You've got to love the Soviet Union's Voyska PVO. If it moves, they'll shoot at it. It seems that flying the Russian skies was equally unfriendly, whether it be American reconnaisance aircraft (Hey, Open Skies means you, Ivan!) or alien invaders from beyond space. This just in from The American Kestrel:

Soviet military encountered many UFOs, maybe for this reason in the end of the 60s a secret laboratory of researching "flying objects" was created in the USSR.

UFO researchers often blame the military of hiding the cases of alien rockets and disseminating false information of UFO. Army officers are not interested in the disputes about alien civilizations, they are interested in knowing what impact UFO can impose to military equipment and personnel.

1947. Antiaircraft guns of Transcaucasian Military District fired on the flying cigar-shaped object which came from the side of the Turkish border. The object"s flying altitude was below 4,000 meters, and the guns were capable of reaching a target at the altitudes up to 12,000 meters, but that time the fire made no harm to the "cigar". Then the cigar increased its speed and flew away over the mountains.

The English is bad because the Kestrel quotes from the English-language Pravda article of 23 January 2004. I am, nevertheless, highly amused. Holy shades of Delta Green, Batman! Heh heh heh. The article goes on to describe several other instances where the Soviet air defenses challenged seemingly invulnerable things, and ultimately failed to intercept them. Also included is some questionable story of a recovered unidentified craft that later vanished from a hangar. A word of analysis: I doubt it went back to Tatooine. More likely that it wound up in a scrap yard so the local KGB officers could have more money for vodka. Ahem.

And no, I'm not going to start covering UFOs and all that extra-terrestrial stuff, unless you think that me writing about movies or TV programs falls within that gap. I'll leave that sort of thing to Chris Carter and the Cigarette-Smoking Man.

Tip of the Eldridge hat to Donald Sensing. Snicker snicker.

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