"People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument."-Will Rogers
Aeroflot and UFO's

The Mars Microbes may represents Day One of the ending of the UFO/ET Cover-Up by NASA and American agencies. But as the rest of the undoing of the Cover-Up will be a hard issue for NSA/CIA to handle after decades of their blackout - we gaze east to get some answers.

By Jorgen Westman.

As the communist-regime fell in the late 80’s, a great deal of the Russian UFO-files has been given light (along with the rest of the Soviet allies files). We now been told that the entire Soviet armed forces, a total of 15 million people over ten years (1979-1989), was involved in a UFO study that turned up forty major incidents, including one that prompted fears of starting an accidental nuclear war. As a result of the study hundreds of UFOs were recorded and some were photographed. Some of the reports and some of the photos are clearly faked. But in other cases there were multiple witnesses.

The reason I find Russian cases more interresting than American cases is that - they couldn’t commercialize on their experiances during the Communist regime. And therefor frauds was less common behind the iron curtain than in the states where the border of decensy has been crossed years ago, unfortunate to sincere researchers. The problem with the Russian UFO cases are also the same as mentioned. As the military is letting people off, or don’t pay their saluries, sometimes for months, the eager western UFOlogist are easy targets to fool. One good example is the 250 page file the KGB is supposed to have given to CIA in early 90’s. Who told us about that? The Canadian ”funnypaper” Weekly World News. The press also revealed that a US UFO-researcher/Hollywood producer bought file from an anonymous KGB officer in 1992. I belive it is Las Vegas TV-producer George Knapp who bought them. Maybe we’re easy too fool as we hunt new material to find the answer to this phenomena.

My first contact with Soviet UFOlogy was through the 1987 TV-show UFO’S THE UNSOLVED MYSTERY and the Russian researcher Sergej Bulantsev and Leonard Nikishin. Their statement that 5000 Soviet Union citizens are vanishing, never to come back, each year by abduction made me suspicious. And as I checked how they estimated this number I started to get a notion of how unexperianced many of the Russian researchers are. At a UFO conference in Albuquerque in 1992 the Russian researchers Vladimir Azhazha described how him and his collegues has come to the conclusion (he said he had ”proof”) that 5000 citizens are abducted, never to come back, each year. He took the estimated number of ”missing persons” of the entire Soviet Union, checked where there had been reported UFO activity and connected all those missing persons in that particular region to the UFO’s. If you would do that in Atlanta, US, there wouldn’t be any terristrial crime to report...

”Thus, the facts were recorded, stories shared among the peasants, and the poetic Russian soul set to pondering a bit more about strange manifestations, but nothing more was made of it. As the rural Russian populace has been isolated from the world press, there was little worry about suppression. They were already suppressed. So the populace was free to chat over vodka about mysterious lights among the trees or marks on the grounds where ships had apparently landed, as no one considered this a threat.” (ZetaTalk-quote)

This quote says two things. People haven’t been able to share their observations with eachother, finding simularities. And the ”storys” has been local gossip that has been altered due to the need of ”polish” to make the story intriguing enough. This is the good and bad side, in my mind, to the pile of UFO-information from behind the pre-Iron Curtain. But let me add that there is a number of unexplained cases, as good researchers, and that’s why I’m writing this article on USSR UFO HISTORY.
On to part 2 of the USSR UFO history...

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