Sep
13It seems inconceivable that if there are aliens from other planets studying the Earth, that they only study the West. No one will ever know for sure, but it would appear much more logical that studies have been taken place for centuries and in very corner of our planet. It’s just that until the last fifty years, there was no means at mankind’s disposal to record or pass on such information. It would also appear that various Governments have made considerable attempts to stifle such information from breaking through to the general public, and if it did break through, to discredit it. In the West these attempts were partially succesful, in the East, and especially in the Communist bloc, they were totally succesful.
It is only in the “Glasnost “years, from the mid 1980 are onwards, that citizens of the Soviet bloc could begin to recount their experiences of sightings. The first to recall their experiences were the Soviet cosmonauts who broke their state controlled silence to lay out some interesting details on their encounters in space with objects that were impossible to identify. One of the best known incidents of UFO encounter was recorded in April of 1979. Soviet cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev’s rocket was launched into space from the top secret launch site at Star City. Hs mission was to dock with the Soviet Solyut 6 space station.
Whilst gliding through space, Cosmonaut Afanasyev recalls being astounded to see an unidentified craft make a wide turn towards him and begin to follow his flight path. Afanasyev reported that the object followed his craft during half of their first Earth orbit. He remembers that the UFO was clearly a structure engineered in metal, around forty meters long with inner hulls. During this period of mutual observation, Afanasyev managed to take some photographs of the UFO, which kept an even distance of twenty five meters from his craft.
With his mission completed, Afanasyev recalls returning to Earth and been told in no uncertain terms that he was forbidden to match details of this sighting to anyone, either within or outside the Soviet Union. He succeeded in keeping his silence for many years, till well after the break up of the Soviet Union. It was only then that Cosmonaut Afanasyev felt the need as well as the obligation to discuss his experiences with news agencies in the West.
There are a number of similar incidents that have been reported by Russian cosmonauts form the seventies and eighties, when the Russian space program was still fairly active. Since the period of cooperation in space with NASA, sightings have been reported much less frequently by either Russian or American cosmonauts. This seems strange, as although there are fewer space flights especially from the Russians, astronauts are spending much longer periods of time in space.
With the iron curtain gradually being rolled up, the open transfer of information that is now policy in the former Soviet bloc means that many encounters that occurred are now being recalled. Reports of sightings are as common place as they are in the USA, and the images sighted appear to bear very strong resemblance to this in the West. And why should this not be the case?
It would appear that from the late nineteen sixties, reports of sightings began to trickle into Soviet authorities. These sightings were recorded, detailed and the people who witnessed the appearance of a UFO were warned never to disclose this information. Every incident that was reported was added to a very large file, as there apparently several hundred of them. This seems logical when you consider that the land bulk of the USSR in it’s hey day ran into several hundreds of thousands of square miles.
It is a positive sign that the Russian cosmonauts as well as people form all of the nations that once comprised the Soviet republic have now been given the freedom to discuss their experiences, and to show that the presence of UFO around our planet is both non discerning and massive.