Jeremy Corbell

He was the motherlode.

We get invited to his home, a very modest home.

They were so gracious to us, he and his wife, serving us all this food.

I know it had to cost him like a month's salary or something, whatever his pension was, and opened up.

And it's not like he's selling out his country or something or violating state secrets.

That was the sort of the atmosphere then is it was free for Russians to talk.

And he could talk about things that had happened way in the past.

He was the head.

of the Ministry of Defense's study of UFOs, which I suspect was the largest investigation of UFOs in history, world history.

The order came out, I think in 1977, there was this incident at a Russian missile facility called Petrozavodsk, and the government explained it as some kind of a rocket that blew up, but it wasn't.

Because of that incident, this very dramatic and well-known incident, they started this secret study.

1978, it kicks off.

It lasts for 10 full years.

The order goes out to every unit in the vast Soviet military empire, everyone.

You see a UFO, a strange ball of light, an odd craft in the sky, something that seems to be related to UFOs or space mysteries.

Every incident has to be investigated.

Every witness has to give a statement, any physical evidence, any photos or film.

It all goes to one place, and that place was Colonel Boris Sokolov's desk.

Thousands and thousands and thousands of reports came in.

He got to see them all.