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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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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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Coming up...
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HUGH NEWMAN:
Arkaim has been described
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as Russia's Stonehenge.
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CHILDRESS: Someone,
possibly extraterrestrials,
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identified this
as a site of special energy.
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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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He had collected hundreds
of UFO cases.
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DOLAN: The Soviet Union would
not give it public credence.
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But we now have very good
information that
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it was reality.
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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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of top secret
Soviet military tests.
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But Ziegel still managed to
collect a huge amount of data,
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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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He said that
these flying objects
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were seen
all over the Soviet Union.
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00:22:20,514 --> 00:22:24,850
Some of them were small,
others large and spherical.
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Their technology
must be extraterrestrial,
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00:22:28,255 --> 00:22:31,290
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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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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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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00:23:15,436 --> 00:23:18,604
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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TSOUKALOS:
Soviet scientists
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had to come up with
incredible ways
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with which to share
their knowledge
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00:23:30,985 --> 00:23:33,685
with their colleagues
in the Western World.
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00:23:33,788 --> 00:23:38,690
So, they essentially
hid their messages in code,
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00:23:38,793 --> 00:23:42,594
in letters, in different types
of correspondence.
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00:23:42,696 --> 00:23:45,364
Why would anyone
risk going to jail
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00:23:45,466 --> 00:23:48,700
by encoding messages
to people and scientists
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00:23:48,803 --> 00:23:50,202
outside the Iron Curtain,
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00:23:50,304 --> 00:23:51,770
if you weren't compelled enough
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that what you're writing about
is the truth?
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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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00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:10,255
But that changed
after September 20, 1977,
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00:24:10,357 --> 00:24:13,258
when numerous residents
of Petrozavodsk
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00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:17,196
reported seeing a glowing object
floating in the sky above
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00:24:17,298 --> 00:24:19,097
for over 5 minutes,
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00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,934
showering the city
with rays of light.
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A copy remains
of a lost photograph
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that was taken of the object,
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and astonishingly,
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00:24:29,677 --> 00:24:31,543
similar UFOs were reported
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all across Russia
and Eastern Europe
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within a four-hour window.
447
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On the heels
of this mass sighting,
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00:24:42,323 --> 00:24:43,989
the Soviet Union established
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00:24:44,091 --> 00:24:48,260
the Russian Academy of Sciences'
UFO commission.
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In 1984,
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00:24:50,564 --> 00:24:53,732
they appointed
Major-General Pavel Popovich,
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00:24:53,834 --> 00:24:56,535
the eighth man ever
to reach space,
453
00:24:56,637 --> 00:24:59,271
to head up this research team.
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Pavel Popovich brought forth
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00:25:01,408 --> 00:25:03,775
a lot of the UFO information
himself
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00:25:03,878 --> 00:25:07,679
and he was able to obtain
the KGB UFO files--
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00:25:07,781 --> 00:25:10,148
124 pages-- in 1992.
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00:25:10,251 --> 00:25:12,551
He said that he knew
of the existence
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00:25:12,653 --> 00:25:14,419
of three underwater bases,
460
00:25:14,521 --> 00:25:17,990
where the extraterrestrials
exist and operate.
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This is a man
whom we should listen to.
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00:25:21,428 --> 00:25:22,728
(indistinct radio transmission)
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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,
471
00:25:46,987 --> 00:25:49,054
uh... the commercial airliner
that he was in.
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He wasn't the only one on his
plane to see this, by the way.
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He talked to
a lot of the other people,
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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?
478
00:26:10,778 --> 00:26:12,744
And might he also
have found evidence
479
00:26:12,846 --> 00:26:14,980
in secret KGB files
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00:26:15,082 --> 00:26:18,383
of underwater alien bases?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
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00:26:21,555 --> 00:26:25,357
and suggest even more profound
evidence can be found
483
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in a small mountain town
in eastern Russia:
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the remains
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of a crashed UFO.
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DOLAN:
What people there saw
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was this low flying,
very slow object.
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It dropped,
almost like a stone.
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It wasn't made on planet Earth.
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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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00:26:59,810 --> 00:27:02,945
the wife
of astronaut Pavel Popovich.
494
00:27:04,848 --> 00:27:07,916
Marina set over 100 records
during her career
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00:27:08,018 --> 00:27:10,018
in the Soviet Air Force,
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00:27:10,120 --> 00:27:12,387
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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00:27:28,572 --> 00:27:33,542
disclosing her firsthand
experiences with UFOs.
