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GEORGE NOORY: Russia may be one
of the areas on this planet
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that has been ladened with
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incredible amounts
of UFO activity
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since the beginning of time.
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ERICH VON DANIKEN:
These flying machines
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were seen
all over the Soviet Union.
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NICK POPE: The Soviets knew
something about UFOs.
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They had secrets.
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NICK REDFERN: The Soviets have
in their possession
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no less than the remains of five
crashed and recovered UFOs.
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DAVID WILCOCK:
There is undeniable evidence
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that Russia is sitting
on a virtual treasure trove
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of information that proves
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that extraterrestrials visited
Earth in our distant past.
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NARRATOR:
Since the dawn of civilization,
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mankind has credited
its origins to gods
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and other visitors
from the stars.
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What if it were true?
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Did extraterrestrial beings
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really help
to shape our history?
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And if so...
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might the ultimate proof
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be found
in Russia's secret files?
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Moscow, Russia.
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December 25, 1991.
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At 7:00 p.m., Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev
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makes a nationally
televised address
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to announce his resignation.
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GORBACHEV (translated):
I hereby discontinue
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my activities at the post
of President of the U.S.S.R.
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NARRATOR: Moments later,
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the Soviet flag is lowered
from the Kremlin
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for the final time.
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One of the world's
two superpowers...
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has fallen.
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From 1922 to 1991,
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Russia was
under the restrictive regime
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of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics,
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which ruled over much
of northern Asia
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and Eastern Europe.
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The Soviet government was known
for its brutality,
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oppression and culture
of absolute secrecy.
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POPE: It was very much a case
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of everything that happens
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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
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that kept secrets,
not just, of course,
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from us in the West,
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but from its own people.
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One of the challenges
of defending
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this vast landmass
in Russia is that, uh,
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its borders are very insecure,
at all points.
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So in order to conquer space,
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it has an obsession
with national security.
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Secrecy has become imbedded
within the political culture;
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and also, many people
in Russia agree with the idea
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that most things
should be kept a secret.
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NARRATOR: When the Soviet Union
was dissolved,
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so too was its main security
agency-- the KGB.
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The top-secret KGB files
were suddenly vulnerable,
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with many in the hands
of former agents,
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ready to sell them
to the highest bidders.
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Thousands more were smuggled out
by Vasiliy Mitrokhin,
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who worked in the KGB's
foreign intelligence archive
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from 1972 to 1984.
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The documents
that have been leaked
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include KGB information on
secret Russian weapons caches,
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Russian spies,
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and even UFO reports.
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RICHARD DOLAN:
The Soviet Union
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had a large number
of UFO encounters.
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Western researchers
had really no knowledge
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of what was going on
behind the Iron Curtain.
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We now know that
there were thousands
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and thousands
of Soviet UFO cases
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that were taking place
during that time.
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A number of records
did indeed come out.
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And we now have access to them.
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NARRATOR:
Could the definitive evidence
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of extraterrestrial contact
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lie hidden
within the secret KGB files
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that are just now
coming to light?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
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and suggest
recent findings reveal
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the Soviets were not only
covering up modern UFO reports,
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but also proof
that aliens visited Earth
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in the distant past.
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Leningrad, Russia.
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December 1, 1934.
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Sergei Kirov,
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a Communist party leader
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and rival to fellow party leader
Joseph Stalin, is murdered.
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The assassination
marks the beginning
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of the darkest period in the
history of the Soviet Union:
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The Great Purges.
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With Kirov gone,
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Stalin's power grew,
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and he unleashed
a widespread campaign
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of ruthless
political persecution
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meant to weed out dissenters...
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...and consolidate
his absolute authority.
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(speaking Russian)
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Among the millions
who were arrested
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and interrogated
during this period
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was respected
Russian scientist
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and philosopher
Dr. Genrikh Ludvig.
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PAUL STONEHILL:
An incredible human being.
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This was a person
who could speak 20 ancient
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and modern languages.
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He had incredible
encyclopedic knowledge.
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NARRATOR:
Dr. Ludvig was accused
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of being a spy for the Vatican
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and spent decades
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in one of Stalin's
brutal Gulag labor camps.
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But in 2011,
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38 years after his death,
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an article in the Russian
newspaper Sovershenno Sekretno,
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or Top Secret,
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revealed the true purpose of
Ludvig's work at the Vatican,
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and possibly
also for his arrest.
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The reason he was accused
of being a spy for the Vatican
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is because in 1920s,
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as a young student
of architecture,
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he visited the Vatican,
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where he was given access
to the secret library.
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In that library,
he found manuscripts
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that describe extraterrestrial
civilizations and more.
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Dr. Genrikh Ludvig discovered
a number of manuscripts
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suggesting that there had been
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historic
extraterrestrial contact
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with ancient civilizations
in Egypt,
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Israel
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and Mesopotamia.
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These manuscripts that talked,
for example,
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about the pyramids
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and described them
as energy machines.
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DAVID CHILDRESS: When he went
back to the Soviet Union,
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they treated him very poorly,
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when, in fact, he was perhaps
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the greatest
of all the early researchers
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into the whole concept
of ancient aliens
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coming to our planet.
