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00:00:00A group of explorers that disappeared in the European mountains.
00:00:06Spacecraft capable of generating visible beams of light from several cities in northeastern Europe.
00:00:13An extraterrestrial being that lands on Earth showing itself to a group of children.
00:00:18These mysterious events, beyond the iron curtain of the Soviet Union,
00:00:23have generated doubts and questions about the intentions of the aliens,
00:00:28but they also make us reflect on how much the human mind and the power of imagination
00:00:33can create new and convincing stories just to feel part of an era.
00:00:39Extraterrestrials in the Soviet Union.
00:00:42There was once a nation that extended from the great plains of Central Europe
00:00:47to the coasts of the Pacific Ocean.
00:00:50A giant called the Soviet Union, where a myriad of different ethnicities and cultures,
00:00:56hundreds of millions of people, lived in a communist society.
00:01:01There was born the son of a proletarian revolution that ended the Tsarist Russia.
00:01:06At the dawn of the 20th century, Russia was a great imperialist and nationalist power,
00:01:12not very different from other European nations such as Great Britain, France,
00:01:17Germany, Austria, Hungary and Italy.
00:01:20Countries that between the 19th and early 20th century
00:01:23laid the foundations for the development of new ideologies, technologies and social schemes.
00:01:30And so, in 1917, the October Revolution took place,
00:01:35which, led by Vladimir Lenin, took the Bolsheviks to power,
00:01:40establishing the first communist society on the face of planet Earth.
00:01:45Not many years would pass before this was a socialist utopia,
00:01:50transformed into a totalitarian state under the leadership of Joseph Stalin.
00:01:55It was 1945, when the United States of America and the Soviet Union, as allies,
00:02:02won the war against Germany, thus becoming, by right,
00:02:06the two superpowers capable, in the coming years, to fight for world supremacy.
00:02:12The Americans, in this period, were the spokespeople of a growing and flourishing capitalist ideology,
00:02:19which denoted characteristics exactly opposed to the communist ideology.
00:02:24For this reason, a climate of discord was established,
00:02:28generating a new conflict called the Cold War.
00:02:33This new war was called the Cold War because large-scale conflicts were never created.
00:02:39Instead, it generated a strategic career to obtain ideological and geopolitical dominance
00:02:46all over the world, through development and the arms race, space and new technologies.
00:02:54From here, however, the Soviet Union established a climate of closure towards the world
00:02:59and, through the dictatorship's hard hand,
00:03:02not only could people no longer leave the imaginary line of territorial borders,
00:03:08but military secrets were also kept until the fall of the USSR in the 90s.
00:03:14The question arises in such a vast territory,
00:03:17which borders the East with Poland and the West with Korea.
00:03:21How many secrets could have been forgotten in almost 50 years?
00:03:26The ones we will tell today are just some of the most shocking stories
00:03:30about the activity of mysterious space beings in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
00:03:37Chapter 1. The Incident of the Dyatlov Pass.
00:03:43It is January 25, 1959.
00:03:47A group of hikers decides to embark on an expedition north of Ural,
00:03:52an imposing mountain range that divides European Russia from Asia.
00:03:58Despite the freezing temperatures and harsh climatic conditions
00:04:02that usually characterize these mountain peaks in winter,
00:04:06ten young people, including eight men and two women,
00:04:10form a group to embark on a ski trip on Mount Otorten in Oblast Sverdlovsk.
00:04:19Most of them, some students of the Polytechnic Institute,
00:04:23were between 21 and 24 years old,
00:04:26and the expedition leader, Igor Alekseevich Dyatlov, was 23 years old.
00:04:33Although the route to be taken was considered category 3,
00:04:37which is very dangerous, especially at that time of the year,
00:04:41the group could boast of excellent knowledge,
00:04:45both of long expeditions and mountain exploration and climbing.
00:04:50Therefore, they began their journey with the enthusiastic spirit
00:04:54of those able to tackle this type of adventure.
00:04:59Their journey began when they arrived by train to the town of Ivdel,
00:05:04and then continued on board a truck to Vishay,
00:05:08the last inhabited town at the foot of the mountain range.
00:05:12A few days later, on January 27,
00:05:15they began their long journey to their long-awaited destination,
00:05:19although with an unexpected event.
00:05:22In fact, the next day, a member of the group, Yuri Yudin,
00:05:27was forced to abandon the trip due to health problems.
00:05:31The other nine continued.
00:05:34The ascent to the summit continued inexorably,
00:05:37even when the temperatures dropped slowly but drastically,
00:05:40reaching less than 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
00:05:43The following days, the group continued their adventure without major difficulties,
00:05:49even documenting the evolution of their journey
00:05:53through their diaries and taking photos with their cameras.
00:05:58For four long days, the group followed steep paths,
00:06:02battered by the wind and snow.
00:06:05However, an atmosphere of excitement invaded them.
00:06:08They had finally made it.
00:06:10They were there, free to admire those majestic landscapes,
00:06:14so far from any human comfort.
00:06:17In their diary, Zinaida Kolmogorova found time to think and write.
00:06:24I wonder what awaits us on this expedition.
00:06:27Who knows if we will experience something we have never seen before.
00:06:33On February 1, after having spent the whole day climbing the mountain,
00:06:38the group of hikers managed to get to the west side
00:06:41and, exhausted by their intense journey,
00:06:43decided to camp to spend the night,
00:06:46setting up their camping tents a few hundred meters from the top of Kolatsyakhl,
00:06:51a name that in the Mansi language, or the indigenous population that inhabits the area,
00:06:56means Dead Mountain.
00:06:59But from that day on, news of the group stopped arriving.
00:07:04On February 12, Dyatlov and his companions should have returned to Visay,
00:07:10but this did not happen that day, nor in the following days.
00:07:15The silence of the group of young hikers became increasingly intense.
00:07:20For days, there were no signs of people returning from the peaks of the Eurals.
00:07:25Then, the members of the families, tormented by a feeling of apprehension
00:07:30and provoked by the idea that the group could be in danger,
00:07:34managed to organize a rescue team,
00:07:37made up of volunteer students and professors from the institute.
00:07:42Thanks also to the pressure exerted on the director of the Polytechnic,
00:07:46on February 20, the search days began.
00:07:50The police and the army joined together using helicopters and planes
00:07:54to quickly cross the mountain range.
00:07:58For days and days, the searches did not yield results.
00:08:02It seemed as if the mountain had swallowed the group,
00:08:05and to make matters worse,
00:08:07the continuous snow storms delayed the activities of the searches.
00:08:14Finally, on February 26, there was a great advance.
00:08:19The volunteers finally managed to find the camp of the expedition.
00:08:24With discouragement and a slight feeling of consternation,
00:08:28what appeared before their eyes made them immediately doubt
00:08:32that the young hikers were still alive.
00:08:36Something terrible had happened along that mountain range.
00:08:40The tents were made of ash, some were on the ground,
00:08:44others were dismantled in a disorderly manner,
00:08:47in addition to being covered by a copious layer of snow,
00:08:50while the personal belongings and the equipment were disturbingly in order.
00:08:56There was meticulously folded clothing and boots placed next to sleeping bags,
00:09:01as if the group were about to go to sleep before disappearing in the air,
00:09:06but there was no trace of human presence.
