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Petrozavodsk Phenomenon

Event date: 1977 Sep 20
Location: Petrozavodsk, Karelia, USSR
Country: Not specified

Record summary

Thousands witnessed a huge luminous jellyfish-shaped object hovering over Petrozavodsk, projecting beams of light downward. TASS reported the event, one of the rare UFO events publicly acknowledged by Soviet media. The incident prompted the USSR to establish UFO research programs.

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