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UFO FILESRussian Roswell
The History Channel, Sunday 5
th
 March, 2006The History Channel’s
UFO Files
 continues with its theme of worldwide ‘Roswells’, after bringingus
Britain’s Roswell 
,
Mexico’sRoswell 
and
Texas’ Roswell 
. Thislatest episode tells us all about the
Russian Roswell 
.Kapustin Yar was the former SovietUnion’s most sensitive air base,even exceeding America’s Area 51for the levels of secrecy thatshrouded it.
UFO Files
claimed that itwas to present never-before-seenfootage of the base, reconnaissancephotos and even a virtual tour of itshidden depths.Kapustin Yar was created as the sitefor the development of the SovietUnion’s space program after the endof World War II. It lies over 500 milessouth of Moscow and about 60 mileseast of Volgograd, the former Stalingrad. These days it lies closeto the Kazakhstan border, but backin those days, the base was deepinside Soviet territory. It was herethat captured V2 rockets and theGerman scientists that created themwere set to work with not only thesingle task of getting into spacebefore the Americans, but alsodesigning and testing new aircraft,missiles and other weaponssystems. The base was deemed sosecret that the nearby town of Zhitkur was emptied of its populationand levelled because it was tooclose.In 1948, less than a year after thefamed Roswell Incident, the base’sradar operators picked up anunidentified object. At the same time,a fighter pilot flying close to the basehad a visual sighting of a silver,cigar-shaped object. Reporting thathe was being blinded by rays fromthe UFO, the pilot was ordered toengage with it and, after a threeminute dogfight, a missilesuccessfully brought down theobject. It seems that the UFO firedsome sort of energy weapon at theMiG and both craft crashed to theground.William J Birnes, publisher of theAmerican
UFO Magazine
, believedthat the alien craft fired a particlebeam weapon at the Soviet fighter,but a lucky shot with the missiledisrupted the UFO’s anti-gravity field,causing it to fall from the sky. Sovietrecovery teams quickly gathered up
 
all the wreckage and transported it tothe underground facility at KapustinYar, which was ironically namedZhitkur, after the former town not far from the base.Birnes claimed that MiG pilots wereordered to take any measuresnecessary to bring downextraterrestrial craft becauseMoscow was desperate to gain anyadvantage over the United States,whom they believed had made
their 
 tremendous advances due torecovered flying saucer reverse-engineering.Russia has a long history of UFOsightings, dating back thousands of years. Russian researcher, PaulStonehill, co-author with PhilipMantle of 
UFO-USSR 
, describedhow in about 950AD, Ahmed IbnFadlan, an Arab chronicler, wasdispatched by the Caliph of Baghdadto engage in diplomacy with the Kingof the Bulgars. In the Volga region of Russia, Fadlan described how heand his fellow travellers witnessed‘aerial battles’ between ‘shapes’ thatmoved through the clouds. Fleets of objects, flying in formations thatresembled people and animals,engaged each other, merging andseparating for a long period of time.Stonehill described it as being likesomething from a modern movie.On 15
th
August, 1663, a great fierydisc came down from the sky andbegan shooting beams of light intothe Robozero Lake near Belozersk,about 250 miles east of St.Petersburg. It moved from the southto the west, vanished and later reappeared for an hour and a half,terrifying the local witnesses.Fisherman were said to have beenscalded by the light and glowing fishleaped from the water, as if toescape the fireball floating overhead.In 1892, an object appeared over Moscow and shot a ‘pillar of light’down to the ground for 20-25minutes. It was described as fiery,much like most other Russian UFOreports through the ages.One Russian event dwarfs anyreported anywhere in the world. OnJune 30
th
, 1908, a huge fireballraced across the Siberian taiga andexploded over the forest close to thetown of Tunguska. Six hundredsquare miles of tundra was razed tothe ground and the shockwave wasfelt by seismographs around theworld.At first it was thought that a meteor had impacted with the Earth andwhen the first expeditions arrivedtwenty years later, they expected tofind a huge crater. No crater wasfound, but the devastation wasevident, with trees laid out likematchsticks in a huge, circular swathe from the centre of the blast.From the pattern of the destruction, itsoon became apparent that theobject had exploded high above the
 
ground, much like the atomic bombsdropped on Japan in 1945, but muchmore powerful in terms of magnitude.Most researchers outside of Russia,including Stanton Friedman, wereconvinced that this was a naturalevent and nothing to do with aliensor UFOs, but Russian ufologists,such as Nikolai Subbotin of theRussian UFO Research Station,were not so sure. Subbotin explainedhow the object apparently changedcourse twice before exploding,something a natural object such as ameteorite or comet cannot do. Thenthere were unexplained radiationlevels in the region and the fact thatplant life appears to have beenaltered because of this radiation.Stalin himself seemed convincedthat the event was related to somesort of weapon, possibly fromextraterrestrials, and he set SergeiKorolev, the father of Soviet rocketry,the task of finding answers. Korolevfinanced a team to travel toTunguska in fleets of helicopters.They found radioactive metalfragments and an area that hasbecome known as ‘The Devil’sGraveyard’, an area close to theblast site where no plants will growand animals tend to die. AlthoughKorolev is believed to have toldStalin that he thought the blast
was
 caused by an alien spacecraft, hisofficial report put the blame squarelyon a meteorite.As rumours began to filter back toWashington DC about UFOwreckage from Tunguska, the 1948crash and other incidents beingtaken to Zhitkur, it became obviousto America’s intelligence agenciesthat they needed to find out whatwas going on. Their spies informedthem that the Soviet Union wasbuilding huge rockets that could notonly carry large, nuclear payloads,but could also reach space. Indeed,their progress became so rapid, thatthe Soviets were ahead of their ownschedules in terms of advancement.By the time American U2 spy planesphotographed the complex atKapustin Yar, there were at leastfour ballistic launch sites, fourteenlaunch pads, a highly-sophisticatedradar tracking facility, three longrunways and numerous unidentifiedareas. There were strange,geometric patterns on the ground.Many UFO researchers believe thatthese designs are to attract UFOsand are patterned after ancientmonuments and cereal glyphs.
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