1989
HALL V · September 27, 1989
Voronezh
TASS reports a sighting in a Soviet park
Voronezh, Russian SFSR
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On September 27, 1989, the Soviet state news agency TASS issued an English-language report of children and adults witnessing a sphere and three tall figures in a public park in Voronezh. The report — broadcast worldwide and confirmed by a senior physicist at the Voronezh Institute of Geophysics — was unique for being released by Soviet state media during glasnost. The local Soviet militia took soil samples that were studied by the Academy of Sciences.
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