Russia (USSR) · 15 December 1987

Mineralnye Vody airport, 1987

Reported

The one Blue Folder item that secondary sources quote at length rather than summarise: several flight crews independently reported an aircraft-like object with headlights leaving a fiery trail, which vanished in a flash resembling an explosion.

Where

Mineralnye Vody airport, Stavropol Krai

When

15 December 1987

Who reported it

Multiple civil aviation flight crews

Entities described

None reported

Handled as

INSUFFICIENT SOURCE PROVENANCE

Evidence class

GOV-3 (GOV-1 only if the Blue Folder provenance holds)

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

UNKNOWN

No document is attached yet. The retrieval is open work.

What is not settled

Same provenance problem as all Blue Folder material. A December object leaving a fiery trail and terminating in a bright flash is also a fair description of a re-entering rocket body or a bolide, and no radar or physical corroboration is cited.

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