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00:27:33,644 --> 00:27:35,811
In it, she also referenced
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00:27:35,913 --> 00:27:38,347
thousands
of similar UFO sightings
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00:27:38,449 --> 00:27:39,915
by other Soviet military
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00:27:40,017 --> 00:27:41,650
and civilian pilots.
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00:27:44,154 --> 00:27:47,055
She told their stories
at speaking engagements
507
00:27:47,157 --> 00:27:48,490
all over the world.
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00:27:48,592 --> 00:27:50,926
Like the story
of a fighter pilot
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00:27:51,028 --> 00:27:53,362
who was asked to fire upon
an unidentified,
510
00:27:53,464 --> 00:27:55,797
disc-shaped craft.
511
00:27:55,899 --> 00:27:58,433
(speaking Russian)
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00:28:12,650 --> 00:28:15,951
Marina Popovich is one of the
most famous aviators in history.
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She was in a good position
to know what she knew.
514
00:28:18,422 --> 00:28:20,689
She was a very well connected
individual.
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00:28:22,593 --> 00:28:25,327
She talked about something like
3,000 UFO cases
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00:28:25,429 --> 00:28:26,828
that had occurred
in the Soviet Union
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00:28:26,930 --> 00:28:28,230
over the years which,
518
00:28:28,332 --> 00:28:30,132
considering the fact that
we knew next to nothing
519
00:28:30,234 --> 00:28:32,668
about the history
of Soviet UFOs before that,
520
00:28:32,770 --> 00:28:34,503
was very significant.
521
00:28:34,605 --> 00:28:38,040
There is particular interest
in sightings from pilots.
522
00:28:38,142 --> 00:28:42,644
Pilots are able, for example,
to judge distances,
523
00:28:42,746 --> 00:28:47,449
speeds, heights, in a way that
maybe the average person can't.
524
00:28:47,551 --> 00:28:50,152
And Marina Popovich
has made a particular effort
525
00:28:50,254 --> 00:28:53,989
to collate
all these pilot stories.
526
00:28:55,893 --> 00:28:57,459
REDFERN:
What's particularly notable
527
00:28:57,561 --> 00:29:01,063
about Marina Popovich's comments
on the UFO subject
528
00:29:01,165 --> 00:29:04,266
is that she stated that
sources have informed her
529
00:29:04,368 --> 00:29:06,868
that the Soviets have
in their possession
530
00:29:06,970 --> 00:29:10,706
no less than the remains of five
crashed and recovered UFOs.
531
00:29:13,277 --> 00:29:16,211
NARRATOR: Did both Marina
and Pavel Popovich,
532
00:29:16,313 --> 00:29:20,048
along with scores of other
respected Soviet pilots,
533
00:29:20,150 --> 00:29:22,984
really encounter alien crafts?
534
00:29:23,087 --> 00:29:25,020
And if so,
535
00:29:25,122 --> 00:29:27,055
might there be
even more sightings
536
00:29:27,157 --> 00:29:29,024
recorded
by the Russian authorities
537
00:29:29,126 --> 00:29:32,761
that have not yet been disclosed
to the public?
538
00:29:37,034 --> 00:29:38,600
Dalnegorsk, Russia.
539
00:29:38,702 --> 00:29:42,637
January 29, 1986.
540
00:29:42,740 --> 00:29:44,706
Just before 8:00 p.m.,
541
00:29:44,808 --> 00:29:47,909
in this small mining town
in eastern Russia,
542
00:29:48,011 --> 00:29:51,613
hundreds of people
see a red, glowing, sphere
543
00:29:51,715 --> 00:29:55,884
moving slowly through the sky
above a nearby mountain.
544
00:29:55,986 --> 00:29:57,753
It appeared to slow down,
545
00:29:57,855 --> 00:30:00,956
before crashing
into the hillside.
546
00:30:03,827 --> 00:30:07,095
Many reported seeing
a fiery blaze from the site
547
00:30:07,197 --> 00:30:10,298
for as much as an hour
after it went down.
548
00:30:12,369 --> 00:30:16,204
STONEHILL: The sphere flies
into the Izvestkovaya Mountains
549
00:30:16,306 --> 00:30:17,205
and burns up.
550
00:30:17,307 --> 00:30:19,674
There is an explosion...
551
00:30:19,777 --> 00:30:21,576
and people want
to find out what happened,
552
00:30:21,678 --> 00:30:24,312
because I've read eyewitness
accounts-- incredible.
