Person
Vladimir Platunov
Also known as Platunov
- Lieutenant Colonel, Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces; missile engineer
Vladimir Platunov was a lieutenant colonel and missile engineer at the Strategic Rocket Forces base near Byelokorovichi, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. In 1994 George Knapp filmed him at the ruins of the dismantled missile site, where he described seeing a smooth, silent disc over the area in October 1982.
Knapp's narration says Platunov was in the bunker that day. Platunov's own recorded words cover only what he saw in the sky.
Sources: George Knapp field footage, 1994 (UFOB upload)
Facts and claims
- claimed Filmed by George Knapp in 1994, he described the object he saw: "It looked just like a flying saucer, the way they show them in the movies. No portholes, nothing. The surface was absolutely even", making a banking turn "just like a plane" with no sound. — Vladimir Platunov Source: Byelokorovichi 1982: George Knapp's 1994 field report with Lt. Col. Vladimir Platunov at 0:41