Posted On: June 5, 2022

Here are a few more Soviet cases from 1976 to 1984. Sorry about the robot voice. For now we are going to do a combination of some live narrator videos and some robot voiced ones. Our long term goal is to have 100% of our videos, live narrated. We are looking for volunteers. Send us an email if you are interested.

1976: British Airways UFO Sighting Over Lithuania

The CIA continued to monitor the UFO phenomenon in the USSR as well as other countries, and a declassified Foreign Intelligence Information Report, with the source deleted, refers to a sighting by the crew of a British European Airways (now British Airways) plane. Flight 831 from Moscow to London, on 10 September 1976:

Between 1800 and 1900 hours, the aircraft was cruising at an altitude of approximately 33 thousand feet (9900 meters), apparently inside the border of Lithuania, when a blinding, single source, constant intensity, and stationary light was observed off the starboard flight path of the aircraft. The light’s distance was estimated to be approximately 10 to 15 miles (16 to 24 kilometers) off of the aircraft’s path and approximately five to six thousand feet (1500 to 1800 meters) below the aircraft, somewhat above a lower cloud layer. The light, which resembled a sodium vapor lamp (yellowish in color), and which was too intense to view directly for any period of time, completely lit the top of the lower cloud layer, giving it a glowing cast. The light was of such interest that the BEA pilot came onto the aircraft’s intercom network, stated that he was somewhat concerned over its presence, and said he had asked the Soviet authorities for an identification of its source.

The Soviet authorities came back with a negative identification response, suggesting that he should not ask questions. The light was observed for approximately 10 to 15 minutes, until the aircraft had flown past and left the light source behind.

My Take: Hard to say for sure that this was something exotic. Could have been something the Russians were up to.

1980: Giant UFO Over Moscow

On the night of 14 June 1980 one of the most spectacular sightings ever to have taken place in the USSR is said to have occurred. A huge reddish orange horseshoe or crescent-shaped object (owing to belts of swirling luminous gases flowing around it) appeared over the city of Kalinin, observed by hundreds of witnesses, including the distinguished geophysicist Aleksei Zolotov.

As a member of Dr. Zigel’s team of scientific UFO investigators, Zolotov immediately phoned Zigel in Moscow, who alerted other members. The object appeared over Moscow eight minutes later and was seen by thousands, including another well-known Soviet ufologist, astrophysicist Sergei Bozhich, who allegedly went down to the streets to calm some of the more hysterical witnesses, who were convinced that the Americans had launched a nuclear attack.

There are good reasons for believing that the UFO was nothing more sinister than a Russian satellite launch. Bozhich himself states that he saw at least two fragments of the object detach themselves from the larger object, probably some of the booster rockets, and photographs show a remarkable resemblance to a rocket launch. Indeed, Pekka Teerikorpi, an astronomer from the Turku

Observatory in Finland, has shown that the sighting coincided precisely with the launch of Cosmos 1188, a military reconnaissance satellite, from the officially non-existent cosmodrome at Plesetsk, north of Moscow.

In 1979 there were reports of intensive UFO activity over the mountainous areas of Kazakhstan, north of Tashkent, and stories of mysterious lights in the sky were carried by the Soviet press. According to the former head of US Air Force Intelligence, Major General George Keegan, the Russians were testing a Star Wars laser or particle-beam weapon at the missile range at Sarychogan, Kazakhstan.

Sarychogan is one of the most secret military installations in the USSR, and is completely isolated from the outside world. There, within a giant complex that includes twelve high-energy particle generators, the Soviets are engaged in what the CIA code-named Project Tora, the race to produce laser beam weapons capable of knocking out enemy satellites or the warheads of incoming missiles.

Dr. Felix Zigel further advised:

We have seen these UFOs over the USSR; craft of every possible shape; small, big, flattened, spherical. They are able to remain stationary in the atmosphere or to shoot along at 100000 kilometers per hour.

They move without producing the slightest sound, by creating around themselves a pneumatic vacuum that protects them from the hazard of burning up in our stratosphere. Their craft also have the mysterious capacity to vanish and reappear at will. They are also able to affect our power resources, halting our electricity-generating plants, our radio stations, and our engines, without however leaving any permanent damage.

