Anton Bogatov

Anton Bogatov is a Russian researcher who investigates anomalous phenomena in Russia and is part of the post-Soviet civilian research tradition. He is the leader of the Russian UFO group SAKKUFON and has led multiple fact-finding expeditions to UFO crash sites, including Shaitan Mazar in Kyrgyzstan — among them the 1998 expedition together with Nikolay Subbotin and other researchers.

• Russian researcher focused on anomalous phenomena in Russia
• Part of the post-Soviet civilian research tradition
• Contributes to the documentation and analysis of UAP cases on Russian territory
• Works to preserve and expand the record of unexplained aerial phenomena from the Soviet era
• Leader of the Russian UFO group SAKKUFON
• Multiple fact-finding expeditions to UFO crash sites such as Shaitan Mazar in Kyrgyzstan
• 1998 expedition together with Nikolay Subbotin and further researchers

For the UAP timeline, Bogatov is one of the few nameable representatives of civilian post-Soviet UFO research. His expeditions into Kyrgyzstan and other regions keep alive an infrastructure that links Soviet-era archives with contemporary field reports and thereby makes the Russian flank of global UAP documentation visible.