KGB and UFOs - declassified information. Aliens and UFOs: What the secret departments of the KGB were doing. The USSR had its own alien

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With changing political priorities, many documents from the secret archives of the KGB are now in the public domain. But how much can you trust them? Any state security officer will confirm: business papers are rarely declassified in their original form.

They are first “cleansed”, removing information that this agency does not want to make public for one reason or another. And yet, such documents can provide researchers with interesting information - in particular, about the problems of aliens and UFOs, which our intelligence services also dealt with.

Double standards

For many years, the USSR had a dual policy regarding unidentified flying objects.

They explained to the population that UFOs do not exist, this is hostile propaganda. Enthusiasts who distributed samizdat materials about UFOs or aliens were intimidated by accusations of anti-Soviet propaganda.

At the same time, many UFO eyewitnesses gave written testimonies, which were carefully stored and systematized in the KGB archives. That is, the department itself fully admitted that such objects exist and could even threaten the security of the country.

An interesting story is connected with the activities of one of the founders of Russian ufology, Felix Siegel (1920-1988). In November 1967, his appearance on television marked the beginning of a massive gathering of information about UFOs. The scientific group he created at the USSR Academy of Sciences received several hundred documentary evidence. But it was not possible to study them - the group was disbanded, and all its materials were transferred to the KGB.

"Blue folder"

Igor Sinitsyn, assistant to KGB chief Andropov, in an interview with Observer magazine, spoke about how he saw a dossier on the UFO phenomenon in his boss’s office. This happened in 1977 - after an incomprehensible huge object appeared in the sky over Petrozavodsk.

Sinitsyn's duties included monitoring publications in the foreign press, so he brought Andropov a translation of an article from Stern magazine about the case in Petrozavodsk.

The head of the KGB carefully studied the material, then took out a blue folder from the table and invited Sinitsyn to familiarize himself with its contents. The folder contained reports from counterintelligence officers about encounters with UFOs. Andropov asked to take all the materials to the Chairman of the Military-Industrial Commission of the USSR A.P. Kirilenko. He left the documents with himself.

After a short time, on the orders of Andropov, a program was developed obliging every serviceman to report all cases of UFO sightings. The most interesting information ended up in the Blue Folder.

In 1991, at the request of cosmonaut Pavel Popovich, then president of the All-Union UFO Association, the “Blue Folder” was transferred to her disposal. There were 124 pages of printed text: reports, explanatory notes, reports on meetings with unidentified objects.

Failed to shoot down

On July 28, 1989, mysterious disks appeared above missile depots located northeast of the city of Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Region. The numbers of military units in the documents are covered with black ink, but the notes of the security officer who reported on this situation are left. Military personnel from the transfer center observed three objects, and military personnel from the liquidation base observed one.

UFOs were disks with a diameter of 4-5 meters with a hemisphere on top. They glowed brightly, moved silently, sometimes descending and hovering above the ground. The fighter called by the command (the number of the flight unit was also covered with black ink) was unable to fly close to any of the objects; they constantly moved away from it.

Reports from Captain Chernikov, Warrant Officer Voloshin, Private Tishaev and others indicate that the object emitted signals reminiscent of a photo flash.

Other Blue File documents describe a UFO encounter that occurred in 1984 over Turkmenistan. The air defense system spotted a spherical object flying along the coast of the Caspian Sea at an altitude of 2000 meters and heading towards the state border. He did not respond to requests. Two fighters were scrambled into the air, but all attempts to shoot down the UFO failed. Moreover, when they started shooting at the object, it sharply dropped to 100 meters above the ground - to a height that did not allow fighters to fire at it.

There are several dozen such cases in the Blue Folder. This evidence points to two indisputable facts: firstly, UFOs existed, and secondly, despite their official denial, the KGB was actively involved in collecting and systematizing information regarding unidentified flying objects.

Letters from another planet

But the KGB would not be itself without secrets and hoaxes. Western researchers consider the so-called Ummit letters to be one of them. In the 1960s and 1970s, in Spain (and parts of France), letters were sent to different people in different languages. The senders introduced themselves as inhabitants of the planet Ummo, inhabited by intelligent inhabitants who had flown to Earth.

The total number of letters was more than 260, their volume exceeded a thousand typewritten sheets. Each page of these documents was marked with a special lilac pictogram.

In their messages, the Ummites described the history of their stay on Earth. They arrived here in 1950 on three spaceships, six of them, including two women, they explore and analyze our lives.