00:09:09The strangest aspect that the rescuers noticed later
00:09:13was that the fabric of the tents seemed to have been torn from the inside,
00:09:17with knives or a sharp object,
00:09:20as if the group had been surprised by something or someone
00:09:23that had forced them to flee in a hurry,
00:09:26in the middle of the night, without taking the necessary precautions,
00:09:29to survive at a temperature well below zero.
00:09:34But what could have made them flee in this way?
00:09:37As a first observation, the rescuers assumed an avalanche or a bear attack,
00:09:42however, before answering this question with certainty,
00:09:46it was necessary to find the survivors, or in the worst case, their bodies.
00:09:52A series of footprints could be traced that came out of the tents
00:09:56and led to the forest a little more than a mile away, to the east,
00:10:01which then disappeared in the air after 500 meters,
00:10:05as if the man or woman who had left them had disappeared from one moment to another.
00:10:12A patrol then continued the search precisely to the northeast,
00:10:16and it was here, on the border with the forest, that they found the remains of a bonfire,
00:10:21under a large cedar tree, and just a few meters away,
00:10:24the bodies of two of the excursionists lay under the snow.
00:10:29Yuri Krivonischenko and Yuri Doroshenko,
00:10:33aged 23 and 21 respectively.
00:10:36Both were barefoot and dressed only in underwear.
00:10:41They had tried to light a fire so as not to freeze to death,
00:10:45but unfortunately, their efforts were in vain.
00:10:49The cedar had also been damaged.
00:10:52Its branches were broken and there was blood on the bark.
00:10:56This led the patrol to think that the two excursionists
00:10:59had gone up in a hurry to protect themselves from something.
00:11:02But from what?
00:11:04They needed two long months of search before finding the remaining seven excursionists.
00:11:10Three of the group were found a few miles from where they had set up their tents
00:11:15on the night of February 1.
00:11:17They were wearing boots and jackets,
00:11:19but nothing to keep them warm in the extreme minus 22 degrees.
00:11:24They were all found in the same position,
00:11:27lying face down with their heads facing the camp.
00:11:32Finally, the last four were found 75 meters from the camp,
00:11:37under about three meters of snow.
00:11:40Three of them had fatal injuries.
00:11:43The first had a fractured skull,
00:11:45while the other two had a large number of broken ribs,
00:11:49which caused a massive internal hemorrhage that led to death.
00:11:54However, during the autopsy,
00:11:56doctors reported that injuries like that could only be conceivable
00:12:00in the event of a fall from a great height or after a car accident,
00:12:06and said that these fatal injuries were inflicted while the excursionists were still alive,
00:12:12but the injuries were not attributable to a possible human attack.
00:12:17The strange anomalies do not end here.
00:12:20Two of the excursionists were found without eyeballs,
00:12:24with an expression of pure terror on their faces,
00:12:27while one of the girls was completely missing her tongue,
00:12:31as if she had been amputated surgically.
00:12:34The fourth member of the group was later found with a broken nose
00:12:38and a strangely swollen and deformed neck.
00:12:41However, the autopsy confirmed that his death was caused by hypothermia.
00:12:45Violent, terrifying and inexplicable deaths at the top of a mountain pass,
00:12:51which the indigenous people call the Dead Mountain,
00:12:54as if this were not enough to make the perfect setting for a horror movie.
00:12:59Then another detail is added to the story,
00:13:02perhaps the most disturbing of all.
00:13:04Some of the garments found in the camp were analyzed by experts
00:13:09and an abnormal amount of radiation was found in the fabric.
00:13:13No one was able to confirm what really happened to the nine excursionists,
00:13:18and in May 1959, the forensic team completed the investigations,
00:13:25while the chief reported the following.
00:13:29The cause of the deaths comes from an unknown force
00:13:32that the excursionists could not overcome.
00:13:39In the following years, the story of the nine excursionists
00:13:42became famous throughout the Soviet Union,
00:13:45and then spread around the world after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1990.
00:13:52The terrifying event that occurred on the Dead Mountain
00:13:55became known to all as the Dyatlov Pass Incident.
00:14:02But the question still remains, and the subject of discussion today is this.
00:14:07What motivated the group to leave their tents and run barefoot through the snow,
00:14:12without a coat, with a temperature of 20 degrees below zero?
00:14:16But above all, why did the damage to the internal organs not coincide with the wounds
00:14:22or contusions found on the skin, and why were their clothes radioactive?
00:14:28There are several theories about this that are still being debated today.
00:14:33The first speaks of an avalanche of ice that hit their tents
00:14:37and could have caused some of their wounds.
00:14:40However, the slope over the camp was not steep enough
00:14:44or high enough to produce a destructive avalanche capable of causing so much damage.
00:14:50In addition, from the photographs taken by the search and rescue team,
00:14:55it is shown how the group's equipment was buried under a light layer of snow,
00:15:00exactly in the area where the nine had raised the tents.
00:15:04If an avalanche had hit them, the shoes, skis and other equipment
00:15:09would have been dragged by the snow wave,
00:15:12or at least buried under a huge layer, which did not happen.
00:15:16Another theory suggests an attack on the group of hikers
00:15:20by a local tribe of Manzi indigenous people,
00:15:23but there was no reason for the Manzi to attack.
00:15:27And to top it off, discrediting this theory,
00:15:30is the fact that none of the supplies or items were stolen from the place of the incident.
00:15:36In addition, the nine young hikers of the Dyatlov expedition
00:15:41certainly were not the first to make excursions in Manzi territory.
00:15:46Dozens and dozens of groups passed through those areas
00:15:49without ever encountering problems with the Manzi tribes.
00:15:53A third theory speaks of a military test in the area.
00:15:57No one can say if it was done intentionally or accidentally.
00:16:01The fact is that some believe that the army tested an experimental weapon in the group,
00:16:06perhaps a missile or a biological weapon.
00:16:10This would explain the frenzy with which the group left the camp,
00:16:14and it could also explain the high amount of radiation found in their clothes.
00:16:20However, why would the army do such a thing
00:16:23when testing a weapon in a non-military place,
00:16:26when throughout the Soviet Union there were thousands of square kilometers
00:16:29of firing fields and military bases?
00:16:35There are also details that make you think more.
00:16:39Yuri, the young man who decided to leave the expedition for health reasons,
00:16:44stated that the group was in possession of a particular orange sphere of unknown origin,
00:16:50and that his skin, when found, was strangely tanned and dark.
00:16:57Not to forget the footprints that disappeared 500 meters east of the camp.
00:17:02How could there have been footprints since it snowed that night?
00:17:07It almost seems that someone returned to that cursed place to leave clues
00:17:12and only partially erase some of them,
00:17:15probably to hide something and confuse those who were investigating.
00:17:20Although the damage to the trees and the blood could be signs of force,
00:17:25and the way in which the young men were injured
00:17:28reminds of a kind of vengeful and methodical execution,
00:17:32carried out with deep anger and violence.
00:17:36It is not necessary to specify how many other theories speak of yetis,
00:17:40snow monsters and evil spirits.
00:17:43However, there is a theory that we absolutely cannot exclude,
00:17:47that of an extremely superior extraterrestrial force
00:17:51that could have acted that night without disturbance.
00:17:55For this we must take into account the photos taken during those winter days of 1959.
00:18:03For example, the roll of film taken from Alexander Solotaryov's camera
00:18:08shows several anomalies in the sky over the mountains.
00:18:13What we can see are lights or globular objects that illuminate the night sky.
00:18:20This was not an isolated case.
00:18:22The blinding lights were seen not only by the Dyatlov group,
00:18:26but also by other inhabitants of that region of the Urals.
