One of the most bizarre accounts of UFO folklore involves an incident that allegedly occurred in Voronezh, Russia.
This case was reported in the United States by the St. Louis Dispatch.
The story was originally published on October 11, 1989, in America, but its origin was the Russian newspaper TASS. The report recounts the adventures of several young children who claimed to have seen a three-eyed alien with a robot escort.
The alien was said to be about nine foot tall.
The craft, according to eye witness testimony, landed on the outskirts of the city.
Shortly thereafter, the tall alien appeared, and upon seeing the young lad, shot a type of weapon at him, causing him to vanish before the eyes of the other people around him. There are several important elements one must keep in mind regarding this extremely strange case of a close encounter.
The original details of the case were brought forward by Genrikh Silanov, head of the Voronezh Geophysical Laboratory, who gave details to the TASS agency.
Silanov stated that the media took an enormous amount of creative freedom with his report. "Don't believe all you hear from Tass," he stated." We never gave them part of what they published." I take this statement to mean that only a part of the news agency's report was based on the facts obtained from Silanov. The agency had informed the entire world that Russian scientists had confirmed that an alien spaceship carrying giants with tiny heads had landed in Voronezh, a city of over 800,000 people located about 300 miles southeast of Moscow.
They stated that as many as three of these giant creatures had emerged from the alien ship.
The ship was described as a large, shining ball.
These strange creatures were said to have walked in a nearby park, accompanied by a menacing robot. Ironically, TASS was the only media member to print the story in Russia.
The newspaper Pravda declined to print, or comment on the strange tale. In defense of the TASS account, Soviet reporter Skaya Kultura said that the agency was following the ''the golden rule of journalism."
"The reader must know everything.'' The TASS account stated that the UFO landed in Voronezh on September 27, 1989, at 6:30 P.M.
Young boys playing soccer witnessed the event, stating that a pinkish glow preceded the descent of the unusual flying craft.
The pink glow became a deep red as it touched down.
Most witnesses described the object as a flattened, disc shape.
A crowd quickly gathered, and peered through a hatch that opened.
They saw a ''three-eyed alien'' about 10 feet tall, clad in silvery overalls and bronze-colored boots and wearing a disk on his chest. " The TASS account also stated: "A boy screamed with fear, but when the alien gazed at him, with eyes shining, he fell silent, unable to move. Onlookers screamed, and the UFO and the creatures disappeared." According to the report, about five minutes later, they reappeared.
The alien had an object similar to a pistol - a tube about 20 inches long, which it pointed at an unidentified 16-year-old boy, making him disappear.
The alien went inside the sphere, which then took off.
At the same time, the boy reappeared. "Children and eyewitnesses of the abnormal phenomenon have been questioned by police workers and journalists," wrote E. Efremov, the Voronezh correspondent for Soviet Skaya Kultura." "There are no discrepancies in the description of the sphere itself or the actions of the aliens. Moreover, all the children who became witnesses to this event are still afraid, even now." Several drawings were made by some of the children who supposedly witnessed the events of Voronezh.
A couple of these are included here.
One of the drawings showed the Cyrillic alphabet character "zhe" on the side of the UFO. TASS listed three witnesses' names, all of whom were youngsters.
They also stated that a group of international researchers would be investigating the claims of the witnesses. Voronezh residents interviewed later claimed they had observed this UFO not just during the above incident but also many times on September 21, 23, 29 and October 2, between 6 and 9 PM.
Some of these incidents involved a different entity: small, with grayish-green face and blue overcoat resembling a loose raincoat. This phenomenal account is still in need of more eye witness testimony and research.
The Voronezh landing remains an unsolved mystery.
On Friday September 16, 1994 at approximately 10:15, 62 children from Ariel School, a private primary school in Ruwa (about 20 km from Harare) were in their playing field for the mid-morning break.
Suddenly, they saw three silver balls in the sky over the school.
These disappeared with a flash of light and then reappeared elsewhere.
This happened three times and then they started to move down towards the school with one of them landing (or hovering) over a section of rough ground made up of trees, thorn bushes, and some brown-grey cut grass with bamboo shoots sticking up out of the ground.
The children are not allowed in this area although it is adjacent to their playing field and is not fenced off, because of snakes, spiders and perhaps other harmful creatures.
One can soon disappear from view while walking here, and there is only one very rough track used by tractors in an attempt to clear this area. There is a line of electricity pylons and according to one boy, the object followed along this line prior to landing.
There is also some controversy as to whether the object _landed_ on the ground or hovered above it.