French journalist R. Marik, who studied these letters for many years, came to the conclusion that their creators were members of the USSR KGB. His arguments: the social system of the planet Ummo described in the letters is very similar to communism promoted in the USSR. The Ummites did not hide their sympathy for Marxist politicians. Their views on the arms race closely followed the classic themes of Soviet propaganda.

But the main thing is that legal communist parties already existed in all European countries, but in Spain the dictator Franco ruled and the communists were banned. In 1975, Franco died, Christian Democrats came to power in the country, and the Communist Party became legal. And the flow of letters stopped! Have the Ummits achieved the desired goal?

Did the USSR have its own alien?

In the West, the topic of a flying saucer of extraterrestrial origin shot down by USSR air defense and the study of the corpse of the humanoid who controlled it, which was comprehensively studied at the Semashko Institute, is periodically raised. A UFO was shot down in 1968 in the Urals, near the city of Berezniki. Nowadays, everyone interested in ufology knows that this fact is nothing more than a hoax.

However, a number of magazine and television interviews on this topic were given in the United States by a certain P. Klimchenkov, who introduced himself as a former KGB officer and showed his ID on television.

His words are confirmed by an article from the newspaper “Evening Sverdlovsk” dated November 29, 1968. In it, witnesses claimed that before their eyes some shiny disk fell onto a steep snow-covered slope. The military then arrived at the scene and thoroughly combed the area.

Klimchenkov claims that the UFO detection operation was codenamed “Myth”. Further anatomical dissection of the dead humanoid convinced scientists that he was not human.

How reliable is this information? Neither the Blue Folder nor other published KGB documents say anything about her. But many of the documents demonstrated by Klimchenkov give the impression of being authentic. For example, the order of the USSR Minister of Defense A. Grechko to the commander of the Ural Military District A. Ponomarenko that KGB officers should be present at all stages of UFO detection.

Their reports, according to Klimchenkov, were promptly made available to the head of the KGB scientific department, Colonel A. Grigoriev. The documents shown name the scientific institution where the anatomical autopsy of the humanoid was carried out, and the names of the doctors - Kamyshov, Savitsky and Gordienko. For unknown reasons, they all died on the same day, exactly one week after the autopsies were completed.

All three were real luminaries of science - and the KGB, with all its power, would hardly have cracked down on the pioneers of Russian medicine. Therefore, the death of doctors still raises questions.

Some foreign journalists claim that the leak of information about the activities of the now former KGB was deliberate. But for what purpose? In response to a similar story about the capture of a UFO and the autopsy of a humanoid in the USA? As you know, in 1995, many American media accused the CIA of covering up this fact for many years, but the official authorities announced that there was no capture.

Perhaps the mercantile interests of former employees of the once formidable department played a role? The American television company TNT does not hide the fact that documents and video materials about the “Soviet alien” were purchased in Russia from retired KGB officers.

The activities of the KGB have long been overgrown with rumors and legends. And separating the truth from controlled disinformation is extremely difficult. In addition, the existence of UFOs still affects state security interests, which means that some documents are unlikely to be published.

There are many assumptions that in the archives KGB stores information about UFOs. Some of the documents have still not been declassified, and given the enormous size of Russia, there should be a lot of data on aliens.

Most of the information is contained in the so-called blue folder, for example, it describes one of the strange incidents that occurred in the city of Kapustin Yar.

What information did the KGB have?

In the Volga region there is a military base called Zhitkur. It is strictly classified, but a ufologist from Crimea has visited it more than once. He said that all objects falling on the territory of the USSR were brought here. Thus, at least 5 alien plates are stored in the northeastern part of the base. Two devices arrived from Alpha Sirius, one cigar-shaped object, a sports-type flying saucer and a Dolphin ship, reminiscent of an earthly plane - these are just some of the machines that are at the base. In another part of it there are bodies of extraterrestrial inhabitants.

The reports also recorded a case in 1984 in Turkmenistan. He talks about how a strange object flew over the Caspian Sea, not responding to requests to land. Then the USSR decided to shoot. 2 fighters took to the air and fired. But the saucer was not damaged; moreover, it sank so that it was impossible to fire further.

Then the pilots took several photographs of the ship and stopped the chase. But when approaching UFO to the city of Krasnovodsk, a helicopter was again raised into the sky to shoot down the object. Then he went high up, again becoming inaccessible. After the people ran out of ammunition, they sat down, and the saucer rushed off into the open sea. There she got lost, radars did not detect her.

