered above a missile launch facility. On 13 October 1987, at 8:35 am, an alleged encounter in Siberia was said to have occurred wherein the crew of a crashed UFO reportedly retaliated against the military unit that downed their craft. This purported event was logged in KGB records.

The Voronezh UFO incident of 1989 was reported.

1990s The Sasovo explosions were two mysterious explosions which occurred on 12 April 1990 and 8 July 1992, equivalent to 25 tons of TNT.

2000s Early in 2012, a crashed titanium object, described as a "UFO fragment", was reported to have been recently retrieved from a forest in the vicinity of , a rural locality in Novosibirsk Oblast. Several months prior to the report, in December 2011, strange sounds had been heard in the area. The smooth, silvery, and U-shaped device was attached to a rounded section. It was not deemed to be related to space technology, according to the Russian Federal Space Agency.

See also List of reported UFO sightings

References

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