All language subtitles for Ancient Aliens S11E12 Russias Secret Files

Russia may be one
of the areas on this planet

that has been ladened with

incredible amounts
of UFO activity

since the beginning of time.

These flying machines

were seen
all over the Soviet Union.

The Soviets knew
something about UFOs.

They had secrets.

The Soviets have
in their possession

no less than the remains of five
crashed and recovered UFOs.

There is undeniable evidence

that Russia is sitting
on a virtual treasure trove

of information that proves

that extraterrestrials visited
Earth in our distant past.

Since the dawn of civilization,

mankind has credited
its origins to gods

and other visitors
from the stars.

What if it were true?

Did extraterrestrial beings

really help
to shape our history?

And if so...

might the ultimate proof

be found
in Russia's secret files?

Ancient Aliens S11E12

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Moscow, Russia.

December 25, 1991.

At 7:00 p.m., Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev

makes a nationally
televised address

to announce his resignation.

I hereby discontinue

my activities at the post
of President of the U.S.S.R.

Moments later,

the Soviet flag is lowered
from the Kremlin

for the final time.

One of the world's
two superpowers...

has fallen.

From 1922 to 1991,

Russia was
under the restrictive regime

of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics,

which ruled over much
of northern Asia

and Eastern Europe.

The Soviet government was known
for its brutality,

oppression and culture
of absolute secrecy.

It was very much a case

of everything that happens

within government
stays within government,

and the consequences
were lethal.

This was a closed,
highly secretive society

that kept secrets,
not just, of course,

from us in the West,

but from its own people.

One of the challenges
of defending

this vast landmass
in Russia is that, uh,

its borders are very insecure,
at all points.

So in order to conquer space,

it has an obsession
with national security.

Secrecy has become imbedded
within the political culture;

and also, many people
in Russia agree with the idea

that most things
should be kept a secret.

When the Soviet Union
was dissolved,

so too was its main security
agency-- the KGB.

The top-secret KGB files
were suddenly vulnerable,

with many in the hands
of former agents,

ready to sell them
to the highest bidders.

Thousands more were smuggled out
by Vasiliy Mitrokhin,

who worked in the KGB's
foreign intelligence archive

from 1972 to 1984.

The documents
that have been leaked

include KGB information on
secret Russian weapons caches,

Russian spies,

and even UFO reports.

The Soviet Union

had a large number
of UFO encounters.

Western researchers
had really no knowledge

of what was going on
behind the Iron Curtain.

We now know that
there were thousands

and thousands
of Soviet UFO cases

that were taking place
during that time.

A number of records
did indeed come out.

And we now have access to them.

Could the definitive evidence

of extraterrestrial contact

lie hidden
within the secret KGB files

that are just now
coming to light?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and suggest
recent findings reveal

the Soviets were not only
covering up modern UFO reports,

but also proof
that aliens visited Earth

in the distant past.

Leningrad, Russia.

December 1, 1934.

Sergei Kirov,

a Communist party leader

and rival to fellow party leader
Joseph Stalin, is murdered.

The assassination
marks the beginning

of the darkest period in the
history of the Soviet Union:

The Great Purges.

With Kirov gone,

Stalin's power grew,

and he unleashed
a widespread campaign

of ruthless
political persecution

meant to weed out dissenters...

...and consolidate
his absolute authority.

Among the millions
who were arrested

and interrogated
during this period

was respected
Russian scientist

and philosopher
Dr. Genrikh Ludvig.

An incredible human being.

This was a person
who could speak 20 ancient

and modern languages.

He had incredible
encyclopedic knowledge.

Dr. Ludvig was accused

of being a spy for the Vatican

and spent decades

in one of Stalin's
brutal Gulag labor camps.

But in 2011,

38 years after his death,

an article in the Russian
newspaper Sovershenno Sekretno,

or Top Secret,

revealed the true purpose of
Ludvig's work at the Vatican,

and possibly
also for his arrest.

The reason he was accused
of being a spy for the Vatican

is because in 1920s,

as a young student
of architecture,

he visited the Vatican,

where he was given access
to the secret library.