Other cases from the blue folder

There is also information from , which says that in 1985, an object whose diameter exceeded 1000 m flew near Krasnovodsk! It moved very slowly, but a smaller and more maneuverable ship separated from it. A small object landed right by the sea near Krasnovodsk. But after they tried to approach him, he quickly took off and flew a kilometer away from the landing site. Patrol boats made five more attempts to catch up with the object. But he soared up at great speed and flew into outer space.

In 1986, a strange target was also discovered in Moscow. A UFO appeared right next to a plane flying in the air. After the pilot of the plane noticed the alien ship, the latter abruptly changed direction and sped away at great speed. They searched for him, but the radars found nothing.

In 1985 in the Khabarovsk region. an orange oval plate was seen. A large number of military personnel saw him. Then the alien ship was seen over the Litovko military base. It changed color to white and sent beams of light down and up.

And these are not all the cases contained in . The blue folder also stores a huge amount of data about aliens visiting Earth.

The change in political priorities led to various events, including the partial declassification of KGB information. Previously, this organization was always the first to know about everything. According to some reports, KGB representatives have long established contact with extraterrestrial civilization. How much can you trust this information?

Any employee of state security agencies will confirm that the information being declassified is far from being in its original form. The law does not prohibit changing it, removing unnecessary things and adding something else. Declassified documentation is first “cleaned”, eliminating data that humanity should not know. It's no secret that among the KGB classified information there are many facts about UFOs and extraterrestrial civilizations. It turns out that this question has long been of interest to the “powers that be.” This means that there is some truth to the UFO theories.

The KGB is a state security committee that functioned from 1954 to 1991. This organization carried out foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, operational and investigative functions, and guarded the state border of the Soviet Union.

Double standards policy

For several decades, the Soviet Union had a policy of “double standards.” The USSR government treated UFOs differently: ordinary people were given information that no UFOs existed. Despite this, they were constantly searching for aliens and flying unidentified vehicles, creating special bodies for this. When people stated that they had seen “flying saucers,” they were explained that these were NATO instruments, with the help of which the NATO leadership monitored the USSR.

There were no ufologists and other enthusiasts in those days. Anyone who dared to claim that UFOs existed was intimidated and accused of anti-Soviet agitation. In parallel with this, KGB representatives caught eyewitnesses, after which they demanded written testimony from them, which were then collected in folders and carefully hidden from prying eyes. Why be so interested in UFOs, while claiming that they do not exist?

The founder of ufology, Felix Siegel, made a statement on television in November 1967 that he sincerely believed in the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. This event marked the beginning of a massive collection of information about alien inhabitants. After Siegel created the scientific group “AS USSR”, written eyewitness accounts began to come to him in huge quantities. Unfortunately, his group was closed almost immediately, and all the information he collected was classified.

The blue folder knows the answers to all questions regarding UFOs

I. Sinitsyn at one time worked in the KGB as an assistant to Yu. Andropov, the head of the above-mentioned organization. One day in his boss's office, he saw a blue folder that changed his life. This happened in 1977 after a UFO appeared in the sky over Petrozavodsk. Sinitsyn, in turn, was engaged in research and translation of foreign press. After the incident described above, he brought the boss a translated article, which he found in the American publication Stern. It described an incident in Petrozavodsk, so Sinitsyn had no right not to pay attention to it.

The head of the KGB carefully studied the article, after which he took out a blue folder from the table, quite weighty and thick, and invited Sinitsyn to familiarize himself with its contents. The folder contained reports from military personnel who had ever been “lucky enough” to see UFOs and aliens. Andropov developed a program that obligated every serviceman to report any contacts with representatives of extraterrestrial civilization and UFOs. He put the most interesting, unusual and, most importantly, realistic cases into the blue folder.

Contents of some papers that were in the blue folder

On July 28, 1989, unidentified flying discs were spotted over a military equipment warehouse, which was located near Kapustiny Yar, in the Astrakhan region. Then the employees of the transmitting center noticed 3 UFOs in the sky, and those who were at the base at that moment saw only one disk-shaped object. The diameter of these objects varied from 4 to 5 meters. They all moved absolutely silently, glowed brightly, and had a convex hemisphere at the top. The military called a fighter, but it failed to even get close to the objects, which were constantly moving away from it. Of course, it was not possible to shoot them down either. The UFO was observed by Captain Chernikov, Warrant Officer Voloshin, Private Tishaev and other military personnel. They all said that sometimes the objects produced bright flashes, reminiscent of photographic flashes. Perhaps this is how they communicated with each other, or tried to convey something to eyewitnesses.

