TOP 7 UFO encounters

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1. Witnesses from space

It would seem that people who are closest to them - astronauts and pilots - can give a clue to all cosmic secrets. However, many of those who have been to the stars talk about anomalous phenomena and seek contacts with the unknown.

In the USSR, there were several organizations dealing with the problem of UFOs, including the All-Union UFO Association, led by cosmonaut Pavel Popovich. It was to him that the reports of cosmonauts, military men and pilots on the observation of unidentified objects flocked. According to him, there were many reports. There was "a lot of nonsense", but there were some noteworthy stories as well.

The first data on UFO sightings, he said, began to arrive back in the Second World War: Soviet pilots reported on mysterious objects in the sky during the Battle of Kursk. And during the war, US Air Force pilots encountered a cigar-shaped object that spread blinding rays.

P. Popovich himself did not see anything extraordinary in space. However, during a flight on a fighter plane from Washington to Moscow in 1978, he saw a luminous equilateral triangle flying parallel to him. This object was seen not only by the astronaut, but no one understood what it was.

The first wife of P. Popovich, a class 1 test pilot who set 101 world records on airplanes of various types, Marina Popovich, believes that all cosmonauts saw UFOs, but only a few admit this. Her interest in the paranormal was awakened after, while in the Pamirs, she, along with her colleagues on the expedition, observed a floating ball of light, which quickly disappeared.

For more than 20 years M. Popovich has been collecting material for her book "UFOs Above Planet Earth", which includes eyewitness accounts from Russia and the United States, where she taught in the 90s.

Unidentified flying objects, in her opinion, are not necessarily alien ships: out of 700 UFO sightings in 90% of cases, these were the remnants of rockets, balloons, glowing swamp gases. But the origin of the remaining 10% has not been established. M. Popovich is sure that UFOs need to be studied: "We are like in a cocoon and are afraid to admit that there is a world that is knocking on us," she said.

Dozens of years after the flight to the moon, American astronaut Edwin Aldrin admitted that during the mission he observed an unknown ring-shaped object. As irrefutable proof, he put forward the favorite argument of all supporters of the conspiracy theory: "How do you explain the fact that the governments of both the US and the USSR immediately curtailed the lunar program, and then completely forgot about the Earth's satellite?"

His colleague Gordon Cooper, a test pilot, an American astronaut who has been in space twice, said that he had seen a UFO while flying over Germany in 1951. The astronaut reported his belief in extraterrestrial ships that visited Earth. In his opinion, these ships are much more advanced in technical terms than those existing in our country, therefore, earthlings should develop a strategy for establishing friendly contacts with visitors.

"For many years I lived in an atmosphere of secrecy, in which all astronauts also lived. Today I can reveal the secret that every day radars in the United States detect objects, the shape and design of which are unknown to us," G. Cooper admitted.

In the summer of 2001, former military personnel, airmen and NASA employees were about to tell their stories to the press and demand a congressional hearing, but the September 11 attacks buried the Disclosure Project.

Pilot-cosmonaut Vladimir Kovalenok told reporters that in 1981, while on board the Salyut-6 spacecraft together with Viktor Savin, he observed a luminous object, similar to a capsule, flying from below through the window. While V. Savin was running after the camera to capture the object, it exploded, leaving a spherical cloud. V. Kovalenko, as expected, reported everything to the state commission, but no official explanation was given to the phenomenon.

Once, waking up during the flight, V. Kovalenok heard a man's voice. "Hello, guys! How long have we been sitting here?" - the emptiness was broadcasting. The astronaut grabbed a notebook and, as the doctors taught, began to write down the sensations. His partner Ivanenko did the same, and V. Kovalenok decided that he was not alone in having hallucinations. It turned out that this mystical voice was an incomprehensibly switched on video recorder with the favorite film of all astronauts - "The White Sun of the Desert".

Cosmonaut Georgy Grechko is critical of the stories of his colleagues. He himself did not meet with UFOs, but he is looking for traces that could have been left by aliens from other planets.

"I am interested in how our solar system arose, how humanity arose - there are incomprehensible moments. I am interested in real flying saucers someday, and not those on which women are supposedly taken away, and then they give birth, allegedly from aliens.", - he admitted.

