The Moscow Times: Russia’s other ‘little green men’By The Moscow Times. Published April 1, 2016 at 7:13 am Over the course of its existence, the Soviet investigation into aliens received some 3,000 reports of UFO sightings. Photo by listverse.comIt was 4:05 a.m. on Sept. 20, 1977. Something serious was happening over the skies of Petrozavodsk in northwest Russia.Read more.