In 1984, on the territory of Turkmenistan there was contact with an alien flying vehicle, which was also documented. The air defense system detected a ball-shaped object that was slowly moving along the coast of the Caspian Sea. It flew at a relatively low altitude, which was no more than 2 thousand meters. Since the object did not respond to requests, they decided to send a couple of fighters to it. When they started shooting at the UFO, the object sharply decreased in height to one hundred meters, after which it also rose sharply and disappeared.

There are many similar incidents in the blue folder. Most of them are similar to each other. Some deserve special attention. Today, all the documentation of the above folder is stored in the UFO Committee of Russia. Geographical Society.

Sometimes the air defense system shot down unidentified aircraft

From time to time, the media raise the topic of a UFO, which was once shot down by the air defense system of the Soviet Union. The plate was not only shot down, but also aliens were found in it, who were sent for various examinations. By the way, this happened in 1968 near the settlement of Berezniki, which is located in the Urals. In modern times, this information is considered completely false.

Everything would be fine, but recently an interview with a certain P. Klimchenkov appeared on the Internet, who claimed that in the past he was a KGB officer and knows the truth about the downed “plate” in 1968. Moreover, he showed his ID on air, which confirmed the authenticity of his words. Klimchenkov stated that in 1968 they actually shot down an alien ship and actually extracted a humanoid from it. The operation to detect and capture a UFO was called “Myth.” The found humanoid was indeed opened, but this was not filmed. The photographs of the autopsy process were faked, but the incident itself was true. According to Klimchenkov, after the autopsy, doctors confirmed that the creature was not human.

The activities of the KGB and similar organizations have long been surrounded by rumors and fairy tales. It is almost impossible to dispel them, even if declassification of files is used for this. It is also very difficult to separate true information from untruth. Only one thing can be said: UFOs continue to be of interest to state security officials.

On November 5, 1972, a month after the death of the writer Ivan Efremov, his apartment was unexpectedly searched. The security officers inspect the house thoroughly; they even have a metal detector with them. The official reason for the visit is that a criminal case has been opened into the mysterious death of the popular science fiction writer, author of “The Andromeda Nebula.” In fact, they are checking his connection with extraterrestrial civilizations. They suspect that Efremov himself is an alien from outer space. At the same time, the State Security Committee is creating closed programs for the study of UFOs and people with unusual abilities.

A few years before these events, the film “Andromeda Nebula” was released. Starring Soviet stars Viya Artmane, Lyudmila Chursina and Nikolai Kryukov. The era of computer special effects is still decades away, but the film's visuals are impressive. For example, on the desk of the head of the space stations, “Gift of the Wind” is an object very similar to a modern laptop, and its operating principle is the same. Soviet intelligence services also notice such details.

"Several factors came together here. One of them was paranoid espionage mania in the KGB system in the early 70s. This was really the case. Moreover, then, in the early 70s, the KGB issued a special directive to the central apparatus and local authorities about the intensified search for enemy illegal agents. It seemed to them that there were these illegal agents around,” says historian Nikita Petrov.

The writer Efremov will also be suspected of espionage. Nikita Petrov discovered this story at one time. When the KGB archival materials came into his hands, he was shocked. It turned out that several years after the launch of man into space, security officers were waiting for aliens to visit earth.

“An interesting author like Ivan Efremov, of course, attracts the attention of not only the public, but also the authorities. People always want to ask how he invents all this, how does he do it all? And many, especially those prone to conspiracy theories, come to the conclusion “What do you mean he’s making it up? Or maybe he knows all this? Or maybe he’s from other worlds, from other planets?” says Petrov.

Then why do the security officers begin checking Efremov only after his death? What are the KGB afraid of? Once the writer was already summoned to the Lubyanka. This happened immediately after the release of his novel "The Hour of the Bull" in the late 60s. Andropov himself then conducted the conversation with him. In Efremov’s work, he saw a satire on the existing regime. At that moment, they did not dare to come to the science fiction writer’s apartment with a search.

“Otherwise it would look arbitrary, and Efremov is a fairly famous writer - there would be a noise in Moscow, they would talk about it in the West - that the KGB would just burst into the writer with a search. Who could afford this? And after his death they thought that everyone it will somehow go away more or less quietly and unnoticed, although after this search, of course, Moscow was full of rumors,” notes Petrov.

There are clear instructions from the KGB on what grounds to initiate a case. Of course, there is no clause about an alien agent among them. That is why the security officers have to resort to a ruse with the suspicious death of Efremov. In this case, they have access to the apartment, documents and relatives of the writer. But after a year there will be nothing to report to the authorities. Was this whole story just someone's attempt to curry favor? Or is this the result of many years of work by the special services with the unknown?