In search of traces, G. Grechko traveled to Tunguska, Baalbek and Sinai, but so far he has not found anything. Nevertheless, he believes that the efforts are not in vain and the efforts of people developing a language for communicating with aliens will someday come in handy.

"We really need this meeting. Now the world is in a stupid situation, and Russia is in a difficult situation. But there is still a way out, even two. True, one is fantastic, and the other is real. The real thing is that aliens will arrive and solve all our problems, but fantastic - that we ourselves can cope ", - G. Grechko jokes.

2. Secrets of the Oval Office

According to polls, more than 80% of Americans believe in UFOs. Presidents also keep up with ordinary citizens.

In the 1950s. Americans feared aliens no less than a nuclear strike from the USSR. Aide to President Harry Truman, General Robert Landry, recalled that in 1948 the head of state called him to the Oval Office and instructed him to draw up a report on the UFO situation every three months.

Ronald Reagan told reporters that in 1974, while still the governor, he saw a UFO from an airplane. “When I looked through the porthole, I saw a sparkling white object. It was zigzagging right in front of us. I went to Bill Painter (personal pilot) and asked:“Have you ever seen anything like this?”He replied in shock:“Never ! - admitted R. Reagan.

Ronald Reagan

The plane of the future president chased a strange object emitting a sharp white light for several minutes. Not far from Bakersfield, he soared up perpendicularly and disappeared.

Later, at a private screening of Steven Spielberg's film "The Alien", R. Reagan felt emphatically: "There are not even six people in the room who know how true all this is."

Despite the fact that John F. Kennedy never made statements about UFOs, he was surrounded by many parascientific legends. One of them connected the murder of the president with aliens: allegedly in Texas he was going to talk about the contacts of the CIA and extraterrestrial civilizations, but the latter did not want publicity.

Bill Clinton was very interested in this topic. After occupying the Oval Office, he ordered his assistant to find out "who killed Kennedy and how things really are with UFOs." While in power, together with his wife Hillary, 26 times in his speeches, he remembered the aliens, and leaving his post, after lengthy legal proceedings, he threw: "If we were attacked by aliens, we would not have time for such games."

Several years ago, during the presidential race, Congressman from Ohio Dennis Kucinich admitted that he saw a silent triangular spacecraft, felt an "internal connection" with it and received "commands in his brain." Despite the American love for UFOs, he was ridiculed and called insane.

The current American President Barack Obama has to constantly fight off fellow citizens who believe in little green men. Tabloids print "irrefutable evidence" that UFOs attended his inauguration, citizens in electronic petitions are asked to declassify data on UFOs or formally recognize their presence (they were given an official refusal with the wording "we do not have reliable evidence of the presence of extraterrestrial life on the planet"), and journalists ask "provocative" questions.

Answering a question about the "Book of Secrets" containing information about UFOs, which is allegedly kept in the Green Room, where every newly elected American president is introduced, B. Obama joked in 2009: "I would tell what is written in the" Book of Secrets " but then I'll have to kill you."

By the way, during the election race in the United States, National Geographic magazine found that 65% of Americans believe that if aliens attack the Earth, B. Obama will be able to cope with them. Most Americans would like to witness an alien invasion, because they consider brothers in mind to be friendly creatures - as in Steven Spielberg's movie "Alien."

3. Plates for politicians

Unlike their Western counterparts, Russian politicians are in no hurry to admit to close contacts of the third degree. Nevertheless, among our political elite there are those who are close to the topic of UFOs.

Former head of Kalmykia, President of the International Chess Federation Kirsan Ilyumzhinov admitted that in 1997 he had an "excursion" to an alien ship. K. Ilyumzhinov was in an apartment in Moscow and was about to go to bed when he felt that the balcony had opened and someone was calling him.

“I came up, I looked - like a semi-transparent half-pipe. I went into this tube and saw people in yellow spacesuits,” K. Ilyumzhinov said in the Pozner program.

According to him, he communicated with representatives of the alien intelligence "at the level of thought" because he did not have enough air. The hospitable newcomers gave K. Ilyumzhinov an excursion around the ship. "Then there was a dialogue:" Why don't you go live on TV and say that you are here? Look, are you communicating with us? "They said that" we are not yet ready for the meeting, "said K. Ilyumzhinov.