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NARRATOR: Might Dr. Ludvig
have really discovered
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ancient manuscripts
within the Vatican
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that describe extraterrestrials
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visiting Earth?
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Did the Russian government
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accuse him of espionage
in an attempt
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to suppress
his controversial findings?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
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and claim Ludwig was not
the only one silenced
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by the Soviet government
for his research.
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When Vladimir Lenin
seized power in 1917,
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he established the first state
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to seek the elimination
of religion.
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The Communist regime
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also actively suppressed
a philosophy
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that had become widespread
throughout Russia
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in the early 20th century:
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Cosmism.
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JENKS:
There is a Russian tradition,
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beginning in the late 1800s
called "Cosmism."
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The cosmists began
with a philosopher,
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a guy named Nikolai Fyodorov,
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in the 1870s and 1880s,
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who inspired the father
of Soviet rocketry,
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who actually
designed the rockets
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that put the first man
into space.
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They believed that
human civilization
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actually had origins
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in outer space
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and that it was our destiny,
as human beings,
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to move back into space;
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we would go back into
the "cradle of civilization."
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So, this idea was imbedded
within Russian culture.
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NARRATOR: Both Lenin and
his successor, Joseph Stalin,
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saw to it that talk of Cosmism
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and humanity's alien origins
was silenced.
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But these ideas
would emerge again in 1961,
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when the Soviet Union
successfully launched
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Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
into orbit,
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and beat the United States at
sending the first man to space.
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Many Russians saw
this accomplishment
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as a fulfillment of man's
destiny to return to the stars.
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With the successes
of the Soviet space program,
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Sputnik in 1957,
the first man in space.
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Simultaneously
this kind of kick-started,
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or created anew,
an interest in investigating
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alien origins
of human civilizations.
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And after Joseph Stalin died,
many of those individuals
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that were exploring the idea
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of ancient paleo-contacts
with aliens,
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uh, were allowed to voice
their opinions publicly.
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NARRATOR:
In 1961,
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Russian physicist
and mathematician Matest Agrest
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published a controversial paper
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proposing that extraterrestrials
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had visited
Earth's ancient civilizations.
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Similar theories
were also offered
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by author Alexander Kasantsev
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and astronomer Iosif Shklovskii.
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But while these researchers
did not suffer
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the same persecution
as those that came before them,
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they claimed that
the Soviet government
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worked to suppress
their theories.
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GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
The idea
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that there were
Soviet astronomers
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who were seriously studying
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these topics and ideas
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leads me to think
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that we're the one's
who are on to something.
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And we are now able
to access information
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that for so many years,
has remained censored.
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NARRATOR:
Is it possible
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that the truth about
extraterrestrial contact
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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
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by examining a mysterious site
that may hold proof
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of an ancient
extraterrestrial visitation.
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NARRATOR:
Russia.
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Spanning a staggering
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6.6 million square miles,
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it is the largest country
on Earth.
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Its massive territory
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is also the most
geographically diverse,
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consisting of some of the most
extreme terrain on the planet,
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including dense forests,
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frozen tundra,
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remote mountains,
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and barren deserts.
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Despite its physical size,
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as much as 50% of Russia
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remains uninhabited
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and largely unexplored
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
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expands over four time zones,
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while Russia expands
over eleven time zones.
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The size of Russia,
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its harsh climate,
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especially
in the northern parts of Russia,
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makes it very difficult
to explore.
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NARRATOR: One of Russia's
most mysterious areas
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is a valley just north
of Kazakhstan,
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where in 1987,
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archaeologists from
the University of Chelyabinsk
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discovered the remains
of an ancient settlement,
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which they were able
to date back
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to between the 17th and 20th
centuries B.C.
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Much of the original structures
of this megalithic site,
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known as Arkaim,
no longer exist,
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but scientists have mapped out
its original design,
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which includes
massive circular walls
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similar to Stonehenge.
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So, Arkaim has been described
as Russia's Stonehenge.
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Now, this is quite intriguing
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because its a very similar
latitude to Stonehenge.
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It's been suggested that
it could've been put there
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for astronomical
and surveying purposes.
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It seems that Arkaim,
at some point,
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was some type
of an observatory,
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which I think
is incredibly fascinating,
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because it means that worldwide,
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our ancestors
witnessed other things
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that would explain
this long-held
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fascination with the stars.
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STONEHILL:
The way the city was built,
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it was a circular structure.
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It had a very interesting
central square.
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Basically,
it was an interior circle
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surrounded by a circle,
which to many,
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means the Mandala principle
of the Buddhism...
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...or a depiction
of the universe
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in a very miniaturized way.
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NARRATOR: Incredibly,
archaeologists have found
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that Arkaim was built with
features aligned to measure
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as many as
18 astronomical events,
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such as the solstices
and equinoxes.
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And discovered among the ruins
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was an ancient statue of a man
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looking up to the sky.
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Adding to the mystery
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are reports of strange anomalies
in the region,
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that continue to this day,
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which include
magnetic inconsistencies,
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strange lights,
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and curious fog formations.