553
00:30:26,116 --> 00:30:28,984
NARRATOR: Because of the huge
number of eyewitnesses,
554
00:30:29,086 --> 00:30:32,988
the crash became known
as the Russian Roswell.
555
00:30:33,090 --> 00:30:35,724
And like at Roswell,
556
00:30:35,826 --> 00:30:38,293
physical evidence
was recovered from the site,
557
00:30:38,395 --> 00:30:41,563
proving that a crash
of some kind did,
558
00:30:41,665 --> 00:30:43,365
in fact, occur.
559
00:30:43,467 --> 00:30:46,568
STONEHILL: Some local people
and researchers
560
00:30:46,670 --> 00:30:48,303
managed to get to the site.
561
00:30:48,405 --> 00:30:52,674
They find very interesting
artifacts, remains.
562
00:30:54,711 --> 00:30:56,278
NARRATOR:
While officials
563
00:30:56,380 --> 00:30:58,980
dismissed the event
as a possible meteor crash,
564
00:30:59,082 --> 00:31:05,020
microscopic analysis of the
debris yielded unusual results.
565
00:31:05,122 --> 00:31:10,525
The samples contained a complex
system of woven metallic fibers;
566
00:31:10,627 --> 00:31:13,495
and the atomic structure
of the metal itself
567
00:31:13,597 --> 00:31:17,833
appeared to change
when exposed to heat.
568
00:31:20,237 --> 00:31:22,370
When they melted the metal
569
00:31:22,472 --> 00:31:24,272
and put it
to a spectrum analysis,
570
00:31:24,374 --> 00:31:27,175
the gold and silver
and other metals were gone.
571
00:31:28,812 --> 00:31:31,580
And instead,
there was titanium
572
00:31:31,682 --> 00:31:33,748
and molybdenum there.
573
00:31:33,851 --> 00:31:37,619
And so, you have here,
some kind of metals,
574
00:31:37,721 --> 00:31:41,189
which apparently
are mutating into other metals.
575
00:31:41,291 --> 00:31:43,825
Which was very, very unusual.
576
00:31:45,395 --> 00:31:48,163
NOORY: I think it's part of
some kind of machinery,
577
00:31:48,265 --> 00:31:50,432
nanotechnology machinery,
578
00:31:50,534 --> 00:31:53,034
but it wasn't made
on planet Earth.
579
00:31:53,136 --> 00:31:54,703
STONEHILL:
It was later studied
580
00:31:54,805 --> 00:31:57,239
by a number of Soviet
scientific institutions
581
00:31:57,341 --> 00:32:00,542
and some of them said that
technology like this
582
00:32:00,644 --> 00:32:03,278
does not exist,
uh, on Earth today.
583
00:32:03,380 --> 00:32:07,048
POPE: Subsequent
to the Dalnegorsk crash,
584
00:32:07,150 --> 00:32:08,984
there have been
a number of sightings
585
00:32:09,086 --> 00:32:10,652
in exactly the same area.
586
00:32:10,754 --> 00:32:13,922
Some people have even
seen an object
587
00:32:14,024 --> 00:32:17,425
apparently land on the hillside
588
00:32:17,527 --> 00:32:19,527
where the first crash
took place.
589
00:32:21,331 --> 00:32:24,099
NARRATOR: Might the object
that crashed at Dalnegorsk,
590
00:32:24,201 --> 00:32:26,835
and was witnessed
by hundreds of people,
591
00:32:26,937 --> 00:32:29,938
really have been an alien craft?
592
00:32:31,441 --> 00:32:33,942
Could the physical evidence
left behind
593
00:32:34,044 --> 00:32:36,044
provide undeniable proof
594
00:32:36,146 --> 00:32:39,915
that otherworldly beings
are visiting planet Earth,
595
00:32:40,017 --> 00:32:44,586
and have been
for thousands of years?
596
00:32:44,688 --> 00:32:48,790
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
597
00:32:48,892 --> 00:32:52,327
and believe that Russians have
had contact with aliens,
598
00:32:52,429 --> 00:32:54,362
not just here on Earth,
599
00:32:54,464 --> 00:32:58,233
but even in space.
600
00:33:02,973 --> 00:33:06,775
WILLIAM HENRY: They describe
seeing seven angelic beings
601
00:33:06,877 --> 00:33:08,643
traveling alongside
their spacecraft.
