In October 1982, the world may have come within minutes of catastrophe. Russian officers claim that unidentified objects once took control of nuclear missiles aimed at New York, before vanishing into the night.
According to secret Soviet documents, the weapons were fully primed to launch, and only the sudden disappearance of the UFOs stopped an apocalyptic strike that could have obliterated America's largest city in just 25 minutes.
The incident, preserved in restricted military files that were later surfaced in journalistic reports, has since become one of the most chilling near-misses of the Cold War.
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