Sightings1977

Petrozavodsk phenomenon

When: 20 Sep 1977
Where: Petrozavodsk, Russia
Sources: 2 public sources

Petrozavodsk on Lake Onega, where residents reported the 1977 phenomenon Antonio Bonanno from Milan (Italy), Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Before dawn, residents of Petrozavodsk in Soviet Karelia reported a huge glowing object shedding beams of light for about 10 minutes, and Soviet papers carried the story. Soviet researchers later attributed it to the launch of the Kosmos-955 satellite from Plesetsk.

Sources

FirsthandA History of State UFO Research in the USSR (Boris Sokolov and Yulii Platov) (opens in a new tab)Skeptical Inquirer (Skeptical Briefs) / 2000-12-01
FirsthandNobody's out there (Juliy Platov and Boris Sokolov) (opens in a new tab)Times Higher Education / 2000-10-20

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