“This is just a grain of sand in a sea of ​​events that take place primarily in the sphere of state security agencies (now the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs). These stories are not told. They are told only there, 50 years later. But there are a lot of them,” believes President of the National Association of Bodyguards of Russia Dmitry Fonarev.

Dmitry Fonarev (formerly President Gorbachev’s bodyguard) is a veteran of the 9th Directorate of the KGB, which provided security to the top officials of the state. He admits that people with non-standard abilities are always under the control of security officers.

“Somewhere in the 70s and 80s, intelligence officers began to encounter quite serious manifestations of threats in an unusual form. That is, when people came out of windows, they died as if out of the blue, sudden death. And, in general, then, interest in these things never disappeared,” says Fonarev.

Fonarev himself encountered paranormal phenomena. Since then, he has been studying the work of his colleagues in this field. The guys from his group were on duty that day. And this is how it happened: it was 1989. The First Congress of People's Deputies meets in the Kremlin. Security, as expected at a government event, is at the highest level. At the last post at the entrance to the hall, a man in civilian clothes calmly checks everyone’s documents. It is necessary to show your pass and passport here, however, as at the two previous posts. The security officer stubbornly does not notice one person who suddenly appears nearby and goes to the podium. And only when the unknown person begins to rush between the front rows in search of a seat, does he pay attention to him.

“Well, this kind of ordinary worker, one might say, is a hard worker. He says: “But I don’t have a place.” They ask him: “Why don’t I have a place?” Come on, come here, give me the documents." He says: “I don’t have documents.” - “How come I don’t have documents?” He’s almost at the podium. He’s off to headquarters. Well, no documents, lost, got drunk, maybe , crazy, you never know, right? At the headquarters they started to figure it out: “Who are you?” - “I’m so-and-so” (there is a last name and first name) - “How did you get there?” He went and got caught." The man passed three posts. Three posts! How? Nobody knows. That is, that he was missed at three posts - well, that’s impossible. I myself stood at these posts, and I have a great idea of ​​what it’s like,” - says Fonarev.

What does the KGB do with a person who was able to infiltrate the Kremlin? Due to the lack of evidence of a crime, he is released. This story is attributed to carelessness. But in 2001 it was repeated, only this time in the United States at the inauguration of President George W. Bush. CNN's Invisible Man story is making waves. It is also shown in Russia, but after the first news broadcast it is taken off the air.

“Then it turned out that yes, the person is so-and-so (this was not his first case, he did the same thing at Clinton’s inauguration). And how? He says: “I can become invisible to security.” And when the person tells people “ invisible,” everyone remembers Wells’ “The Invisible Man” and says: “Guys, well...” But despite all this, they are not seen. They are not seen! And this is what we are faced with,” says Dmitry Fonarev.

An expert on the history of special services, Valery Malevanny, claims that the security officers became interested in unconventional technologies immediately after the revolution. A secret laboratory is opened at the OGPU of the USSR, in which drugs are developed to influence the psyche of those arrested and to eliminate undesirables. Further more.

“Today we know that Stalin, having come to power in 1927, laid the foundations for an even deeper study of these paranormal phenomena. He surrounds himself with psychics. He prescribes a real witch from St. Petersburg, who comes to Moscow with two fortune-tellers (these are astrologers , numerologists). And without Natalya Lvova, Stalin did not dare to solve practically any issue. We know that in 1939 Beria brought Messing to Stalin. And without Messing, Stalin also did not even try to resolve any practical issue,” says Malevanny.

According to some reports, Messing is only a cover for the real Kremlin oracles. So, for many years there have been intelligence schools near Lubyanka, where psychic children are selected. Until the mid-50s, this program was led by physiologist Leonid Vasiliev, a student of the famous professor Chizhevsky, who studied the influence of the Sun and Moon on humans, the crowd and technology.

What results does the KGB achieve? The first official and most famous psychics in Russia are Allan Chumak and Anatoly Kashpirovsky. During the years of perestroika, television broadcast their sessions live. Chumak claims that his abilities were studied in a secret scientific laboratory on Furmanny Lane in the center of Moscow. What kind of experiments were carried out on him?

“They made a small thermostat that responded to temperature and cosmic noise. That is, if an iron was placed on this thermostat, then for some time it did not react at all to the hot iron. That is, it was insulated quite well. Well, you can - try, raise the temperature, lower the temperature, maybe somehow suppress cosmic noise, do something else, so that it is clear that the device is inanimate, to which nothing can be suggested, reacts to your influence,” said psychic Allan Chumak.

