UFOs hovered over the USSR throughout the nation’s history, despite the secrecy of the country’s Communist regime, and its desire to reject the presence of mysterious guests. The sharp increase in UFO activity in 1977-1978 in the Soviet Union (especially, after the famous Petrozavodsk Case) had caused appropriate departments within the USSR Academy of Sciences “to agree” with the Soviet leadership and create a research program for anomalous atmospheric phenomena. The code name for this program was SETKA-AN (Akademii Nauk Set’–Academy of Sciences Net, or AS-NET.)
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