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4 events here, 1967 to 2010, in date order.
Moscow Aviation Institute astronomer Felix Zigel appeared on Soviet television asking viewers for UFO reports. In November 1967 AP reported that a commission led by Air Force Gen. Stolyarov was studying UFOs; the group was closed after about five months.
Pravda ran 'What? Flying Saucers Again?' by astronomer Ye. Mustel and two other senior Soviet scientists, saying UFO reports had natural explanations and no facts supported their reality. U.S. government translators and the Condon report recorded it.
After the 1977 Petrozavodsk reports, the Soviet Union added two parallel studies of anomalous phenomena to its state research plan, one under the Defense Ministry and one under the Academy of Sciences. Participants later said most cases were explained by rocket launches and balloons.
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, head of Russia's Kalmykia region, said on Channel One's Pozner program that aliens visited his Moscow apartment in 1997 and showed him their ship. Duma deputy Andrei Lebedev wrote to President Medvedev asking about state-secret risks; the Kremlin declined to comment.
