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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence. A History of UFOs in Russia Russia has had its fair share of UFO sightings, in fact for thousands of years UFOs have floated the skies of the country, adding flavour and interest to the phenomenon and this articles discusses some of the incidents. Yet to be honest the truth is just like The X Files in Russia, some of the incidents are locked away in secret drawers, though they do open up from time to time, the will of history or simply chance gives insight to those secrets. Information does leak out, declassified documents of the Russian Ministry of Interior date back to the beginning of the 19th century; we get some interesting UFO sightings from the Russian Empire. One story concerns the Russian Tzar from his Third Department of the Chancellery, which is the former title of the secret police. The report tells of unusual lights observed in the sky by the inhabitants of the city of Orenburg, corroborated by the police and the military, during the night of December 26th, 1830. Other reports give mention of UFOs over Ustyug on January 30th, 1844 and further sightings from 1846 and 1847. The Russian history of UFOs actually date back thousands of years, in the north of Russia, near the Artic Circle, there are ancient stone monuments built around the same time as Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids. Smaller in size, the spiral labyrinths of the White Sea are no less mysterious. They’re found on the Solovetski Islands, known throughout the area as the Tersk Shores in the southern portion of the Kola Peninsula. One of the labyrinths lies near the ancient Umba and the Lesnoi settlement. UFOs have frequently been sighted over the area by the Saami hunters, reindeer breeders and descendents of ancient nomadic tribes. Similar double spiral labyrinths have been found throughout this ancient world, China, Scandinavia and Egypt. In AD 904, the Russian Prince Oleg began his campaign against the Greeks. He marched out of Kiev in the direction of Constantinople, a huge force of men with him, travelling by horse, ship and what was called ‘flying apparatus’. Oleg discovered that the Greeks had fortified the strait and closed up their city. The battle with the Greeks lasted many weeks. Oleg commanded his troops to make wheels, attaching them to the ships, and when the wind was right bore down on the Greek city, it is written that the Russians launched ‘horses’ into the air that were well equipped and ‘coloured golden’. From these the warriors threw fiery arrows at Constantinople. Another manuscript that gives insight into UFOs in ancient Russia was discovered in Kazan University, researched by a Moscow historian. M. D. Strunina. It tells of a boy called Yasha, who, while picking berries one day in the forest, he encounters a stranger in white garb, who proceeds to tell Yasha his name, that of Timofei. Yasha is taken away in a giant ‘copper’ cauldron, they moved upwards to the heavens. Yasha stayed away from his home for three years, Timofei teaching him different sciences, including ‘magic’. He was returned in the same copper cauldron, Timofei giving him two coins as a present – one golden, the other made of silver. In AD 21, the Caliph of Baghdad, Al-Muktadir, sent Ibn Fadlan, an Arabian chronicler with an embassy to the King of the Bulgars of the Middle Volga. According to Ibn Fadlan’s account, he spent the first night witnessing strange celestial phenomena. Just before sunset, the horizon became bright red, and from above came a deafening loud rumble. Fadlan raised his eyes to the sky and saw two fiery reddish clouds moving above him, discerning horse like shapes, with human like figures on their backs holding forth weapons if in battle. The most famous case and an extensively researched one is the Robozero incident, another ancient tale of Russia. This occurred in the year 171, the year 7171 the time of the creation of the world, corresponding to the year 1663. The details of the event have been preserved by the Archaeology Commission. The Commission published a collection of its historical acts 1842, among these was an authentic 17th century document signed by Ivan (Ivashko) Rzhevsky, a labourer, in which he bore witness to an incredible event. According to Rzhevsky’s testimony, on August 15, 1663, between the hours of 10:00am and noon, a “great noise” resounded over Robozero Lake located in the Vologda region, about eighty miles southwest of Belozersk. From the north, out of a clear sky, appeared a huge flaming sphere, not less than 130 feet round and from its forepart emitted two “flame” beams, about “20 sazhens ahead of it”, a sazhen is about seven feet. From its sides poured blue smoke. This huge fire ball, its height the size of a modern 15 storey building, hovered over the lake. The phenomenon was visible to a multitude of people who had gathered for mass at a church situated on the lake shore. The “great noise” occurred just as thanksgiving singing had begun, the people terrified by this noise emerged from the church, on seeing the “frightful sight” went back into the church and “prayed to the Lord and the Virgin Mary with tears and weeping”. Shortly afterwards, “the great flame and the two smaller ones vanished” but it reappeared on two or three more occasions, moving in a westward direction, seemingly becoming brighter each time it was seen, until finally dimming and disappearing from sight a full hour and half later. Peasants were sailing in a boat at the time but were forced because of the heat to the bank. They saw that light from the object had penetrated the water and reached the bottom of the lake “about 4 sazhens down” – 28 feet – and they “saw fish fleeing from the flame toward the shore”. Rzhevky’s story was corroborated by another eyewitness, peasant by the name of Levko Federov, and he also received written confirmation from the local priests that such a “token was seen on that date”. Only then did Rzhevsky report the occurrence to his superiors. Russian researcher Valentin Krapiva compiled a series of UFO sightings that appear in the Russian Chronicles. 1028 there was a serpent like sign in the sky, so big it could be seen throughout the Russian lands. It terrified the natives who fled in terror. It hovered for two days. 1111 the Russia Far East, an area of frequent UFO sightings, a fiery pillar appeared from the ground and rose several miles into the sky. Lightning lit all around the pillar and was accompanied by a thunderous noise. The locals believed it to be a sign from God. 1317 December, a strange circular UFO stayed over the city Tver for over a week, it eventually moved northward and out of sight. The circle, that was bright green and emitted a pulsating red glow at its centre produced three rays, two pointed eastward, the other westward. 1319 during January, at
night over most areas of Russia, numerous witnesses observed “fiery pillars”
that extended from the ground toward the sky. Some people also sighted a
“heavenly arc”. Others saw horse like flying entities carrying
“lanterns”. 1880 St. Petersburg a bright, spherical object flew over the city on July 30th. The UFO was accompanied with two identical objects, only smaller in size. The flight of the UFOs was noiseless. They were observed over the city for three minutes. A History of UFOs in Russia written by Bill Barber |
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