So refined a technology can only be the fruit of an intelligence that is indeed far superior to man. This significant statement was made to the American journalist Henry Gris in an interview for the Italian weekly magazine Gente in 1981. Zigel further claimed that he had 50000 UFO reports on file in the computer of the Moscow Aviation Institute, and added that from the material in his own archives he had compiled eight volumes.

Only one had been published, he said, because the others, if released to the Soviet public, would trigger off an enormous wave of fear and unrest throughout the entire country. Zigel went on to state that at least seven landings of extraterrestrial spacecraft had occurred in the vicinity of Moscow between June 1977 and September 1979. He believes that there are three basic categories of UFO occupant:

1) Spacemen, the least frequently observed, who are very tall beings, three meters or so in height.

2) Humanoids, who are in general so similar to us in height and in many other respects that they could most probably mingle here undetected, many of whom may already have infiltrated;

3) Zigel calls the third group, aliens, who are around one meter in height and although resembling us in some respects possess relatively large heads with no trace of hair, protruding eyes set far apart, wrinkled faces, and a pair of large nostrils by way of a nose.

In addition to these categories of what he terms "flesh-and-blood extraterrestrials", Zigel states that the spacecraft carry crews of robots or androids which possess the ability to disappear and reappear at will and, not being subject to the physical laws of our planet, seem to be "deliberately constructed in order to confound all our notions of space, matter, time, and dimensions."

My Take: Zigel has some very interesting points here. I would like to know more about all the different alien species visiting our planet.

1980: Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Karyakin Reports UFO Hanging In Air Near His House

One report allegedly came from a Lieutenant-Colonel Oleg Karyakin, who supposedly saw a "round, flattened object, a classic flying saucer, just like a big bowl reversed on top of a slightly smaller plate, and hanging stationary at a distance of about 30 meters from my house."

Karyakin is said to have tried getting closer to the object, but was repelled by an invisible and insurmountable barrier. Several neighbors also observed the object (one reported a humanoid occupant), which took off after a few minutes.

An unlikely but intriguing possibility is that the UFOs were using the launch of Cosmos 1188 as a cover for their own operations! If the Moscow landing reports were fabricated, however, it is more than likely that the notorious KGB was responsible.

My Take: No two ways about it. This was either a lie or an Alien spacecraft.

1983: Gorky Park UFO Encounters

On the evening of March 27th, 1983, air traffic controllers at Gorky Airport had observed a steel-gray cigar-shaped object flying toward them which failed to respond to radio contact. It was about the size of a conventional aircraft but lacked wings, tail or fin, and was flying at an altitude of 3000 feet at a speed of up to 125 mph.

The object behaved erratically, flying forty-five miles to the southeast of Gorky before turning to head back to the airport, finally vanishing twenty-five miles to the north of the city.

Popovitch added that the new commission was taking this report very seriously, since the sighting had been made by reliable and well trained aviation experts who had given precise and scientific observations, and who had tracked the UFO on radar for forty minutes. The Trud article stated that other sightings witnessed by less well trained observers would not be accepted by the commission, but in July 1984 Sovietskaya Rossiya gave a box number at Moscow’s main post office where citizens could send their UFO reports.

My Take: How many cigar shaped conventional aircraft are flying around out there? Only exotic crafts of unknown origin. Hard for conventional aircraft to fly without wings or rotors.

1984: Aeroflot Flight 8352 Escorted By UFO

On 30 January 1985 Tass, the official Soviet news agency, gave worldwide circulation to a dramatic UFO report, which first appeared in an article by V. Vostrukhin in Trud on that date.

According to the report a Tupolev Tu-134a, Flight 8352, flying from Tbilisi to Tallin via Rostov, encountered an unidentified object at 4:10 a.m. on September 7^th, 1984, 120 kilometers from Minsk.

The aircraft was operated by an aircrew from the Estonian Administration of the USSR Ministry of Civil Aviation: Igor Cherkashin (flight captain); Gennadi Lazurin (second pilot); Igor Ognev (navigation officer), and Gennadi Kozlov (air mechanic). The second pilot first noticed a yellow star-like object above and to starboard which he dismissed as a light refraction in the atmosphere.

Suddenly a thin shaft of light shot down from the object toward the ground. Lazurin nudged the air mechanic who, having confirmed the sighting, asked the captain to report it. The shaft of light then suddenly vanished and changed into a vivid cone of light, wider but paler than the first, followed by a third cone, wide and intensely bright. Although it is difficult to estimate distances when dealing with UFOs, all four airmen got the impression that the unknown object was at a height of forty to fifty kilometers above the earth.