602
00:33:08,745 --> 00:33:12,013
POPE: Whatever it was
they were witnessing,
603
00:33:12,115 --> 00:33:13,014
it was real.
604
00:33:13,116 --> 00:33:13,982
It was out there.
605
00:33:21,217 --> 00:33:23,384
NARRATOR:
Salyut 7 space station.
606
00:33:23,486 --> 00:33:27,454
July 12, 1984.
607
00:33:27,556 --> 00:33:31,358
Cosmonauts Oleg Atkov,
608
00:33:31,460 --> 00:33:33,360
Leonid Kizim,
609
00:33:33,462 --> 00:33:35,663
and Vladimir Solovyov,
610
00:33:35,765 --> 00:33:41,468
enter the 156th day
of their 237-day stay
611
00:33:41,570 --> 00:33:44,471
aboard Russia's scientific
research space station.
612
00:33:46,208 --> 00:33:50,511
To date, everything has gone
according to plan.
613
00:33:50,613 --> 00:33:52,246
But on this day,
614
00:33:52,348 --> 00:33:56,317
all three crewmembers
witness an extraordinary event.
615
00:33:59,088 --> 00:34:04,325
In 1984, Soviet cosmonauts
on board Salyut 7
616
00:34:04,427 --> 00:34:08,262
saw a strange orange glow
617
00:34:08,364 --> 00:34:11,165
around the spacecraft.
618
00:34:11,267 --> 00:34:16,370
And they saw what they thought,
at first, was maybe a gas leak.
619
00:34:16,472 --> 00:34:20,307
But it seemed that
the whole station was surrounded
620
00:34:20,409 --> 00:34:23,043
by this orange cloud.
621
00:34:23,145 --> 00:34:24,578
And as they looked at it,
622
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:28,949
the cloud coalesced
into a shape.
623
00:34:32,321 --> 00:34:36,991
HENRY: Suddenly, they are all
blinded by this orange light.
624
00:34:38,260 --> 00:34:39,593
When they regain their vision,
625
00:34:39,695 --> 00:34:42,296
they look out the portals
of the spacecraft
626
00:34:42,398 --> 00:34:46,166
and they're astonished
by what they see.
627
00:34:46,268 --> 00:34:50,437
They describe seeing
seven angelic beings
628
00:34:50,539 --> 00:34:53,307
that are traveling
alongside their spacecraft,
629
00:34:53,409 --> 00:34:55,876
and did so for ten minutes.
630
00:34:59,849 --> 00:35:03,117
NARRATOR: The men described
huge, winged creatures,
631
00:35:03,219 --> 00:35:05,419
as much as 80 feet tall,
632
00:35:05,521 --> 00:35:08,722
that appeared
to have glowing halos.
633
00:35:08,824 --> 00:35:14,194
Officials dismissed the incident
as a group hallucination
634
00:35:14,296 --> 00:35:16,764
resulting from
oxygen deprivation
635
00:35:16,866 --> 00:35:19,533
and pressure fluctuations.
636
00:35:19,635 --> 00:35:21,769
Later that summer,
637
00:35:21,871 --> 00:35:25,506
three more cosmonauts
joined the Salyut 7 crew.
638
00:35:25,608 --> 00:35:31,045
All six of them, once again,
saw these winged beings.
639
00:35:31,147 --> 00:35:32,746
But how could all
of these cosmonauts
640
00:35:32,848 --> 00:35:35,549
share one hallucination?
641
00:35:39,755 --> 00:35:43,090
It seems to me that
this was not hallucination,
642
00:35:43,192 --> 00:35:45,826
that whatever it was
they were witnessing,
643
00:35:45,928 --> 00:35:47,561
it was real.
It was out there.
644
00:35:48,631 --> 00:35:50,464
Now, angels?
645
00:35:50,566 --> 00:35:51,799
Aliens?
646
00:35:51,901 --> 00:35:53,500
I don't know, but, uh,
647
00:35:53,602 --> 00:35:56,670
when one looks at the recurrence
648
00:35:56,772 --> 00:36:00,474
of winged figures
in human history,
649
00:36:00,576 --> 00:36:04,511
in terms of religion,
in terms of culture, mythology.
650
00:36:04,613 --> 00:36:07,748
Are we looking
at something real?
651
00:36:07,850 --> 00:36:10,417
Are these angels that we see
652
00:36:10,519 --> 00:36:13,220
actually extraterrestrial
entities?
