{"id":4052,"date":"2026-02-12T11:04:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/soviets-investigated-jellyfish-ufo-above-russian-city\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:05:00","slug":"soviets-investigated-jellyfish-ufo-above-russian-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/soviets-investigated-jellyfish-ufo-above-russian-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Soviets investigated \u2018jellyfish\u2019 UFO above Russian city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2026-02-12 11:04:58<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A bizarre \u201cjellyfish\u201d UFO crowned with shifting coloured lights reportedly hovered over a Russian city for more than an hour \u2014 and Soviet officials quietly investigated it, according to newly released files.<BR><br \/>\nThe strange sighting is among a bundle of declassified Soviet-era documents translated and published by journalist George Knapp, whose archive spans around 70 pages and details how authorities in the former USSR logged and assessed what they called \u201cAbnormal Atmospheric Phenomena\u201d despite publicly dismissing alien craft as Western fantasy.<BR><br \/>\nAs reported by IBT, one of the most eye-catching cases is dated February 13, 1989, when witnesses in Nalchik, southern Russia, described a huge \u201cjellyfish\u201d-like object hanging in the sky.<BR><br \/>\nAccording to the files, the object remained visible for more than an hour before suddenly vanishing.<BR><br \/>\nOther eerie accounts include a young man who reported luminous streaks tearing across the sky before he allegedly encountered humanoid figures.<BR><br \/>\nInvestigators carefully recorded the testimony but stopped short of confirming what he may have seen.<BR><br \/>\nA separate 1979 case in Kazakhstan details campers who claimed they saw tall, dark figures near a wooded area.<BR><br \/>\nOnce again, recollections were described as consistent \u2014 but there was no physical evidence.<BR><br \/>\nThe documents outline sightings logged by civilians, soldiers and technical experts, along with formal procedures for collecting witness statements and analysing possible explanations.<BR><br \/>\nWhile the files offer no hard proof of extraterrestrials, they reveal that Soviet institutions were taking such reports seriously behind closed doors.<BR><br \/>\nThe archive was reportedly removed from Russia in the early 1990s and has only now been made widely accessible \u2014 giving the public a rare glimpse into how Cold War officials handled mysteries in the sky.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026-02-12 11:04:58 A bizarre \u201cjellyfish\u201d UFO crowned with shifting coloured lights reportedly hovered over a Russian city for more than an hour \u2014 and Soviet officials quietly investigated it, according&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4053,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions\/4053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}