{"id":447595,"date":"2026-06-07T03:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=dbc95cb28246ddf0c36a35ad42574812"},"modified":"2026-06-07T03:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:53:15","slug":"a-giant-craft-rose-from-the-pacific-soviet-sailors-saw-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=447595","title":{"rendered":"A Giant Craft Rose From the Pacific &#8211; Soviet Sailors Saw It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg3vOx3324yAMI0AOp48uImCh_AC0Ol-uTnq4ekkPRPQklsQ1E887kYIS8BiBfxN0TB-DLRWL-g23R5WdiCGylS3F-6Ol5O1LIvOHmNB1kjpAjijoZHhpdz2vkITd4jGZrRyktGdnEWJvodNvxcXRCwjrJpho4f1mP-xOt-CFgn8HR4Agf8h9V1CtCTPhMt\/s600\/Richard-Dolan.png\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; \"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" data-original-height=\"337\" data-original-width=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg3vOx3324yAMI0AOp48uImCh_AC0Ol-uTnq4ekkPRPQklsQ1E887kYIS8BiBfxN0TB-DLRWL-g23R5WdiCGylS3F-6Ol5O1LIvOHmNB1kjpAjijoZHhpdz2vkITd4jGZrRyktGdnEWJvodNvxcXRCwjrJpho4f1mP-xOt-CFgn8HR4Agf8h9V1CtCTPhMt\/s500\/Richard-Dolan.png\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><center><big><b><font color=\"bright orange\">A Giant Craft Rose From the Pacific &#8211;<br \/> Soviet Sailors Saw It<\/b><\/font><\/big><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nRichard Dolan Intelligent Disclosure:<\/p>\n<p>I am fascinated by Soviet USO cases. In May 1982, near Kamchatka, Soviet naval officer A. Sokolov and two crewmen reportedly saw a massive cigar-shaped object rise silently from the Pacific, climb into the sky, show four rear lights, and vanish. In this video, I examine this little-known Cold War USO case, its Soviet naval context, and its place in the larger mystery of unidentified objects operating in and around the oceans.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"530\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tMez8B5zSlM?si=3FSnMEaYgNTbW4Fp\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"bright orange\">YouTube link:<\/font> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tMez8B5zSlM?si=kINn6yM-eL6BakqN\" ><u>https:\/\/youtu.be\/tMez8B5zSlM?si=kINn6yM-eL6BakqN<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Giant Craft Rose From the Pacific &#8211; Soviet Sailors Saw It<\/p>\n<p>Richard Dolan Intelligent Disclosure:<\/p>\n<p>I am fascinated by Soviet USO cases. In May 1982, near Kamchatka, Soviet naval officer A. Sokolov and two crewmen reportedly saw a massive cigar-shape&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[11289],"class_list":["post-447595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ufo","category-ufo-news","tag-ufo-disclosure"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447596,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447595\/revisions\/447596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}