UFO Files: Soviet UFO Secrets Revealed
The Russians approached the subject of UFOs with the utmost seriousness and attention to detail. Boris Sokolov, a retired Russian colonel ran an in-depth study in 1980. “For 10 years,” Sokolov said, “the entire Soviet Union became one gigantic UFO listening post.”Yuri Andropov, the former Soviet leader and long-time head of the KGB, had an acute personal interest in UFOs and ordered a 13-year programme that required every soldier in the military to monitor sightings over Russian territory.
UFO sightings by Soviet cosmonauts are not uncommon. Unlike American astronauts’ reluctance to talk about the subject, Soviet references to UFOs were reported from the very beginning, with Yuri Gagarin himself. In documents, Gagarin is quoted as saying UFOs are real and they fly at incredible speeds.