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WILCOCK: When you consider
the strange lights,
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the weird fog,
the magnetic anomalies,
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the unusual hallucinations,
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and things that have happened
to people there,
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it appears that this
is some sort of energy node
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or vortex point on the Earth...
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...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 Arkaim,
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it could have been the platform
for a spacecraft,
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like a rocket,
to launch off from.
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NARRATOR: Could Arkaim
really have been the site
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of an extraterrestrial
visitation
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thousands of years ago?
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And might this be why
the structures found here
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were built with such precise
astronomical alignments?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
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and suggest physical evidence
of such a visitation
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might exist
in the nearby Ural Mountains.
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Ural Mountains
are very old mountains
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stretching from, uh,
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the Russian north
to the Russian south.
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It, kind of, splitting Russia
into two parts,
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Europe and Asia.
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Indeed, people living
in the Ural Mountains,
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witness some strange phenomena
in the air and on the ground.
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NARRATOR: Dozens of visitors
to the Ural Mountains
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have reported strange sightings
of fireballs
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and cigar-shaped crafts.
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But even stranger,
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is what has been found
in the earth here.
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In 1991,
geologists led an expedition
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into the mineral-rich Urals in
hopes of locating gold deposits.
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While excavating sites
near the Kozhim, Narada,
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and Balbanyu rivers,
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just 600 miles north of Arkaim,
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the scientists discovered
something unexpected.
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At depths of over 30 feet,
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they unearthed a scattering
of tiny metal coils and springs.
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That soil wasn't touched
for hundreds of thousands
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or more years.
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The area where it was found,
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was probably
tens of kilometers around.
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It's as if something exploded
thousands of years ago
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and the fragments were lying
all over the place.
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NARRATOR:
The metal fragments,
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some as small as 1/10,000
of an inch,
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were sent to the Russian
Academy of Sciences
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in St. Petersburg for analysis.
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Their shape resembled
manufactured technology,
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rather than
naturally occurring minerals.
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The smallest pieces were found
to be tungsten,
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a metal used in spacecrafts
and missiles,
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due to its ability
to withstand high temperatures.
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They are these metal spirals
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that consist of copper,
but also tungsten,
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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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WILCOCK: When you look down
at them in a microscope,
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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,
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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
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that someone
had advanced technology
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sufficient to build
the type of circuitry
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that we normally only see
in semiconductors,
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computer chips,
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high technology equipment,
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using metals
that are not commonly known.
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So these spirals
are clear evidence
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that someone had
a very advanced civilization
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right here on Earth
near Arkaim.
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NARRATOR:
Might extraterrestrials
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have visited the Ural Mountains
in the distant past?
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And if so,
did they leave behind evidence
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of advanced technology?
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Could they have helped to build
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the prehistoric
observatory of Arkaim,
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as ancient astronaut theorists
contend?
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Perhaps further clues
can be found
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by examining
much more recent accounts
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of otherworldly visitations.
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NARRATOR:
Moscow.
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May 17, 1967.
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In a secure government building,
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a meeting is held
of scientists dedicated
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to collecting
comprehensive research
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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,
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the government
gives its approval
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for the group's deputy,
astronomer Felix Ziegel,
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to present its findings
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on Soviet Central Television.
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Felix Ziegel asked the public
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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
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about official interest in this.
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And here you have somebody
going on television
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talking about it quite openly
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and inviting people
to send in their sightings.
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Well, needless to say,
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there were a lot of sightings
that were then reported,
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but the project itself
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soon was dogged
by controversy and dissent.
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NARRATOR: Shortly after
the television broadcast,
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the government forced the group
to be disbanded,
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fearful that it might lead
to reports surfacing
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00:22:23,042 --> 00:22:27,046
of top secret
Soviet military tests.
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00:22:27,079 --> 00:22:31,684
But Ziegel still managed to
collect a huge amount of data,
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00:22:31,718 --> 00:22:35,822
including reports
from Russian pilots.
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He was able
to publish some of his findings
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in a 1968 anthology
titled Inhabited Cosmos.
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VON DANIKEN:
I met Felix Ziegel in Moscow.
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He had collected
hundreds of UFO cases.
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00:22:50,570 --> 00:22:53,506
He said that
these flying objects
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were seen
all over the Soviet Union.
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Some of them were small,
others large and spherical.
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Their technology
must be extraterrestrial,
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00:23:03,950 --> 00:23:07,019
because they reach
an incredible speed
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that no human would survive.
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NARRATOR: While publicly
the Soviet government
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denounced the research
of Felix Ziegel,
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they did not stop him
from continuing his work,
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00:23:20,066 --> 00:23:23,002
and even reviewed his findings.
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But why?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that the government
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00:23:32,178 --> 00:23:35,615
may have been aware that there
really was an alien presence
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in their skies.
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And they used Ziegel
and other UFO researchers
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as a way to secretly monitor
this activity.
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A number of records
have surfaced
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from the Soviet Air Force
and the KGB,
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00:23:51,197 --> 00:23:54,534
showing that particularly
in the '50s, '60s, and '70s,
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they took the UFO subject
very, very seriously.
