UFO sightings in Russia

{{Short description|List of alleged UFO sightings within the nation of Russia}}

The following are some alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects in Russia:

• The Tunguska event of 1908, is considered to have been the explosion of a meteor, though some regard it as an explosion of a UFO.
• The Petrozavodsk phenomenon on September 20, 1977.
• In Usove in Soviet Ukraine, on October 4, 1982, a group of nuclear missiles became activated as a UFO hovered above the missile launch facility.{{cite web | url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12318039.alien-encounter-sparked-soviet-missile-crisis/ | title=Alien encounter sparked Soviet missile crisis | date=23 June 1997 }}
• The Voronezh UFO incident of 1989.
• The Sasovo explosions were two mysterious explosions which occurred on April 12, 1990, and July 8, 1992, equivalent to 25 tons TNT.[http://www.seitz-online.de/ufo/020198.htm UFO]
• Early in 2012, a crashed titanium object, described as a "UFO fragment", was retrieved from a forest in the vicinity of Otradnenskoye, a rural locality in Novosibirsk Oblast, after strange sounds were heard there in December 2011. The smooth, silvery and U-shaped device, attached to a rounded section, and was not deemed to be related to space technology.{{cite news |last=Stewart |first=Bill |title='UFO fragment' under police guard |url=http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/space/ufo-fragment-under-police-guard-1.1261359#.Utf4tvuYb0c |access-date=16 January 2014 |newspaper=iol news |date=March 22, 2012}}