00:18:30In fact, during the period between January and February of 1959,
00:18:36three different people reported to the authorities
00:18:40that they had noticed lights moving in the sky over those peaks.
00:18:44Is it possible that the group was being followed by those orbs of light?
00:18:49And if so, why is there no evidence that this happened in their diaries?
00:18:55An explanation could be a cover-up perpetrated by the army,
00:19:00which, once it took the reins of the case,
00:19:03concluded it with great pleasure,
00:19:05without giving time to the investigators to analyze the incident in detail
00:19:09and giving confusing, contradictory and not exhaustive conclusions.
00:19:15The diaries and cameras were seized immediately and taken to Moscow,
00:19:20although it is still curious that the Soviet government
00:19:23closed the area of the incident for many years,
00:19:27preventing anyone from approaching the Dyatlov Pass.
00:19:31There is not much more to know.
00:19:33Only with time will we know if what happened can be explained rationally,
00:19:38or if on that cold night of 1959,
00:19:42forces other than this planet came into play.
00:19:46In any case, the terrible incident of the Dyatlov Pass
00:19:50remains one of the most terrifying mysteries of our times.
00:20:02On the night of September 20, 1977,
00:20:05a series of celestial events of controversial nature
00:20:09took place in the skies of the city of Petrozavodsk and beyond,
00:20:13although the point of view of the sightings was registered in the city,
00:20:17were reported from Denmark to Finland and to the west of Vladivostok.
00:20:23On the coast of the Pacific of the Soviet Union, a vast territory.
00:20:28The phenomenon took its name from the city of Petrozavodsk,
00:20:32the capital of the Republic of Karelia in the then Soviet Union.
00:20:37The phenomenon was widely denounced by citizens,
00:20:41the sighting of a flying object that on the night of September 20
00:20:45would have flooded the city with numerous and very powerful rays of light.
00:20:50The dimensions of the events were so great that a few days later,
00:20:54some government officials from Western European countries
00:20:58sent multiple and different letters to Anatoly Alexandrov,
00:21:02President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR,
00:21:05expressing his concern about the incident,
00:21:08as it was believed that these strange light bulbs
00:21:11could have been caused by new experimental weapons tests
00:21:15by the Soviet Union.
00:21:18Since 1977, many have tried to attribute the phenomenon
00:21:22to the launch of the Soviet satellite Cosmos 955.
00:21:27However, in the same year, a preliminary report was written
00:21:30that contained a large amount of visual information,
00:21:34observations, radio location reports,
00:21:37physical measurements and combined meteorological data,
00:21:41and concluded that, based on the available data,
00:21:44it has not been possible to understand the observed phenomenon satisfactorily.
00:21:54The case of Petrozavodsk even contributed to the creation
00:21:57of a Soviet research program for UFO phenomena
00:22:01called SEDKA.
00:22:03For its implementation, two research commissions were built,
00:22:07the SEDKA-MO, related to the orders of the Ministry of Defense
00:22:12and composed mainly of military personnel,
00:22:15and the SEDKA-AN, integrated by the orders of the Academy of Sciences.
00:22:21The first group had the task of studying the military aspects of the problem,
00:22:25such as the possible influence of UFOs
00:22:28on the operation of devices and systems,
00:22:31while the second studied the scientific and physical effects
00:22:35correlated to UFOs,
00:22:38trying to understand in depth what causes and consequences
00:22:42could have caused such manifestations.
00:22:47The coordination of the first commission was in charge of Colonel Boris Sokolov.
00:22:52Of the second commission was the physicist Vladimir Migulin,
00:22:56supported by Dr. Yuliy Platov as its adjunct coordinator.
00:23:02In the first reports of SEDKA, the sighting was called
00:23:06the September 20th Phenomenon of 1977.
00:23:10Later it was known as the Petrozavodsk Phenomenon,
00:23:14although many have called it the Petrozavodsk Incident,
00:23:18or even the Petrozavodsk Miracle.
00:23:21From that day on in the Soviet Union,
00:23:24the phrase unidentified flying object
00:23:27was replaced by the term anomalous phenomenon,
00:23:31a definition certainly more generic and less intuitive.
00:23:38In the reports of that night,
00:23:40we can get a timeline of the events that took place
00:23:44during a period of more than five hours in the following ways.
00:23:48Most of the sightings that occurred between 1 a.m. and 5.20 a.m.
00:23:53involved around 48 reports of unidentified objects
00:23:57that appeared in the sky in a similar, but almost never identical, way.
00:24:02Several sightings occurred between 1 a.m. and 2.45 a.m. local time
00:24:07in the cities of Medved-Segorsk, Loushi, and Kovdor,
00:24:12and at 3 a.m. in the city of Palanga, Lithuania.
00:24:17From 3 a.m. to 3.25 a.m.,
00:24:20an unidentified luminous object was seen
00:24:23by the Supervisory Staff of the Commercial Maritime Port
00:24:27in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg.
00:24:30While at 3.30 a.m.,
00:24:32a flying object was seen by the crew of a fishing boat
00:24:36leaving the port of Primorsk.
00:24:39In the written reports of the testimonies,
00:24:42the fishermen described the object as a balloon wrapped in a luminous cloak
00:24:47that moved without making noise to the east,
00:24:50then abruptly changed course and headed north.
00:24:54Also around 3 a.m.,
00:24:56the phenomenon was seen in neighboring Scandinavia.
00:25:00In Helsinki, Finland,
00:25:02national newspapers reported sightings of luminous spheres
00:25:05in the following days.
00:25:08The flying object was seen by many residents of the Capitol that night,
00:25:12including taxi drivers, police officers, and airport staff.
00:25:17In addition, the newspaper Ilta-Sanomat
00:25:20had also reported a sighting
00:25:22that took place in the skies of Copenhagen, Denmark.
00:25:26The article reported the words of the pilots
00:25:29of a Finland Airlines plane returning from Rome.
00:25:32The two men observed a luminous sphere following its route,
00:25:36only to then shoot into the sky.
00:25:39In St. Petersburg, at that time Leningrad,
00:25:43the sighting of an unidentified object
00:25:45was reported by three night shift employees
00:25:48at the Pulkovo airport,
00:25:51including air traffic controller Boris Blugaev,
00:25:55who at 3.55 a.m.
00:25:57supposedly saw an object similar to a fireball
00:26:01to the northeast and with a 10-degree azimuth.
00:26:05Boris described it as an object surrounded by a luminous aura
00:26:09that expanded and contracted rhythmically
00:26:12through an intricate structure
00:26:15and added that the observed phenomenon
00:26:17did not resemble the aurora at all.
00:26:20However, these UFOs were mainly tracked
00:26:23in several places in the Soviet Union,
00:26:26especially in the northwest,
00:26:28causing concern among the higher commands of the Red Army.
00:26:32Through the night, luminous bodies
00:26:35capable of emitting strange rays of light or electric jets
00:26:39were reported floating in silence over the cities.
00:26:43Hundreds of eyewitnesses, including paramedics,
00:26:47policemen, sailors and divers,
00:26:49members of the army and staff at the airport
00:26:52and even an amateur astronomer.
00:26:55More reports came from different regions
00:26:58throughout that night,
00:27:00and so on December 30, 1978,
00:27:03Soviet investigators had collected
00:27:06a total of 85 reports
00:27:09on the Petrozavodsk phenomenon.