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00:24:00,139 --> 00:24:01,641
TSOUKALOS:
Soviet scientists
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00:24:01,674 --> 00:24:04,577
had to come up with
incredible ways
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00:24:04,611 --> 00:24:06,746
with which to share
their knowledge
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00:24:06,779 --> 00:24:09,649
with their colleagues
in the Western World.
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00:24:09,682 --> 00:24:14,654
So, they essentially
hid their messages in code,
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in letters, in different types
of correspondence.
435
00:24:18,558 --> 00:24:21,160
Why would anyone
risk going to jail
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00:24:21,193 --> 00:24:24,564
by encoding messages
to people and scientists
437
00:24:24,597 --> 00:24:25,998
outside the Iron Curtain,
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00:24:26,032 --> 00:24:27,667
if you weren't compelled enough
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00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:30,503
that what you're writing about
is the truth?
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00:24:33,105 --> 00:24:36,709
NARRATOR: Throughout the 1960s
and most of the '70s,
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the Soviet government's interest
in UFOs remained unofficial.
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But that changed
after September 20, 1977,
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00:24:46,085 --> 00:24:49,088
when numerous residents
of Petrozavodsk
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reported seeing a glowing object
floating in the sky above
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for over 5 minutes,
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showering the city
with rays of light.
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A copy remains
of a lost photograph
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00:25:00,633 --> 00:25:02,569
that was taken of the object,
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00:25:02,602 --> 00:25:05,271
and astonishingly,
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00:25:05,304 --> 00:25:07,306
similar UFOs were reported
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all across Russia
and Eastern Europe
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within a four-hour window.
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On the heels
of this mass sighting,
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the Soviet Union established
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the Russian Academy of Sciences'
UFO commission.
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In 1984,
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they appointed
Major-General Pavel Popovich,
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the eighth man ever
to reach space,
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00:25:32,264 --> 00:25:35,034
to head up this research team.
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00:25:35,067 --> 00:25:37,036
Pavel Popovich brought forth
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00:25:37,069 --> 00:25:39,706
a lot of the UFO information
himself
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00:25:39,739 --> 00:25:43,576
and he was able to obtain
the KGB UFO files--
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00:25:43,610 --> 00:25:45,978
124 pages-- in 1992.
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He said that he knew
of the existence
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of three underwater bases,
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where the extraterrestrials
exist and operate.
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This is a man
whom we should listen to.
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(indistinct radio tranission)
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DOLAN: He had
two UFO sightings himself,
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a very significant one in 1978,
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when he was flying back from the
United States to, uh, to Russia.
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Out his window,
he saw an absolutely enormous--
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football field size,
or larger--
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triangular craft,
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that was moving
at a really good clip.
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I mean, easily overtook,
477
00:26:22,849 --> 00:26:24,951
uh... the commercial airliner
that he was in.
478
00:26:24,984 --> 00:26:28,621
He wasn't the only one on his
plane to see this, by the way.
479
00:26:28,655 --> 00:26:30,356
He talked to
a lot of the other people,
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many of whom where academicians,
coming back from a conference,
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many of whom saw this.
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NARRATOR:
Did Major-General Pavel Popovich
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really witness firsthand
an extraterrestrial spacecraft?
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00:26:46,438 --> 00:26:48,407
And might he also
have found evidence
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00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,810
in secret KGB files
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00:26:50,843 --> 00:26:54,146
of underwater alien bases?
487
00:26:54,180 --> 00:26:57,249
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
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00:26:57,283 --> 00:27:01,153
and suggest even more profound
evidence can be found
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in a small mountain town
in eastern Russia:
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00:27:04,323 --> 00:27:06,158
the remains
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00:27:06,192 --> 00:27:15,902
of a crashed UFO.
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NARRATOR: One of the most
decorated test pilots
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in Russian history
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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
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00:27:30,817 --> 00:27:32,952
in the Soviet Air Force,
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00:27:32,985 --> 00:27:35,221
which includes
being the first woman
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-to break the sound barrier.
-(sonic boom)
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Like her husband,
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she, too, reported
on extraterrestrial encounters.
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In 2003,
Marina published a book
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00:27:51,370 --> 00:27:56,308
disclosing her firsthand
experiences with UFOs.
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00:27:56,342 --> 00:27:58,778
In it, she also referenced
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00:27:58,811 --> 00:28:01,147
thousands
of similar UFO sightings
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00:28:01,180 --> 00:28:02,815
by other Soviet military
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00:28:02,849 --> 00:28:04,250
and civilian pilots.
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00:28:07,019 --> 00:28:09,889
She told their stories
at speaking engagements
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00:28:09,922 --> 00:28:11,323
all over the world.
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00:28:11,357 --> 00:28:13,860
Like the story
of a fighter pilot
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00:28:13,893 --> 00:28:16,162
who was asked to fire upon
an unidentified,
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disc-shaped craft.
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00:28:18,530 --> 00:28:21,000
(speaking Russian)
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00:28:35,481 --> 00:28:38,885
Marina Popovich is one of the
most famous aviators in history.
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00:28:38,918 --> 00:28:41,220
She was in a good position
to know what she knew.
