In front of you is an exciting journey through a maze of centuries of puzzles, which does not give rest to scientists and enthusiasts. You will read about what authorities, the press, and even ufologists prefer silence. For the first time you will be able to get acquainted with the sensational documents from the KGB archives, the USSR Ministry of Defense, and the Academy of Sciences, familiarizing with all the details of the sensational events of the past and today, touching the originals and original sources. Legendary times and present are linked in a book where fascination is linked to precise documents and views from an unexpected perspective, allowing you to see seemingly known facts about UFOs in a new way.

Sample from one chapter of the book - KGB and UFO

In the winter of 1960, in the village of Tiksi, I showed photographs capturing the object of a polar meteorological station after a polar night. The photos were taken from one place, with only a few seconds apart, needed to rewind the film. The images featured a diamond space object that was visible above the horizon. The bow part was lighter and the tail was similar to a splitter with a cut or exhaust. It looked like a romboid-shaped object rotated around its longitudinal axis. The bright aureola of large diameter was clearly visible. But the photographer did not see any object above the horizon. He appeared only on the pictures.

According to the UFO material we have accumulated, we wrote a special report, and after attaching these images, we sent one copy to the USSR Academy Board and the second Ogońek Editorial Board. About 2 - 3 Weeks later, articles by famous scientists appeared in Truth, Izvestia, Komsomol's Truth and in other newspapers, one by one, refuting data on the appearance of flying saucers in the Soviet sky. We received articles for which we even sent UFO photos, a reproach from the editor. The content of the central newspaper's response narrowed to one thought - there are no UFOs. Eyewitnesses are wrong, considering to be a UFO everything that is called optical illusion in nature. The effect of such an optical illusion can naturally be explained.

I still do not understand why respected scientists embarked on an obvious scam on humans? Who needed these experiments to influence public awareness in the right direction? Apparently Pyotr Semenovich did not know that all more or less important topics had already been resolved in Soviet propaganda. As for the "flying saucers", it was as follows: it is necessary to write that the bourgeoisie sees anything in America and thinks that nothing flies in the country of victorious socialism and cannot fly.

Official statement

On 6. November 1952 at the ceremony in Moscow on the occasion of 35. the anniversary of the October Revolution MG Pervvichin, a member of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU, expressed the following:

"The huge propaganda machine of American billionaires artificially inflating military psychology ... The results are obvious. Many Americans have lost their peace. They now look at the sky, and some of them began to see special objects in the sky, reminiscent of huge flying plates, pans and green fire balls. American newspapers and magazines mostly publish stories of all kinds according to eyewitnesses - seeing these strange objects and claiming to be Russian mysterious machines or, in extreme cases, planes sent from another planet to watch what is happening in America! I remember the Russian folk saying: "Fear has big eyes!" "

The following day these lines appeared in the newspaper Pravda. The required tone was set. Soviet astronomer Boris Kukarkin repeated to the officials:

"Flying plates are an optical illusion, because of the obvious military psychosis instigated by those wishing war. so that taxpayers receive a higher military budget. "

Particularly mischievous they once again explained in the magazine, "Fatigue of the Molodiges":

"It was necessary to create a myth of the flying saucers and to divert attention from the real danger posed to the peoples of the world by the military preparation of imperialist aggressors, building military nuclear and rocket bases, and testing new types of weapons of mass destruction."

Distributors of scientific information

Do you feel a threatening tone? Soviet people who have decided to give information that they have seen UFOs are at best automatically placed in the ranks of "pseudo-scientist distributors", and in the worst case they are identified as agents of bourgeois mystification and instigator of war hysteria. For those who are still trying to draw attention to their observing scientists, standard answers have been prepared in advance. UFOs have been labeled as "experiments to measure atmospheric density at high altitudes with the release of sodium cloud."

In 1960, the cadets of senior military functions at the Lenin Aviation School named IV Stalin, which was in Jejsko, turned to the Red Star newspaper for the Defense Ministry.

"We are asking for an explanation of an unusual phenomenon," wrote two cadets on behalf of the group, Valery Kozlov and Igor Barilin. "In August 1960, we randomly observed the passage of the celestial body twice. 9. September at 20: 15 (Moscow time) again flew from west to east. The light was moderate. Passage speed was less than satellite speed. The passage time was 8 - 12 minutes.

Unusual phenomena

1) flew away from the observer

2) blinking lights

3) curvilinear motion.

What can it be? Can we track it again? "The editorial team sent a letter of cadets to the Moscow Planetarium, where notices were made to deceive eyewitnesses of UFOs. He wrote to comrades Kozlov and Barilin that this is one of the experiments to study the upper atmosphere.

Although there was nothing about the UFO in the newspaper, the censorship began to sound from the other side. In the 1950s he began to lecture on UFOs, Yuri Fomin, one of the pioneers of Russian ufology, lecturing at the Moscow Institute of Food Industry Technology.

Yuri Alexandrovich Fomin says:

"In the mid-1950s, I recommended that I read public lectures on cosmic themes, in various institutions, design offices, and other organizations through the Society of Knowledge (at that time, the so-called" Society for the Propagation of Political and Scientific Knowledge ").

At that time, the subject was very fashionable and had a great political impact ...

"In 1956, I came across reports of UFO appearance in foreign magazines. At that time, nothing was written about us here… I started collecting and processing materials on this issue. Finally, in my lectures, I decided to mention the UFO problem. I did it very carefully. I usually started by saying, 'They say in a foreign press…' and then I gave a brief overview of foreign news. However, at the outset, I did not provide any critical assessment of the information, but I just said that it appeared.

My lectures were very popular. My phone was overwhelmed with lecture requests. As a rule, they asked me to learn more about the UFO problem. In 1956-1960, I have made hundreds of similar lectures in Moscow companies. Most interesting was that UFO witnesses attended some lectures. They were not only casual citizens, but also experts such as pilots, radar operators and other competent individuals who worked in police forces, military organizations, etc. In most cases, witnesses refused to disclose their names and positions and did not talk about them in public lectures that fear of the reaction of their superiors… ”

This continued until January 1961, when The Central Committee of the CSSA decided to put an end to ideologically imperfect lectures and, in general, to all extraterrestrial talks. An exemplary lesson for those who still had confidence in Soviet science and informed someone about their observations was arranged in the main Soviet newspapers:

"There is not a single fact that suggests flying over mysterious objects called" flying saucers, "said academician LA Artsimovic. All the talks on this issue, which have recently been published by a widely distributed press, have the same source - the untrue and unscientific information contained in the reports that some completely irresponsible people have spread in Moscow. These reports spiced fantastic fairytales, borrowed mainly from the American press, relating to the period when flying plates were the main stunt in the United States ... "

Another element that boosted interest in "flying saucers" was photo object, which was taken in one of the northern regions of the country.