A long-forgotten Cold War legend has resurfaced with renewed intensity: an alleged alien encounter from the late 1980s in Soviet Ukraine is once again making headlines, thanks to recently rediscovered declassified CIA files. According to these records, no fewer than 23 Soviet soldiers were supposedly turned into stone after shooting down an unidentified flying object.
The story, seemingly ripped from the pages of a sci-fi thriller, was allegedly detailed in a 250-page KGB report. The events reportedly took place in either 1989 or 1990. Soviet troops, conducting exercises in an unspecified area of Ukraine, are said to have spotted a low-flying, saucer-shaped craft. Mistaking it for a threat, they launched a surface-to-air missile that apparently hit its target.
What happened next defies belief. Five small humanoid beings with “large heads and large black eyes” allegedly emerged from the wreckage. Moments later, the entities merged into a single glowing sphere, which quickly grew in size—before detonating in a massive explosion. The blast, according to the report, petrified 23 soldiers, leaving them as stone-like pillars. The remaining soldiers were said to have been evacuated, and the “petrified remains” along with the crashed UFO were reportedly transported to a secret military facility near Moscow.
While extraordinary, the credibility of the report quickly crumbles under scrutiny. The document cited in the CIA files did not originate from U.S. intelligence analysts. Instead, it came from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service—a branch of the CIA that monitors foreign media—which had merely republished a sensational article from Canada’s Weekly World News, a tabloid known for its outlandish stories, and the Ukrainian newspaper Holos Ukrayiny.
Even so, the tale continues to fascinate. Conspiracy theorists and UFO enthusiasts cite the story as evidence of Soviet-era alien contact and top-secret cover-ups. Skeptics, on the other hand, dismiss it as Cold War-era disinformation or pure tabloid fiction.
Still, in today’s uncertain world, one can’t help but wonder—if such alien technology ever truly existed, could it come in handy now?
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