In that library,
he found manuscripts

that describe extraterrestrial
civilizations and more.

Dr. Genrikh Ludvig discovered
a number of manuscripts

suggesting that there had been

historic
extraterrestrial contact

with ancient civilizations
in Egypt,

Israel

and Mesopotamia.

These manuscripts that talked,
for example,

about the pyramids

and described them
as energy machines.

When he went
back to the Soviet Union,

they treated him very poorly,

when, in fact, he was perhaps

the greatest
of all the early researchers

into the whole concept
of ancient aliens

coming to our planet.

Might Dr. Ludvig
have really discovered

ancient manuscripts
within the Vatican

that describe extraterrestrials

visiting Earth?

Did the Russian government

accuse him of espionage
in an attempt

to suppress
his controversial findings?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and claim Ludwig was not
the only one silenced

by the Soviet government
for his research.

When Vladimir Lenin
seized power in 1917,

he established the first state

to seek the elimination
of religion.

The Communist regime

also actively suppressed
a philosophy

that had become widespread
throughout Russia

in the early 20th century:

Cosmism.

There is a Russian tradition,

beginning in the late 1800s
called "Cosmism."

The cosmists began
with a philosopher,

a guy named Nikolai Fyodorov,

in the 1870s and 1880s,

who inspired the father
of Soviet rocketry,

who actually
designed the rockets

that put the first man
into space.

They believed that
human civilization

actually had origins

in outer space

and that it was our destiny,
as human beings,

to move back into space;

we would go back into
the "cradle of civilization."

And after Joseph Stalin died,
many of those individuals

that were exploring the idea

of ancient paleo-contacts
with aliens,

uh, were allowed to voice
their opinions publicly.

In 1961,

Russian physicist
and mathematician Matest Agrest

published a controversial paper

proposing that extraterrestrials

had visited
Earth's ancient civilizations.

Similar theories
were also offered

by author Alexander Kasantsev

and astronomer Iosif Shklovskii.

But while these researchers
did not suffer

the same persecution
as those that came before them,

they claimed that
the Soviet government

worked to suppress
their theories.

The idea

that there were
Soviet astronomers

who were seriously studying

these topics and ideas

leads me to think

that we're the one's
who are on to something.

And we are now able
to access information

that for so many years,
has remained censored.

Is it possible

that the truth about
extraterrestrial contact

was hidden
behind the Iron Curtain

of the former Soviet Union?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining a mysterious site
that may hold proof

of an ancient
extraterrestrial visitation.

Coming up...

Arkaim has been described

as Russia's Stonehenge.

Someone,
possibly extraterrestrials,

identified this
as a site of special energy.

Russia.

Spanning a staggering

6.6 million square miles,

it is the largest country
on Earth.

Its massive territory

is also the most
geographically diverse,

consisting of some of the most
extreme terrain on the planet,

including dense forests,

frozen tundra,

remote mountains,

and barren deserts.

Despite its physical size,

as much as 50% of Russia

remains uninhabited

and largely unexplored
by mankind.

Russia is almost twice the size
of the United States.

Just to compare,
the United States

expands over four time zones,

while Russia expands
over eleven time zones.

The size of Russia,

its harsh climate,

especially
in the northern parts of Russia,

makes it very difficult
to explore.

One of Russia's
most mysterious areas

is a valley just north
of Kazakhstan,

where in 1987,

archaeologists from
the University of Chelyabinsk

discovered the remains
of an ancient settlement,

which they were able
to date back

to between the 17th and 20th
centuries B.C.

Much of the original structures
of this megalithic site,

known as Arkaim,
no longer exist,

but scientists have mapped out
its original design,

which includes
massive circular walls

similar to Stonehenge.

So, Arkaim has been described
as Russia's Stonehenge.

Now, this is quite intriguing

because its a very similar
latitude to Stonehenge.

It's been suggested that
it could've been put there

for astronomical
and surveying purposes.

It seems that Arkaim,
at some point,

was some type
of an observatory,

which I think
is incredibly fascinating,

because it means that worldwide,

our ancestors
witnessed other things

that would explain
this long-held

fascination with the stars.