516
00:28:41,253 --> 00:28:43,289
She was a very well connected
individual.
517
00:28:45,357 --> 00:28:48,160
She talked about something like
3,000 UFO cases
518
00:28:48,194 --> 00:28:49,495
that had occurred
in the Soviet Union
519
00:28:49,528 --> 00:28:51,163
over the years which,
520
00:28:51,197 --> 00:28:53,065
considering the fact that
we knew next to nothing
521
00:28:53,099 --> 00:28:55,367
about the history
of Soviet UFOs before that,
522
00:28:55,401 --> 00:28:57,369
was very significant.
523
00:28:57,403 --> 00:29:01,007
There is particular interest
in sightings from pilots.
524
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:05,477
Pilots are able, for example,
to judge distances,
525
00:29:05,511 --> 00:29:10,349
speeds, heights, in a way that
maybe the average person can't.
526
00:29:10,382 --> 00:29:13,019
And Marina Popovich
has made a particular effort
527
00:29:13,052 --> 00:29:16,488
to collate
all these pilot stories.
528
00:29:18,590 --> 00:29:20,359
REDFERN:
What's particularly notable
529
00:29:20,392 --> 00:29:23,996
about Marina Popovich's comments
on the UFO subject
530
00:29:24,030 --> 00:29:27,166
is that she stated that
sources have informed her
531
00:29:27,199 --> 00:29:29,869
that the Soviets have
in their possession
532
00:29:29,902 --> 00:29:33,272
no less than the remains of five
crashed and recovered UFOs.
533
00:29:36,108 --> 00:29:39,145
NARRATOR: Did both Marina
and Pavel Popovich,
534
00:29:39,178 --> 00:29:42,949
along with scores of other
respected Soviet pilots,
535
00:29:42,982 --> 00:29:45,818
really encounter alien crafts?
536
00:29:45,852 --> 00:29:47,887
And if so,
537
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:49,922
might there be
even more sightings
538
00:29:49,956 --> 00:29:51,958
recorded
by the Russian authorities
539
00:29:51,991 --> 00:29:55,361
that have not yet been disclosed
to the public?
540
00:29:59,866 --> 00:30:01,367
Dalnegorsk, Russia.
541
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,437
January 29, 1986.
542
00:30:05,471 --> 00:30:07,506
Just before 8:00 p.m.,
543
00:30:07,539 --> 00:30:10,877
in this small mining town
in eastern Russia,
544
00:30:10,910 --> 00:30:14,513
hundreds of people
see a red, glowing, sphere
545
00:30:14,546 --> 00:30:18,617
moving slowly through the sky
above a nearby mountain.
546
00:30:18,650 --> 00:30:20,552
It appeared to slow down,
547
00:30:20,586 --> 00:30:23,489
before crashing
into the hillside.
548
00:30:26,592 --> 00:30:29,996
Many reported seeing
a fiery blaze from the site
549
00:30:30,029 --> 00:30:32,932
for as much as an hour
after it went down.
550
00:30:35,267 --> 00:30:39,005
STONEHILL: The sphere flies
into the Izvestkovaya Mountains
551
00:30:39,038 --> 00:30:40,039
and burns up.
552
00:30:40,072 --> 00:30:42,508
There is an explosion...
553
00:30:42,541 --> 00:30:44,410
and people want
to find out what happened,
554
00:30:44,443 --> 00:30:46,979
because I've read eyewitness
accounts-- incredible.
555
00:30:49,048 --> 00:30:51,984
NARRATOR: Because of the huge
number of eyewitnesses,
556
00:30:52,018 --> 00:30:55,888
the crash became known
as the Russian Roswell.
557
00:30:55,922 --> 00:30:58,557
And like at Roswell,
558
00:30:58,590 --> 00:31:01,227
physical evidence
was recovered from the site,
559
00:31:01,260 --> 00:31:04,330
proving that a crash
of some kind did,
560
00:31:04,363 --> 00:31:06,265
in fact, occur.
561
00:31:06,298 --> 00:31:09,335
STONEHILL: Some local people
and researchers
562
00:31:09,368 --> 00:31:11,170
managed to get to the site.
563
00:31:11,203 --> 00:31:15,274
They find very interesting
artifacts, remains.
564
00:31:17,443 --> 00:31:19,211
NARRATOR:
While officials
565
00:31:19,245 --> 00:31:21,981
dismissed the event
as a possible meteor crash,
566
00:31:22,014 --> 00:31:28,054
microscopic analysis of the
debris yielded unusual results.
567
00:31:28,087 --> 00:31:33,425
The samples contained a complex
system of woven metallic fibers;
568
00:31:33,459 --> 00:31:36,328
and the atomic structure
of the metal itself
569
00:31:36,362 --> 00:31:40,399
appeared to change
when exposed to heat.
570
00:31:43,069 --> 00:31:45,237
When they melted the metal
571
00:31:45,271 --> 00:31:47,206
and put it
to a spectrum analysis,
572
00:31:47,239 --> 00:31:49,641
the gold and silver
and other metals were gone.
573
00:31:51,543 --> 00:31:54,380
And instead,
there was titanium
574
00:31:54,413 --> 00:31:56,582
and molybdenum there.
