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Russia may be one of the areas on this planet that has been laden with incredible amounts

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of UFO activity since the beginning of time.

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These flying machines were seen all over the Soviet Union.

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The Soviets knew something about UFOs.

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They had secrets.

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The Soviets, having their possession no less than the remains of five trashed and recovered

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UFOs.

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There is undeniable evidence that Russia is sitting on a virtual treasure trove of information

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that proves that extraterrestrials visited Earth in our distant past.

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Since the dawn of civilization, mankind has credited its origins to gods and other visitors

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from the stars.

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What if it were true?

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Great extraterrestrial beings really helped to shape our history.

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And if so, might the ultimate proof be found in Russia's secret files?

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Moscow, Russia, December 25, 1991.

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At 7 p.m., Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev makes a nationally televised address to announce

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his resignation.

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I hereby discontinue my activities at the post of President of the USSR.

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Moments later, the Soviet flag is lowered from the Kremlin for the final time.

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One of the world's two superpowers has fallen.

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From 1922 to 1991, Russia was under the restrictive regime of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,

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which ruled over much of Northern Asia and Eastern Europe.

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The Soviet government was known for its brutality, oppression, and culture of absolute secrecy.

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It was very much a case of everything that happens within government, stays within government,

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and the consequences were lethal.

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This was a closed, highly secretive society that kept secrets not just, of course, from

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us in the West, but from its own people.

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One of the challenges of defending this vast land mass in Russia is that its borders are

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very insecure at all points.

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So in order to conquer space, it has an obsession with national security.

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Secrecy has become embedded within the political culture, and also many people in Russia agree

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with the idea that most things should be kept a secret.

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When the Soviet Union was dissolved, so too was its main security agency, the KGB.

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The top secret KGB files were suddenly vulnerable, with many in the hands of former agents ready

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to sell them to the highest bidders.

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Thousands more were smuggled out by Vasili Mitrokhin, who worked in the KGB's Foreign

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Intelligence Archive from 1972 to 1984.

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The documents that have been leaked include KGB information on secret Russian weapons

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caches, Russian spies, and even UFO reports.

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The Soviet Union had a large number of UFO encounters.

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Western researchers had really no knowledge of what was going on behind the iron curtain.

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We now know that there were thousands and thousands of Soviet UFO cases that were taking

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place during that time.

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A number of records did indeed come out, and we now have access to them.

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Could the definitive evidence of extraterrestrial contact lie hidden within the secret KGB

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files that are just now coming to light?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest recent findings reveal the Soviets were not

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only covering up modern UFO reports, but also proof that aliens visited Earth in the distant

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past.

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Leningrad, Russia, December 1, 1934.

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Sergei Kiroff, a Communist Party leader and rival to fellow Party leader Joseph Stalin,

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is murdered.

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The assassination marks the beginning of the darkest period in the history of the Soviet

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Union, the Great Purges.

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With Kiroff gone, Stalin's power grew, and he unleashed a widespread campaign of ruthless

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political persecution meant to weed out dissenters and consolidate his absolute authority.

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Among the millions who were arrested and interrogated during this period was respected Russian scientist

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and philosopher Dr. Henrik Ludwig.

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An incredible human being.

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This was a person who could speak 20 ancient and modern languages.

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He had incredible encyclopedic knowledge.

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Dr. Ludwig was accused of being a spy for the Vatican and spent decades in one of Stalin's

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brutal gulag labor camps.

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But in 2011, 38 years after his death, an article in the Russian newspaper, Sovrshina

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Sokretna, or Top Secret, revealed the true purpose of Ludwig's work at the Vatican and

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possibly also for his arrest.

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The reason he was accused of being a spy for the Vatican is because in 1920s, as a young

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student of architecture, he visited the Vatican, where he was given access to the secret library.

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In that library he found manuscripts that describe extraterrestrial civilizations and more.

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Dr. Henrik Ludwig discovered a number of manuscripts suggesting that there had been historic

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extraterrestrial contact with ancient civilizations in Egypt, Israel, and Mesopotamia.

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These manuscripts that talked, for example, about the pyramids and described them as energy

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machines.

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When he went back to the Soviet Union, they treated him very poorly, when in fact he was

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perhaps the greatest of all the early researchers into the whole concept of ancient aliens coming

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to our planet.

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Might Dr. Ludwig have really discovered ancient manuscripts within the Vatican that describe

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extraterrestrials visiting Earth?

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Did the Russian government accuse him of espionage in an attempt to suppress his controversial findings?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and claim Ludwig was not the only one silenced by the

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Soviet government for his research.

