CIA FOIA Document DOC_0005517761: The CIA’s Own Archive Contains a 1993 FBIS Translation of a Ukrainian Newspaper Report — Describing a Soviet Military Unit That Shot Down a UFO in Siberia, After Which 5 Humanoids Emerged, Merged Into a Sphere, and Exploded With a Light That “Petrified” 23 Soldiers Into Stone. Only 2 Survived. CIA Quoted: “If the KGB File Corresponds to Reality, This Is an Extremely Menacing Case.” IMPORTANT: This Is an FBIS News Translation — Not a Classified CIA Intelligence Report.

CIA FOIA Reading Room — Document 0005517761, released January 31, 2011. Publication date: March 27, 1993. CLASSIFICATION: UNCLAS — this document was NEVER classified. It was added to the CIA reading room as part of a UFO FOIA collection. WHAT IT IS: A translation by the CIA’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) — the agency’s foreign media monitoring division — of an article in the Ukrainian newspaper Holos Ukrayiny (March 27, 1993). That article itself was a reprint of “Cosmic Revenge” from Ternopil Vechirniy, which drew on a story from the Canadian Weekly World News tabloid. THE CONTENT (as translated and archived by CIA): “After Mikhail Gorbachev dissolved, in 1991, the KGB top secret intelligence administration, a lot of material found its way abroad, in particular to the CIA. As reported by Canadian Weekly World News, U.S. intelligence obtained a 250-page file on the attack by a UFO on a military unit in Siberia.” The file allegedly documented: A saucer-shaped craft appeared over a Soviet military training exercise. For unknown reasons a surface-to-air missile was launched and hit the UFO. It crashed. Five short humanoids with “large heads and large black eyes” emerged. They “merged into a single object that acquired a spherical shape.” The sphere “began to buzz and hiss, then became brilliant white.” An explosion of intense light. 23 soldiers who watched “turned into stone poles.” Two soldiers in the shade survived. Remains and “petrified soldiers” were transferred to a secret research institution near Moscow. CIA REPRESENTATIVE QUOTED: “If the KGB file corresponds to reality, this is an extremely menacing case. The aliens possess weapons and technology that go beyond all our assumptions. They can stand up for themselves if attacked.” SIGNIFICANCE: The document’s tabloid origin is clear — but its presence in the CIA FOIA reading room reveals that the CIA’s FBIS division was actively monitoring and archiving foreign media reports about Soviet UAP incidents in 1993. The CIA was tracking what foreign newspapers were saying about Soviet UFO encounters. Whether the underlying 250-page KGB file exists remains unknown.