On the control panel for the automatic launch of ballistic missiles, combat attack commands began to light up by themselves …
The Soviet military did not confuse "plates". They were afraid of them themselves. At the same time, they were ashamed to tell the country and its political leadership about their fear. What if they take it for psychos? “What other plates are purloi? Prospis, Colonel! " - shouted, it was from the headquarters of the general for HF - communications to a timid subordinate, at whom a silvery disk gleamed merrily outside the window. However, in the 80s, a special unit for monitoring unidentified flying objects was still created and supplied with allowance in the USSR Ministry of Defense.
50th division of the Strategic Missile Forces. 1982 year. An ordinary summer evening. In the bushes at the gate of the checkpoint, cicadas chirp peacefully. The green sweep that runs steadily across the locator observation screen does not bode well for anything out of the ordinary. The duty officer spins out of boredom in a swivel chair. And suddenly - a sharp flare on the screen, the call of the combat alarm and the jaw dropped at once the awakened duty officer. Locators record that an unknown object is performing strange illogical evolutions over the silos of intercontinental ballistic missiles. At the same time, the buttons of the automatic combat launch system begin to light up on the remote control one after the other, as if a command had already been received from the "nuclear briefcase" of the Commander-in-Chief. But there was not a single phone call! A cold sweat breaks through the attendant. Paralyzed by fear, he is thrown asideswearing ten stories, the officers ran into the PU to the heart-rending howl of the siren. Meanwhile, the fatal Start button lights up on the remote control. Someone guesses and manages to disconnect the entire system with an emergency switch. In the ensuing silence, everyone, wiping off the sweat, pours out onto the street - the sky above the part, as usual, is clean and serene. No UFOs. But a nuclear war has just begun!
This is approximately how the state of emergency was described in the reports of the unit's military personnel. What was there really, who flew by? Nobody knows this. Reports of similar unpleasant incidents near military facilities began to accumulate in the secret folders of the Ministry of Defense since the mid-50s. Strange flying gizmos of various shapes suddenly appeared directly above military installations. On several occasions, they were attacked from aircraft or surface-to-air missiles. And always to no avail. A similar cymbal boom began in the United States and Western Europe even earlier - in the late 40s. But if the American Air Force almost immediately organized a study of the UFO phenomenon ("Project Blue Book"), and many observations and photographs were published in the press, then in the Land of the Soviets everything related to the "plates" was secret, and publications in the press were superimposed taboo.
In 1969, the Blue Book was closed as a pseudoscientific project on the recommendation of the Condon Committee, headed by a leading physicist at the University of Colorado. But, according to Soviet intelligence, the project simply moved into the secret area of the Pentagon's work. Our military leadership was agitated and did not know what to do: it was quite reasonable to fear that the intelligence was a deliberate leak, "misinformation" on the part of cunning Yankees who wanted us to spend military money on bullshit. On the other hand, secret reports of unexplained emergencies continued to arrive.
After much hesitation, in 1979 the USSR Ministry of Defense decided to streamline the collection of exotic information. Under the signature of the Deputy Chief of the Defense Ministry's Armaments for Radio Electronics and Metrology, Colonel-General Engineer R. Pokrovsky, methodological instructions for action when observing anomalous phenomena were issued. The document strictly defined the order of observations, the need for sketches and recordings of what was happening, the procedure for drawing up a report. And in 1980, the General Staff issued a directive for unit commanders dedicated to UFO observations - the collection of such information became mandatory, and the units even appointed responsible officers special for this case. It was believed that the analysis of UFO collisions with the military, especially when technology reacted to the unknown, could provide a key to protecting weapons from interference or targeted impacts, and in addition,push scientists to create new types of weapons. It was then that the observation of the unknown was put on a grand scale - in Mytishchi, on the basis of one of the closed military research institutes, a special laboratory was organized to collect and analyze UFO data.
Several zones were discovered on the territory of the Union, especially beloved by unidentified objects. One of them is the Borisoglebsk air hub - a complex of runways, radio beacons, airspace control devices, military air bases, etc. Here, on average, 20-25 such incidents were recorded per year. All are documented.
October 2, 1984 Plesetsk. Ballistic missile duty test. An accident occurs when the second stage engine is turned on. Imagine the amazement of the specialists when, when deciphering the recordings of photo stations, they suddenly clearly see an incomprehensible brightly glowing object next to a flying rocket, and a weaker glow nearby. When they deciphered the recordings from the rocket, they saw that one of the nodes had failed just at the moment when a UFO appeared nearby. Later, these photographs were declared a film defect, but to date, the cause of the node failure has not been found.
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In 1981, the pilot of the Guard, Lieutenant Korotkov, performed a mission on the Su-32 fighter. Suddenly, a large round luminous object appeared in front of him, which flew right in front of the plane. All the instruments immediately failed and, which is completely unique in world practice, the "black box" was cut down, which can only happen in one case - when an aircraft is destroyed. After a while, everything was restored, and the object disappeared, but Korotkov's hand went numb. This feeling passed only after a day. The evidence of the incident is not only the words of the pilot, but also the destruction of aircraft parts, in particular the skin. Recall that these data were taken not from ufological journals, but from dry military reports.
For 15 years of work, the laboratory has collected about 1000 certificates of the so-called anomalous aerospace phenomena *. Only a few of them could be explained by scientists. In 70 cases, there was a direct and inexplicable effect on the technique. One of them, as was said at the beginning, almost ended with the launch of a nuclear missile.
Now the Mytishchi laboratory has rest in Bose. The plates have ceased to scare our military, who can hardly be scared by anything more than life in post-reform Russia. But a former employee of this laboratory, a leading scientific expert of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the problem of anomalous aerospace phenomena, Ph. D., Colonel Alexander Plaksin (as he himself introduced himself), together with a group of employees, continues to study UFOs. They, according to him, are now almost at the amateur level and practically without funding. The colonel complains that the activities of the Ministry of Defense in this direction have faded. There is no obligation now, similar to the old General Staff directive. If any reports do appear, it is by chance and only by the free will of observers. And other eyewitnesses demand information and money!
Meanwhile, the US military continues to secretly study the "unidentified". At least, this is the opinion of international enthusiasts - ufologists and American journalists, who demand official recognition of the relevant programs from the authorities. The authorities remain silent. And ours?
Call to the press service of the RF Ministry of Defense. Question: "Is the ministry officially dealing with anomalous aerospace phenomena"? The answer is NO.