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When Vladimir Lenin seized power in 1917, he established the first state to seek the

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elimination of religion.

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The Communist regime also actively suppressed a philosophy that had become widespread throughout

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Russia in the early 20th century.

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Cosmism.

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There is a Russian tradition beginning in the late 1800s called Cosmism.

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The Cosmists began with a philosopher, a guy named Nikolai Fyodorov, in the 1870s and

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1880s who inspired the father of Soviet rocketry, who actually designed the rockets that put

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the first man into space.

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And they believed that human civilization actually had origins in outer space.

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And that it was our destiny as human beings to move back into space and we would go back

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into the cradle of civilization.

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After Joseph Stalin died, many of those individuals that were exploring the idea of ancient paleo

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contacts with aliens were allowed to voice their opinions publicly.

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In 1961, Russian physicist and mathematician, Matast Agrest, published a controversial paper

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proposing that extraterrestrials had visited Earth's ancient civilizations.

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Their theories were also offered by author Alexander Kazantsev and astronomer Yosef Shlovsky.

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But while these researchers did not suffer the same persecution as those that came before

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them, they claimed that the Soviet government worked to suppress their theories.

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The idea that they were of Soviet astronomers who were seriously studying these topics and

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ideas leads me to think that we're the ones who are onto something and we are now able

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to access information that for so many years has remained censored.

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Is it possible that the truth about extraterrestrial contact was hidden behind the iron curtain

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of the former Soviet Union?

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Perhaps further clues can be found by examining a mysterious site that may hold proof of an

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ancient extraterrestrial visitation.

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Russia.

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Spanning a staggering 6.6 million square miles, it is the largest country on Earth.

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Its massive territory is also the most geographically diverse, consisting of some of the most extreme

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terrain on the planet, including dense forests, frozen tundra, remote mountains, and barren

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deserts.

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Despite its physical size, as much as 50% of Russia remains uninhabited and largely unexplored

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by mankind.

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Russia is almost twice the size of the United States.

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Just to compare, the United States expands over four time zones, while Russia expands

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over 11 time zones.

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The size of Russia, its harsh climate, especially in the northern parts of Russia, makes it

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very difficult to explore.

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One of Russia's most mysterious areas is a valley just north of Kazakhstan, where in

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1987, archaeologists from the University of Chelyabinsk discovered the remains of an ancient

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settlement, which they were able to date back to between the 17th and 20th centuries BC.

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Much of the original structures of this megalithic site, known as Arkhaim, no longer exist, but

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scientists have mapped out its original design, which includes massive circular walls similar

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to Stonehenge.

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So Arkhaim has been described as Russia's Stonehenge.

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Now this is quite intriguing because it's a very similar latitude to Stonehenge.

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So it's been suggested that it could have been put there for astronomical and surveying

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purposes.

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It seems that Arkhaim at some point was some type of an observatory, which I think is incredibly

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fascinating because it means that worldwide our ancestors witnessed other things that

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would explain this long-held fascination with the stars.

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The way the city was built was a circular structure.

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It had a very interesting central square.

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Incredibly, it was an interior circle surrounded by a circle, which to many means the Mandala

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principle of the Buddhism, or depiction of the universe in a very miniaturized way.

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Incredibly, archaeologists have found that Arkhaim was built with features aligned to

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measure as many as 18 astronomical events, such as the Solstices and equinoxes, and discovered

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among the ruins was an ancient statue of a man looking up to the sky.

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Adding to the mystery are reports of strange anomalies in the region that continue to this

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day, which include magnetic inconsistencies, strange lights, and curious fog formations.

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When you consider the strange lights, the weird fog, the magnetic anomalies, the unusual

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hallucinations and things that have happened to people there, it appears that this is some

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sort of energy node or vortex point on the earth that was actually utilized by extraterrestrials

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when this was constructed.

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If you actually look at the shape of Arkhaim, it could have been the platform for a spacecraft

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like a rocket to launch off from.

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But Arkhaim really have been the site of an extraterrestrial visitation thousands of

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years ago.

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And might this be why the structures found here were built with such precise astronomical

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alignments?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest physical evidence of such a visitation might

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exist in the nearby Ural Mountains.

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Ural Mountains are very old mountains stretching from the Russian North to the Russian South.

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It kind of splitting Russian into two parts, Europe and Asia.

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But people living in the Ural Mountains witness some strange phenomena in the air and on the

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ground.

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Dozens of visitors to the Ural Mountains have reported strange sightings of fireballs and

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cigar shaped crafts.

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But even stranger is what has been found in the earth here.

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In 1991, geologists led an expedition into the mineral rich urals in hopes of locating

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gold deposits.