00:27:11Some of them came from important figures
00:27:14in Soviet society.
00:27:16At the Kurkijoki settlement,
00:27:19a luminous flying object attracted the attention
00:27:22of engineer Alexander Novoselov,
00:27:25who compared it in size to an aircraft.
00:27:28Initially, the man saw what he thought was a meteorite,
00:27:32but after a while, the object stopped
00:27:35and then moved towards him again,
00:27:38increasing in size and acquiring a well-defined shape,
00:27:41similar to that of a steering wheel.
00:27:44According to his description, the object was faceted
00:27:47and had points of light on the front and rear,
00:27:50while the edges shone with a slightly softer white light.
00:27:54The facets looked like windows lit from the inside
00:27:57and shone uniformly with a lighter white light
00:28:00than the edges.
00:28:02It moved at a height of 500 meters
00:28:05and was approximately 100 meters long,
00:28:08with an estimated diameter of between 12 and 15 meters.
00:28:11The engineer also reported that the object
00:28:14was approaching his house.
00:28:16And from the back, it launched a light ball
00:28:19that flew north to land in the nearby forest.
00:28:22The landing of this light ball would have caused
00:28:25a flash to appear that was so bright
00:28:28that it was visible through the trees.
00:28:31Another detailed account of an unidentified object
00:28:34was provided by the Soviet writer and philosopher Yuri Linnik,
00:28:37who observed the UFO in his country house
00:28:40near Namoyevo, around 3 a.m.,
00:28:43through an amateur telescope.
00:28:46This is what he wrote about that night.
00:28:49The object looked like a lens
00:28:52surrounded by a thin translucent ring.
00:28:55It was the color of a dark amethyst,
00:28:58intensely illuminated from the inside.
00:29:01The edges of the object had 16 nooks
00:29:04as points that emitted pulsating red light.
00:29:11Finally, it is also interesting to observe
00:29:14the evidence reported by several planes in transit
00:29:18in the Soviet airspace.
00:29:21The crew of a Tupulev-154 of the Aeroflot airline
00:29:26saw several luminous spherical aircraft
00:29:29at an altitude of 12 kilometers.
00:29:32It was also observed for half an hour
00:29:35by the Georgian writer Kuran Patsikidze
00:29:38and other passengers on a plane returning from Singapore to Moscow
00:29:41at an altitude of about 11 kilometers
00:29:44around 4.30 or 5 a.m.
00:29:47But the epicenter of these activities
00:29:50was undoubtedly the city of Petrozavodsk,
00:29:53which, in addition to being the capital of Karelia,
00:29:56was at that time an important industrial center
00:29:59of the Soviet Socialist Republic
00:30:02with a population of 200,000 inhabitants.
00:30:05The first report published on the phenomenon of Petrozavodsk
00:30:08was written by the correspondent
00:30:11of the Soviet information agency TASS,
00:30:14to abbreviate, Nikolai Milov,
00:30:17who described the unidentified object on the city
00:30:20as a great star that shone in the dark sky
00:30:23around 4 a.m. local time.
00:30:26It would have begun to send impulsive light rays to the earth,
00:30:29illuminating the city as if it were daytime.
00:30:32Following the preliminary analysis
00:30:35and the testimonies of the citizens,
00:30:38the coordinator of CETCA-AN
00:30:41stated that the star was spreading through the city.
00:30:44It had the shape of a jellyfish
00:30:47that flooded the city with a multitude of very thin rays of light,
00:30:50similar to a torrential rain of energy.
00:30:53Milov also reported that a few minutes
00:30:56after the beginning of the phenomenon,
00:30:59a luminous ray ceased and the jellyfish
00:31:02would have become a luminous semicircle,
00:31:05similar to that of Venus.
00:31:08The object, surrounded by a translucent layer,
00:31:11was initially sighted around 4 a.m.
00:31:14in the northwest part of the sky,
00:31:17moving towards the Great Bear,
00:31:20at an azimuth of approximately 40 degrees.
00:31:23The initial luminosity observable from the ground
00:31:26was apparently comparable to that of Venus.
00:31:29The angle determined by the former pilot
00:31:32and eyewitness, Viktor Varhatov,
00:31:35was 240 degrees, and as he continued his ascent,
00:31:38it expanded and throbbed without showing,
00:31:41however, a decrease in brightness.
00:31:44According to Varhatov,
00:31:47the object moved slowly for about 3 minutes
00:31:50and just before stopping in the city,
00:31:53it ejected a bright cloud in an oval shape.
00:31:56Intrigued by the statements,
00:31:59Felix Siegel, a well-known researcher
00:32:02and professor of cosmology at the University of Moscow,
00:32:05was also interested in the phenomenon
00:32:08and went to Karelia to interview the eyewitness,
00:32:11Andrei Akimov.
00:32:14From the words of the man,
00:32:17Siegel concluded that the diameter of the phenomenon
00:32:20would have been about 105 meters,
00:32:23and that the object was red in color
00:32:26compared to that of a full moon.
00:32:29The bright cloud would then develop a dark spot
00:32:32around the central nucleus, which expanded rapidly.
00:32:35As the brightness faded slowly,
00:32:38the object remained above Petrozavodsk for 5 minutes
00:32:41and then moved away at the angular speed
00:32:44of a passenger plane.
00:32:47Finally, according to Akimov,
00:32:50the whole phenomenon lasted about 10 to 15 minutes.
00:32:53After Siegel's participation,
00:32:56many others began to be interested in the phenomenon,
00:32:59especially in the scientific community,
00:33:02which, however, strongly questioned
00:33:05the veracity of these theories.
00:33:08So in November 1977,
00:33:11clinical psychologist Yalinea Adreyeva
00:33:14evaluated the mental condition of 9 eyewitnesses
00:33:17and came to these conclusions.
00:33:20It is important to be sure
00:33:23of the complete sanity of the eyewitnesses
00:33:26and the veracity of their answers and testimonies.
00:33:29In addition, several studies have found
00:33:32a certain impact of the phenomenon in the environment.
00:33:35According to Yuri Linnik,
00:33:38after September 20, 1977,
00:33:41there was an increase in biological activity
00:33:44in the areas where the objects had been observed.
00:33:48In fact, for the Carelia latitude,
00:33:51after the autumn equinox,
00:33:54the flowering of these plants is almost impossible.
00:33:57Then the intense presence
00:34:00of Ankystrodesmus algae
00:34:03in the waters of Lake Uxosero,
00:34:06probably caused by the radioactivity
00:34:09produced by the mysterious UFO,
00:34:12was underlined.
00:34:16However, from a technological point of view,
00:34:19engineers from the Petro Savots area
00:34:22noticed major failures in the computer device
00:34:25during the passage of the light bulb,
00:34:28only to then regain normal performance.
00:34:31Although the unidentified objects
00:34:34at the Helsinki, Pulkovo and Peski airports
00:34:37were never detected by the radar,
00:34:40the most surprising fact is that the objects
00:34:43were not even detected
00:34:46by the Soviet air defense system.
00:34:49The initial analysis of the phenomenon
00:34:52was carried out by the researcher
00:34:55of the Strindberg Astronomical Institute,
00:34:58Lev Gindelis, using various testimonies
00:35:01and meteorological data available
00:35:04since September 30, 1977.
00:35:07He wrote that the passage of an object
00:35:10allows simultaneous observations
00:35:13of all the places reported.
00:35:16They are plausible at an altitude
00:35:19of approximately 100 km or more.