575
00:31:56,615 --> 00:32:00,486
And so, you have here,
some kind of metals,
576
00:32:00,519 --> 00:32:04,056
which apparently
are mutating into other metals.
577
00:32:04,090 --> 00:32:06,392
Which was very, very unusual.
578
00:32:08,294 --> 00:32:11,063
NOORY: I think it's part of
some kind of machinery,
579
00:32:11,097 --> 00:32:13,299
nanotechnology machinery,
580
00:32:13,332 --> 00:32:15,968
but it wasn't made
on planet Earth.
581
00:32:16,002 --> 00:32:17,536
STONEHILL:
It was later studied
582
00:32:17,569 --> 00:32:20,172
by a number of Soviet
scientific institutions
583
00:32:20,206 --> 00:32:23,375
and some of them said that
technology like this
584
00:32:23,409 --> 00:32:26,245
does not exist,
uh, on Earth today.
585
00:32:26,278 --> 00:32:29,982
POPE: Subsequent
to the Dalnegorsk crash,
586
00:32:30,016 --> 00:32:31,683
there have been
a number of sightings
587
00:32:31,717 --> 00:32:33,485
in exactly the same area.
588
00:32:33,519 --> 00:32:36,655
Some people have even
seen an object
589
00:32:36,688 --> 00:32:40,326
apparently land on the hillside
590
00:32:40,359 --> 00:32:42,161
where the first crash
took place.
591
00:32:44,230 --> 00:32:47,066
NARRATOR: Might the object
that crashed at Dalnegorsk,
592
00:32:47,099 --> 00:32:49,635
and was witnessed
by hundreds of people,
593
00:32:49,668 --> 00:32:52,538
really have been an alien craft?
594
00:32:54,306 --> 00:32:56,675
Could the physical evidence
left behind
595
00:32:56,708 --> 00:32:59,078
provide undeniable proof
596
00:32:59,111 --> 00:33:02,714
that otherworldly beings
are visiting planet Earth,
597
00:33:02,748 --> 00:33:07,419
and have been
for thousands of years?
598
00:33:07,453 --> 00:33:11,623
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
599
00:33:11,657 --> 00:33:15,161
and believe that Russians have
had contact with aliens,
600
00:33:15,194 --> 00:33:17,163
not just here on Earth,
601
00:33:17,196 --> 00:33:20,699
but even in space.
602
00:33:30,642 --> 00:33:32,811
NARRATOR:
Salyut 7 space station.
603
00:33:32,844 --> 00:33:37,049
July 12, 1984.
604
00:33:37,083 --> 00:33:40,719
Cosmonauts Oleg Atkov,
605
00:33:40,752 --> 00:33:42,754
Leonid Kizim,
606
00:33:42,788 --> 00:33:45,324
and Vladimir Solovyov,
607
00:33:45,357 --> 00:33:51,163
enter the 156th day
of their 237-day stay
608
00:33:51,197 --> 00:33:53,699
aboard Russia's scientific
research space station.
609
00:33:55,634 --> 00:34:00,072
To date, everything has gone
according to plan.
610
00:34:00,106 --> 00:34:01,740
But on this day,
611
00:34:01,773 --> 00:34:05,577
all three crewmembers
witness an extraordinary event.
612
00:34:08,614 --> 00:34:13,752
In 1984, Soviet cosmonauts
on board Salyut 7
613
00:34:13,785 --> 00:34:17,689
saw a strange orange glow
614
00:34:17,723 --> 00:34:20,759
around the spacecraft.
615
00:34:20,792 --> 00:34:26,098
And they saw what they thought,
at first, was maybe a gas leak.
616
00:34:26,132 --> 00:34:29,701
But it seemed that
the whole station was surrounded
617
00:34:29,735 --> 00:34:32,538
by this orange cloud.
618
00:34:32,571 --> 00:34:34,173
And as they looked at it,
619
00:34:34,206 --> 00:34:38,244
the cloud coalesced
into a shape.
620
00:34:41,813 --> 00:34:46,285
HENRY: Suddenly, they are all
blinded by this orange light.
621
00:34:47,686 --> 00:34:49,255
When they regain their vision,
622
00:34:49,288 --> 00:34:51,790
they look out the portals
of the spacecraft
623
00:34:51,823 --> 00:34:55,694
and they're astonished
by what they see.
624
00:34:55,727 --> 00:35:00,132
They describe seeing
seven angelic beings
625
00:35:00,166 --> 00:35:02,734
that are traveling
alongside their spacecraft,
626
00:35:02,768 --> 00:35:05,237
and did so for ten minutes.
627
00:35:09,441 --> 00:35:12,611
NARRATOR: The men described
huge, winged creatures,
628
00:35:12,644 --> 00:35:14,913
as much as 80 feet tall,
629
00:35:14,946 --> 00:35:18,384
that appeared
to have glowing halos.
630
00:35:18,417 --> 00:35:23,689
Officials dismissed the incident
as a group hallucination
631
00:35:23,722 --> 00:35:26,292
resulting from
oxygen deprivation
632
00:35:26,325 --> 00:35:28,927
and pressure fluctuations.
