Case file · Official inquiry
Byelokoroviche missile-base claim
Stories from the 1990s claim a UFO hovered over a Soviet nuclear missile base in Ukraine and briefly activated its launch systems.
1982 CE · 51.20, 28.00 · status: claim
The account
The tale says that on 4 October 1982 officers watched a disc over the base near Usove (Byelokoroviche) and that launch panels lit up for some seconds. It was broadcast in an ABC News programme in 1994 and is often paired with US claims about Malmstrom.
The sceptical view
No documentation has been published; the account comes from interviews decades later.