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A massive jellyfish-shaped star that lit up the northern Soviet sky on Sept. 20, 1977 caused an international stir at the time, made all the more intriguing by the unusually thorough coverage Russia s official state news agency Tass afforded eyewitnesses. That caught the attention of even the CIA, which documented the puzzling phenomenon in a secret assessment two days later, noting, according to since-declassified records, the semicircular pool of bright light, red in the middle and white at the sides, then formed in this shroud that would be visible from Finland to Vladivostok. The Kremlin swiftly began an investigation into the brilliant lights over Petrozavodsk.
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The Pentagon is expected to release its findings of what it knows about unidentified flying objects, or unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs), on June 25.
The University of Colorado produced similar government-commissioned reports on UFOs in the 1960s, likely with similar findings.
A New York Times article from June 3, citing anonymous officials familiar with the report, said it reveals no evidence of alien aircraft and calls the sightings unexplainable.
The UAP Task Force, which was created in August, reviewed more than 120 incidents from the past 20 years, according to the Times. Many of the incidents were reported by the U.S. Navy, including pilots who have seen and recorded unexplained flying objects.