The way the city was built,

it was a circular structure.

It had a very interesting
central square.

Basically,
it was an interior circle

surrounded by a circle,
which to many,

means the Mandala principle
of the Buddhism...

...or a depiction
of the universe

in a very miniaturized way.

Incredibly,
archaeologists have found

that Arkaim was built with
features aligned to measure

as many as
18 astronomical events,

such as the solstices
and equinoxes.

And discovered among the ruins

was an ancient statue of a man

looking up to the sky.

Adding to the mystery

are reports of strange anomalies
in the region,

that continue to this day,

which include
magnetic inconsistencies,

strange lights,

and curious fog formations.

When you consider
the strange lights,

the weird fog,
the magnetic anomalies,

the unusual hallucinations,

and things that have happened
to people there,

it appears that this
is some sort of energy node

or vortex point on the Earth...

...that was actually utilized
by extraterrestrials

when this was constructed.

If you actually look
at the shape of Arkaim,

it could have been the platform
for a spacecraft,

like a rocket,
to launch off from.

Could Arkaim
really have been the site

of an extraterrestrial
visitation

thousands of years ago?

And might this be why
the structures found here

were built with such precise
astronomical alignments?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and suggest physical evidence
of such a visitation

might exist
in the nearby Ural Mountains.

Ural Mountains
are very old mountains

stretching from, uh,

the Russian north
to the Russian south.

It, kind of, splitting Russia
into two parts,

Europe and Asia.

Indeed, people living
in the Ural Mountains,

witness some strange phenomena
in the air and on the ground.

Dozens of visitors
to the Ural Mountains

have reported strange sightings
of fireballs

and cigar-shaped crafts.

But even stranger,

is what has been found
in the earth here.

In 1991,
geologists led an expedition

into the mineral-rich Urals in
hopes of locating gold deposits.

While excavating sites
near the Kozhim, Narada,

and Balbanyu rivers,

just 600 miles north of Arkaim,

the scientists discovered
something unexpected.

At depths of over 30 feet,

they unearthed a scattering
of tiny metal coils and springs.

That soil wasn't touched
for hundreds of thousands

or more years.

The area where it was found,

was probably
tens of kilometers around.

It's as if something exploded
thousands of years ago

and the fragments were lying
all over the place.

The metal fragments,

some as small as 1/10,000
of an inch,

were sent to the Russian
Academy of Sciences

in St. Petersburg for analysis.

Their shape resembled
manufactured technology,

rather than
naturally occurring minerals.

The smallest pieces were found
to be tungsten,

a metal used in spacecrafts
and missiles,

due to its ability
to withstand high temperatures.

They are these metal spirals

that consist of copper,
but also tungsten,

and Molybdenum,

which are both very rare metals.

We're looking at nanotechnology.

When you look down
at them in a microscope,

they're extremely regular
in their structure.

They're very nice coils.

The only way we could make them,
even now,

is with
machine-guided technology.

You could not do this by hand.

What we're seeing here is proof

that someone
had advanced technology

sufficient to build
the type of circuitry

that we normally only see
in semiconductors,

computer chips,

high technology equipment,

using metals
that are not commonly known.

So these spirals
are clear evidence

that someone had
a very advanced civilization

right here on Earth
near Arkaim.

Might extraterrestrials

have visited the Ural Mountains
in the distant past?

And if so,
did they leave behind evidence

of advanced technology?

Could they have helped to build

the prehistoric
observatory of Arkaim,

as ancient astronaut theorists
contend?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining
much more recent accounts

of otherworldly visitations.

He had collected hundreds
of UFO cases.

The Soviet Union would
not give it public credence.

But we now have very good
information that

it was reality.

Moscow.

May 17, 1967.

In a secure government building,

a meeting is held
of scientists dedicated

to collecting
comprehensive research

on reports
of unidentified flying craft.

It is the first official
Soviet UFO Study Group,

and six months later,
on November 10,

the government
gives its approval

for the group's deputy,
astronomer Felix Ziegel,

to present its findings

on Soviet Central Television.

