http://www.ufoandparanormalnews.com/Government-Stories/american-chronicle--setka-a-secret-soviet-ufo-research-program/ A sharp increase in UFO activity in 1977-1978 (especially, the Petrozavodsk Case) had forced appropriate departments within the USSR Academy of Sciences to agree to a research program for anomalous atmospheric phenomena. The code name for this program was SETKA-AN (Akademii Nauk Set´--Academy of Sciences Net, or AS-NET.) Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:52:53 UTC en