00:35:22Gindelis noted that in that case,
00:35:25the minimum linear dimensions
00:35:28of the luminous spherical object
00:35:31should have been approximately 1 km,
00:35:34while the diameter of the mantle
00:35:37should have been 1.75 km.
00:35:40Gindelis described several obstacles
00:35:43related to this hypothesis,
00:35:46such as the movement to the east
00:35:49of the unidentified object.
00:35:52The Cosmos 955 was launched northeast.
00:35:55In addition, the theoretical dimensions
00:35:58of the two differed.
00:36:01The suggestion of the Cosmos 955
00:36:04was to move to the east
00:36:07in the direction of the Earth's rotation
00:36:10and never the other way around.
00:36:13In addition, in 1977,
00:36:16Gindelis worked with the physicists
00:36:19Menkov and Petrovskaya
00:36:22of the National Nuclear Research University of Moscow.
00:36:25They developed a preliminary report
00:36:28on the Petrozavodsk phenomenon,
00:36:31but the results were not conclusive,
00:36:34that is, without a certain explanation.
00:36:37Assuming that the scope of the phenomenon
00:36:40is apparently too large
00:36:43to be explained by technical experiments
00:36:46in the orbits of satellites,
00:36:49the report raised the hypothesis
00:36:52of a possible influence of some cosmic agent.
00:36:55This report was used during the meeting
00:36:58organized on November 1, 1977
00:37:01at the Space Studies Institute
00:37:04of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
00:37:07But even there, no one was able
00:37:10to rationally explain the scope of the event.
00:37:13At the end of January 1978,
00:37:16Soviet researchers compiled
00:37:19a preliminary report appendix from 1977
00:37:22that contained updated data,
00:37:25about the discovery of unidentified objects
00:37:28in other places and that were reported
00:37:31before the launch of the Cosmos 955.
00:37:34The French research group GEPAN
00:37:37received a copy of the article.
00:37:40This copy was later sent to CUFOS
00:37:43or UFO Studies Center
00:37:46in Evanston, Illinois, United States.
00:37:49A renowned ufologist, Joseph Allen Hynek,
00:37:52who later translated the report
00:37:55into English with a government subsidy.
00:37:58The Soviet report had a mixed reception
00:38:01in the West.
00:38:04Hynek, Hynek and others
00:38:07publicly stated that the report
00:38:10was a key proof of the existence
00:38:13of unidentified flying objects.
00:38:16While there were criticisms
00:38:19of the Soviet space program in the United States.
00:38:22Auberg criticized the Soviet research
00:38:25considering it a strategy
00:38:28to divert the attention of the Soviet Air Force
00:38:31of new experiments in aircraft.
00:38:34However, over time,
00:38:37several proposals have been made
00:38:40to explain the nature of the phenomenon.
00:38:43In the USSR, however,
00:38:46Vladimir Krat, a Pulkovo observer,
00:38:49initially thought it was caused
00:38:52by the fall of a meteorite.
00:38:55Years later, he attributed the phenomenon
00:38:58to the auroras.
00:39:01This opinion was also supported
00:39:04by Vladimir Mikulin, director
00:39:07of the Institute of Earth Magnetism.
00:39:10Mikulin and Krat's explanation
00:39:13was that the phenomenon
00:39:16occurred due to a rare competition
00:39:19of various circumstances,
00:39:22mainly the launch
00:39:25of the Cosmos 955 satellite,
00:39:28the strong magnetic disturbance
00:39:31due to the solar flare
00:39:34and a scientific experiment
00:39:37to influence the ionosphere
00:39:40with low-frequency radio waves.
00:39:43Then, James Auberg
00:39:46put an end to this infinity of explanations.
00:39:49He attributed the identity of the object
00:39:52to the launch of the Soviet satellite,
00:39:55the Cosmos 955,
00:39:58from the Plesets Cosmodrome
00:40:01on September 20,
00:40:04around 3.58 local time.
00:40:07Auberg's point of view
00:40:10was later backed
00:40:13by the high command
00:40:16of the Soviet government
00:40:19and found great support,
00:40:22especially from Yuli Platov
00:40:25in 1984.
00:40:28According to Platov,
00:40:31the appearance of a bright spot
00:40:34coincided with the exit
00:40:37of the satellite from the Earth's shadow.
00:40:40Similar phenomena,
00:40:43such as satellite launches
00:40:46near dawn or sunset,
00:40:49have been reported several times
00:40:52since the Petrozavodsk incident.
00:40:55Platov further linked the development
00:40:58of the radiant structure
00:41:01of the turbo-pores,
00:41:04above which the dispersion
00:41:07of combustion products occurs
00:41:10without the cushioning effect of the atmosphere.
00:41:13In short, a thickening of the escape gases
00:41:16of the aircraft that accumulated around it
00:41:19when the propulsion became more intense.
00:41:22In 1985,
00:41:25Platov's point of view
00:41:29In addition, the following year,
00:41:32Platov added that a series of effects
00:41:35that accompanied the Petrozavodsk phenomenon
00:41:38were associated with the failed test launch
00:41:41of a ballistic missile carried out
00:41:44in the same region almost simultaneously.
00:41:47However, Soviet researchers,
00:41:50following Platov's words,
00:41:53did not continue to investigate the phenomenon,
00:41:57Today, the Cosmos 955 argument
00:42:00is still being discussed,
00:42:03as evidenced by the words of Ole Prus,
00:42:06referring to his 18-year service experience
00:42:09at the Kapustin Yar Cosmodrome,
00:42:12he stated,
00:42:15For years,
00:42:18the high command of the Union
00:42:21considered UFOs
00:42:24as a mere sensationalist invention
00:42:27of the United States of America.
00:42:30An attempt of disorientation
00:42:33by the Washington government,
00:42:36implemented with the ultimate goal
00:42:39of diverting the attention of the masses
00:42:42of experimental military aircraft tests.
00:42:45For them,
00:42:48the trick seemed simple,
00:42:51to make modern war vehicles
00:42:54pass as spaceships,
00:42:57so that witnesses would transform
00:43:00in front of everyone into rare creatures,
00:43:03obsessed with science fiction movies and magazines,
00:43:06and therefore as people
00:43:09The resignation of the high command of the party
00:43:12led to a total renunciation
00:43:15of studying UFO phenomena,
00:43:18at least until some brave Soviet citizens
00:43:21began to report their sightings in the skies.
00:43:24But to get to this point,
00:43:27it took a long time and a less totalitarian government.
00:43:30At first, the reaction of the authorities
00:43:33was of total denial of the phenomenon.
00:43:36In Moscow,
00:43:39I used to send a letter of response
00:43:42to the witnesses of UFO activity.
00:43:45This letter, sent in standard format,
00:43:48had the following words.
00:43:51Dear comrade,
00:43:54what you have observed is nothing more than an experiment
00:43:57with the aim of measuring the density of the atmosphere
00:44:00at great height with the help of a sodium cloud.
00:44:03In fact,
00:44:06in the words of many state officials,
00:44:09Soviet citizens are not like Americans,
00:44:12they do not see mysterious objects in the sky,
00:44:15and even if they did,
00:44:18we are sure that science can give
00:44:21a logical and terrestrial explanation to the phenomena.
00:44:24This was the official explanation of the party
00:44:27during the 1950s.
00:44:30However, today we know for sure
00:44:33that already at the time there was a certain interest
00:44:36in the study of such sightings within the same power,
00:44:39often confused with American spy planes
00:44:42or foreign planes,
00:44:45seen as potential dangers for military defense.