According to the President of the Chess Federation, this incident had three witnesses - his driver, assistant and minister, who arrived in the morning and found an empty apartment with an open balcony. They sat in the kitchen and started calling their acquaintances when K. Ilyumzhinov, who had returned from a UFO, appeared from the bedroom.

Later, he repeatedly confirmed this story, noting that aliens are like humans. For K. Ilyumzhinov, this was not the first encounter with a UFO: according to him, in childhood he saw plates twice.

According to popular ufological legend, newly elected American presidents are led into the Green Room, where the frozen remains of aliens are kept. Once, journalists asked Vladimir Putin how things are with this in Russia and whether his American colleagues had shown him the artifacts.

V. Putin assured that such a topic does not exist at the governmental level. “When I was in the States, my friend and comrade - the President of the United States - did not invite me to any green rooms,” the president said.

"I draw your attention to the fact that I do not drink strong drinks. And we are not talking about the green room - we are talking about the" green serpent. "You see, these words are very close and similar," added V. Putin the American colleague has also "quit".

Dmitry Medvedev, answering journalists' questions, somehow revealed "secret" information about the aliens. “Together with the handover of a suitcase with nuclear codes to the president of the country, they bring a special folder. closed special services that are engaged in the control of aliens on the territory of our country."

According to him, after the termination of powers, the folders are transferred to the next president. How many aliens are among us, D. Medvedev did not tell, so as not to "cause panic."

"You can get more detailed information on this topic by watching the famous newsreel-documentary" Men in Black ", - D. Medvedev added.

In one of the episodes of the movie "Men in Black" it is told that almost all the stars of Hollywood are conspiratorial aliens from other planets. Not a single actor has yet admitted to his alien origin, but many often talk about their own meetings with the "plates". According to tabloid reports, Hollywood is a favorite hangout spot for UFOs.

Still from the movie "Men in Black"

The famous actor Russell Crowe recently posted on his microblog a photo of an "alien ship" over Sydney. According to him, he managed to make unique shots when he and his friends set up a camera in a botanical garden to take pictures of bats.

Skeptical readers have noticed that it could be a flying plane or distorted optics in a camera. The journalists recalled that shortly before the appearance of these shots, Gladiator complained about the insufficient attention of the press to his new film "City of Vice", and decided that in this way he made up for it.

Tom Cruise stated that he did not believe in UFOs until he saw something like a large helicopter with searchlights. According to him, the actor does not remember the next 15 minutes. After that, T. Cruz complained for a long time about strange dreams in which an aircraft with unusual creatures descended to him.

Apparently, this experience became the reason for the appearance of an interesting clause in his marriage contract with Katie Holmes, according to which, in the event of an alien ship arriving on Earth, the actor's wife had to support any decision of Tom, including about a flight to aliens or donating all the money he earned.

The eternal "die hard" Bruce Willis is convinced that it is foolish to assume that we are alone in the universe. He believes that everyone is faced with events from time to time that are difficult to explain. The actor himself once observed a UFO in the mountains.

"I have a feeling that something paranormal is constantly happening to me. I even subscribed to the newsletter, which informs about everything that goes beyond the usual," - B. Willis admitted in an interview.

One of the "ghostbusters", actor Dan Aykroyd, is a longtime member of the UFO search group MUFON. His fascination with plates is reflected in the cinema: on the account of the actor - the popular feature film "The Psi Factor", as well as the documentary "UFO: The Secret Files". In it, D. Aykroyd asked questions of concern to eyewitnesses, people from the government, the Armed Forces and NASA.

D. Aykroyd believes that aliens violate US law, because "anyone who unlawfully captures, holds, lures, abducts or takes with him and holds another person for a ransom or reward or for any other purpose" may be subject to prison conclusion. The actor is also convinced that aliens do not want to have anything to do with humans, because we are "crazy and cruel creatures."

5. Rock style UFOs

If meetings with aliens of senior scientists or sales managers most often brought them suffering or ended in nothing at all, then the cases of collisions with aliens of musicians were reflected in the work of the latter.

The spiritual leader and mastermind of The Beatles, John Lennon, observed a UFO on the roof of his own house. According to legend, the flying saucer came so close to the musician that he was able to examine the unknown object in detail. However, what he saw frightened him. The musician immediately left the roof and called the police. The arriving law enforcement officers were not surprised by the statement of J. Lennon: it turned out that in 1974 there was a special UFO activity over Manhattan, and on that day, in addition to the Beatle, several people from different parts of the city saw flying saucers at once.

