Paul Stonehill
Paul Stonehill is a Ukrainian-born UAP researcher and author who has specialized in documenting Soviet and post-Soviet UFO and USO reports that remained inaccessible to Western researchers during and after the Cold War. He is best known as co-author, with Philip Mantle, of Russia's USO Secrets, the primary English-language compilation of Soviet Unidentified Submerged Object (USO) cases.
| Role | UAP researcher and author; co-author of Russia's USO Secrets |
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Russia's USO Secrets
Russia's USO Secrets, co-authored with Philip Mantle, is the main published source UAP Gerb draws upon for Soviet USO cases in this video. The book compiles case logs from Soviet naval records, scientific expedition reports, and firsthand accounts that were not subject to Western Freedom of Information processes. Cases from the book discussed by UAP Gerb include the 1977 Soviet submarine repair ship Vulga sighting in the Barents Sea and the 1970 Kamchatka Lake USO encounter involving Soviet hydrologists.
Stonehill's work is significant in the UAP research community because Soviet UFO stigma was historically as suppressive as — or more suppressive than — American institutional culture, meaning the cases he recovered represent a body of evidence that would otherwise remain entirely unknown to non-Russian-speaking researchers.