It is here that an alien base may be located. In the west of the disappearing Aral Sea, there is a large island stretching from north to south with the meaningful name Barsakelmes.
Translated from the Türkic it means: "You will not come back". This name turned out to be prophetic for many people.
According to ufologists, Barsakelmes is located in a powerful geoactive zone. Geologists agree that the site is unusual. A deep, constantly “renewing” fault passes through the island, along which the energy born in the bowels of the Earth rises. The appearance of Leopard Kelmes is dull. It differs little from the Ustyurt desert located between the Caspian and Aral seas.
About her, the Kazakh guide, answering a question from the head of one of the first scientific expeditions to Ustyurt, honestly answered: “What kind of nature is there? There is no nature there! I had a chance to visit Barsakelmes and I was convinced that the words of a Kazakh about Ustyurt are not an exaggeration. Instead of grass - stunted gray wormwood. Instead of trees - saxaul bushes, under which one cannot even hide from the sun. Instead of animals - snakes, phalanxes and scorpions.
Much more legends and incredible stories are associated with this deserted island than with the entire Caspian-Aral region. Something mysterious and inexplicable is constantly happening here.
Shaitan's Lair The legend tells about the batyr Kuran, who lived several centuries ago in the village of Kaskulan on the eastern coast of the Aral Sea. Somehow Kuran got to Barsakelmes with his friends. They were amazed by the unprecedented variety of vegetation and birds and animals that lived here, the abundance of fish in the coastal waters. But the dragon also lived on the island, which devoured the people who landed there. Hence the name of the island "If you go, you won't come back." The legend has a happy ending: the batyr and his horsemen killed the dragon.
The story of the batyr can be regarded as an ordinary fairy tale, but it has a modern continuation. This is what the old fisherman N. Baidzhanov from the already disappeared village of Muynak told.
His father and grandfather often sailed to Barsakelmes and repeatedly met there … the shaitan. He was as tall as a calf, had large wings, like sails, and a long beak with teeth. To prove his words, the fisherman showed a huge tooth of the "shaitan" that his father had once given him. The tooth was shiny, completely fresh and did not at all resemble the fossilized remains of ancient animals that sometimes occur on the sandy slopes along the shores of the Aral Sea.
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The fisherman categorically refused to give his tooth even for a while, but he allowed him to take a picture. When this picture was shown to scientists from the Paleontological Institute, they stated that the tooth belonged to a flying lizard that lived in these parts many millions of years ago.
The Lost Time The island once served as a refuge for escaped slaves fleeing from Khiva, as it was one of the few places on the Aral where there was fresh water. The fugitives, after sitting out on the island, returned to their native lands and were surprised to learn that during their absence not months had passed, but many years. Aged relatives hardly recognized them. They were blamed for the "stolen" from the people of the time of the evil spirit that lived on the island of Barsakelmes.
The "loss" of time on the island continues. Kazakh ufologists say that a whole topographic expedition disappeared on Barsakelmes in the 30s of the 20th century. They searched for her unsuccessfully for three months. Then she suddenly appeared, and all her members assured that they were absent for only three days, during which they carried out a topographic survey of the northern part of the island.
And here is a story that happened in 1949. One autumn morning a schooner moored to the island, and the fishermen went ashore to warm up. They noticed a large cloud that seemed to be lying on the ground. The fishermen moved in that direction and, when the cloud remained a few tens of meters, stopped. However, two of them nevertheless came close to the cloud and disappeared into it.
Fifteen minutes later they began to call, but they did not answer. The impression was that the cloud did not let go of the missing.
A wild horror seized the fishermen, but no one else dared to step into this mysterious cloud. After waiting another hour, the team returned to the schooner to send a radio message about the emergency. This phenomenon remained a mystery - one night the cloud disappeared along with its captives. It was then that ufologists remembered the strange name of the island "If you go, you won't come back!" Perhaps such disappearances have happened before? Rare explorers who visited the island talked about strange light phenomena taking place on Barsakelmes. Some saw how from the center of the island suddenly burst into the sky a column of light, similar to the beam of a searchlight.
Others talked about a huge disc that rose from the island. Its lower part was wide, and the upper one looked like a light needle piercing space and going into space. The beam changed color from white to dark red, from blue to yellow-green, as if color waves were running along it.
There were other mysterious phenomena on the island. People were suddenly seized by unbearable fear, and they, throwing their equipment, left Barsakelmes. In some places, the clock suddenly stopped.
Spetsnaz against UFOs However, Barsakelmes became famous for the visits of aliens. According to Viktor Zuev, the author of the book "Aral Dead End" published in 1991, UFOs that appeared over the island for several years were seen by all the inhabitants of the reserve that existed at that time on Barsakelmes - 18 people. Visitors also met with them - associate professor of the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute Lev Kuznetsov and a whole group of student students. But most of all "lucky" was the gamekeeper of the reserve Valentin Skuratsky. He even went inside the aircraft.