The second pilot began to make a quick sketch of this remarkable sight. On the area of ground illuminated by the cone-shaped beam of light, everything, houses and road included, was totally and distinctly visible. The searchlight beam then rose from the ground and centered on the aircraft, and the crew observed a blinding white point of light surrounded by concentric colored circles.

The captain was hesitant about reporting the sighting, but then something happened that dispelled his doubts. The white point of light flared up and changed into a "green cloud," and it seemed to him that the object was now approaching the airliner at an immense speed and was on the point of crossing their course at an acute angle. "Transmit report!", Captain Cherkashin shouted to the navigation officer, but just as the latter began to radio details to Air Traffic Control in Minsk, the object came to a halt.

The Minsk controller received and acknowledged the crew’s report, remarking politely that unfortunately he could see nothing, either on the radar screen or in the sky. The "green cloud" then suddenly dropped down to the altitude of the airliner, went straight up vertically, and began to swing from left to right, then down and up once again.

Finally, it took up a position beside the airliner and flew alongside at their altitude of 10000 meters and speed of 800 kilometers per hour. Inside the "cloud" the crew could see a "play of lights" flashing on and off, and then performing fiery zigzag maneuvers. The navigation officer continued to transmit details of the sighting to Air Traffic Control, who responded: "I see flashes on the horizon. Where do you see your cloud?

The navigation officer reported its position in relation to the airliner. "That fits," said the controller. The "cloud" continued to change shape, developing a "tail" shaped like a waterspout, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. Then the "tail" started to rise and from its elliptical shape changed to a "square," then a sharp-nosed wingless "cloud-aircraft."

The object shone with a yellow and green glow, giving the crew the impression that it was "mimicking" their plane. At this point the stewardess came on to the flight deck and said that the passengers wanted to know what the strange object was flying beside them.

"Tell them it’s a cloud!" replied the captain. "Yellow clouds, lights of cities reflecting from below. Green clouds, tell them it’s the Aurora Borealis!"

At that time another Tupolev 134 was passing through the Minsk Air Traffic Control Zone, flying the opposite route. The two aircraft were 100 kilometers apart. Captain Cherkashin asked the other Tu-134 crew if they could see anything, but the reply came back in the negative.

The Minsk controller gave the other airliner the coordinates and direction in which they should be able to observe the phenomenon, but they saw absolutely nothing. Only when the two aircraft were fifteen kilometers apart did they begin to see it, and gave a precise description of the "cloud aircraft."

Captain Cherkashin’s crew contacted the air traffic controllers at Riga and Vilna, who picked up both the Tu-134 and the UFO. As they passed over Lake Chud and Lake Pskov, the crew were able to make an estimate of the size of the cloud. The two lakes, oblong in shape, are separated by a small sand bar. The Tu-134 was flying at a distance of 120 kilometers to the left of the lakes, and the object was flying to the right of them, in the vicinity of Tartu.

From the nose of the object, where it seemed there was what looked like a "solid ball," a beam of light shot out again. The patch of light struck a cloud and then moved down toward the ground.

Thus, by mere chance, the "cloud-aircraft" revealed its dimensions and it was possible to assess its length as being equal to that of Lake Pskov, which is about twenty-five miles. The object continued following the airliner to Tallin in Estonia.

After landing there the crew were given some curious details by the air traffic controller: on the Tallin radarscope the Tu-134 was not the only object seen. Although there was only the one aircraft, behind it could be seen two other moving "blips" the whole time, yet the blip of the airliner kept vanishing and reappearing.

"I would have understood it all right had you been ‘blinking’ on the landing radarscope," said the controller. "But on the sky-scanning radar, that never happens, simply can’t happen."

The Trud article concluded with a statement by Dr. Nikolai Zheltukhin, Vice-Chairman of the Commission for Anomalous Phenomena:

The commission is making a systematic study of sightings of unidentified flying objects observed over the territory of the USSR. The material we have is already quite considerable, so we have something to work on.

My Take: No way this was just a cloud. It was tracked on radar. And it followed the airplane.