According to Chumak, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB used his services more than once. The psychic was even strongly recommended to become a secret employee of the Committee, promising an apartment and the rank of lieutenant colonel. But he refused.

The most notorious crime that Chumak solves is connected with the case of Medunov, a friend of Brezhnev. There is a struggle for power between Andropov and Shchelokov, the Minister of Internal Affairs. The security officers hit the first secretary of the Krasnodar regional party committee, Medunov, thereby pointing out the mistakes of the police.

“Huge thefts were discovered there. And they arrested some, but did not arrest others. The KGB and the police were involved in this, naturally. But they could not find one person. They did not know where he was - in the country, whether he had gone abroad, escaped. And a man from the KGB approached me with a question about where this person was. You know, a state appeared within me that I could find him. This state is very similar to what happens when a desire to write suddenly appears. poem, music. This is the inner creative state that makes it possible to get involved in this situation,” says Chumak.

Having laid out huge maps of Moscow and the Soviet Union on the floor at home, Chumak does not feel anything for several minutes. The security officer looks disappointed.

“But then several settlements were highlighted on the map of the Moscow region, where he seemed to be based, where he could be looked for, etc. Suddenly, the understanding came that this man would be tomorrow in the Volokolamsk Highway area on a certain street (I don’t remember now , what street). Not the exact time, but somewhere, there, in the evening. But that was enough for him to be taken the very next day on this very street,” Chumak tells this story.

Which other psychics work for the Kremlin and how have they changed the life of the country? It turns out that the capture of the most famous spy in Soviet history, Dmitry Polyakov, is also the merit of psychics.

“In 1985, there were failures all over Western Europe (from 1980 to 1985). 27 of our agents, the best, “moles,” failed there. And a “mole” costs about 10 million in training. And right from the counterintelligence the question arose: “Who? Is there a traitor?" A big mole. Where is he?" – says Malevanny.

It takes Soviet counterintelligence three years to recruit the head of the CIA's Russian department, Aldrich Ames, who points to several GRU generals as potential traitors. He did not know the spy personally, and general information is not enough to make accusations. Then the security officers decide to resort to the help of psychics.

“It was just a shock when psychics and the KGB pointed out to counterintelligence officers Major General Polyakov, who worked for the CIA for 25 years and had already retired. He was an ideological opponent of the Soviet regime. He did not work for money - this is the worst thing. Naturally, the board The military tribunal sentenced him to death. The value of this agent was determined by the President of America, who then came to Gorbachev and asked to exchange him for one to ten. Gorbachev, despite all his democracy, said: “We have already shot this general, although he was still alive.” ", says Malevanny.

If the reason for the attention to psychics is obvious, then where did the KGB's secret UFO program begin? As it turns out, the cause was an incident with Air Force One in 1978. The pilot of the plane took it upon himself to report that while landing at Vnukovo airport, he was actively interfered with by an unidentified flying object.

“A coincidence of circumstances. At the moment when he had already become acquainted with the report, a man came into his office who oversaw the border troops of the KGB of the USSR and who, literally a few days before, a border guard from Leningrad had shown approximately a similar report. Andropov decided that it was a coincidence too much,” says Russian FSB officer (1995–1998) Alexander Maksimov.

According to Alexander Maksimov, it was from that moment that the military, nuclear power plant dispatchers, and ship captains were instructed to report any strange objects in their visibility zone. Valuable information becomes what was previously passed on by word of mouth and was often not reflected in reports for fear of being misunderstood and fired.

"And gradually the base began to accumulate. There was quite a lot of money, effort and brains involved. And in more than 95 percent of cases like this, they were explained from the point of view of physics by the influence of natural environments and so on. But still 5 percent at the moment remain inexplicable from the point of view of modern technology and science,” Maksimov explained.

This secret database was requested at the end of 1991 by USSR pilot-cosmonaut Pavel Popovich. Once in an interview, he mentioned that he had observed unidentified objects in orbit. I could not reveal the details - I was bound by a non-disclosure agreement.

It is known that the creator of Soviet rocket and space technology, Sergei Korolev, was also interested in UFOs at one time. Stalin gave him this task.

“People began to notice more and more, look into the skies and notice some strange objects, lights, which, accordingly, appeared in different parts of the Soviet Union. Perhaps this situation greatly worried even the State Security Committee, since this was part of his personal responsibility,” says Vladimir Vasiliev, leading researcher at the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

A reputable designer had to determine whether these objects threatened the security of the USSR, how they could be eliminated, and whether they were weapons of the enemy. The scientist (and this happened in 1947) is locked in one of the Kremlin offices for three days, having first laid the table with boxes with the latest intelligence data and reports of incidents. When Korolev appears before the leader again, his verdict will be comforting: “The objects do not pose a threat. Their origin is unknown, but it is definitely extraterrestrial.”