00:44:48It was only after Stalin's death
00:44:51that information began to be collected about UFOs.
00:44:54The first real scholar in the sector was
00:44:57Yuri Fomins,
00:45:00who, when presenting his studies,
00:45:03created a lot of interest in public opinion,
00:45:06with which the party was not happy,
00:45:09and that is why it was silenced.
00:45:12He was also discredited thanks to an article in Pravda,
00:45:15the country's main newspaper,
00:45:18which, regarding his words, simply wrote
00:45:21These things called flying objects simply do not exist.
00:45:24In fact, the UFO phenomenon was relegated to mere lies
00:45:27by American science fiction,
00:45:30and Fomin's readings were prohibited
00:45:33by scientific research institutes.
00:45:36In this way, he became the first true martyr
00:45:39of extraterrestrial research behind the Iron Curtain.
00:45:42Only after Stalin's death in 1954,
00:45:45thanks to the De-Stalinization,
00:45:48a policy designed to eradicate
00:45:51the cult of the Georgian dictator's personality,
00:45:54and, in general, to lighten the repressive system
00:45:57of the previous years,
00:46:00people began to speak more freely about the UFO phenomenon.
00:46:03In 1964, a translation of the book
00:46:06Flying Sources was published in Russian.
00:46:09It was the first book about UFOs translated into Russian.
00:46:12But the situation began to change radically
00:46:15only in 1966,
00:46:18when the young Vladimir Rubstov published
00:46:21a first article that treated the UFO phenomenon
00:46:24as worthy of serious consideration.
00:46:27His article appeared in the magazine
00:46:30In Ukrainian Language, Knowledge and Work.
00:46:33In the article, witnesses were asked to present themselves,
00:46:36and so hundreds of them sent letters
00:46:39where they detailed what they had seen.
00:46:42Silver discs, bright airplanes and light bulbs.
00:46:45For the first time,
00:46:48citizens could speak freely
00:46:51about what was happening in their homes in the sky.
00:46:54Some letters even talked about sightings
00:46:57that occurred at the beginning of the 20th century,
00:47:00that had remained confined to their families for decades,
00:47:03as simple anecdotes that grandparents
00:47:06shared with the families in front of the chimney.
00:47:09However, it was only after Petrozavodsk
00:47:12that the UFO phenomenon was considered
00:47:15worthy of a serious investigation.
00:47:18And so, the Soviet high command began
00:47:21an extensive program for the study of the so-called
00:47:24anomalous phenomena.
00:47:27As we mentioned before, the program consisted of two parts,
00:47:30one civil and one military.
00:47:33CAAN was a civil study of physical nature
00:47:36and the mechanisms of development
00:47:39of atmospheric and space anomalous phenomena.
00:47:42Its main office
00:47:45was the Earth Magnetism Institute of the USSR,
00:47:48ionosphere and radio wave propagation,
00:47:51called the IZMIRAN.
00:47:58The ZKMO, which refers to a modular network,
00:48:01was a military study of atmospheric and space anomalous phenomena
00:48:04and their effects on the performance
00:48:08of the armed forces and the personnel.
00:48:11Its main organization
00:48:14was the Anti-Air Defense Institute
00:48:17located in Detishki, near Moscow.
00:48:20Both parts of this program were linked
00:48:23through the Industrial Military Commission.
00:48:26All their activities were secret for three precise reasons.
00:48:29The need to guarantee the mitigation
00:48:32of the public response,
00:48:35proximity to issues related to defense,
00:48:38and the possibility that,
00:48:41in case of successful completion of the tasks,
00:48:44some discoveries could be used for military purposes.
00:48:47The State Committee of the Council of Ministers
00:48:50on Hydrometeorology
00:48:53has been actively involved in this program since 1979.
00:48:56All the Soviet meteorological stations
00:48:59and the field study personnel
00:49:02received instructions and extensive questionnaires
00:49:05about the so-called anomalous phenomena
00:49:08seen during the years of service.
00:49:11In 1980, the governmental rules
00:49:14of UFO censorship were changed,
00:49:17giving ZK a huge power over public opinion,
00:49:20since by then all the articles,
00:49:23books and television programs
00:49:26had to have an additional approval seal
00:49:30Publishing any pro-UFO article was still impossible,
00:49:33since these articles
00:49:36could not go through double censorship.
00:49:39But despite the new censorship imposed by the regime,
00:49:42as is usually the case,
00:49:45at the beginning of the 1980s,
00:49:48the number of UFO enthusiasts increased significantly.
00:49:51In Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Kharkiv
00:49:54and other places,
00:49:57various societies and scientific and technical magazines
00:50:00began to organize public groups
00:50:03for the investigation of anomalous phenomena.
00:50:06In 1981, the first UFO meeting
00:50:09on Ukrainian soil was held in Kiev,
00:50:12where 12 scientists and 40 science candidates
00:50:15participated.
00:50:18The resolution of the meeting in Kiev
00:50:21stated that in the atmosphere,
00:50:24on the surface of the Earth
00:50:27and even in the nearby space,
00:50:30a vast number of complicated phenomena
00:50:33are constantly observed by physical and visual instruments
00:50:36that challenge the simple explanation
00:50:39as well-known natural phenomena
00:50:42or are due to human technological activities.
00:50:45This series of situations
00:50:48that are referred to as anomalous phenomena
00:50:51are a result of the practical activities of human society.
00:50:54In February 1984,
00:50:57with the consent of CETCA,
00:51:00recently renamed the Galaxy program,
00:51:03all UFO enthusiasts, scientifically oriented,
00:51:06met with the Commission on Anomalous Phenomena
00:51:09of the Committee on Environmental Protection Problems
00:51:12of the Council of the Union of Technical Scientific Societies.
00:51:15The commission was given the task
00:51:18of collecting and analyzing reports of witnesses
00:51:21of anomalous aerial activities
00:51:24and studying them in the places where they had occurred.
00:51:27The president of this commission
00:51:30was the corresponding member of the URSS,
00:51:33Professor Droitsky,
00:51:36head of the Gorky Commission of AP Studies.
00:51:39News related to the sightings
00:51:42appeared in the main Soviet newspapers
00:51:45such as Izvestia, Socialist Heskaya Industria,
00:51:48and Trud,
00:51:51even providing a postal address
00:51:54to which witnesses of UFOs could send letters
00:51:57related to their sightings.
00:52:00Finally, during the perestroika in 1989,
00:52:03all restrictions on UFO censorship were violated.
00:52:06In the Soviet press,
00:52:09many articles about topics that had remained secret
00:52:12or stories of incredible encounters,
00:52:15often very fanciful,
00:52:18with creatures from Mars or other mysterious planets
00:52:21on the Milky Way.
00:52:24Since 1990, new magazines and newspapers
00:52:27entirely dedicated to UFOs and paranormal phenomena
00:52:30have appeared.
00:52:33The most famous of these is the newspaper Anomaly
00:52:36from St. Petersburg, which has been active for more than 30 years.
00:52:39Although the first major Soviet UFO research program
00:52:42closed in 1991,
00:52:45after the collapse of the URSS,
00:52:48on December 25 of the same year,
00:52:51some participants continued to work with UFO reports,
00:52:54although at a low level.
00:52:57In particular, the so-called AP research group,
00:53:00inside is Izmiran,
00:53:03which carried out investigations for another 5 years
00:53:06in search of UFOs.
