1948

Single panel intelligence dossier image for the August 18 1948 Lazarevskoye Sochi Russia abduction rendered in muted late-1940s color showing a small clear mountain river in a wooded Black Sea coastal valley where a lone man in 1940s clothing with a fishing rod turns toward a large silver cigar-shaped craft more than a hundred meters long hovering low over the river with several pale luminous balls of light drifting from its underside toward him and two or three tall blond figures in single-piece silver composite suits standing calmly nearby, with HUD overlays marking the silver cigar craft and its claimed faster-than-light travel, the luminous balls separated from the craft, the tall Nordic entities in silver suits, the claimed three-month voyage that cost a year on Earth with the witness absent about three years, the CE-IV abduction classification, the single anonymized witness Valentin Stepanovich, the problematic Anton Anfalov source, and the Insufficient Data status, with a lower strip reading thinkaboutitdocs.com — UAP/Entity Archive by Date

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Russian Sightings

1948: Near Lazarevskoe, Sochi, Russia

Published: August 31, 2016 | Updated: June 5, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1948: Near Lazarevskoe, Sochi, Russia A man named Valentin Stepanovich was fishing a small mountain river near...

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Single panel intelligence dossier image for the Summer 1948 Stavropol North Caucasus Russia abduction rendered in muted late-1940s color showing a dim narrow metallic chamber aboard a craft with four barred metal cages along one wall, a small boy in 1940s peasant clothing and a grown man in worker's clothing together in the nearest cage with the man steadying the boy and only indistinct shadowed shapes of a large animal and huddled human figures in the others, while two very tall thin humanoid figures in dull silver suits stand by a wall-mounted fold-out table turned away in shadow with a closed metallic box at their feet and one alien holding a slender paralysis rod, kept clinical and non-graphic, with HUD overlays marking the three-plus tall thin silver-suited entities and their paralysis rod, the four cages holding the boy and man a woman three men and an animal, the claimed onboard dissection and radiation injection, the stated alien motive of seeking radioactive material and studying humanity after 1945, the CE-IV abduction classification, the single anonymized witness V.Z. who reported it about fifty years later, the Cross of Centaurs Rostov 2001 and Rosales source, and the Insufficient Data status, with a lower strip reading thinkaboutitdocs.com — UAP/Entity Archive by Date

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Russian Sightings

1948: Stavropol region, North Caucasus, Russia Abduction

Published: August 31, 2016 | Updated: June 5, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT ABDUCTION REPORT 1948: Stavropol region, North Caucasus, Russia Abduction A boy sent over a hill to nap while his sister and a neighbor...

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1948 Sightings

1948: Unknown Date UFO & Alien Sightings

Published: June 28, 2016 | Updated: October 17, 2025

1948: Unknown Date UFO & Alien Sightings Date: 1948 Location: Anchorage, Alaska Time: Summary: Source: Date: 1948 Location: El Paso Texas Time: unknown Summary:...

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1948 Sightings

1948: July UFO & Alien Sightings

Published: February 1, 2016 | Updated: September 14, 2025

1948: July UFO & Alien Sightings Date: Mid , 1948 Location: Erie, Pennsylvania Time: Afternoon Summary: An object was observed. It departed by rapidly flying...

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1948 Sightings

1948: September UFO & Alien Sightings

Published: December 27, 2015 | Updated: September 14, 2025

1948: September UFO & Alien Sightings Date: Fall , 1948 Location: McDermitt, Nevada Time: Summary: Ghost lights were observed. Nocturnal lights were reported. Source: Eberhart,...

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