The project, which arose or began to take shape in the early 80s, subsequently received the name “Blue Folder of the State Security Committee.” Perhaps this was also due to the analogy that in America, from about 1948, the US Air Force carried out Project Blue Book, the meaning of which was precisely that all information from primary observers was collected in a passive mode.

Pavel Popovich receives the “blue folder”. Why does the KGB do this - provide secret information? Leading specialist at the Institute of the USA and Canada, Vladimir Vasiliev, states that only one case from that folder can be called suspicious. But perhaps the State Security Committee did not provide all the information?

“Yes, there was one moment. These were observations precisely in 1982, when incomprehensible lights came into the field of view of the IL-62, which, in my opinion, was flying from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. He observed the lights through a luminous object that was flashing. And, Accordingly, the pilots there saw this object, as if it were glowing, and even saw the emission of rays. They asked the dispatcher. And the dispatcher told them that there was no one nearby. But after three or four days, it turned out that it had engine blades. The turbines were in very poor condition. That is, one might say, they were in such critical condition that they had to do a major overhaul of the engine,” Vasiliev said.

The authorities continue to allocate money for special programs of the KGB - both after perestroika and after the collapse of the USSR. In 1993, deputies were outraged by unjustified spending from the state budget. The security officers quickly reassure them: they say this is not connected with a UFO. They do the same in the USA. The American government advocates funding such programs in its country. Washington benefits from the fact that the press is still fixated on flying saucers. Local intelligence agencies regularly throw facts about UFOs into the media.

In Russia, information regularly appears about UFO activity zones in Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg. But besides ufologists, no one is interested in it. The authorities are puzzled by new problems. To solve them, a secret military unit 10003 is even created.

"Military unit 10003 is a unique formation in its essence, because a military unit is not a fence with barbed wire, with missiles and all sorts of antennas. Institutes were involved, laboratories were created, experiments were carried out. Why? 1975, the Americans have already opened their programs Bluebird and “Stargate”. Already at this level it was clear that the confrontations were moving into the “psychic sphere” (that’s what we call it),” notes Dmitry Fonarev.

What did this secret military unit actually do? And why was it closed with scandal in 2003?

According to Valery Malevanny, it was a top secret facility that trained military space operators. “That is, they trained military people to search for submarines, for example, to clear mine fields. Extrasensory. At a distance. I personally saw in Africa, in Angola, how military space operators cleared mines and carried out special forces through military fields. No need for sappers. Here he is he walks, puts out his hand, and he sees this minefield. For him, the minefield is not a trap, but a clear map. That is, these are specially trained people,” says the historian.

However, Valery Malevanny admits that if military officers had been told about superpowers back then, no one would have stepped into the minefield. They are told that new equipment has appeared in the USSR - microsensors that recognize explosives.

About 120 institutes were involved in this project. However, in the 9th Directorate of the KGB they do not dare to completely trust military psychics - the seers do not pass the test.

“In the so-called mass events, we needed to understand who has weapons and who doesn’t. That’s a simple question, right? And when we turned to our colleagues, the Second Main Directorate and the intelligence officers, they said: “Yes, we have there is such a person." They carried out 10 rounds, and the person himself wanted to take a gun, but he wanted to - not. Out of nine cases, it was guessed whether he had a gun or not. But when they asked a specialist whether he could do this in a crowd, he says no. Accordingly, interest immediately disappeared,” says Fonarev.

As security officers assure, there have never been psychics and parapsychologists under the Soviet rulers. Although Stalin kept fortune tellers near him, he was wary of them. So, there is an interesting version that the leader of the peoples had doubles precisely because of fear of psychics. Malevanny notes that Stalin firmly believed that it was possible to penetrate a person’s brain. For this purpose, he specially had five special doubles of himself in order to deceive the enemy.

The fashion for clairvoyants and oriental gurus dates back to the time of Khrushchev. According to some reports, the most capable psychics in those years were encouraged to travel to India to improve their skills. Sometimes yogis themselves come to Moscow to exchange experiences. A boom in everything paranormal will begin during the years of perestroika, when many enterprising individuals suddenly sense the gift.

“Those sessions that I conducted on television - they launched a colossal research process, you know. In all countries of the world, well, in highly developed countries of the world, research is being conducted on interaction with inanimate nature, with water. They are trying to understand what it is,” - notes Chumak.