Here are excerpts from his memories of the morning of November 17, 1985, when he was temporarily abducted by aliens: “It was still quite dark. Just beginning to turn gray. I saw an incomprehensible creature galloping from the next door to me like a frog. When we got close, I apparently grabbed him out of fear.
It slipped out of my hands, while painful injections into my left leg, as a result of which I remained, as I was, in a half-bent position: neither bend nor straighten. It felt like I was immobilized like an animal before being transported. The creature ran across the courtyard, flapping its wings.
Suddenly, the tetanus condition passed.
I ran after the creature and caught up with him near the fence surrounding the estate. It began to fight back with its wings, but I did not let go and was finally able to get a good look at it: dark large eyes, long eyelashes, a black crest on the head, no ears and no mouth, a big nose like a bird's. Clothes - black overalls.
Finally it broke free from my hands and ran across the yard to the old dump. I follow him. And here, not far from the dump, I saw this black thing in the shape of a plate, and next to it - four in the same overalls …
What follows is badly remembered, as if there was some kind of memory lapse.
But not complete. I remember that the "plate" is made of black durable material, there are round windows all over the body. When you go inside, you find yourself, as it were, in an airlock, and the door opens from above and serves as a bridge. A moderate hum is heard inside. Warm, humid.
The main compartment appears to be two-story.
I remember reclining chairs, which I have never seen in my life, a lot of screens going around in a circle. The screens often display pictures with the image of cuneiform or something similar …
From the stories of these creatures and the pictures that were shown to me, I understood the following. Many, many years ago, some big Gm or Nm sent someone somewhere. And this expedition suffered a disaster. And further. When the sun rises, they lose some of their qualities, maybe strength - I don’t know what exactly”.
The huntsman's emotional story can bring a smile. You never know what a person can dream or dream about? But a very similar description of the newcomers came from Poland, where on the lake near the Slukhovsky castle there was a meeting of a resident of those places with two newcomers. This is how the polka describes them.
“They must have been about one and a half meters tall. They were dressed in what looked like a tight-fitting spacesuit. The suits are of a dark color and exactly the same … I remember two more characteristic features of their appearance. The upper part of the arms to the elbows was kept tightly to the body all the time, and the arms were pulled to the sides from the elbows.
They held them in such a way that the ends of the arms protruded to the sides by half a meter."
The growth of the newcomers who have visited Poland and the island of Barsakelmes is the same - one and a half meters. The arms, pressed to the upper part of the body and spread out in different directions, resemble wings. The drawings made by the gamekeeper and the polka are even more similar. They seem to be copied from one creature. The only difference is this: the "Polish" aliens wore something resembling a helmet on their heads, so their faces with a large nose could not be seen.
But not all meetings with aliens on the mysterious island ended so peacefully. The newspaper "Border Guard of the North-East" published an article by Alexander Glazunov describing such a loss.
It happened in 1970. A special detachment was sent to Barsakelmes to check the rumors about the extraordinary events taking place on the island: a military boat with a dozen submachine gunners and three officers on board. There was not a cloud in the sky, but for some reason a gray wall of fog swirled on the island.
His shroud suddenly broke, and the military saw a high fence in front of them. But there shouldn't have been any fence here! The major in charge of the operation ordered weapons to be kept ready and came close to the fence. Behind him was a low rocky hill. At its foot was a ball about five meters in diameter, shimmering in the sun with a matte silvery sheen. Three short people, dressed in silvery overalls, stood near the ball. At their belts each of them had weapons that resembled strange-looking pistols.
The actions of the military exactly corresponded to the instructions. Armed people must be detained, and when resisting, it is necessary to open fire to kill. The major gave the command, and the military rushed to the sparkling ball. Unidentified people standing near him grabbed their weapons, but were instantly cut off by machine gun fire.
Then something incredible happened.
The military, examining the territory inside the fence, found the entrance to the cave in the rock. It was so wide that several people could enter it at the same time.
A small tunnel led the military into a hall, consecrated by an even light falling from nowhere. In the center of the hall there was a control panel, around it long tables with incomprehensible equipment. Behind them sat huge creatures more than two meters tall, dressed in dark overalls. And along the tables strolled dwarfs in silver overalls. Seeing people, the dwarfs tried to grab their weapons.
Submachine gun fire was heard again.
The dwarfs struck by the bullets fell to the floor of the grotto. But automatic fire did not harm the two-meter-high giants. It was they who fought back the military, and soon the retreat of the soldiers turned into a flight. During the firefight, the two-meter creatures were invulnerable, most likely they were biorobots. But the dwarfs, who suffered from the fire, apparently were the owners of the base.
According to the contactee Igor Pavlenko, who spent about a day on the island and observed strange light phenomena, there is an alien base here. It was probably equipped with a powerful energy generator, which became the culprit for the anomalies that occurred with the equipment and time on the island, as well as the noise in the ears of people if they wandered into the central part of Barsakelmes.
Is this all fiction or true?..
Mikhail BURLESHIN