Resources: Above Top Secret, Timothy Good, 1988

Posted On: June 5, 2022

Here are a few more Soviet cases from 1976 to 1984. Sorry about the robot voice. For now we are going to do a combination of some live narrator videos and some robot voiced ones. Our long term goal is to have 100% of our videos, live narrated. We are looking for volunteers. Send us an email if you are interested.

1976: British Airways UFO Sighting Over Lithuania

The CIA continued to monitor the UFO phenomenon in the USSR as well as other countries, and a declassified Foreign Intelligence Information Report, with the source deleted, refers to a sighting by the crew of a British European Airways (now British Airways) plane. Flight 831 from Moscow to London, on 10 September 1976:

Between 1800 and 1900 hours, the aircraft was cruising at an altitude of approximately 33 thousand feet (9900 meters), apparently inside the border of Lithuania, when a blinding, single source, constant intensity, and stationary light was observed off the starboard flight path of the aircraft. The light’s distance was estimated to be approximately 10 to 15 miles (16 to 24 kilometers) off of the aircraft’s path and approximately five to six thousand feet (1500 to 1800 meters) below the aircraft, somewhat above a lower cloud layer. The light, which resembled a sodium vapor lamp (yellowish in color), and which was too intense to view directly for any period of time, completely lit the top of the lower cloud layer, giving it a glowing cast. The light was of such interest that the BEA pilot came onto the aircraft’s intercom network, stated that he was somewhat concerned over its presence, and said he had asked the Soviet authorities for an identification of its source.

The Soviet authorities came back with a negative identification response, suggesting that he should not ask questions. The light was observed for approximately 10 to 15 minutes, until the aircraft had flown past and left the light source behind.

My Take: Hard to say for sure that this was something exotic. Could have been something the Russians were up to.

1980: Giant UFO Over Moscow

On the night of 14 June 1980 one of the most spectacular sightings ever to have taken place in the USSR is said to have occurred. A huge reddish orange horseshoe or crescent-shaped object (owing to belts of swirling luminous gases flowing around it) appeared over the city of Kalinin, observed by hundreds of witnesses, including the distinguished geophysicist Aleksei Zolotov.

As a member of Dr. Zigel’s team of scientific UFO investigators, Zolotov immediately phoned Zigel in Moscow, who alerted other members. The object appeared over Moscow eight minutes later and was seen by thousands, including another well-known Soviet ufologist, astrophysicist Sergei Bozhich, who allegedly went down to the streets to calm some of the more hysterical witnesses, who were convinced that the Americans had launched a nuclear attack.

There are good reasons for believing that the UFO was nothing more sinister than a Russian satellite launch. Bozhich himself states that he saw at least two fragments of the object detach themselves from the larger object, probably some of the booster rockets, and photographs show a remarkable resemblance to a rocket launch. Indeed, Pekka Teerikorpi, an astronomer from the Turku

Observatory in Finland, has shown that the sighting coincided precisely with the launch of Cosmos 1188, a military reconnaissance satellite, from the officially non-existent cosmodrome at Plesetsk, north of Moscow.

In 1979 there were reports of intensive UFO activity over the mountainous areas of Kazakhstan, north of Tashkent, and stories of mysterious lights in the sky were carried by the Soviet press. According to the former head of US Air Force Intelligence, Major General George Keegan, the Russians were testing a Star Wars laser or particle-beam weapon at the missile range at Sarychogan, Kazakhstan.

Sarychogan is one of the most secret military installations in the USSR, and is completely isolated from the outside world. There, within a giant complex that includes twelve high-energy particle generators, the Soviets are engaged in what the CIA code-named Project Tora, the race to produce laser beam weapons capable of knocking out enemy satellites or the warheads of incoming missiles.

Dr. Felix Zigel further advised:

We have seen these UFOs over the USSR; craft of every possible shape; small, big, flattened, spherical. They are able to remain stationary in the atmosphere or to shoot along at 100000 kilometers per hour.

They move without producing the slightest sound, by creating around themselves a pneumatic vacuum that protects them from the hazard of burning up in our stratosphere. Their craft also have the mysterious capacity to vanish and reappear at will. They are also able to affect our power resources, halting our electricity-generating plants, our radio stations, and our engines, without however leaving any permanent damage.

