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REPORTING
ON SUBJECT AN UFO
UFOs
in the Soviet waters By Paul Stonehill
The Russian
Ufology Research Center has a collection of
"hydrosphere
aspect" sightings The secret files of the Soviet
Navy contain much
valuable information on UFO sightings. Soviet
military researchers
quite thorough. The files have been largely
inaccessible, even after the
fall of the USSR. But I was able to collect some
interesting
information.
Submarines
Mr. Krapiva attended lectures given by veteran
officers of Soviet
nuclear-powered submarines. They had served in the
Soviet North, in
secret naval installations and bases. The lectures
sometimes veered off
the planned presentations, and many spellbinding
tales were told.
For instance, episodes when Soviet sonar-operators
(military
hydroacoustics technicians) were "hearing"
(at great depths) strange
"targets". Their submarines were actually
being chased by other
"submarines". The pursuers changed their
speed at will -- speeds that
were much faster than
any other similar vessel in the world at that time
Lieutenant-Commander Oleg Sokolov confidentially
informed the students
that while he was on duty during his submarine's
navigation, he had
observed through a periscope an ascent of some
strange object through
the water. He was not able to identify it, because he
viewed it through
the optical system of the periscope. This underwater
"take off" took
place in the early 1960's.
Sevastopol
A few years ago V.V. Krapiva met with Professor
Korsakov of the Odessa
University. Professor Korsakov told him of a
conversation he had with a
friend of his, a Soviet Navy officer who had served
at the Sevastopol
Naval base. Back in the 1950's this officer
personally sighted a UFO.
The object moved upward from behind a battle cruiser.
The officer was
under the impression that the object surfaced from
the depths of the
Black Sea. Professor Korsakov has a photograph of the
object.
Eyewitness reports
In August 1965, a crew of the steamship RADUGA, while
navigating in the
Red Sea, observed an unusual phenomenon. At about two
miles away, a
fiery sphere dashed out from under the water and
hovered over the
surface of the sea, illuminating it. The sphere was
sixty meters in
diameter, and it hovered above the sea at an altitude
of 150 meters. A
gigantic pillar of water rose as the sphere emerged
from the sea and
collapsed some moments later.
In December 1977, not far from the Novy Georgy
Island, the crew of the
fishing trawler VASILY KISELEV also observed
something quite
extraordinary. Rising vertically from under the water
was a
doughnut-shaped object. Its diameter was between 300
and 500 meters. It
hovered at the altitude of four to five kilometers.
The trawler's radar
station was immediately rendered inoperative. The
object hovered over
the area for three hours, and then disappeared
instantly.
The testimony of Alexander G. Globa, a seaman from
GORI, a Soviet
tanker, was published in Zagadki Sfinksa magazine
(Issue # 3, 1992)
Odessa,. In June 1984, GORI was in the Mediterranean,
twenty nautical
miles from the Straight of Gibraltar. At 16:00, Globa
was on duty. With
him was Second-in-Command S. Bolotov. They were
standing watch at the
left bridge extension wing when both men observed a
strange
polychromatic object. When the object was astern, it
stopped suddenly.
S. Bolotov was agog, shaking his binoculars and
shouting: "It is a
flying saucer, a real saucer, my God, hurry, hurry,
look!" Globa looked
through his own binoculars and saw, at a distance
over the stern, a
flattened out looking object (it did remind him of an
upside-down frying
pan). The UFO was gleaming with a grayish metallic
shine. The lower
portion of the craft had a precise round shape, its
diameter no more
than twenty meters. Around the lower portion of it
Globa also observed
"waves" of protuberances on the outside
plating.
The base of the object's body consisted of two
semi-discs, the smaller
being on top; they slowly revolved in opposing
directions. At the
circumference of the lower disc Globa saw numerous
shining, bright,
bead-like lights. The seaman's attention was centered
on the bottom
portion of the UFO. It looked as if it was completely
even and smooth,
its color that of a yolk, and in the middle of it
Globa discerned a
round, nucleus-like stain. At the edge of the UFO's
bottom, which was
easily visible, was something that looked like a
pipe. It glowed with an
unnaturally bright rosy color, like a neon lamp. The
top of the middle
disc was crowned by a triangular-shaped something. It
seemed that it
moved in the same direction as the lower disc, but at
a much slower
pace.
Suddenly the UFO jumped up several times, as if moved
by an invisible
wave. Many lights illuminated its bottom portion. The
crew of GORI tried
to attract the object's attention using a signal
projector. By that time
Captain Sokolovky was on the desk with his men. He
and his
Second-in-Command were watching the object intensely.
