Case Evidence · CE-V86-27
Event and Soviet Academy of Sciences response (Setka-AN)
Documented1977-09-20 · Secondary accounts of state program
Record
- Date / period
- 1977-09-20
- Reported event / document
- Event and Soviet Academy of Sciences response (Setka-AN)
- Evidence type
- Secondary accounts of state program
- Original data accessible?
- Partially
- Verification status
- Event documented; rocket launch explanation widely accepted
- Competing explanations / missing data
- Program records not reviewed
- Next step
- Collect Setka records Found: TASS's own report of the event, in the CIA's FBIS translation (SRC-V99-149). The Setka-AN response still rests on Platov and Sokolov (SRC-112, pp. 4-6 of its English translation); no Setka record, IKI preprint Пр-473 (Gindilis et al., 1979) or Izvestia scan was found online. (chunk G, 2026-11-12)
- Source ID
- SRC-V86-43; SRC-V99-149
Why this grade
Documented From Case Evidence's Verification status ("Event documented; rocket launch explanation widely accepted"). Grade rules.