Apparently, the minute meeting with alien beings impressed the musician: later the world heard his song "Nobody Told Me". In one of the lines, J. Lennon sang: "A UFO is flying over New York, but that does not surprise me."

Another legendary musician, the leader of The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, also communicated with aliens. By the way, his experience of negotiations with aliens was not isolated. Once in an interview, M. Jagger admitted that he had witnessed a UFO visit at least twice. The first story with green men, according to the musician himself, happened to him when he was a child and was vacationing at a children's tourist camp in Glastonbury. M. Jagger is reluctant to talk about the details of this visit of the aliens. For the second time, the musician witnessed the paranormal at his own concert in 1969 in Altamont Park. This performance was marked by sad events - the guards of the rock musicians, calling the fans to order, shot one of them.

UFO writer Michael Luckman is sure that M. Jagger is the darling of UFOs. In one of his books, he said that, in addition to regular visits to UFO concerts of a musician, aliens like to appear in M. Jagger's house. The rock star did not even spare the expense of installing expensive sensors that should detect the approach of a UFO. Over the years, the equipment worked only once: it happened when M. Jagger was not at home and no one was able to assess the validity of the system signal.

Another famous musician, David Bowie, whose stage image resembles the appearance of an alien, has also repeatedly met with UFOs. On the account of the artist - a huge number of incredible stories about adventures in the company of little green men, as proof of the veracity of which D. Bowie cites the address of the UFO workshop. There, according to the star, aliens can be found especially often.

"In England, I worked for two guys who published a UFO magazine, and I watched flights 6-7 times a night when I was hanging out at the observatory, and this was during the year. We never reported this to the press," - said D Bowie.

D. Bowie's successes could be called outstanding if the world had not known another long-term epic - with the participation of Elvis Presley. According to legend, the king of rock and roll was pursued by aliens literally everywhere.

On the night of the birth of the future rock idol, E. Presley's father noticed strange blue lights hovering nearby and remaining there for many years. When E. Presley was 8 years old, he was visited by a whole team of aliens. As the musician himself said, space travelers arrived when he was with his parents in his home. The newcomers made it possible for E. Presley as a child to learn about the great glory that awaits him ahead. According to the artist, the alien guest played the future events of his life in front of him, like on a movie projector. In the murky "shots" E. Presley saw himself on stage in a white overalls - the way millions of people on Earth remember him now.

Even after the death of the star, the luminous objects did not leave it. During parting with the body of the musician, those gathered at the cemetery noticed a light following the funeral procession, which accompanied the mourners up to the artist's grave. Some researchers suggest that E. Presley was an alien who, during the funeral, watched the audience, hovering over the cemetery in a spaceship.

6. And God created the earth …

Representatives of world confessions have different attitudes towards the UFO phenomenon. The existence of aliens often does not fit into the worldview of believers, who increasingly turn to their spiritual mentors for clarification.

Orthodox Christians see a demonic nature in UFOs. The priests base their reasoning on the message of the Apostle Paul and the work of the holy fathers, who claim that aliens are a manifestation of demonic forces that have deliberately reincarnated into humanoid, but harmful creatures.

"False apostles, wicked workers take the form of Christ's apostles, and it is not surprising: Satan himself takes the form of an angel of light. Therefore, it is not a great thing if his servants take the form of servants of righteousness," says the letter of the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians.

In addition, the official Orthodox Church, referring to the words of St. Ignatius Brianchaninov, claims that the desire of people to believe in the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence is a manifestation of a weakening of faith, to which the demon is drawn through the temptation of knowing a person. In the event of a UFO sighting, the Christian is commanded to cross himself and pray.

In one of his interviews, the head of the department for relations between the Church and society of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, stated that there are no UFOs, and eyewitnesses often mistake angels and demons for aliens.

“We know that the created world is not limited to material beings. There are angels and demons - they are often mistaken and still mistaken for so-called extraterrestrials. These are real beings, a person comes into contact with them, they periodically reveal themselves. existence, everyone should know and remember, - he stressed.

