Belarus has its own "ghost hunters". A group of desperate romantics from the Ufokom community of enthusiasts has been guarding the country's “space security” for over 10 years.
They instantly respond to calls from eyewitnesses reporting UFOs or other unexplained things, and always try to find a scientific explanation for them. We offer to get to know the Belarusian ufologists better and spend one day with them - during the last expedition to the Vitebsk region.
One of the active participants in the largest community in Belarus "Ufokom" Yevgeny Shaposhnikov immediately declares: he has not yet met miracles and sensations associated with anomalous phenomena in Belarus. Aliens, chupacabras and noisy poltergeists are afraid to meet with ufologists on a narrow forest path. But there is a lot of evidence of mysterious phenomena from eyewitnesses. One of the most striking examples is associated with the exposure of the same Chupacabra.
- We followed the tracks to the very burrows, took pieces of wool for analysis, studied the style and geography of attacks. In one case, ferrets turned out to be chupacabras, and in the other, they were completely ordinary dogs. And still one woman told us: her eyes are so red, her hair is red, this is 100 percent Chupacabra! We say: no, it's your neighbor's dog! She refuses to accept it. People want to believe in miracles.
The huge spiral circles in the snow, which caused panic among a geography teacher from a village in the Brest region, turned out to be the subject of creativity of local schoolchildren, and not at all aliens clearing the site for the future cosmodrome. And the mysterious glowing balls in the sky, which in recent years people have been massively mistaken for group UFO flights, are nothing more than ordinary Chinese lanterns.
- Recently we went on one occasion. People say that the shadow of a man descended over the field, and this lasted about an hour. The whole village saw it. Our physicists have found out that vision is just the result of an optical phenomenon.
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Ufologists do not always manage to give a logical explanation of mysterious things and phenomena. As well as proving their paranormal nature. Most often, community members are called to the scene too late: when CCTV cameras already refuse to record miracles, and special devices, such as microwave sensors, contradict eyewitness accounts. But despite the skepticism inherent in the guys, they remain true to their romantic ideas.
- It is interesting to find that one single plate that actually sat on the ground and left some traces. What if we find some artifact that will change the history of our planet? Or find a diamond meteorite - and Belarus will become the richest country in the world! Or some kind of breakthrough alien technology! There should always be a group of such romantic people in any country who are looking for something inexplicable.
There are several dozen such enthusiasts throughout the country. Interest in the study of anomalous phenomena unites people of various professions, some of them can be very useful in a common cause. So, among the members of the Ufokom community there are candidates of historical and biological sciences, forensic experts, radio engineers. In general, anyone who is interested can come to ufology. Evgeny Shaposhnikov, for example, in another - real life - is engaged in advertising. He joined the community after he could not find a reasonable explanation for the story of his friends.
- My friends, the policemen, were guarding the children's pioneer camp. One night they saw two teenage figures who opened the door of the club, where by that moment the disco had ended. We went to the door, and it was closed, there was a lock! We went inside, but there was no one in the club. I have known these people for many years, they would not lie, they have decent positions. Similar cases took place in other regions of Belarus, and they cannot be explained by any optical phenomena.
Or, for example, triangular UFOs - they are very rare. Some discs-balls see everything, but triangles are very rare, and they appear exactly along certain lines. It is difficult to explain exactly how an equilateral triangle appears.
In search of "stone circles". In the forests, according to eyewitnesses, a whole city with stone roads should have been hidden. The find was not a circle, but a square. Ufologists examined the versions of the ruined master's estate, a very old cemetery, and a paddock for horses.
Ufologists pay close attention to testimonies from two or more eyewitnesses. People who have single-handedly “dated aliens” are rarely credible. Recently, says Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, a man with an "implant in his leg" that was implanted in him by alleged alien beings called the community. An X-ray really shows through some foreign object, but the victim of the aliens does not allow himself to be operated on. A man believes that, having lost a source of information, he will die immediately. Such initially not entirely believable stories are more the exception than the rule, the ufologist concludes.
- Most often, people who talk about the paranormal behave quite adequately. There are no drunkards, drug addicts, as it immediately occurs to everyone. There are a lot of militiamen who, due to their duty, go to many places and talk about what they saw only to us. If they write a report, everyone will laugh at them. There is a lot of evidence from the former military: they constantly look at the sky, because any star seems to them as a satellite or a bomb. Therefore, they observe something interesting more often than others.
Evgeny Shaposhnikov is sure that in the life of every person there was at least one case connected with something paranormal. But there are truly “abnormal places” on the map of Belarus, where people encounter phenomena that are inexplicable to them more often than others. With suspicious regularity, ufologists are summoned to the Baranovichi district (there are many military bases and a large airfield, the source explains the popularity of this place).