633
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,397
Later that summer,
634
00:35:31,430 --> 00:35:35,201
three more cosmonauts
joined the Salyut 7 crew.
635
00:35:35,234 --> 00:35:40,606
All six of them, once again,
saw these winged beings.
636
00:35:40,639 --> 00:35:42,308
But how could all
of these cosmonauts
637
00:35:42,341 --> 00:35:44,776
share one hallucination?
638
00:35:49,381 --> 00:35:52,684
It seems to me that
this was not hallucination,
639
00:35:52,718 --> 00:35:55,421
that whatever it was
they were witnessing,
640
00:35:55,454 --> 00:35:56,755
it was real.
It was out there.
641
00:35:57,956 --> 00:35:59,825
Now, angels?
642
00:35:59,858 --> 00:36:01,327
Aliens?
643
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:02,894
I don't know, but, uh,
644
00:36:02,928 --> 00:36:06,265
when one looks at the recurrence
645
00:36:06,298 --> 00:36:10,202
of winged figures
in human history,
646
00:36:10,236 --> 00:36:13,939
in terms of religion,
in terms of culture, mythology.
647
00:36:13,972 --> 00:36:17,343
Are we looking
at something real?
648
00:36:17,376 --> 00:36:19,878
Are these angels that we see
649
00:36:19,911 --> 00:36:22,514
actually extraterrestrial
entities?
650
00:36:26,718 --> 00:36:28,287
NARRATOR:
Might the winged figures
651
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,422
seen by the Salyut 7 crew,
652
00:36:30,456 --> 00:36:34,360
really have been
extraterrestrials?
653
00:36:34,393 --> 00:36:37,529
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
654
00:36:37,563 --> 00:36:39,831
and suggest
that similar sightings
655
00:36:39,865 --> 00:36:44,303
were secretly reported
by many Russian cosmonauts.
656
00:36:44,336 --> 00:36:47,606
Soviet cosmonauts
had a really interesting
657
00:36:47,639 --> 00:36:50,976
and challenging dilemma
when it came to truth telling.
658
00:36:51,009 --> 00:36:53,912
Because at the same time that
they were the public face
659
00:36:53,945 --> 00:36:56,248
of the Soviet space program,
660
00:36:56,282 --> 00:36:58,950
there was the always hidden goal
of the Soviet space program,
661
00:36:58,984 --> 00:37:00,652
which was to prove
662
00:37:00,686 --> 00:37:03,389
intercontinental ballistic
missile capability.
663
00:37:03,422 --> 00:37:06,725
So the cosmonauts were
publically to disguise
664
00:37:06,758 --> 00:37:08,894
those parts of the mission
that were secret
665
00:37:08,927 --> 00:37:10,929
and involved
in national security,
666
00:37:10,962 --> 00:37:12,931
making it all that
much more interesting
667
00:37:12,964 --> 00:37:15,934
when we try to assess what
they saw, when they talk about
668
00:37:15,967 --> 00:37:19,305
anomalous things that they
supposedly encountered in space.
669
00:37:19,338 --> 00:37:22,274
KARASH: You have to understand
that many cosmonauts,
670
00:37:22,308 --> 00:37:26,412
even if they witnessed
something strange in space,
671
00:37:26,445 --> 00:37:32,518
were, um, highly reluctant
to openly talk about it,
672
00:37:32,551 --> 00:37:37,022
because of the concern
of being decommissioned
673
00:37:37,055 --> 00:37:39,458
for the reason of insanity.
674
00:37:39,491 --> 00:37:43,929
Indeed, some of the Soviet
and the Russian cosmonauts
675
00:37:43,962 --> 00:37:48,500
did have very strange experience
in space.
676
00:37:50,602 --> 00:37:52,404
NARRATOR:
Could strange encounters
677
00:37:52,438 --> 00:37:57,042
reported by Russian cosmonauts,
as well as military pilots,
678
00:37:57,075 --> 00:38:01,413
be connected to the artifacts
discovered in the Ural Mountains
679
00:38:01,447 --> 00:38:04,350
and the Dalnegorsk crash site?
680
00:38:04,383 --> 00:38:09,020
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer can be found
681
00:38:09,054 --> 00:38:12,358
by examining not just
what the Russian cosmonauts
682
00:38:12,391 --> 00:38:13,792
have seen in space...
683
00:38:13,825 --> 00:38:15,494
(speaking Russian over radio)
684
00:38:15,527 --> 00:38:16,828
...but what they've heard.
685
00:38:26,738 --> 00:38:28,607
NARRATOR:
Ever since Yuri Gagarin
686
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,843
became the first man
to reach space in 1961,
687
00:38:31,877 --> 00:38:34,513
cosmonauts,
688
00:38:34,546 --> 00:38:37,449
along with other astronauts
from around the world,
689
00:38:37,483 --> 00:38:42,654
have had visions and experiences
in space that defy explanation.
690
00:38:42,688 --> 00:38:45,791
Perhaps the most curious
among these incidents
691
00:38:45,824 --> 00:38:48,860
is what has become known
as the "space whisper."
