Person
A. A. Semenchenko
Also known as Semenchenko
- Lieutenant Colonel, Soviet Air Defence Forces
- Interceptor pilot
Lieutenant Colonel A. A. Semenchenko was a Soviet Air Defence Forces interceptor pilot. On the night of 21 March 1990 he was scrambled near Pereslavl-Zalessky to identify a target that radar had been tracking. His report, published by the chief of the Air Defence Main Staff, describes getting within about 500–600 metres of two flashing white lights and glimpsing a silhouette he could not classify.
No recorded interview with him has been found.
Sources: CIA/FBIS Foreign Press Note FB PN 90-123
Facts and claims
- documented Scrambled on 21 March 1990, he reported closing to about 500–600 m on a target marked by two flashing white lights that changed altitude and did not answer IFF, and briefly seeing its silhouette against the lights of the city. Source: CIA/FBIS Foreign Press Note FB PN 90-123: "USSR: UFO sightings no. 2 — General Maltsev comments" (1990)