Many unknown animals are seen by people in Polesie (perhaps this is due to the radiation reserve). And the ufologist calls the entire Vitebsk region extremely anomalous. There is always something unusual going on there. The last trip there was associated with the "search for a portal to other dimensions."
Evgeny Shaposhnikov offers to go on an expedition with him and his team. TUT. BY publishes a first-hand story.
We are going to the Vitebsk region to look for portals to other dimensions. The topic of moving to parallel Universes is not new; one can recall the legendary Kitezh-Grad, which disappeared right before the eyes of the Mongol army, and the peoples of Altai, who were leaving for Shambhala.
There are many legends about Belarusian prodigal places. Such places are usually called forests, in which people wander for many hours or days and cannot find their way back. And then, when they find the way, it turns out that they wandered for only 20 minutes. Or vice versa, as if they just crossed the woods, and friends are looking for you for the second day, even five kilometers from here.
They told us about one such old road in the Shumilinsky region. They say that a person passes the road here in half an hour, goes out of the forest onto the highway, and has already passed the whole day. And some even disappear along the way, getting lost in space-time anomalies. A rather large bow of the Western Dvina is located nearby. And where there is an onion - expect miracles, it has been said since ancient times.
Since there were two stories about this road at once and they were taken from different sources, we certainly decided to visit these mysterious places. And the favorite palindrome (a word or phrase that reads the same in both directions) of all ufologists immediately came to mind: "The path is small, but it is - to the portals." Let's check, maybe the palindrome was not invented from scratch.
We arrive in Shumilinsky district in the vicinity of the village "R". We set up a modest camp on the shore of the lake and go to interview the local population.
Sadly, but the main part of the ufologist's work is talking with eyewitnesses. In rare cases, we come across a mysterious artifact that can be studied in the laboratory. And you can only dream of climbing on an abandoned flying saucer or shaking the tentacle of your brother in mind.
While walking through the village "R", we found many interesting things. True, there was nothing abnormal in these things. The man in the spacesuit turned out to be an ordinary beekeeper, and a wild roar in the middle of one yard was emitted not by a spaceship, but by a combine harvester that had stopped there.
But on the outskirts we met an old man who told us a little about the old road. She says that it has been overgrown for a long time, for 30 years no one has been walking on it and no cars are driving. There used to be a village “T”, from which people walked along this road to the highway. And then the village "T" was demolished, and no one needed the road. The old man had not heard anything about anomalies, but he says that it is easy to get lost there. And a little later we realized why.
We compare the GPS data with the old pre-war map and set off in search of the desired turn from the highway. It is already difficult to call this road a big one, only the path remained small. And soon it also dissolved in the impenetrable thick of field grasses. Here the machete would be useful, but we don't even take knives with us. What if contact with aliens, and we have edged weapons? It will turn out ugly.
We make our way through flood meadows for several kilometers and get out to the edge of the swamp. The map shows that it is time to turn, and apart from the swamp there is nothing to the right. We find littered trees and cross the swamp along them. And then the first discovery. We find an incomprehensible footprint in the mud, with a clear fingerprint. Either a man walked barefoot, or a bear. In principle, there should not be either one or the other.
And then we find ourselves in a forest with huge spruces. Among them, one simply princess tree stands out. Together, you can only embrace her. The vertex is not visible at all, it is lost in the branches. We hug in turn with the tree, wish her a long life and move on.
And soon we find ourselves in the real world of Tolkien. It's just a real hobbit village. All in mounds and burrows. It turns out that we found a fox settlement. There are about two dozen fox holes here. And fresh footprints are everywhere.
And finally, before us are the remains of that very road. We pass along it two hundred meters, and it runs into a swamp.
And while we were walking through the woods, it was already beginning to get dark and the rain began to fall. We decided to return to the camp. And in order to shorten the time, they decided to go directly. And then we cut off our share of "fornication". It turned out that there was a continuous swamp all around. Wherever we go, everywhere we run into it. The swamp is picturesque, of course, but after half an hour of wandering we are no longer up to its beauty.
An hour later, we somehow got out to the outskirts of a village. And here whole plots of land were turned up together with the trees. Yes, and a poor stork entangled in wires. Some kind of horror.
And then they found a local resident and were already going to ask him a classic cinematic question: "Man, what year is it?" But they restrained themselves. We are ufologists, there are no miracles where we are. Both the village and the time turned out to be our relatives, and soon we got to the camp.
And there this cat on a cart was waiting for us again, but that's a completely different story …