In addition to operational-search and counterintelligence activities, the fight against anti-Soviet and other well-known tasks, the Committee's duty was to study unidentified flying objects - few people knew about this direction of the KGB's work in Soviet times.
Along with the plane crashes and terrorist attacks in the Soviet Union, any information about UFOs was banned. The classic explanation for the strange events in the sky for the public was the theory of "combustion of the remnants of space technology in the dense layers of the atmosphere." The real data were carefully studied by the special services. The KGB officers collected eyewitness testimonies and systematized them in their archives. This is how the mysterious "blue folder" appeared, rumors about which excited the public for decades.
Adventures of Soviet UFOlogy
The Soviet astronomer Felix Siegel laid the foundation for the national science of aliens. In the spring of 1967, at the Central House of Aviation named after Frunze, under the wing of DOSAAF, a meeting of an initiative group for studying UFOs in the amount of 200 people took place. Following this, Siegel managed to publish an article in the Smena magazine, publishing numerous reports of UFOs, including from pilots.
The brave scientist even spoke on Central Television, asking viewers to send in their stories about their meetings with the unknown. An avalanche of letters fell on the initiators, but they could not be processed. By the end of the same 1967, Siegel's group was disbanded, and all developments were classified personally by Andropov. The head of the KGB introduced the scientist himself to the legendary folder. Inside was material allegedly accumulated by the Committee on the topic of contacts with UFOs, of which there were more than fifty.
Felix Yuryevich Siegel (1920-20-03, Moscow) is a mathematician and astronomer, considered the founder of Russian ufology. He was the first in the USSR to start a serious study of UFOs, became famous for his public lectures on extraterrestrial life in the Moscow Planetarium, as well as a speech on CT in November 1967. pic.twitter.com/vbIZYnH1ue - Oktay Aliyev (@AliewOktai) March 20, 2018
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Andropov became seriously interested in the topic of "little green men". Being invested with power, he ordered to start collecting all available materials about space neighbors.
With the collapse of the USSR, all the accumulated data on UFO encounters, including the “blue folder” with reports, reports, eyewitness accounts and other documents, were transferred to cosmonaut Pavel Popovich, who headed the Ufological Association of Russia. Much of this folder appears to be genuine, but there are also outright hoaxes. Let's try to figure it out.
Skeet
At the end of July 1989, mysterious disks appeared over military warehouses in the famous Kapustin Yar. The amazed military watched glowing spheres of seven meters in diameter, silently flying low above the ground, as if studying it. The plane, raised to intercept, failed to force the plates to land.
This is a classic episode of a meeting with flying saucers, and there are about fifty of them in the "blue folder". It has never been possible to force aliens to land on Russian territory.
Kapustin Yar. Soviet special services in search of traces of aliens.
We are being followed
One of the most extravagant episodes associated with extraterrestrials and caught in the "blue folder" of the KGB was the story of the "Ummite letters". In the 70s of the last century, the inhabitants of Spain began to receive letters in unknown languages interspersed with Spanish. The authors of the mysterious messages called themselves the inhabitants of the planet Ummo, inhabited by intelligent inhabitants.
Allegedly, having flown to earth in 1950 in five spaceships, they followed the life of earthlings. From the study of everyday life on our planet, the "Ummites" took away the love of the socialist system, which they propagated in their messages. Mysteriously, the Marxist aliens disappeared simultaneously with the victory of the Spanish Communist Party in the elections.
In the Soviet "Angar-18"
The USSR also had its own answer to the story with "Hangar-18", which contains the allegedly fallen "saucer" that flew over the USA in 1947. Western radio voices told about the flying saucer shot down over Berezniki (now Perm Territory) in 1968. The body of the alien, just like in America, was sent to a scientific institute, where it is kept to this day.
According to rumors, a former high-ranking KGB officer who fled to the West said that a mysterious glowing disk did fall in Berezniki. There is also the original order of the Minister of Defense, Marshal Andrei Grechko, on the control of the entire process of work with UFO specialists that fell into the hands of UFO specialists and the body of its pilot. In favor of the veracity of the case, it is also said that it was then that instructions on collecting information about UFOs were distributed among civil aviation pilots.
According to unconfirmed reports, rumors of a UFO crash in Berezniki became a kind of Soviet response to the famous American story with "Hangar-18". It is believed that the autopsy photos of the alien's body are fake.
How is perestroika there?
In the fall of 1989, in the Magadan region, shocked residents watched several hemispheres glowing red for an hour. Once in the vicinity of the high-voltage line, the objects exploded in the sky, creating an aurora effect.
Increased UFO activity in the homeland of the chief foreman of perestroika Mikhail Gorbachev, in the Stavropol Territory, was noted in December 1987. The flying saucers were observed by the pilots of several Aeroflot crews at once. According to the pilots, the saucer flew very close to the plane, spewing a terrible fiery train into space.
We saw "plates" on the ground. Eyewitnesses talked about numerous collisions of unusual flying objects with high-voltage line supports. It was possible to collect this data thanks to active work. In search of information about what was happening in the sky over the country, the Chekists traveled around almost the entire Stavropol Territory. Perhaps, by analogy with the Spanish events, alien guests came to see the beginning of perestroika in the Soviet Union.
Secrets of the Karelian Lakes
In early summer of the same perestroika 1987, a group of military men was sent to Karelia. The purpose of the trip was to transport an object of unknown origin that fell into a lake near Vyborg. Its dimensions were amazing, being 17 meters long and 8 meters wide. Attempts to find the entrance to the flying saucer were unsuccessful. Unknown material, similar to earthly aluminum, did not succumb to external influences. According to unconfirmed reports, after being delivered to a secret military airbase, the UFO disappeared from the underground hangar complex of the Soviet troops.
Lake in Karelia.
Since the 90s, documents from the legendary "blue folder" of the KGB began to appear in the press - if, of course, you believe the sources. But there is a version that the "leak" of information was deliberate. And that we are allowed to know only about that part of the information that the almighty Committee decided to disclose.
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