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While excavating sites near the Kozine-Norada and Balbanu rivers, just 600 miles north of

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Arkhaim, the scientists discovered something unexpected.

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At depths of over 30 feet, they unearthed a scattering of tiny metal coils and springs.

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That soil was untouched for hundreds of thousands or more years.

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The area where it was found was probably tens of kilometers around.

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It's as if something exploded thousands of years ago and the fragments were lying all

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over the place.

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The metal fragments, some as small as one tenth of an inch, were sent to the Russian Academy

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of Sciences in St. Petersburg for analysis.

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Their shape resembled manufactured technology rather than naturally occurring minerals.

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The smallest pieces were found to be tungsten, a metal used in spacecrafts and missiles due

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to its ability to withstand high temperatures.

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They are these metal spirals that consist of copper but also tungsten and molybdenum,

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which are both very rare metals.

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We're looking at nanotechnology.

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When you look down at them in a microscope, they're extremely regular in their structure.

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They're very nice coils.

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The only way we could make them even now is with machine-guided technology.

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You could not do this by hand.

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What we're seeing here is proof that someone had advanced technology sufficient to build

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the type of circuitry that we normally only see in semiconductors.

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Computer chips, high technology equipment using metals that are not commonly known.

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So these spirals are clear evidence that someone had a very advanced civilization right here

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on Earth near Arkahim.

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Might extraterrestrials have visited the Ural Mountains in the distant past?

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And if so, did they leave behind evidence of advanced technology?

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Could they have helped to build the prehistoric observatory of Arkahim, as ancient astronaut

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theorists contend?

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Perhaps further clues can be found by examining much more recent accounts of otherworldly

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visitations.

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Coming up, he had collected hundreds of UFO cases.

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So the Union would not give it public credence, but we now have very good information that

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it was reality.

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Moscow, May 17, 1967.

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In a secure government building, a meeting is held of scientists dedicated to collecting

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comprehensive research on reports of unidentified flying craft.

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It is the first official Soviet UFO study group.

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And six months later, on November 10, the government gives its approval for the group's

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deputy, astronomer Felix Ziegel, to present its findings on Soviet central television.

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Felix Ziegel asked the public to contact them with sightings.

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Now this was an extraordinary development.

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Previously little, if anything, had been made public about official interest in this.

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And here you have somebody going on television, talking about it quite openly and inviting

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people to send in their sightings.

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Well, needless to say, there were a lot of sightings that were then reported, but the

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project itself soon was dogged by controversy and dissent.

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Shortly after the television broadcast, the government forced the group to be disbanded,

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fearful that it might lead to reports surfacing of top secret Soviet military tests.

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But Ziegel still managed to collect a huge amount of data, including reports from Russian

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pilots.

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He was able to publish some of his findings in a 1968 anthology titled The Inhabited Cosmos.

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I met Felix Ziegel in Moscow.

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He had collected hundreds of UFO cases.

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He said that these flying objects were seen all over the Soviet Union.

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Some of them were small, others large and spherical.

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The technology must be extraterrestrial because they reach an incredible speed that no human

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would survive.

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While publicly, the Soviet government denounced the research of Felix Ziegel.

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They did not stop him from continuing his work and even reviewed his findings.

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But why?

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Russian astronaut theorists suggest that the government may have been aware that there

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really was an alien presence in their skies.

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And they used Ziegel and other UFO researchers as a way to secretly monitor this activity.

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A number of records of surface from the Soviet Air Force and the KGB showing that particularly

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in the 50s, 60s and 70s, they took the UFO subject very, very seriously.

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Soviet scientists had to come up with incredible ways with which to share their knowledge with

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their colleagues in the Western world.

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So they essentially hid their messages in code, in letters, in different types of correspondence.

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Why would anyone risk going to jail by coding messages to people and scientists outside

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the iron curtain if you weren't compelled enough that what you're writing about is the truth?

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Throughout the 1960s and most of the 70s, the Soviet government's interest in UFOs

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remained unofficial.

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That changed after September 20, 1977, when numerous residents of Petrovsk reported seeing

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a glowing object floating in the sky above for over five minutes, showering the city

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with rays of light.

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A copy remains of a lost photograph that was taken of the object.

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And astonishingly, similar UFOs were reported all across Russia and Eastern Europe, within

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a four-hour window.

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On the heels of this mass sighting, the Soviet Union established the Russian Academy of Sciences

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UFO Commission.

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In 1984, they appointed Major General Pavel Popovich, the eighth man ever to reach space,

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to head up this research team.

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Pavel Popovich brought forth a lot of the UFO information himself, and he was able to

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obtain the KGB UFO files, 124 pages in 1992.

