Person
Yuli Platov
Also known as Yuli Viktorovich Platov, Yu. V. Platov
- Lead researcher, Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation (IZMIRAN), Russian Academy of Sciences; deputy chair of the Academy's expert group on anomalous phenomena, 1978–1996
Yuli Viktorovich Platov is a physicist and candidate of physical-mathematical sciences, and a lead researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences' institute of terrestrial magnetism, ionosphere and radio-wave propagation (IZMIRAN). From 1978 to 1996 he was deputy chair of the Academy's expert group on anomalous phenomena, the scientific side of the Soviet Setka programme.
With Col. Boris Sokolov he wrote the programme's 2000 history in Vestnik RAN. It concludes that most Soviet UFO reports were rocket launches and balloons.
Sources: Platov & Sokolov, Vestnik RAN 70(6), 2000