Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Conversion: Navigation Institute
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AI-Generated Summary
This 1992 report identifies a Russian military-affiliated research institute in St. Petersburg that has conducted research into UFO-ology. The facility, NINGI MO RF, specializes in navigation, hydrography, and satellite-based positioning systems.
This document is a JPRS report dated November 20, 1992, featuring an article by Olga Kuznetsova titled 'It Was Silly to Keep Us in the Background.' The report describes the author's visit to a previously anonymous building in St. Petersburg, located at the corner of Bolshoy Prospekt and the Kozhevennaya Line. The facility is identified as the Scientific-Research Navigational-Hydrographic Institute of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation (NINGI MO RF). The author notes that the facility functions more like a military unit than a scientific research institute. For decades, the institute has focused on national research in navigation and hydrography, developing apparatus for modern vessels and systems for determining the location of ships and other objects via artificial satellites. Notably, the text explicitly mentions that the institute has conducted research into UFO-ology and has accumulated a significant amount of material on the subject.
Even UFO-ology was within the field of research of the institute, and for many years they accumulated a lot of material here in this field.
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Official Assessment
The Scientific-Research Navigational-Hydrographic Institute of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, located in St. Petersburg, has conducted research into navigation, hydrography, and the use of artificial satellites for locating objects. The institute has also accumulated material regarding UFO-ology.