Secret war of the USSR against UFOs

The history of the USSR's battle with UFOs was suddenly published
by the respected Russian edition Infox (https://bit.ly/3Bs2sFc).
This is a short translation of the article, as this information is not
known to people in the West. For the first time, the security
agencies of the USSR noted a meeting with a UFO on June 16,
1948 during test flights of new Soviet fighters over Lake
Baskunchak near Astrakhan. At an altitude of 9000 meters, test
pilot Apraksin saw a huge cigar-shaped object next to the plane.
It was not possible to identify the stranger visually. After the pilot
reported to the ground about the strange escort, he was ordered to
intercept the object, and if this was impossible, destruction.
However, Apraksin, despite his colossal experience, failed to
complete the task. As soon as his MIG approached the "cigar" a thin
beam of light "shot" from it, which blinded the pilot and at the
same time disabled the onboard instruments.
A year later, the same pilot Apraksin, and again on a MIG 400
kilometers from the previous place, again met in the sky with an
incomprehensible object - a strange luminous apparatus. Once again,
an attempt to approach the UFO ended in failure. This time, the
object not only disabled the MIG devices, but also the glass in the
cockpit dimmed from an unknown effect, and the cockpit itself was
depressurized. As a result, only the skill of the pilot made it
possible to make an emergency landing.
In the summer of 1957, an unidentified object hovered directly
over the positions of a Soviet air defense battery in the Kuril
Islands. Taking the stranger in the sky for an American or Japanese
spy, the command gave the order to destroy him. However, powerful
fire did not bring any results. The shells passed through this object
without causing any harm.
Another documented encounter of the Soviet military with UFOs
is dated 1976. Then, at one of the test sites in the Urals, during the
tests of new missiles over a secret territory, a huge ball with a
radius of half a kilometer suddenly hovered. The order was given
to shoot down the target, but the task was not completed.
In 1979, there was a tragedy in Turkmenistan. Over one of the
secret military airfields, a UFO suddenly appeared, resembling a
cigar about two hundred meters long. Two fighters were thrown to
intercept, at the sight of which the UFO turned around and rushed
to the Afghan border. Two missiles launched went to the target, then
there was an explosion, but nothing happened. However, only one
of the two planes returned to the airfield. The second vanished into
thin air. The wreckage could not be found.
In mid-April 1980, air defense near Sverdlovsk discovered four
UFOs, which were suspected like a American automatic drifting
balloons with jamming equipment. Four MiG fighters moved from
two airfields to intercept the intruders. To prevent the UFO from
hiding abroad, one of the fighters fired two missiles after. One UFO
was hit. About incident was reported to chairman for KGB USSR
Yuri Andropov. The very next day, a special plane from Moscow
landed in Sverdlovsk, after which the scientists were taken to the
site of the fall of the object. Even on approach, it became clear
that there was not a balloon on the ground, it was a UFO. But when
the Muscovites and the military accompanying them went to the site
of the fall of the object, strange things began to happen. Everyone,
including the soldiers from the cordon, dressed in chemical
protection suits, felt unwell. Someone started to feel dizzy, someone
vomited, someone started having seizures. Nevertheless, the army
mans managed to find a hatch on the bottom of the disk, but could
not get inside. Those at the forefront fainted. Incredible efforts
managed to get inside the UFO and take out the bodies of two aliens.
They were sealed in lead containers and taken away. The further fate
of the UFO remained unknown. In 1980 that the Soviet air defense
units received an order not to shoot down UFOs.