Felix Ziegel asked the public

to contact them with sightings.

Now this was
an extraordinary development.

Previously, little if anything,
had been made public

about official interest in this.

And here you have somebody
going on television

talking about it quite openly

and inviting people
to send in their sightings.

Well, needless to say,

there were a lot of sightings
that were then reported,

but the project itself

soon was dogged
by controversy and dissent.

Shortly after
the television broadcast,

the government forced the group
to be disbanded,

fearful that it might lead
to reports surfacing

of top secret
Soviet military tests.

But Ziegel still managed to
collect a huge amount of data,

including reports
from Russian pilots.

He was able
to publish some of his findings

in a 1968 anthology
titled Inhabited Cosmos.

I met Felix Ziegel in Moscow.

He had collected
hundreds of UFO cases.

He said that
these flying objects

were seen
all over the Soviet Union.

Some of them were small,
others large and spherical.

Their technology
must be extraterrestrial,

because they reach
an incredible speed

that no human would survive.

While publicly
the Soviet government

denounced the research
of Felix Ziegel,

they did not stop him
from continuing his work,

and even reviewed his findings.

But why?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that the government

may have been aware that there
really was an alien presence

in their skies.

And they used Ziegel
and other UFO researchers

as a way to secretly monitor
this activity.

A number of records
have surfaced

from the Soviet Air Force
and the KGB,

showing that particularly
in the '50s, '60s, and '70s,

they took the UFO subject
very, very seriously.

Soviet scientists

had to come up with
incredible ways

with which to share
their knowledge

with their colleagues
in the Western World.

So, they essentially
hid their messages in code,

in letters, in different types
of correspondence.

Why would anyone
risk going to jail

by encoding messages
to people and scientists

outside the Iron Curtain,

if you weren't compelled enough

that what you're writing about
is the truth?

Throughout the 1960s
and most of the '70s,

the Soviet government's interest
in UFOs remained unofficial.

But that changed
after September 20, 1977,

when numerous residents
of Petrozavodsk

reported seeing a glowing object
floating in the sky above

for over 5 minutes,

showering the city
with rays of light.

A copy remains
of a lost photograph

that was taken of the object,

and astonishingly,

similar UFOs were reported

all across Russia
and Eastern Europe

within a four-hour window.

On the heels
of this mass sighting,

the Soviet Union established

the Russian Academy of Sciences'
UFO commission.

In 1984,

they appointed
Major-General Pavel Popovich,

the eighth man ever
to reach space,

to head up this research team.

Pavel Popovich brought forth

a lot of the UFO information
himself

and he was able to obtain
the KGB UFO files--

124 pages-- in 1992.

He said that he knew
of the existence

of three underwater bases,

where the extraterrestrials
exist and operate.

This is a man
whom we should listen to.

He had
two UFO sightings himself,

a very significant one in 1978,

when he was flying back from the
United States to, uh, to Russia.

Out his window,
he saw an absolutely enormous--

football field size,
or larger--

triangular craft,

that was moving
at a really good clip.

I mean, easily overtook,

uh... the commercial airliner
that he was in.

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

He talked to
a lot of the other people,

many of whom where academicians,
coming back from a conference,

many of whom saw this.

Did Major-General Pavel Popovich

really witness firsthand
an extraterrestrial spacecraft?

And might he also
have found evidence

in secret KGB files

of underwater alien bases?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and suggest even more profound
evidence can be found

in a small mountain town
in eastern Russia:

the remains

of a crashed UFO.

What people there saw

was this low flying,
very slow object.

It dropped,
almost like a stone.

It wasn't made on planet Earth.

One of the most
decorated test pilots

in Russian history

is a woman
named Marina Popovich,

the wife
of astronaut Pavel Popovich.

Marina set over 100 records
during her career

in the Soviet Air Force,

which includes
being the first woman

to break the sound barrier.

Like her husband,

she, too, reported
on extraterrestrial encounters.

In 2003,
Marina published a book

disclosing her firsthand
experiences with UFOs.

In it, she also referenced

thousands
of similar UFO sightings

by other Soviet military

and civilian pilots.