00:53:09This was the beginning of a series of bad finances
00:53:12caused by the economic crisis that took over Russia in 1990.
00:53:15All the ex-Svetka files are still intact,
00:53:18but they have been lying in the basement of the Izmiran Institute
00:53:21for more than 20 years.
00:53:24The Izmiran Research Institute is still active
00:53:27and intends to carry out different space studies,
00:53:30such as the COMPASS program,
00:53:33which is an orbital plasma telescope
00:53:36for the understanding and prediction of possible earthquakes on our planet.
00:53:39The INTERHELIOS SUND program,
00:53:42a long-term study currently frozen for unknown reasons,
00:53:45whose objective is to carry out,
00:53:48thanks to a space probe that investigates
00:53:51a distance of between 40 and 50 million kilometers
00:53:54from the sun on active solar phenomena,
00:53:57the solar crown, the wind,
00:54:00the polar regions of this star
00:54:03and all those areas of the sun not visible from Earth.
00:54:06INTERCOSMOS-19 or COSMOS-1809,
00:54:09a finished research experiment
00:54:12that aimed to observe
00:54:15the ionospheric structure of the Earth
00:54:18and the electromagnetic processes associated with it.
00:54:21PROYECTO PLONIOS,
00:54:24the design of a series of satellites capable of analyzing magnetic fields,
00:54:27and PROYECTO APEX,
00:54:30a series of experiments on active plasma.
00:54:33Some of these experiments could not only guarantee the safety of the planet,
00:54:36but also, by knowing in depth
00:54:39how the space around us works,
00:54:42technology will be able to give new fruits
00:54:45and in a directly proportional way.
00:54:48It will not be possible to understand in depth
00:54:51all those phenomena that until today seem unknown,
00:54:54but we will be able to discover new theories
00:54:57and probably also provide us with new perspectives
00:55:00regarding our step on this planet.
00:55:03The universe is a fractal mirror from micro to macro.
00:55:06Only by fully understanding it,
00:55:09it will not be possible to find the answers
00:55:12that we seek in ourselves.
00:55:15Only by understanding it,
00:55:18we will answer the questions about who we are,
00:55:21and above all,
00:55:24are we truly alone in the universe?
00:55:27Chapter 3
00:55:30The Voronezh Incident
00:55:35This last case is undoubtedly the most particular
00:55:38and makes us think more about a children's movie
00:55:41than a classic case of encounter
00:55:44with an extraterrestrial creature.
00:55:47It happened in Voronezh
00:55:50in a Russian village,
00:55:53like a mystery story
00:55:56capable of bringing some smiles to ufologists and others.
00:55:59In 1989, in Voronezh,
00:56:02a village located approximately 300 miles south of Moscow,
00:56:05an event occurred that disturbed the lives of its inhabitants,
00:56:08in particular those of a dozen children.
00:56:11A alleged sighting of a UFO
00:56:14linked to a close encounter
00:56:17with an extraterrestrial creature
00:56:20called the Voronezh UFO Incident,
00:56:23and it was one of the most intriguing stories
00:56:26of sightings and extraterrestrial contacts in the 20th century.
00:56:29This merit is given by its immediate global resonance,
00:56:32precisely because the promoter
00:56:35of the first publication
00:56:38was actually the official agency of the Soviet press, TASS,
00:56:41one of the most authorized newspapers of the time.
00:56:44In fact, TASS issued a statement
00:56:47that left the world breathless.
00:56:50A huge flying saucer would supposedly fly over
00:56:53the city of Voronezh for days,
00:56:56even landing among a crowd of astonished children.
00:56:59On October 4, 1989,
00:57:02Vladimir Ilyev-Belev,
00:57:05TASS' correspondent,
00:57:08reported the landing of a UFO
00:57:11a week earlier, on September 27.
00:57:14The agency did not immediately reveal
00:57:17the sighting news,
00:57:20but Ilyev-Belev sent a news report on October 9,
00:57:23stating that some scientists
00:57:26had confirmed the landing of the spacecraft.
00:57:29The next day, TASS reported the news
00:57:32and its statement shocked the world.
00:57:36In Voronezh,
00:57:39on the night of September 27 at 6.30 pm,
00:57:42a group of about 10 boys
00:57:45aged between 11 and 16
00:57:48left school to meet
00:57:51in a park on the outskirts of the city
00:57:54with the intention of having fun playing football.
00:57:57But they would never have imagined
00:58:00that that night they would meet visitors from another planet.
00:58:03Once they arrived at the park,
00:58:06they saw a strange red light shining in the sky
00:58:09and shortly after,
00:58:12an intense red sphere of about 10 meters in diameter appeared.
00:58:15The object began to spin around the park
00:58:18under the astonished gaze of the children.
00:58:21Once it completed its recognition journey,
00:58:24it began to descend to the ground
00:58:27and its color was gradually changing,
00:58:30the sphere stopped suspended in the air
00:58:33about 4 meters from the ground,
00:58:36remaining motionless for a few moments.
00:58:39Without prior notice, the object flew quickly
00:58:42and then completed its descent.
00:58:45It finally landed in front of the astonished group of children.
00:58:48They saw a trap open at the bottom of the luminous sphere
00:58:51and an alien came out of there.
00:58:54It was a humanoid about 10 feet tall,
00:58:57dressed in a silver overall
00:59:00and bronze boots with a disc on the chest.
00:59:03Its head was small,
00:59:06without a neck and had three black eyes.
00:59:09Among them, the central eye moved like a radar
00:59:12analyzing the entire surrounding territory.
00:59:15Along with the humanoid,
00:59:18a small robot also emerged
00:59:21and without being disturbed, they walked around the city park.
00:59:24Petrified by the unexpected visit,
00:59:27the children of Voronezh did not move,
00:59:30except for one of the children who screamed in fear.
00:59:33Immediately, the humanoid's eyes identified the boy
00:59:36and they became more and more bright.
00:59:39The child was unable to move,
00:59:42a strange force had petrified him.
00:59:45The others, for fear of ending up like his friend,
00:59:48did not move and the strange being
00:59:51returned to his sphere along with the small robot.
00:59:54The two took off to the sky
00:59:57disappearing among the clouds.
01:00:00However, the being returned after 5 minutes.
01:00:03The sphere with the humanoid on board
01:00:06descended once more in the park.
01:00:09This time, the humanoid held a tube
01:00:12about 50 centimeters long
01:00:15along which it pointed to another 16-year-old boy.
01:00:18It was a kind of weapon
01:00:21from which a beam of light came out
01:00:24that hit the boy,
01:00:27making him disappear in the air.
01:00:30The humanoid returned to his ship once more
01:00:33and took off towards the sky,
01:00:36but this time forever.
01:00:39The panic quickly spread among the boys,
01:00:42but a few minutes later, the boy hit by the beam
01:00:45had disappeared without remembering anything,
01:00:48while the other boy also quickly regained
01:00:51the ability to move.
01:00:54The news spread quickly throughout the city
01:00:57and after learning of the incident,
01:01:00the chief of TASS and Libevlev interviewed the boys.
01:01:03The newspapers only revealed the names of three boys
01:01:06of the group who were present that day.
01:01:09Shortly after, the names of a large number of local witnesses
01:01:13including a group of adults who were waiting for the bus
01:01:16at a stop near the park.
01:01:19All the testimonies collected
01:01:22from both the group of teenagers and the adults
01:01:25had many points in common.