653
00:36:17,226 --> 00:36:18,692
NARRATOR:
Might the winged figures
654
00:36:18,794 --> 00:36:20,794
seen by the Salyut 7 crew,
655
00:36:20,896 --> 00:36:24,765
really have been
extraterrestrials?
656
00:36:24,867 --> 00:36:27,935
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
657
00:36:28,037 --> 00:36:30,304
and suggest
that similar sightings
658
00:36:30,406 --> 00:36:34,641
were secretly reported
by many Russian cosmonauts.
659
00:36:34,743 --> 00:36:38,011
Soviet cosmonauts
had a really interesting
660
00:36:38,114 --> 00:36:41,482
and challenging dilemma
when it came to truth telling.
661
00:36:41,584 --> 00:36:44,451
Because at the same time that
they were the public face
662
00:36:44,553 --> 00:36:46,487
of the Soviet space program,
663
00:36:46,589 --> 00:36:49,556
there was the always hidden goal
of the Soviet space program,
664
00:36:49,658 --> 00:36:51,024
which was to prove
665
00:36:51,127 --> 00:36:53,794
intercontinental ballistic
missile capability.
666
00:36:53,896 --> 00:36:57,131
So the cosmonauts were
publically to disguise
667
00:36:57,233 --> 00:36:59,399
those parts of the mission
that were secret
668
00:36:59,502 --> 00:37:01,468
and involved
in national security,
669
00:37:01,570 --> 00:37:03,370
making it all that
much more interesting
670
00:37:03,472 --> 00:37:06,340
when we try to assess what
they saw, when they talk about
671
00:37:06,442 --> 00:37:09,643
anomalous things that they
supposedly encountered in space.
672
00:37:09,745 --> 00:37:12,579
KARASH: You have to understand
that many cosmonauts,
673
00:37:12,681 --> 00:37:16,750
even if they witnessed
something strange in space,
674
00:37:16,852 --> 00:37:22,923
were, um, highly reluctant
to openly talk about it,
675
00:37:23,025 --> 00:37:27,628
because of the concern
of being decommissioned
676
00:37:27,730 --> 00:37:29,763
for the reason of insanity.
677
00:37:29,865 --> 00:37:34,401
Indeed, some of the Soviet
and the Russian cosmonauts
678
00:37:34,503 --> 00:37:39,173
did have very strange experience
in space.
679
00:37:41,110 --> 00:37:42,676
NARRATOR:
Could strange encounters
680
00:37:42,778 --> 00:37:47,447
reported by Russian cosmonauts,
as well as military pilots,
681
00:37:47,550 --> 00:37:51,852
be connected to the artifacts
discovered in the Ural Mountains
682
00:37:51,954 --> 00:37:54,655
and the Dalnegorsk crash site?
683
00:37:54,757 --> 00:37:59,493
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer can be found
684
00:37:59,595 --> 00:38:02,763
by examining not just
what the Russian cosmonauts
685
00:38:02,865 --> 00:38:04,298
have seen in space...
686
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:05,966
(speaking Russian over radio)
687
00:38:06,068 --> 00:38:07,568
...but what they've heard.
688
00:38:15,369 --> 00:38:17,102
NARRATOR:
Ever since Yuri Gagarin
689
00:38:17,205 --> 00:38:20,506
became the first man
to reach space in 1961,
690
00:38:20,608 --> 00:38:22,975
cosmonauts,
691
00:38:23,077 --> 00:38:25,845
along with other astronauts
from around the world,
692
00:38:25,947 --> 00:38:31,150
have had visions and experiences
in space that defy explanation.
693
00:38:31,252 --> 00:38:34,320
Perhaps the most curious
among these incidents
694
00:38:34,422 --> 00:38:37,790
is what has become known
as the "space whisper."
695
00:38:39,260 --> 00:38:41,493
DOLAN:
There's an anonymous cosmonaut,
696
00:38:41,596 --> 00:38:44,029
I think he's simply known
as Cosmonaut X,
697
00:38:44,131 --> 00:38:47,800
who allegedly talked about
an experience that he
698
00:38:47,902 --> 00:38:50,836
and another cosmonaut had
while they were in orbit.
699
00:38:50,938 --> 00:38:54,473
What this anonymous
cosmonaut said,
700
00:38:54,575 --> 00:38:58,611
he heard, something speaking
to him inside his mind.