Islam is a religion younger than Christianity, and this should help its representatives to tolerate the existence of an alternative world. However, the views of Muslims are not too different from those of Orthodox believers. They believe that UFOs are a manifestation of the life activity of genies, which, according to myths, should live in a bottle, and not on other planets.

The Qur'an says that jinn are by nature creatures that emerged from fire, and therefore a slight glow emanates from them. UFO eyewitnesses often talk about dim light that comes from a "flying saucer" or other object. This fact finally convinced Muslims that aliens are genies and do not pose a real danger.

Jews are even less interested in the problems of extraterrestrial civilizations. In the opinion of the Jewish clergy, the church should not pay attention to such issues. Perhaps this attitude to the UFO phenomenon is due to the fact that the Torah emphasizes the anthropocentricity of the universe: regardless of the presence of other civilizations, God created only a person who is in the center of the world.

Against this background, Buddhists seem to be the most tolerant of extraterrestrial civilizations. According to several polls conducted by British scientists, more than half of all Buddhists admit the existence of life on other planets. About 40% of them say that scientific confirmation of this fact will not in any way affect the strength of their faith.

Similar questions were asked to Catholics, 60% of whom said that it would be a great shock for them to learn that there are other civilizations in the Universe. Pope Benedict XVI, who recently left office, stated that science, like faith in God, is necessary to preserve life on Earth, therefore Catholicism is trying to cooperate with science and direct its discoveries in the right direction. The official Vatican has recognized the possibility of the existence of extraterrestrial beings.

7. UFO: scientists don't mind

The phenomenon of aliens worries everyone, without exception, even scientists, who are often skeptical about the numerous eyewitness accounts of UFOs. Despite this, there are many people in the world who are really respected in science who are seriously engaged in researching evidence of the existence of alien civilizations.

The famous American scientist, professor at Harvard University, Allen Hynek, who has always been a supporter of the theory that all eyewitnesses of UFOs are victims of optical illusion or someone's jokes, during several years of work in the US Air Force project to search for extraterrestrial civilizations, "Sine" changed your point of view.

In an interview with American journalists in 1977, A. Hynek said that "all the hype around flying saucers is an insanity that should soon disappear." However, after eight years, talking to the press, the scientist noted that he had changed his mind. "The impetus for a revision of their attitude towards flying saucers was a completely negative, stubborn attitude towards them on the part of the Air Force," he said. After leaving the project, A. Hynek founded his own organization to study the UFO phenomenon.

However, not all researchers share this approach to the unknown. In his book "UFOs: An Attempt of a Scientific Approach" A. Hynek gives an example illustrating this.

“One summer evening in 1968 in Victoria, British Columbia, there was a reception on the occasion of an astronomical symposium. More than one hundred astronomers from different countries gathered in a large restaurant. Suddenly, a man entered the hall and announced that unidentified flying objects had appeared in the sky. A light chuckle passed through the tables, but quickly died down, and people returned to their conversations. None of the scientists went outside to see the mysterious phenomenon of nature with their own eyes! - the book says.

In Russia, studies of the UFO phenomenon were also conducted. Felix Siegel, a Soviet mathematician and associate professor at the Moscow Aviation Institute, has been dealing with UFO issues for decades. Now he is considered the founder of Russian ufology, and a little more than two decades ago, his works and a resonant article on UFO research "Inhabited Space" were constantly criticized and were not recognized by the general public.

F. Siegel worked on the multivolume study "Inhabited Space" for ten years, after which, at the stage of prepress, the work was censored, depriving him of any mention of UFOs, and also cutting out a piece of text that spoke about the Tunguska phenomenon.

Here, as well as in his other works, F. Siegel questioned what was already a postulate in world science. For example, he did not believe that the highest speed in the Universe is the speed of light, as well as in a number of theories, including Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

Modern scientists are still not eager to popularize UFO data. So, Vlail Kaznacheev, academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and Doctor of Medical Sciences, is sure that the wrong decision regarding the declassification of information about aliens can lead to "colossal ecological, technological and psychological problems of a planetary scale."

"Russia is at the stage of a new level of enlightenment, which joins us with space and poses this question to humanity the way Vernadsky did," he said. According to the scientist, the mind may well manifest itself in another space, time and even the Universe.