On September 20 I went out to the school with a BBC reporter and their television equipment, as well as my son and Gunter Hofer, a young man who builds his own electrical equipment, viz, a Geiger counter, a metal detector and a magnetometer, to try and see if the object left any traces behind. The headmaster of the school is Mr. Colin Mackie, who was most co-operative, and although he had never been involved with UFOs or a believer in them, said that he believed the children had seen what they said they saw. I was able to interview about 10 or 12 older children and this was recorded for BBC television. One eyewitness, Barry D., said he had seen three objects flying over, with flashing red lights.
They disappeared, and reappeared almost immediately, but somewhere else.
This happened about three times.
Then they came and landed near some gum trees.
Barry said the main one (object) was about the size of his thumb nail held at arm's length.
The reports were similar although some children were more observant than others.
The consensus of opinion was that an object came down in the area where they indicated, about 100 metres from where they were at the edge of the school playing field.
Then a small man (approx 1 metre in height) appeared on top of the object.
He walked a little way across the rough ground, became aware of the children and disappeared.
He, or someone very like him, then reappeared at the back of the object.
The object took off very rapidly and disappeared.
The little man was dressed in a tight-fitting black suit which was 'shiny' according to one observant girl (11 years of age).
He had a long scrawny neck and huge eyes like rugby balls.
He had a pale face with long black hair coming below his shoulders. I had suggested to Mr. Mackie prior to visiting the school and before the children had been interviewed, that he let the children draw what they had seen and he now has about 30-40 drawings, some of which are very explicit and clear, although some are rather vague.
The children's' ages vary from 5/6 to 12 years.
I have 22 photocopies of the clearer drawings as Mr. Mackie kindly allowed me to page through the pictures and choose those I wanted.
Most of the descriptions are similar but some of the craft are very obviously 'flying saucers', and I wonder how many of these children have had access to the media.
Others are crude but more or less in this saucer shape. The children vary in cultures: there are black, white, coloured and Asian children.
One little girl said to me, 'I swear by every hair on my head and the whole Bible that I am telling the truth.'
I could see the pleasure on her face when I told her that I believed her.
The smaller children from 5-7 years were very frightened at the time and ran shouting 'Help me, help me.'
When the older children asked why they were saying this, the reply was, 'He is coming to eat us.'
I should think this applied more to the black African children who have legends of _tokoloshies_ eating children. Their teachers were in a meeting and did not come out.
When I queried the headmaster about this he said the children always shouted and yelled during their playtime and no-one thought there was anything unusual going on.
The only other adult available at the time was one of the mothers who was running the tuckshop.
When the children came to call her, she did not believe them and would not come out: she was not prepared to leave the tuckshop with all the food and money.
Gunter and the men thoroughly examined the ground around where the children had seen the object, but could get no reaction on the geiger counter or any other equipment.
If the object was hovering perhaps nothing would show. I walked, on my own, along the electricity pylons for quite a away, caught up in thorn bushes, trampling blithely over snake holes and discarding all caution.
I found no place where some object could have landed and pressed down the foliage.
In fact, I should think the bamboo stumps would have been a deterrent.
The day was hot, around 33 C (91F)... Dr John Mack was visiting Zimbabwe at the time of the event, and he spent two days at Ariel School with the children.
He also spoke to the Headmaster, Colin Mackie, the teachers and some of the parents.
John and his fellow researcher, Dominique Callimanopulos, were able to get through to the parents and teachers and convince them that even if they did not believe the children, it was counter-productive to accuse them of lying.
Listen and think about what they were saying, he advised.
His particular interest in child psychiatry was also of great use during the questioning and many former hidden memories came to light, something John is sure to make public when he has had a chance to reassess his interviewing. There is a lot more to this incident than has been uncovered.
The color video footage, which lasts for a total of two minutes and fifty-five seconds, was apparently smuggled out of the secret Groom Lake "Area 51" facility in Nevada by a man referring to himself as "Victor".
The video film depicts a Grey alien being interrogated at the government facility. The footage first came to light on the Art Bell radio show on 13th March, 1997 when ufologist Sean David Morton was interviewed.
Morton claimed the interrogation was fairly recent, sometime in 1996, and that renowned UFO expert Bob Dean apparently cried at the advanced screening of the film. After claiming to have smuggled the film out of the Groom Lake facility in Nevada, Victor resolved to have the footage broadcast on network television as soon as possible in order to publicly expose his claims.
Victor believes that if his identity is discovered and he is subsequently assassinated, this would only further help to confirm the claims and authenticity behind the film. Victor approached many television companies in his attempts to show the footage to the public.