However, the UFO's
attention was distracted by another ship, approaching
at the port side.
It was an Arab dry cargo ship, on its way to Greece.
The Arabs confirmed
that the object hovered over their ship. A minute and
a half later the
object changed its flight's trajectory, listed to the
right, gained
speed and ascended rapidly. The Soviet seamen
observed that when it rose
through the clouds, appearing and disappearing again,
it would
occasional shine in the sun's rays. The craft then
flared up, like a
spark, and was gone instantly.
Some history
The earliest mention of giant beings goes back to
early 1900's. Several
boys in Georgia (Russian Empire) discovered a cave
inside a mountain,
full of human-like skeletons. Each skeleton was three
meters in height.
To get to the cave, the boys had to dive into a lake.
George Papashvili
and his wife recall the incident a book published in
New York in 1925,
St. Martin's Press (Anything can happen).
Vladimir Georgiyevich Ajaja, nowadays is a prominent
personality in the
Russian Ufological Association. But he was not always
a ufologist, and
when he became one, he earned the ire of the
Communist Party's dislike
of those who study forbidden topics. With the help of
his highly placed
Navy buddies, he was able to write a piece about the
Bermuda Triangle
for Nauka I Zhizhn, a respected Soviet scientific
magazine. After all,
he was a marine researcher, who, on numerous
occasions, studied the
depths of the Atlantic Ocean from aboard a Soviet
submarine (with many
features designed by him). Other mainstream Soviet
oceanologists would
not touch such a "questionable" subject. In
his search for the
information, two sources helped him: Charles
Berlitz's The Bermuda
Triangle book that mentioned UFOs (he could find no
other books in the
libraries), and Vice-Admiral Y.V. Ivanov, head of the
Naval Intelligence
Directorate. Ajaja found out that the Naval
Intelligence had long
considered UFOs to be a subject of serious
investigation. But his
newly
found conviction put him on thin ice. Ajaja's efforts
to study and
promote ufology made him a target of the science
officialdom, and the
Party functionaries. His name was smeared in the
Soviet media. Ajaja's
works were blacklisted. His lectures were outlawed.
He was fired from
several jobs, and prevented from speaking publicly.
Again, his Navy buddies helped him land a job, and
write about UFOs for
their practical use. In his brochure ATTENTION: UFOS
he stated that the
UFO wave of 1989, still in progress in 1991 when it
was published,
had swept away ideological and censorship barriers
which were placed
against ufology in the USSR. But because of the years
of silence, the
country has been rendered totally unprepared for UFO
phenomena. So he
helped organize the SOYUZUFOTSENTR to promote
scientific study of UFO
phenomena. It broke away from its cradle, the Soviet
Academy of
Sciences, because as did many others, Ajaja was
convinced that those
responsible for the UFO research within the Academy
actually prevented
true and unbiased research.
A.Gorbovsky, a Soviet historian published a book
titled "Enigmas of
Ancient History" in the early 1970's. For many
people in the Soviet
Union this book was an introduction to the forbidden
world of ufology,
of paleocontact (A Russian term for the ancient
astronaut hypothesis),
and mysteries of our ancient history. Gorbovsky
mentions an incident
that took place in the ancient Mediterranean where
people observed a
strange underwater vehicle surfacing at high speed.
The object ejected
itself from the water, and shortly thereafter
disappeared.
B. Borovikov hunted Black Sea sharks for many years.
Then something
happened that put an end to his hobby. Diving in the
Anapa area, he
descended to the depth of eight meters. He saw giant
beings rising up
from below. They were milky-white, but with humanoid
faces, and
something like fish tails. The being ahead of its
companions noticed
Borovikov , and stopped. It had giant bulging eyes,
as if in some vague
glasses. The other two joined it. The firs one waved
her hand-it was
definitely a hand with membranes-towards the diver.
All of them
approached the diver , and stopped at a short
distance. Then they turned
around, and swam away. Borovikov's experience was
published in XX vek:
khronika neobjasnimogo (Moscow, 1996).
D. Povaliyayev was handgliding over Kavgolov
(Leningrad area) in the
early 1990's. There are lakes, and in one of them the
skydiver noticed
three giant "fish". He descended, and was
able to discern "swimmers" in
silvery costumes. He mentioned the episode in his
book Letuchi
Gollandets (1995). There have been many UFO sightings
in the area.
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By Paul Stonehill
128 Pages, Hardcover
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