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He said that he knew of the existence of three underwater bases, where the extraterrestrials

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exist and operate.

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This is a man whom we should listen to.

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He had two UFO sightings himself, a very significant one in 1978, when he was flying back from

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the United States to Russia.

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On his window, he saw an absolutely enormous football field size or larger triangular craft

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that was moving at a really good clip.

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I mean, easily overtook the commercial airliner that he was in.

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He wasn't the only one on his plane to see this, by the way.

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He talked to a lot of the other people, many of whom were academicians coming back from

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a conference, many of whom saw this.

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Major General Pavel Popovich really witnessed first-hand an extraterrestrial spacecraft,

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and might he also have found evidence in secret KGB files of underwater alien bases?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest even more profound evidence can be found in

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a small mountain town in eastern Russia, the remains of a crashed UFO.

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What people there saw was this low-flying, very slow object.

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It dropped almost like a stone.

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It wasn't made on planet Earth.

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One of the most decorated test pilots in Russian history is a woman named Marina Popovich,

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the wife of astronaut Pavel Popovich.

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Marina set over 100 records during her career in the Soviet Air Force, which includes being

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the first woman to break the sound barrier.

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Like her husband, she too reported on extraterrestrial encounters.

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In 2003, Marina published a book disclosing her first-hand experiences with UFOs.

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In it, she also referenced thousands of similar UFO sightings by other Soviet military and

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civilian pilots.

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She told their stories at speaking engagements all over the world, like the story of a fighter

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pilot who was asked to fire upon an unidentified disc-shaped craft.

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Marina Popovich is one of the most famous aviators in history.

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She was in a good position to know what she knew.

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She was a very well-connected individual.

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She talked about something like 3,000 UFO cases that had occurred in the Soviet Union

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over the years, which considering the fact that we knew next to nothing about the history

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of Soviet UFOs before that was very significant.

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There is particular interest in sightings from pilots.

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pilots are able, for example, to judge distances, speeds, heights in a way that maybe the average

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person can't.

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And Marina Popovich has made a particular effort to collate all these pilot stories.

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What's particularly notable about Marina Popovich's comments on the UFO subject is that she stated

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that sources have informed her that the Soviets, having their possession no less than the remains

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of five crashed and recovered UFOs.

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Did both Marina and Popovich, along with scores of other respected Soviet pilots, really encounter

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alien crafts?

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And if so, might there be even more sightings recorded by the Russian authorities than have

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not yet been disclosed to the public?

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The Russian Air Force is now in the town of Alnogorsk, Russia, January 29th, 1986.

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Just before 8 p.m. in this small mining town in eastern Russia, hundreds of people see

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a red glowing sphere moving slowly through the sky above a nearby mountain.

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It appeared to slow down before crashing into the hillside.

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The sphere flies into the Isbyskovo mountains and burns up.

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There is an explosion and people want to find out what happened because I've read eyewitness

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accounts, incredible.

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Because of the huge number of eyewitnesses, the crash became known as the Russian Roswell.

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And like at Roswell, the Russian air force is now in the air.

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And like at Roswell, physical evidence was recovered from the site, proving that a crash

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of some kind did in fact occur.

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Some local people and researchers managed to get to the site.

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They find very interesting artifacts, remains.

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While officials dismissed the event as a possible meteor crash, microscopic analysis of the debris

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yielded unusual results.

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The samples contained a complex system of woven metallic fibers.

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And the atomic structure of the metal itself appeared to change when exposed to heat.

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When they melted the metal and put it to a spectrum analysis, the gold and silver and

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other metals were gone.

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And instead, there was titanium and molybdenum there.

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And so you have here some kind of metals, which apparently are mutating into other metals,

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which was very, very unusual.

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I think it's part of some kind of machinery, nanotechnology machinery.

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It wasn't made on planet Earth.

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It was later studied by a number of Soviet scientific institutions.

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And some of them said that technology like this does not exist on Earth today.

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Subsequent to the Dalnagorce crash, there have been a number of sightings in exactly the

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same area.

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Some people have even seen an object apparently land on the hillside where the first crash

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took place.

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Despite the object that crashed at Dalnagorce and was witnessed by hundreds of people, really

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have been an alien craft.

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Could the physical evidence left behind provide undeniable proof that otherworldly beings

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are visiting planet Earth and have been for thousands of years?

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Astronaut theorists say yes and believe that Russians have had contact with aliens not

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just here on Earth, but even in space.

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Coming up, they describe seeing seven angelic beings traveling alongside their spacecraft.

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Whatever it was they were witnessing, it was real.