He first approached Fox TV, who turned him down after the problems in authenticity they had when the Roswell autopsy footage was shown by them.
Fox felt they were being deceived for a second time.
Eventually, in July 1996, Victor found an independent production company in Los Angeles, California called Rocket Home Pictures Productions, who agreed to produce a documentary based around the interview.
Morton was brought in by Rocket's president, Tom Coleman, to give his views, thus being the first "outsider" to view the footage. Contents Of The Video After seeing the interview footage, Morton provides a chilling and detailed description of what he saw: "The film was shot through a large plane of glass. There was no sound accompanying the images. The interview took place in a darkened room, lit with an eerie greenish glow, I could make out the silhouettes of two men, one dressed in military uniform with what appeared to be the stars on the epaulet of his jacket, and another more casually dressed man with his hand occasionally rubbing his forehead.
"They sat with their backs to the camera at one end of a long table, which was littered with wires, chords and microphones. There were what appeared to be medical devices. One in particular was blinking erratically, as if it was monitoring a very sick heart. And there sitting at the end of the table was a small, beige-skinned, black-eyed, bulbous headed creature, the like of which haunt the nightmares of thousands of unwilling abductees." Morton made many references to the creature's sick appearance and condition.
The alien made very jerky movements and kept bobbing up and down.
He continued to describe the apparently distressed state the creature was in. "Its skin was a pinkish beige, but the rest of the head looked purple and bruised, as if it had suffered severe contusions across the skull." The contents of the tape grew progressively more disturbing.
Towards the end of the tape, the creature goes into what appears to be violent spasms, as if it was having a seizure.
The mouth of the alien opens and closes before a foam begins to come out.
At that point the heart monitor (as described by Morton) begins to start jumping wildly, at which point the man in the military looking uniform signals to a couple of medics, who rush into the frame and aid the alien.
As the doctors treat the alien, the footage suddenly comes to an abrupt end. Fact or Fiction? The authenticity of the footage is seen differently by many people.
Morton is convinced the footage is real due to strong relationships with stories of alien abductees and the information on the footage in the lower part of the frame. I myself am dubious, but do recognize the factors which lead to its possible true authenticity.
The ET's appearance and features are recognizable as those mentioned by hundreds of abductees.
Known as "The Gourdos" or the more feared "Grey" species, the alien is instantly recognizable by any Ufologist. Another factor helping the video's authenticity is the information etched into the bottom of the video. The footage has the characters DNI/27 burnt into the bottom line of the frame, along with what appears to be the time code numbers for date, minutes and seconds.
The letters DNI could be an acronym for the Department of Naval Intelligence, the group responsible for the Area 51 base, a fact not many people know about.
The DNI connection to Area 51 has been widely investigated.
George Knapp, the TV journalist who encouraged Bob Lazar to go public with his knowledge has shown that Lazar's pay cheques from the time he claimed to be working at Area 51 had DNI stamped on them. Victor's Reasoning The best place to possibly determine the authenticity of the alien interview footage is the source, in this case a mysterious man known as Victor who won't reveal ANY specific details about himself in fear of discovery and assassination.
If the man is telling the truth about his background at Area 51, then this is understandable.
But how can the film be verified without any knowledge of it? The producer of the documentary, Jeff Broadstreet, does know how Victor took the footage from the base.
Victor told him he managed to obtain a copy of the video when in an unsupervised moment. Broadstreet stated the following: "He was assisting in the process of downloading a large amount of video analogue tape to storage on DVD or digital video disc." He further explains that Victor deliberately removed the audio track to protect the identity of the men in the video and to also help protect his own anonymity.
Victor also told the producer that he thought the man on the left, who is seen with his hand to his head during much of the segment, is a military telepath apparently used to assist in communication with the creature. Since the creature is obviously in a great deal of distress, when Broadstreet asked if the creature died later, Victor replied cryptically, "I'm not sure, but I know it was retired from the interview process." According to Victor, the contents of the removed audio track involved an attempt at trying to obtain some form of technological information from the alien about the coordinates of a ship or object.
He does not know, or wouldn't tell, whether the alien was attending the interview voluntarily or against his will after he had been recovered from some UFO crash retrieval operation.
On January 20, Military forces captured two extraterrestrial creatures still alive in Brazil.
The capture occurred in neighboring areas of city of Varginha, State of Minas Gerais, Central Brazil.
The fact is to be considered one of the most significant ever registered in this country and in the entire world.