Which psychics then became accepted into the Kremlin? Who are the first president's bodyguards hiding from television cameras? And why does the healer Juna receive the rank of Colonel General?

“The Soviet government, which built its system of party education on the foundations of materialism, is actually losing because materialism does not work in the minds of citizens. They immediately slide into all sorts of metaphysical and other explanations of the world, instead of looking at all this clearly and it’s clear,” explains historian Nikita Petrov.

Photo: TASS/Alexander Sentsov, Alexander Chumichev

On the sidelines of the Kremlin they also wanted new explanations for everything that was happening in the world. Boris Yeltsin surpassed his predecessors in this. According to some reports, he buys up all the films with Vanga’s predictions and gets a full-time astrologer - Georgy Rogozin. Behind his back they call him nothing more than “Nostradamus in uniform” and “Merlin”. His prophecies often come true. Rogozin is even appointed first deputy head of the presidential security service. But, perhaps, the healer Juna stands above all.

On November 5, 1996, President Yeltsin undergoes heart surgery. Few believed that he would survive - his condition was critical. The best American heart surgeon, Michael DeBakey, has been called in to help Moscow specialists. But it was Juna who probably saved the life of the VIP patient.

“Doctors come to him from all over the world and say: “He’s going to die.” Then Juna and the GRU military space operator, Colonel Savenkov, take the soul out of the body into space to a height of 100 km and keep it there for eight hours while Yeltsin’s body goes “As soon as the operation was over, the psychics of the special services returned his soul to its place. For this experiment, Juna was awarded the rank of Colonel General of the Medical Service,” says Malevanny.

A member of the RAS commission on combating pseudoscience, physicist Rostislav Polishchuk is a long-time opponent of all psychics and healers. In his opinion, none of them is ready to undertake serious research, and all the declared miracles are unfounded.

"Russia has experienced a catastrophe - the collapse of the previous worldview, the belief in the teachings of communism, where there were great ideals. Well, each installation has a finite resource. But at this time, when people lose such support, the primitive structures of primitive consciousness are activated. And a significant part of our people fall to the pre-Christian level, to the level of primitive magic, to the level of sorcerers. So the facts are firmly established things, and what contradicts them is already pseudoscience, which opposes them, because we need to defend the intellectual health of our health,” says Polishchuk.

It was the commission on pseudoscience that achieved the closure of special unit 10003. Academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences do not recognize the results of military scientists. What then to do with the facts of healing, influencing people at a distance?

“You know, there is a very powerful factor in the form of an attitude. An attitude, roughly speaking, is everything. In primitive times, a sorcerer who broke a taboo said: “You will die. You will live." And if a person is told that if he does this and that, his attitude changes, he himself mobilizes his strength. If he says: “I can,” he can, if he says : “I can’t” - he can’t. And he capitulates. And as long as a person has mental strength, he resists and fights,” Polishchuk explains.

Nevertheless, intelligence experts assure that both in the West and in Russia, work in the field of the unidentified is still underway, but is not advertised so as not to cause panic or excitement. However, it is likely that the high level of secrecy of these departments and programs is just a myth, and their successes are highly embellished in science fiction novels and Hollywood blockbusters.

“We don’t know of a single example where hypnotists achieved any obvious successes in the investigation process conducted by the KGB. Or where are the psychics who would help find, or help investigate the missing, or help investigate a lot of crimes? After all, how many of these are left? crimes, even within the KGB, not completed, not investigated, only because it was impossible to detect anything,” Petrov believes.

What then to do with the facts that provoked the emergence of special programs in the bowels of the KGB?

“It’s not that I believe, I just saw how it’s done. That is, phantom, so to speak, formations, how you can work through them. These are unique things. And to say that “oh, these are KGB fantasies!”.. But there are facts that are not intended for you, because you open a genie in a bottle, and then something begins to happen that will not seem enough to you. And while your loved ones and relatives will not jump out of the windows in front of your eyes, you will never. You won’t understand anything about why this is being done, how it’s being done, what scientists are studying this? And what sciences are studying this? It’s being studied by military scientists, a very narrow circle,” said Fonarev.

In many ways, the developments of the KGB made it possible after the collapse of the Soviet Union to calm the people and, possibly, avoid mass casualties during the storming of the White House and Ostankino in Moscow. Healing sessions, which were held live or in stadiums, were a tool of the intelligence services. With their help, the authorities were able to take control of the situation and ensure peace in the country.