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It was out there.

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To date, everything has gone according to plan.

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But on this day, all three crew members witness an extraordinary event.

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In 1984, Soviet cosmonauts onboard Salyut 7 saw a strange orange glow around the spacecraft.

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And they saw what they thought at first was maybe a gas leak.

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But it seemed that the whole station was surrounded by this orange cloud.

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And as they looked at it, the cloud coalesced into a shape.

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Suddenly they are all blinded by this orange light.

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When they regain their vision, they look out the portals of the spacecraft and they're

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astonished by what they see.

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They describe seeing seven angelic beings that are traveling alongside their spacecraft

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and did so for ten minutes.

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The men described huge winged creatures as much as 80 feet tall that appeared to have

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glowing halos.

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Cosmonauts dismissed the incident as a group hallucination, resulting from oxygen deprivation

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and pressure fluctuations.

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Later that summer, three more cosmonauts joined the Salyut 7 crew.

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All six of them, once again, saw these winged beings.

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But how could all of these cosmonauts share one hallucination?

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It seems to me that this was not hallucination, that whatever it was they were witnessing,

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it was real.

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It was out there.

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Now angels, aliens, I don't know, but when one looks at the recurrence of winged figures

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in human history in terms of religion, in terms of culture, mythology, are we looking

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at something real?

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Are these angels that we see actually extraterrestrial entities?

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Might the winged figure seen by the Salyut 7 crew really have been extraterrestrials?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest that similar sightings were secretly reported

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by many Russian cosmonauts.

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The cosmonauts had a really interesting and challenging dilemma when it came to truth

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telling.

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Because at the same time that they were the public face of the Soviet space program, there

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was the always hidden goal of the Soviet space program, which was to prove intercontinental

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ballistic missile capability.

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So the cosmonauts were publicly to disguise those parts of the mission that were secret

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and involved in national security, making it all that much more interesting when we

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tried to assess what they saw when they talked about anomalous things that they supposedly

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encountered in space.

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You have to understand that many cosmonauts, even if they witnessed something strange in

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space, were highly reluctant to openly talk about it because of the concern of being decommissioned

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for the reason of insanity.

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Indeed, some of the Soviet and Russian cosmonauts did have very strange experience in space.

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Could strange encounters reported by Russian cosmonauts, as well as military pilots, be

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connected to the artifacts discovered in the Gural Mountains and the Daunagorsk crash site?

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What astronaut theorists believe, the answer can be found by examining not just what the

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Russian cosmonauts have seen in space, but what they've heard.

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Ever since Yuri Gagarin became the first man to reach space in 1961, cosmonauts, along

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with other astronauts from around the world, have had visions and experiences in space that

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defy explanation.

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Perhaps the most curious among these incidents is what has become known as the space whisper.

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There's an anonymous cosmonaut, I think he's simply known as cosmonaut X, who allegedly

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talked about an experience that he and another cosmonaut had while they were in orbit.

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This anonymous cosmonaut said he heard something speaking to him inside his mind.

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Both apparently heard this same whispering inside their heads, a kind of telepathic message.

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This cosmic whisper said that they were his ancestors from the very distant past.

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They told him things about his own family in the Urales that no one would have known.

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And they also told him that they should go back to Earth, that Russia was not ready for

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what they were attempting to do and in a sense go back home and prepare yourself.

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There were more than one cosmonaut.

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Some of them knew not to report it because this would eliminate their presence in the

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space program.

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But they talked among each other when they could and they found out that it was more

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than one person and in different spaceships that had been subjected to this.

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How could so many Russian cosmonauts have heard the same mysterious whisper while traveling

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through space?

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And just what was this celestial voice trying to communicate?

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When astronaut theorists believe it is another example of extraterrestrial activity that

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is only now being disclosed.

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With all of the massive secrecy in Russia and all of the things we're just learning,

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would seem to be only the tip of the iceberg of the many visitations of extraterrestrials

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that have been occurring all over the world.

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There is a great wealth of information in the former Soviet Union and when people in

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the West find out more and more about events and observations over Russia, they become

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amazed.

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If we were to get access to some of the Russian files on extraterrestrials, it could answer

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some of the questions that we have.

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Because what if some of those stories corroborate the ones that we're familiar with?

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This then could only mean one thing, we've all been visited by the same visitors.

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Does the ultimate proof that extraterrestrials have visited Earth exist within Russia?

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Could such information have been purposely covered up?

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And if so, might the most compelling evidence still be under lock and key?

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Perhaps as more of Russia's secret files are revealed, we will discover that hidden

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within these vast archives lies the truth about our alien origins.