Military authorities are keeping secret all details of the operation, but some information has already leaked to the UFO community due to the investigative job of Dr., Ubiraja Franco Rodrigues and Vitorio Paccaccini who lives nearby and recognized as serious and dedicated researchers. On the afternoon of January 20, about 3.30 PM local time, 3 young girls named Liliane, Valquiria and Katia observed a strange creature in a field of small bushes a few blocks from where they live.
It was Saturday and they were coming back from their jobs when, crossing an empty area their attention was attracted by a strange being a few meters away.
The ET was kneeling and looked like it was hurt, suffering some sort of pain.
No UFO was ever seen.
The girls observed it for a few minutes and run away, afraid that they had just encountered the devil. The three girls were extensively interrogated by above mentioned researchers, leaving no doubt whatsoever about what happened.
Very simple kids, they described the ET's as being a dark brown creature, with a small body of 4 - 5 feet in height, no hair at all, big brown head, small neck.
It also seemed to have some greasy, dark oil on its skin.
A strange odor was noticed by the mother of the girls, when she went to the site.
The head of the creature had 2 big red eyes, no pupils, very small mouth and nose and - what is interesting - 3 protuberances in the head.
The girls described such protuberances as horns. Following the leads, researcher Rodrigues and Pacaccini started making inquiries everywhere in the town of Varginha, in order to know if anybody else had seen the same creature.
They found several other people who also observed the ET's in the same location and maybe other ET's in different locations.
While conducting their own investigations, both discovered that different witnesses has seen army trucks and other military vehicle and personnel that very morning of that day, a few blocks from the place the girls saw the ET's. In trying to find out what the military were doing, Rodrigues and Pacaccini came to meet a few soldiers and sergeants.
One of them decided to talk secretly about their mission, in a confidential taped interview.
This Sergeant confirmed that, about 9:00 AM, January 20. the Fire Department of Varginha was required to capture a strange animal in the area.
When four fireman arrived in a truck in the place, they noticed that it was not any strange animal at all, and reported the fact to the Army Sergeant School Commander in neighboring city of Tres Coracoes (about 10 miles east of Varginha) Army truck was sent to the place and both forces captured the creature using nets and equipment regularly used to capture wild animals.
The ET was placed till alive in a box that was then covered by resistant fabric.
The box was placed on top of the truck, the vehicle headed to the Army Sergeant School and all personnel involved was ordered not to talk about it with anyone else "It was a Secret Operation" told them the lieutenant-colonel Wanderley, who commanded the operation.
After such unusual, confidential report a few other military decided to come forward and speak about the captures as long as their identities were totally kept secret.
They all confirmed, on taped interviews, that a second creature (possibly the same one seen by the girls that afternoon) was captured on the night of January 20, by personnel from the Army and the Fire Department. Details of such operation is fully known.
This creature identical to the first one, was taken to the Regional General Hospital of Varginha that same night, stayed there for a few hours and then was transferred to a better equipped facility, the Humanitas Hospital. A few nurses and personnel from Regional General Hospital had confirmed some facts and they were all suppressed.
Individuals who had contacts with the second creature were advised to avoid press and UFO Researchers and not to talk about it with anyone, not ever their families or relations.
At the Humanities Hospital the second creature was kept at least for 2 days and on the second night on January 22nd a huge military operation took place to remove the creature already dead. Interviews with some of the military who participated in this new operation, removing the creature from the Humanitas Hospital, declared that 3 Army trucks were used, each one driven by 2 different soldiers.
It is believed that 3 trucks were used to remove only one body in order to avoid the soldiers to know in which truck would it be transported.
The drivers and their follows couldn't see the details of the operations, as they were kept outside the hospital area.
Military personnel from the Army Internal Intelligence (called "S-2" in Brazil and extremely violent and repressive) were responsible for getting the corpse from the interior of the hospital, placing it in a box and then in one of the trucks. All 3 trucks then were taken to a military facility in Campinas, State of Sao Paulo, about 200 miles from Varginha, in the middle of the night.
There, the corpse was removed to the University of Campinas , one of the best institutions in the country.
It is believed - and we already have detailed information to be soon released that the ET body was autopsied by Dr. Badan Palhares, worldwide acclaimed as one of the best professionals in that area alive (he was the one who autopsied German Nazi Mengele, about ten years ago) Palhares, as well as any other authority involved, denied he was involved in any such operations. UFO researchers from all over the country have been helping closely Rodrigues and Pacaccini, in order to discover each and every detail of the capture of the two ET's, Media in Brazil has never been so active and great majority of population believes that the case is real and that the military and civil authorities involved are keeping the facts secret.
