Later interviews and reports alleged a disc and brief unauthorized missile launch readiness

Record

Date / period

1990s–2011

Reported event / document

Later interviews and reports alleged a disc and brief unauthorized missile launch readiness

Evidence type

Retrospective witness / investigator reporting

Original data accessible?

Partial

Verification status

Allegations documented as reports; actual launch state unverified

Competing explanations / missing data

Possible narrative amplification; absent command authorization, launch telemetry and independent forensic review

Next step

Separate exact firsthand quotations from narration and inference Searched (English and Russian; Black Vault, RUFORS, Cosmopoisk, ABC's 1994 'KGB UFO Files'): no launch-readiness record. The one technical record found, Katsman's note of 6 Oct 1982 (SRC-V99-144), describes the panel lighting up and says nothing of a launch command. Knapp's Jan 2026 release (an English translation, 70 pp.) cites by title only an 'information-report on the results of the investigations of the abnormal phenomenon ... observed in the Novograd-Volynsky region, m/u 67947, 1982', probably the official inquiry, unpublished. (chunk G, 2026-11-12)

Source ID

SRC-116