Claims
Northern European governments wrote to the USSR Academy of Sciences about the 1977 Petrozavodsk phenomenon
Documented · said What these labels mean →Per Sokolov and Platov (Skeptical Briefs, Dec 2000), official government letters from the nations of northern Europe to Academy of Sciences president Anatoly Aleksandrov asked whether the 20 Sep 1977 phenomenon came from Soviet weapons testing and whether it endangered the region's environment. The letters themselves have not been fetched.
Evidence
| Relation | Record | Note |
|---|---|---|
| documents | skepticalinquirer.org | Boris Sokolov and Yulii Platov, 'A History of State UFO Research in the USSR', Skeptical Briefs 10(4), Dec 2000: 'official government letters from the nations of northern Europe to the Anatoly Aleksandrov, president of the AS, expressed concern about whether the observed phenomenon came from Soviet weapons testing'. Platov took part in the Academy's program; countries not named. |
| corroborates | en.wikipedia.org | Wikipedia |
Sources
| Source | Relation | At |
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| China UFO files (Cappy Army 2026) | reports |
Ties
| To | Role | Years | Verdict | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On 20 Sep 1977 Petrozavodsk residents reported a 'jellyfish'-like glowing phenomenon, which Soviet researchers later attributed to the Kosmos-955 launch | reaction to the event | 1977 | Structural |
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Claim
Per Sokolov and Platov (Skeptical Briefs, Dec 2000), official government letters from the nations of northern Europe to Academy of Sciences president Anatoly Aleksandrov asked whether the 20 Sep 1977 phenomenon came from Soviet weapons testing and whether it endangered the region's environment. The letters themselves have not been fetched.