Boris Sokolov

Soviet Ministry of Defence officer (Lt-Col, later Col., Candidate of Technical Sciences) who coordinated the military and Academy sides of the Setka programme from 1978 to 1989. He gave George Knapp a dramatic account of the 1982 launch-panel incident in 1993, then a prosaic one in the Academy's journal in 2000.

Cases (2)

• 1978Setka: the Soviet state UAP programme
• 1982The Soviet ICBM launch-panel incident

Connected

Sources

• Platov & Sokolov, 'Изучение неопознанных летающих объектов в СССР', Вестник РАН 2000, т.70 №6 (full text)
• KLAS 8 News Now, Knapp & Bleakley: 'Russian UFO files reveal chilling encounters, near-miss nuclear launch' (15 Jan 2026)