She told their stories
at speaking engagements

all over the world.

Like the story
of a fighter pilot

who was asked to fire upon
an unidentified,

disc-shaped craft.

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

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

She was a very well connected
individual.

She talked about something like
3,000 UFO cases

that had occurred
in the Soviet Union

over the years which,

considering the fact that
we knew next to nothing

about the history
of Soviet UFOs before that,

was very significant.

There is particular interest
in sightings from pilots.

Pilots are able, for example,
to judge distances,

speeds, heights, in a way that
maybe the average person can't.

And Marina Popovich
has made a particular effort

to collate
all these pilot stories.

What's particularly notable

about Marina Popovich's comments
on the UFO subject

is that she stated that
sources have informed her

that the Soviets have
in their possession

no less than the remains of five
crashed and recovered UFOs.

Did both Marina
and Pavel Popovich,

along with scores of other
respected Soviet pilots,

really encounter alien crafts?

And if so,

might there be
even more sightings

recorded
by the Russian authorities

that have not yet been disclosed
to the public?

Dalnegorsk, Russia.

January 29, 1986.

Just before 8:00 p.m.,

in this small mining town
in eastern Russia,

hundreds of people
see a red, glowing, sphere

moving slowly through the sky
above a nearby mountain.

It appeared to slow down,

before crashing
into the hillside.

Many reported seeing
a fiery blaze from the site

for as much as an hour
after it went down.

The sphere flies
into the Izvestkovaya Mountains

and burns up.

There is an explosion...

and people want
to find out what happened,

because I've read eyewitness
accounts-- incredible.

Because of the huge
number of eyewitnesses,

the crash became known
as the Russian Roswell.

And like at Roswell,

physical evidence
was recovered from the site,

proving that a crash
of some kind did,

in fact, occur.

Some local people
and researchers

managed to get to the site.

They find very interesting
artifacts, remains.

While officials

dismissed the event
as a possible meteor crash,

microscopic analysis of the
debris yielded unusual results.

The samples contained a complex
system of woven metallic fibers;

and the atomic structure
of the metal itself

appeared to change
when exposed to heat.

When they melted the metal

and put it
to a spectrum analysis,

the gold and silver
and other metals were gone.

And instead,
there was titanium

and molybdenum there.

And so, you have here,
some kind of metals,

which apparently
are mutating into other metals.

Which was very, very unusual.

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

nanotechnology machinery,

but it wasn't made
on planet Earth.

It was later studied

by a number of Soviet
scientific institutions

and some of them said that
technology like this

does not exist,
uh, on Earth today.

Subsequent
to the Dalnegorsk crash,

there have been
a number of sightings

in exactly the same area.

Some people have even
seen an object

apparently land on the hillside

where the first crash
took place.

Might the object
that crashed at Dalnegorsk,

and was witnessed
by hundreds of people,

really have been an alien craft?

Could the physical evidence
left behind

provide undeniable proof

that otherworldly beings
are visiting planet Earth,

and have been
for thousands of years?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and believe that Russians have
had contact with aliens,

not just here on Earth,

but even in space.

They describe
seeing seven angelic beings

traveling alongside
their spacecraft.

Whatever it was
they were witnessing,

it was real.

It was out there.

Salyut 7 space station.

July 12, 1984.

Cosmonauts Oleg Atkov,

Leonid Kizim,

and Vladimir Solovyov,

enter the 156th day
of their 237-day stay

aboard Russia's scientific
research space station.

To date, everything has gone
according to plan.

But on this day,

all three crewmembers
witness an extraordinary event.

In 1984, Soviet cosmonauts
on board Salyut 7

saw a strange orange glow

around the spacecraft.

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

But it seemed that
the whole station was surrounded

by this orange cloud.

And as they looked at it,

the cloud coalesced
into a shape.

Suddenly, they are all
blinded by this orange light.

When they regain their vision,

they look out the portals
of the spacecraft

and they're astonished
by what they see.

They describe seeing
seven angelic beings

that are traveling
alongside their spacecraft,

and did so for ten minutes.

The men described
huge, winged creatures,

as much as 80 feet tall,

that appeared
to have glowing halos.