01:01:28In the statements of Lieutenant Sergei Mayev
01:01:31from the police station in the district of Voronezh,
01:01:34he stated that he saw the landing of the UFO
01:01:37on September 27, 1989,
01:01:40and that it was an optical illusion.
01:01:43Later he explained that he had not seen the aliens
01:01:46land in the first-hand park,
01:01:49but only saw a strange ship.
01:01:52According to his words, it was certainly a flying body in the sky,
01:01:55moving silently at a very high speed
01:01:58and low altitude.
01:02:01He also said that he was a little skeptical
01:02:04when he saw the object for the first time.
01:02:08Then I thought,
01:02:11today everything is possible.
01:02:14Days later, Dr. Genrikh Silanov,
01:02:17Director of the Geophysical Laboratory of Voronezh,
01:02:20told TASS's correspondent
01:02:23that he had located the landing site
01:02:26using a biolocalization method
01:02:29and that he had found a circular depression in the place
01:02:32with four holes arranged in the shape of a cross
01:02:36and two pieces of unidentified red rock.
01:02:39The journalist Valachev of the TASS agency
01:02:42later reported that an abnormal level of radioactivity,
01:02:45an intense magnetic field
01:02:48and fragments of the isotope Caesium-133
01:02:51had been found on the site.
01:02:54In addition, the depressions on the ground
01:02:57seemed to belong to the probable landing gear
01:03:00and could have been caused by an object
01:03:03weighing a few tons.
01:03:06Professor Stanislav Kamensky,
01:03:09responsible for the scientific investigation
01:03:12carried out to establish what had happened,
01:03:15stated that the object that landed in the park
01:03:18did not look at all like a terrestrial artifact
01:03:21like a helicopter or a plane.
01:03:24While the correspondent of the Soviet newspaper
01:03:27Sovetskaya Kultura de Voronezh
01:03:30and the witnesses were still terrified.
01:03:33Some children even made drawings
01:03:36describing the experience with the two mysterious creatures.
01:03:39The news was also published in Western newspapers.
01:03:42In the following days, different versions appeared.
01:03:45Some newspapers reported that the UFO
01:03:48was not spherical,
01:03:51but like a disk or a vertical cigar.
01:03:54While the Estonian newspaper Youth
01:03:57in an article written by its correspondent
01:04:00reported that after the descent of the humanoid
01:04:03and the robot, two other humanoids
01:04:06would have made a brief appearance.
01:04:09However, some aspects of the case
01:04:12also left several ufologists perplexed.
01:04:15They noticed in the children's story
01:04:18the presence of fantastic elements
01:04:21often present in science fiction movies
01:04:24and people who vanish.
01:04:27The strangeness of the case led ufologists,
01:04:30journalists and scientists to investigate
01:04:33and thus they realized a particular detail.
01:04:36It was proven that Dr. Silanov
01:04:39was not a scientist, but a ufologist
01:04:42and that the structure he directed
01:04:45was a private laboratory.
01:04:48In addition, the biolocalization method he had used
01:04:51was different from radiesthesia,
01:04:54a paranormal technique.
01:04:57Silanov himself denied that the red stones
01:05:00he found were of unknown nature,
01:05:03they were simply pieces of matita.
01:05:06But for ufologists, the other information
01:05:09reported by TASS was not the one
01:05:12originally communicated by him.
01:05:15Thus, other witnesses of the sighting were sought
01:05:18who reported having seen a red and yellow light
01:05:21above the roofs of the houses
01:05:24while he was at a family party.
01:05:27The lack of other witnesses seemed strange
01:05:30because the area around the park
01:05:33was densely populated and surrounded
01:05:36by numerous public housing buildings.
01:05:39The citizens waiting for the bus were found.
01:05:42They confirmed that they had seen the UFO,
01:05:45between September 21 and 26.
01:05:48In the following days,
01:05:51there were several sightings of UFOs in the city.
01:05:54Reporters tried to track the children,
01:05:57but state television could not get close
01:06:00to them due to a family ban.
01:06:03Subsequently, the correspondent of the newspaper
01:06:06Moskovsky-Navorsky came to the scene.
01:06:09There must have been only a dozen witnesses,
01:06:12but the boys who presented themselves
01:06:15to the reporters in the park were in large numbers
01:06:18and all said they had witnessed the sighting
01:06:21and were willing to be interviewed.
01:06:24TASS was subject to many criticisms
01:06:27and, although it defended its work,
01:06:30admitted that there may have been
01:06:33some exaggeration in its statement.
01:06:36For its part, the journalist Liev Kievdent
01:06:39said that the witnesses had added details
01:06:42to the story of the boys.
01:06:45The Scientific Commission of the Soviet Union
01:06:48ordered an official investigation to study the case.
01:06:51On October 28, the French press agency
01:06:54published the news that a commission
01:06:57headed by the vice-rector of the University of Voronezh,
01:07:00Igor Sarakev, had carried out an investigation
01:07:03in the place of the alleged landing
01:07:06of an alien vehicle.
01:07:09There were no anomalous levels of radiation,
01:07:12just a slight increase that could be explained
01:07:15by the Chernobyl accident that had occurred a few years earlier.
01:07:18There was no magnetic anomaly
01:07:21and the depressions on the ground
01:07:24had no characteristics that could suggest
01:07:27the landing of an alien vehicle.
01:07:30In practice, the elements that supported the sighting
01:07:33were reduced to the testimonies of the boys,
01:07:36and this led the Russian ufologist Boris Shurinov
01:07:39to declare that the case of Voronezh
01:07:42collapsed like a castle in Naipes,
01:07:45and the journalists who went to the place
01:07:48met face to face with children eager to be interviewed
01:07:51and ready to testify as witnesses.
01:07:54Shurinov then explained that the symbol of the planet
01:07:57Umur, similar to the letter C in the Cyrillic alphabet,
01:08:01is present in the drawing of one of the boys,
01:08:04but the boy had never been present with the others
01:08:07at the time of the sighting.
01:08:10The boy reproduced the symbol seen in a photo
01:08:13that a resident of Voronezh had shown him,
01:08:16which represented a UFO sighted in 1967 in Spain.
01:08:21However, Russian ufologists did not know
01:08:24that the photo, with a deeper analysis,
01:08:27turned out to have been modified.
01:08:30Even if the Voronezh case is reduced
01:08:33compared to its initial news,
01:08:36ufologists still found that in 1989
01:08:39numerous UFO sightings were reported
01:08:42in the Soviet Union,
01:08:45including some landings followed by close encounters
01:08:48with humanoids.
01:08:51The incident of Voronezh, despite all its strangeness
01:08:54and the chaos it generated in the city,
01:08:57remains one of the most unique and amazing
01:09:00close encounter events that have occurred
01:09:03since the post-war period,
01:09:06and thus concludes our journey of exploration
01:09:09of extraterrestrial phenomena in the territory of the USSR.
01:09:13The three stories we have told
01:09:16demonstrate the immensity of ufological activity
01:09:19in the former Soviet Union,
01:09:22a land whose secrets and mysteries
01:09:25we still know very little about today.
01:09:28In any case, in the Kremlin archives
01:09:31there are still thousands of classified documents,
01:09:34pages and pages of testimonies
01:09:37that, if ever revealed,
01:09:40would constitute a golden age
01:09:43for ufologists and enthusiasts in the sector.
01:09:52Thank you for watching!