So refined a technology can only be the fruit of an intelligence that is indeed far superior to man. This significant statement was made to the American journalist Henry Gris in an interview for the Italian weekly magazine Gente in 1981. Zigel further claimed that he had 50000 UFO reports on file in the computer of the Moscow Aviation Institute, and added that from the material in his own archives he had compiled eight volumes.

Only one had been published, he said, because the others, if released to the Soviet public, would trigger off an enormous wave of fear and unrest throughout the entire country. Zigel went on to state that at least seven landings of extraterrestrial spacecraft had occurred in the vicinity of Moscow between June 1977 and September 1979. He believes that there are three basic categories of UFO occupant:

1) Spacemen, the least frequently observed, who are very tall beings, three meters or so in height.

2) Humanoids, who are in general so similar to us in height and in many other respects that they could most probably mingle here undetected, many of whom may already have infiltrated;

3) Zigel calls the third group, aliens, who are around one meter in height and although resembling us in some respects possess relatively large heads with no trace of hair, protruding eyes set far apart, wrinkled faces, and a pair of large nostrils by way of a nose.

In addition to these categories of what he terms "flesh-and-blood extraterrestrials", Zigel states that the spacecraft carry crews of robots or androids which possess the ability to disappear and reappear at will and, not being subject to the physical laws of our planet, seem to be "deliberately constructed in order to confound all our notions of space, matter, time, and dimensions."

My Take: Zigel has some very interesting points here. I would like to know more about all the different alien species visiting our planet.

1980: Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Karyakin Reports UFO Hanging In Air Near His House

One report allegedly came from a Lieutenant-Colonel Oleg Karyakin, who supposedly saw a "round, flattened object, a classic flying saucer, just like a big bowl reversed on top of a slightly smaller plate, and hanging stationary at a distance of about 30 meters from my house."

Karyakin is said to have tried getting closer to the object, but was repelled by an invisible and insurmountable barrier. Several neighbors also observed the object (one reported a humanoid occupant), which took off after a few minutes.

An unlikely but intriguing possibility is that the UFOs were using the launch of Cosmos 1188 as a cover for their own operations! If the Moscow landing reports were fabricated, however, it is more than likely that the notorious KGB was responsible.

My Take: No two ways about it. This was either a lie or an Alien spacecraft.

1983: Gorky Park UFO Encounters

On the evening of March 27th, 1983, air traffic controllers at Gorky Airport had observed a steel-gray cigar-shaped object flying toward them which failed to respond to radio contact. It was about the size of a conventional aircraft but lacked wings, tail or fin, and was flying at an altitude of 3000 feet at a speed of up to 125 mph.

The object behaved erratically, flying forty-five miles to the southeast of Gorky before turning to head back to the airport, finally vanishing twenty-five miles to the north of the city.

Popovitch added that the new commission was taking this report very seriously, since the sighting had been made by reliable and well trained aviation experts who had given precise and scientific observations, and who had tracked the UFO on radar for forty minutes. The Trud article stated that other sightings witnessed by less well trained observers would not be accepted by the commission, but in July 1984 Sovietskaya Rossiya gave a box number at Moscow’s main post office where citizens could send their UFO reports.

My Take: How many cigar shaped conventional aircraft are flying around out there? Only exotic crafts of unknown origin. Hard for conventional aircraft to fly without wings or rotors.

1984: Aeroflot Flight 8352 Escorted By UFO

On 30 January 1985 Tass, the official Soviet news agency, gave worldwide circulation to a dramatic UFO report, which first appeared in an article by V. Vostrukhin in Trud on that date.

According to the report a Tupolev Tu-134a, Flight 8352, flying from Tbilisi to Tallin via Rostov, encountered an unidentified object at 4:10 a.m. on September 7^th, 1984, 120 kilometers from Minsk.

The aircraft was operated by an aircrew from the Estonian Administration of the USSR Ministry of Civil Aviation: Igor Cherkashin (flight captain); Gennadi Lazurin (second pilot); Igor Ognev (navigation officer), and Gennadi Kozlov (air mechanic). The second pilot first noticed a yellow star-like object above and to starboard which he dismissed as a light refraction in the atmosphere.

Suddenly a thin shaft of light shot down from the object toward the ground. Lazurin nudged the air mechanic who, having confirmed the sighting, asked the captain to report it. The shaft of light then suddenly vanished and changed into a vivid cone of light, wider but paler than the first, followed by a third cone, wide and intensely bright. Although it is difficult to estimate distances when dealing with UFOs, all four airmen got the impression that the unknown object was at a height of forty to fifty kilometers above the earth.

