At a dramatic congressional hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), investigative journalist George Knapp made a jaw-dropping claim: back in 1982, a UFO sighting over a Soviet ICBM base almost pushed Russia into launching nuclear missiles at the United States. Knapp testified before the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, citing Soviet-era documents he obtained in the 1990s. According to him, the UFO encounter set off panic in Moscow and brought the world terrifyingly close to nuclear war.