692
00:38:50,596 --> 00:38:52,831
DOLAN:
There's an anonymous cosmonaut,
693
00:38:52,864 --> 00:38:55,567
I think he's simply known
as Cosmonaut X,
694
00:38:55,601 --> 00:38:59,371
who allegedly talked about
an experience that he
695
00:38:59,405 --> 00:39:02,408
and another cosmonaut had
while they were in orbit.
696
00:39:02,441 --> 00:39:05,911
What this anonymous
cosmonaut said,
697
00:39:05,944 --> 00:39:09,981
he heard, something speaking
to him inside his mind.
698
00:39:10,015 --> 00:39:13,619
(disembodied, eerie voices)
699
00:39:13,652 --> 00:39:17,923
Both apparently
heard this same whispering
700
00:39:17,956 --> 00:39:22,894
inside their heads,
a kind of telepathic message.
701
00:39:22,928 --> 00:39:25,764
This cosmic whisper
702
00:39:25,797 --> 00:39:29,435
said that
they were his ancestors
703
00:39:29,468 --> 00:39:31,603
from the very distant past.
704
00:39:31,637 --> 00:39:36,442
They told him things about
his own family in the Urals
705
00:39:36,475 --> 00:39:39,411
that no one would have known.
706
00:39:39,445 --> 00:39:43,982
And they also told him that
they should go back to Earth.
707
00:39:44,015 --> 00:39:49,921
That Russia was not ready for
what they were attempting to do.
708
00:39:49,955 --> 00:39:53,459
And, in a sense,
go back home and,
709
00:39:53,492 --> 00:39:55,193
you know,
prepare yourself.
710
00:39:55,226 --> 00:39:57,896
STONEHILL: There were more
than one cosmonaut.
711
00:39:57,929 --> 00:39:59,831
Some of them knew
not to report it
712
00:39:59,865 --> 00:40:02,000
because this would
eliminate their presence
713
00:40:02,033 --> 00:40:03,702
in the space program.
714
00:40:03,735 --> 00:40:05,871
But they talked among each other
when they could
715
00:40:05,904 --> 00:40:08,039
and they found out
that it was more than one person
716
00:40:08,073 --> 00:40:12,110
and in different spaceships,
that had been subjected to this.
717
00:40:12,143 --> 00:40:15,781
NARRATOR: How could
so many Russian cosmonauts
718
00:40:15,814 --> 00:40:18,149
have heard
the same mysterious whisper
719
00:40:18,183 --> 00:40:20,619
while traveling through space?
720
00:40:20,652 --> 00:40:26,625
And just what was this celestial
voice trying to communicate?
721
00:40:26,658 --> 00:40:31,196
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe it is another example
722
00:40:31,229 --> 00:40:33,231
of extraterrestrial activity
723
00:40:33,264 --> 00:40:38,036
that is only now
being disclosed.
724
00:40:38,069 --> 00:40:40,506
CHILDRESS: With all of the
massive secrecy in Russia
725
00:40:40,539 --> 00:40:42,974
and all of the things
we're just learning,
726
00:40:43,008 --> 00:40:46,077
it would seem to only be
the tip of the iceberg
727
00:40:46,111 --> 00:40:49,948
of the many visitations
of extraterrestrials
728
00:40:49,981 --> 00:40:52,718
that have been occurring
all over the world.
729
00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:56,555
STONEHILL: There is
a great wealth of information
730
00:40:56,588 --> 00:40:58,490
in the former Soviet Union.
731
00:40:58,524 --> 00:41:01,527
And when people in the west
find out more and more
732
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:07,499
about events and observations
over Russia, they become amazed.
733
00:41:08,967 --> 00:41:10,669
TSOUKALOS:
If we were to get access
734
00:41:10,702 --> 00:41:13,104
to some of the Russian files
on extraterrestrials,
735
00:41:13,138 --> 00:41:17,576
it could answer some of
the questions that we have,
736
00:41:17,609 --> 00:41:19,945
because what if
some of those stories
737
00:41:19,978 --> 00:41:23,715
corroborate the ones
that we're familiar with?
738
00:41:23,749 --> 00:41:26,818
Because then,
it could only mean one thing:
739
00:41:26,852 --> 00:41:29,855
we've all been visited
by the same visitors.
740
00:41:33,324 --> 00:41:34,860
NARRATOR:
Does the ultimate proof
741
00:41:34,893 --> 00:41:37,195
that extraterrestrials
have visited Earth
742
00:41:37,228 --> 00:41:40,031
exist within Russia?
743
00:41:40,065 --> 00:41:44,035
Could such information
have been purposely covered up?
744
00:41:44,069 --> 00:41:46,572
And if so,
745
00:41:46,605 --> 00:41:48,607
might
the most compelling evidence
746
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,843
still be under lock and key?
747
00:41:51,877 --> 00:41:56,081
Perhaps as more of Russia's
secret files are revealed,
748
00:41:56,114 --> 00:41:59,918
we will discover that hidden
within these vast archives,
749
00:41:59,951 --> 00:42:04,690
lies the truth
about our alien origins.
750
00:42:07,125 --> 00:42:09,695
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