The topic of UFOs has long captured the imagination of millions, and recent hearings at the federal level have only intensified that interest.
As Fox News reports, a declassified document that was posted on the CIA's website has only heightened curiosity, as it contains details about an alleged attack sometime between 1989 and 1990 on Soviet troops by entities characterized as “aliens.”
According to the document, which is a summary of a piece published in Ukrainian outlet Holos Ukrayiny as well as in the Canadian Weekly World News, an otherworldly retaliatory attack launched by aliens took place after Soviet troops were said to have shot down a UFO.
The file posted to the website indicates that “U.S. Intelligence obtained a 250-page file on the attack by a UFO on a military unit in Siberia,” a report that “contains not only many documentary photographs and drawings, but also testimonies by actual participants in the events.”
As detailed in the summary, “According to the KGB materials, a quite low-flying spaceship in the shape of a saucer appeared above a military unit that was conducting routine training maneuvers. For unknown reasons, somebody unexpectedly launched a surface-to-air missile and hit the UFO.”
From there, things got weird, with the summary adding that the UFO “fell to earth not far away, and five short humanoids with 'large heads and large black eyes' emerged from it.”
Two of the soldiers at the site were said to have testified that “after freeing themselves from the debris, the aliens came close together and then 'merged into a single object that acquired a spherical shape,'” which in turn “began to buzz and hiss sharply, and then became brilliantly white.”
Even more incredible is what the report says happened next, noting that “In a few seconds, the spheres grew much bigger and exploded by flaring up with an extremely bright light.”
It went on, “At that very instant, 23 soldiers who had watched the phenomenon turned into...stone poles.”
“Only two soldiers who stood in the shade and were less exposed to the luminous explosion survived,” the account explained.
The KGB's report further noted that the UFO's remains and those of the allegedly “petrified soldiers” were subsequently sent to a research institute near Moscow for further assessment.
Remarking on the contents of the memo was former CIA Mike Baker who expressed skepticism about its veracity, noting, “If there was an incident, regardless of the nature of the incident, I suspect that the actual report doesn't look much like what has now come out from five or six or seven iterations of what originally was [written].”
The buzz about this particular document comes amid a wave of heightened interest in governmental knowledge of UFOs and similar phenomena, as evidenced by a House Oversight Committee hearing held back in November, entitled, “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth.”
Though that hearing did not yield any blockbuster information, witnesses and lawmakers alike emphasized the need for greater governmental transparency in sharing data about curious incidents with seemingly nebulous origins and also in safeguarding those who come forth to share their personal experiences with them.