Officials dismissed the incident
as a group hallucination

resulting from
oxygen deprivation

and pressure fluctuations.

Later that summer,

three more cosmonauts
joined the Salyut 7 crew.

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

But how could all
of these cosmonauts

share one hallucination?

It seems to me that
this was not hallucination,

that whatever it was
they were witnessing,

it was real.
It was out there.

Now, angels?

Aliens?

I don't know, but, uh,

when one looks at the recurrence

of winged figures
in human history,

in terms of religion,
in terms of culture, mythology.

Are we looking
at something real?

Are these angels that we see

actually extraterrestrial
entities?

Might the winged figures

seen by the Salyut 7 crew,

really have been
extraterrestrials?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and suggest
that similar sightings

were secretly reported
by many Russian cosmonauts.

Soviet cosmonauts
had a really interesting

and challenging dilemma
when it came to truth telling.

Because at the same time that
they were the public face

of the Soviet space program,

there was the always hidden goal
of the Soviet space program,

which was to prove

intercontinental ballistic
missile capability.

So the cosmonauts were
publically to disguise

those parts of the mission
that were secret

and involved
in national security,

making it all that
much more interesting

when we try to assess what
they saw, when they talk about

anomalous things that they
supposedly encountered in space.

You have to understand
that many cosmonauts,

even if they witnessed
something strange in space,

were, um, highly reluctant
to openly talk about it,

because of the concern
of being decommissioned

for the reason of insanity.

Indeed, some of the Soviet
and the Russian cosmonauts

did have very strange experience
in space.

Could strange encounters

reported by Russian cosmonauts,
as well as military pilots,

be connected to the artifacts
discovered in the Ural Mountains

and the Dalnegorsk crash site?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer can be found

by examining not just
what the Russian cosmonauts

have seen in space...

...but what they've heard.

Ever since Yuri Gagarin

became the first man
to reach space in 1961,

cosmonauts,

along with other astronauts
from around the world,

have had visions and experiences
in space that defy explanation.

Perhaps the most curious
among these incidents

is what has become known
as the "space whisper."

There's an anonymous cosmonaut,

I think he's simply known
as Cosmonaut X,

who allegedly talked about
an experience that he

and another cosmonaut had
while they were in orbit.

What this anonymous
cosmonaut said,

he heard, something speaking
to him inside his mind.

Both apparently
heard this same whispering

inside their heads,
a kind of telepathic message.

This cosmic whisper

said that
they were his ancestors

from the very distant past.

They told him things about
his own family in the Urals

that no one would have known.

And they also told him that
they should go back to Earth.

That Russia was not ready for
what they were attempting to do.

And, in a sense,
go back home and,

you know,
prepare yourself.

There were more
than one cosmonaut.

Some of them knew
not to report it

because this would
eliminate their presence

in the space program.

But they talked among each other
when they could

and they found out
that it was more than one person

and in different spaceships,
that had been subjected to this.

How could
so many Russian cosmonauts

have heard
the same mysterious whisper

while traveling through space?

And just what was this celestial
voice trying to communicate?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe it is another example

of extraterrestrial activity

that is only now
being disclosed.

With all of the
massive secrecy in Russia

and all of the things
we're just learning,

it would seem to only be
the tip of the iceberg

of the many visitations
of extraterrestrials

that have been occurring
all over the world.

There is
a great wealth of information

in the former Soviet Union.

And when people in the west
find out more and more

about events and observations
over Russia, they become amazed.

If we were to get access

to some of the Russian files
on extraterrestrials,

it could answer some of
the questions that we have,

because what if
some of those stories

corroborate the ones
that we're familiar with?

Because then,
it could only mean one thing:

we've all been visited
by the same visitors.

Does the ultimate proof

that extraterrestrials
have visited Earth

exist within Russia?

Could such information
have been purposely covered up?

And if so,

might
the most compelling evidence

still be under lock and key?

Perhaps as more of Russia's
secret files are revealed,

we will discover that hidden
within these vast archives,

lies the truth
about our alien origins.

Ancient Aliens S11E12