CIA declassifies data on possible Soviet military encounter with aliens

Reports about this document were previously covered by the Canadian publication Canadian Weekly World News and the Ukrainian newspaper Holos Ukrayiny, first published in May 2000.

The Canadian Weekly World News speculated that the alleged incident occurred between 1989 and 1990, with the first publication dating back to 1993.

Now, the corresponding document has been released on the website of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States.

'Encounter' document description

The document details an alleged incident in which Soviet soldiers reportedly encountered extraterrestrials after shooting down a UFO. According to the report, the aliens emerged from the wreckage and merged into a single object that "exploded" with a bright light. Following this, all but two soldiers turned to stone. This was supposedly documented in a report from the Soviet KGB.

The report, citing an unnamed CIA official, states that if the KGB dossier is accurate, it is a highly alarming case, suggesting that extraterrestrials possess weapons and technologies far beyond human understanding. The aliens were capable of defending themselves if attacked.

According to the CIA document, intelligence gathered by the US revealed a "low-flying disk-shaped spacecraft" over a Soviet military unit conducting exercises. For reasons unknown, Soviet soldiers fired a surface-to-air missile at the unidentified object, causing it to crash near a military base. The report further describes how five small humanoids with "large heads and big black eyes" emerged from the spacecraft, merged into a single "unified object," and emitted a loud buzzing sound. The object then reportedly exploded in a blinding flash of light.

Witness accounts mentioned in the document state that 23 soldiers suddenly "turned into stone pillars," with two soldiers surviving because they were sheltered from the full effect of the light. The remains of the "petrified soldiers" and the spacecraft were supposedly transported to a secret research facility near Moscow, where scientists discovered that the soldiers' molecular structure matched that of limestone. The document also claims that scientists believed the source of energy involved was something unknown to humanity.

US on unidentified aerial phenomena

Western media add that although the original context of the document remains unknown, it likely comes from open-source information.

The CIA and the Pentagon did not respond to requests from the American media for comments on the document.

In 2020, the US Department of Defense announced the creation of a special task force on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPTF) aimed at “detecting, analyzing, and cataloging” unknown objects that could pose a threat to national security.

The program was established after many years of government efforts to study unidentified aircraft.

At the end of 2020, former CIA Director John Brennan made a statement about the existence of aliens. He suggested that there may be other forms of life in the universe.

Additionally, in the summer of 2021, a government intelligence report on unidentified flying objects was released. The Pentagon report mentioned 144 reports of unidentified aerial objects recorded since 2004, all but one of which remain unexplained. US intelligence officials stated that UFOs pose a threat to national security.

At the beginning of 2025, US President Donald Trump signed an order to declassify government files, some of which concern UFOs and date back several dec