Many strange facts are happening simultaneously, such as prison of soldiers, Sergeants being transferred at short notice.
The phones of many UFO researchers involved in the case are confirmed to be tapped and a few threats have been made anonymously. Up to now, almost all details of the whole operation are known to the UFO researchers and a few can already been released.
In a matter of weeks, all information will be fully disclosed by the UFO researchers involved, throughout the UFO Magazine, to the entire world. Everyday new pieces of this fantastic puzzle are being received by researchers in many cities and more and more military personnel have agreed to talk.
Meanwhile, the region where Varginha is located, in the South of State of Minas Gerais, is subject to one of the biggest UFO waves ever registered, the huge UFO's in close range observations, landings and contact.
An account of a close encounter of the third kind comes to us from Poland.
The incident occurred on August 11, 2003.
Lech Chacinski was driving down the road in the early morning hours, about 5:00 A M, when he saw three figures standing on the shoulder of the road.
Oddly, they were standing in a triangular formation.
They wore uniforms similar to that of an astronaut.
The encounter was near the small city of Szczecinek, and its roads, as usual, were deserted during the wee hours of the morning.
Enthralled with the three strange beings, he slowed down to see if his eyes were deceiving him.
When he got a closer look, he immediately knew they were not astronauts.
The three moved toward the front of his car in the same triangular pattern.
The closest being to him raised one arm as a signal for him to come to a complete stop.
Chacinski states that "something" had told him to stop, though he heard no voice.
Feeling almost frozen, he raised the driver side window as the beings moved toward him.
He could now clearly see one of the beings, except for a darkened helmet.
He could not make out facial details, except for big, black eyes.
On top of the helmet, there was something that Chacinski thought to be a communications device. As the full realization of what he was seeing overcame him, Chacinski wanted to run away, but before he could, he saw a strong beam of light come from the top of the one of the beings helment, which he associated with the question; "Do you hear us?"
To this, the frightened man answered in his mind, "YES!"
He was prompted to exit his vehicle, and asked what type of material his car was made of. He was now able to see all of the beings uniform.
The spacesuit was bluish in color; the shoes had a metallic look; and on the chest of the alien was a rectangular electronic device with lights moving.
The beings asked Chacinski other questions also, like; What kind of material are your clothes made of?.
How does your vehicle work?.
What kind of fuel does it use?. He answered their questions, telepathically, and they told him they had come to deliver a message to the inhabitants of Earth, and this message was given only to him.
We should care about our planet; our water and air.
If we neglect our environment, they will cause our destruction. Finally, Chacinski asked one question of the alien beings; which he was able to convey telepathically. "Where do you come from?" They replied, "Eight Galaxy." While Chacinski stood in awe, the three moved up into the air about six feet, and flew to their waiting ship, which was about 100 yards away.
From the bottom of the ship, a beam of light took the three into the craft, and as it did, a fog appeared around the UFO, which was sitting on three legs, and adorned with multi-colored lights.
Soon, the ship rose about 50 feet high; and disappeared from sight.
The area of the encounter is also one where crop circles often appear, and also where Chacinski's picture was taken.
This incredible report of a close encounter in Poland is still under investigation
My wife and I were sitting on our screened-in porch at our home in Westerville, Ohio, which faces east. At around 6:00 pm on an October evening, we saw a large bright stationary object in the southeast sky.
I tended to ignore it for awhile.
I thought that perhaps it was a communications satellite. I went into the house and got by 7 x 50 field glasses to help identify the object.
It was no helicopter, commerical or military aircraft, and certainly not one of those blimps that occasionally make its way down to the Ohio State University to cover a football game.
As far as I could tell, it didn't move.
There was no noise coming from it.
The object was perhaps 50 to 60 feet in diameter. The setting sun was reflecting off the object and made it somewhat difficult to see.
As far as I could tell, there were no external lights.
There were 5 large rectangular windows that took up much of the space of this object.
There was a yellow glow in the interior. I saw a person dressed in a light-colored single piece suit from the neck down.
The person had a head, 2 arms, and a body.
He appeared to move only once and only slightly.
It stood next to what appeared to be a "file cabinet", which stood as tall as his shoulder.
There was some mass around these windows but nothing that would constitute the body of some aircraft. The next evening, my wife and I saw the same object. I called a local television station to report what I had seen and if anybody had any idea what it was.
The lady gave me some answer and that was the last that I heard of this object. As far as I know, nothing was reported on any television news broadcast or, printed in the Columbus Dispatch. Surely, others in the area must have seen this object.
I know what I saw, but I have no idea what I saw."