The second pilot began to make a quick sketch of this remarkable sight. On the area of ground illuminated by the cone-shaped beam of light, everything, houses and road included, was totally and distinctly visible. The searchlight beam then rose from the ground and centered on the aircraft, and the crew observed a blinding white point of light surrounded by concentric colored circles.

The captain was hesitant about reporting the sighting, but then something happened that dispelled his doubts. The white point of light flared up and changed into a "green cloud," and it seemed to him that the object was now approaching the airliner at an immense speed and was on the point of crossing their course at an acute angle. "Transmit report!", Captain Cherkashin shouted to the navigation officer, but just as the latter began to radio details to Air Traffic Control in Minsk, the object came to a halt.

The Minsk controller received and acknowledged the crew’s report, remarking politely that unfortunately he could see nothing, either on the radar screen or in the sky. The "green cloud" then suddenly dropped down to the altitude of the airliner, went straight up vertically, and began to swing from left to right, then down and up once again.

Finally, it took up a position beside the airliner and flew alongside at their altitude of 10000 meters and speed of 800 kilometers per hour. Inside the "cloud" the crew could see a "play of lights" flashing on and off, and then performing fiery zigzag maneuvers. The navigation officer continued to transmit details of the sighting to Air Traffic Control, who responded: "I see flashes on the horizon. Where do you see your cloud?

The navigation officer reported its position in relation to the airliner. "That fits," said the controller. The "cloud" continued to change shape, developing a "tail" shaped like a waterspout, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. Then the "tail" started to rise and from its elliptical shape changed to a "square," then a sharp-nosed wingless "cloud-aircraft."

The object shone with a yellow and green glow, giving the crew the impression that it was "mimicking" their plane. At this point the stewardess came on to the flight deck and said that the passengers wanted to know what the strange object was flying beside them.

"Tell them it’s a cloud!" replied the captain. "Yellow clouds, lights of cities reflecting from below. Green clouds, tell them it’s the Aurora Borealis!"

At that time another Tupolev 134 was passing through the Minsk Air Traffic Control Zone, flying the opposite route. The two aircraft were 100 kilometers apart. Captain Cherkashin asked the other Tu-134 crew if they could see anything, but the reply came back in the negative.

The Minsk controller gave the other airliner the coordinates and direction in which they should be able to observe the phenomenon, but they saw absolutely nothing. Only when the two aircraft were fifteen kilometers apart did they begin to see it, and gave a precise description of the "cloud aircraft."

Captain Cherkashin’s crew contacted the air traffic controllers at Riga and Vilna, who picked up both the Tu-134 and the UFO. As they passed over Lake Chud and Lake Pskov, the crew were able to make an estimate of the size of the cloud. The two lakes, oblong in shape, are separated by a small sand bar. The Tu-134 was flying at a distance of 120 kilometers to the left of the lakes, and the object was flying to the right of them, in the vicinity of Tartu.

From the nose of the object, where it seemed there was what looked like a "solid ball," a beam of light shot out again. The patch of light struck a cloud and then moved down toward the ground.

Thus, by mere chance, the "cloud-aircraft" revealed its dimensions and it was possible to assess its length as being equal to that of Lake Pskov, which is about twenty-five miles. The object continued following the airliner to Tallin in Estonia.

After landing there the crew were given some curious details by the air traffic controller: on the Tallin radarscope the Tu-134 was not the only object seen. Although there was only the one aircraft, behind it could be seen two other moving "blips" the whole time, yet the blip of the airliner kept vanishing and reappearing.

"I would have understood it all right had you been ‘blinking’ on the landing radarscope," said the controller. "But on the sky-scanning radar, that never happens, simply can’t happen."

The Trud article concluded with a statement by Dr. Nikolai Zheltukhin, Vice-Chairman of the Commission for Anomalous Phenomena:

The commission is making a systematic study of sightings of unidentified flying objects observed over the territory of the USSR. The material we have is already quite considerable, so we have something to work on.

My Take: No way this was just a cloud. It was tracked on radar. And it followed the airplane.

Resources: Above Top Secret, Timothy Good, 1988