The USSR Ministry of Defense conducted what Colonel Boris Sokolov described as “the largest investigation of UFOs in the history of the world” — a decade-long secret program from the late 1970s into the late 1980s. Thousands of military witness reports. George Knapp (investigative journalist, 8 News Now Mystery Wire) obtained hundreds of pages of these classified documents in the 1990s and testified before Congress on September 9, 2025. Documents are now being released publicly via Mystery Wire. WHAT THE DOCUMENTS SHOW: Military personnel repeatedly encountered UAPs exhibiting irregular flight patterns, changing shapes and colors, breaking into smaller pieces, and advanced propulsion. Most critically: unknown objects had “significant effects on people and military gear, including sensor systems, missiles, and planes.” THREAD 3 — SECRET PROGRAM: A separate classified program unknown to US intelligence until Knapp obtained it. Traces Russian UAP interest (called AAP — Anomalous Aerial Phenomena) back to JOSEPH STALIN, who ordered investigations after Roswell and similar incidents in the USSR. Thread 3 is explicit: the ultimate objective is to apply UAP/AAP “features” to military purposes — the Soviets were trying to reverse-engineer UAP technology, just as Grusch alleges the US was. THE AAWSAP CONNECTION: Hundreds of pages of Soviet UFO files were shared with the AAWSAP program (DIA/BAASS/Bigelow Aerospace). DIA produced a new detailed intelligence analysis of what the Russians were doing. That DIA report has NEVER been made public. Senator Harry Reid authorized AAWSAP funding partly because he learned the Soviets were studying AND trying to weaponize UAP technology before the US could. CONGRESS TESTIMONY: Knapp testified September 9, 2025 alongside four other witnesses before a congressional UAP committee. The second Mystery Wire article (released February 2026) includes a document being made public for the first time — scientific analysis of specific UFO incidents from the Soviet National Academy of Sciences. Direct URL: 8newsnow.com/mystery-wire