701
00:38:58,713 --> 00:39:02,114
(disembodied, eerie voices)
702
00:39:02,216 --> 00:39:06,452
Both apparently
heard this same whispering
703
00:39:06,554 --> 00:39:11,523
inside their heads,
a kind of telepathic message.
704
00:39:11,626 --> 00:39:14,360
This cosmic whisper
705
00:39:14,462 --> 00:39:17,963
said that
they were his ancestors
706
00:39:18,065 --> 00:39:20,099
from the very distant past.
707
00:39:20,201 --> 00:39:25,004
They told him things about
his own family in the Urals
708
00:39:25,106 --> 00:39:27,806
that no one would have known.
709
00:39:27,909 --> 00:39:32,444
And they also told him that
they should go back to Earth.
710
00:39:32,546 --> 00:39:38,517
That Russia was not ready for
what they were attempting to do.
711
00:39:38,619 --> 00:39:41,954
And, in a sense,
go back home and,
712
00:39:42,056 --> 00:39:43,822
you know,
prepare yourself.
713
00:39:43,925 --> 00:39:46,458
STONEHILL: There were more
than one cosmonaut.
714
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,360
Some of them knew
not to report it
715
00:39:48,462 --> 00:39:50,696
because this would
eliminate their presence
716
00:39:50,798 --> 00:39:52,197
in the space program.
717
00:39:52,300 --> 00:39:54,466
But they talked among each other
when they could
718
00:39:54,568 --> 00:39:56,635
and they found out
that it was more than one person
719
00:39:56,737 --> 00:40:00,739
and in different spaceships,
that had been subjected to this.
720
00:40:00,841 --> 00:40:04,310
NARRATOR: How could
so many Russian cosmonauts
721
00:40:04,412 --> 00:40:06,845
have heard
the same mysterious whisper
722
00:40:06,948 --> 00:40:09,048
while traveling through space?
723
00:40:09,150 --> 00:40:15,020
And just what was this celestial
voice trying to communicate?
724
00:40:15,122 --> 00:40:19,858
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe it is another example
725
00:40:19,961 --> 00:40:21,860
of extraterrestrial activity
726
00:40:21,963 --> 00:40:26,565
that is only now
being disclosed.
727
00:40:26,667 --> 00:40:28,968
CHILDRESS: With all of the
massive secrecy in Russia
728
00:40:29,070 --> 00:40:31,537
and all of the things
we're just learning,
729
00:40:31,639 --> 00:40:34,673
it would seem to only be
the tip of the iceberg
730
00:40:34,775 --> 00:40:38,544
of the many visitations
of extraterrestrials
731
00:40:38,646 --> 00:40:41,580
that have been occurring
all over the world.
732
00:40:43,284 --> 00:40:45,150
STONEHILL: There is
a great wealth of information
733
00:40:45,252 --> 00:40:46,919
in the former Soviet Union.
734
00:40:47,021 --> 00:40:49,922
And when people in the west
find out more and more
735
00:40:50,024 --> 00:40:56,261
about events and observations
over Russia, they become amazed.
736
00:40:57,631 --> 00:40:59,098
TSOUKALOS:
If we were to get access
737
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,667
to some of the Russian files
on extraterrestrials,
738
00:41:01,769 --> 00:41:06,071
it could answer some of
the questions that we have,
739
00:41:06,173 --> 00:41:08,474
because what if
some of those stories
740
00:41:08,576 --> 00:41:12,211
corroborate the ones
that we're familiar with?
741
00:41:12,313 --> 00:41:15,314
Because then,
it could only mean one thing:
742
00:41:15,416 --> 00:41:18,717
we've all been visited
by the same visitors.
743
00:41:22,089 --> 00:41:23,455
NARRATOR:
Does the ultimate proof
744
00:41:23,557 --> 00:41:25,958
that extraterrestrials
have visited Earth
745
00:41:26,060 --> 00:41:28,560
exist within Russia?
746
00:41:28,662 --> 00:41:32,798
Could such information
have been purposely covered up?
747
00:41:32,900 --> 00:41:35,034
And if so,
748
00:41:35,136 --> 00:41:37,102
might
the most compelling evidence
749
00:41:37,204 --> 00:41:40,339
still be under lock and key?
750
00:41:40,441 --> 00:41:44,610
Perhaps as more of Russia's
secret files are revealed,
751
00:41:44,712 --> 00:41:48,480
we will discover that hidden
within these vast archives,
752
00:41:48,582 --> 00:41:53,452
lies the truth
about our alien origins.