Thank you, I was having problems with the links last night. Adverts kept popping up.
I'm not sure that they are UFO obsessed but rather perhaps getting some kind of reward for sharing their story. The papers and TV programs that air the stories also did, forteian times, paranormal programs too. The spawning of these stories all came out with various books of UFOs for example , no different than the explosion in the west. ( I bought a few) . Oddly enough , whilst searching another story came up from 1993 in Russia, it was allegedly about soldiers shooting at a UFO and the aliens attacked back turning 20 or so soldiers into limestone. Even the CIA followed the story. ( The mind boggles)
I don't think they would approach such a non professional form of publishing if they were serious about their claims ?.
I would have thought everyone would be saying in their statements that some idiot was shooting a gun in the middle of the night and there was a bright light in the sky , also, they had cameras and many minutes to try and take a photo of what they saw. The story doesn't add up but that might be memory as is suggested.
Personally , with everything I can find, it looks like there were lights in the sky, but there always is and these were reported by too many people not to be one persons imagination but it's either tests or nature in the sky.
Here's the alleged CIA version below, it's got to be a joke...
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*** Document 199 of 54 FBIS
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CLAS UNCLAS 3A/PHU
SERIAL NUMBER: AU3003152893
PASS PASS:
ATTH BBC SD
COUN COUNTRY: RUSSIA INTERNATIONAL
SUBJ SUBJ:
PAPER REPORTS ALLEGED EVIDENCE ON MISHAP INVOLVING UFO
SOUR SOURCE: KIEV HOLOS UKRAYINY IN UKRAINIAN 27 MAR 93 P 5
TEXT TEXT:
//((REPRINT FROM THE NEWSPAPER TERNOPIL VECHIRNIY: REVENGE FIRST PARAGRAPH PUBLISHED IN BOLDFACE)) "COSMIC
((TEXT)) AFTER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV DISSOLVED, IN 1991, THE KGB TOP SECRET INTELLIGENCE ADMINISTRATION, A LOT OF MATERIAL FROM THAT DEPARTMENT FOUND THEIR WAY ABROAD, IN PARTICULAR TO THE CIA, AS REPORTED BY THE AUTHORITATIVE MAGAZINE CANADIAN WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, *U.S. INTELLIGENCE OBTAINED A 250-PAGE FILE ON THE ATTACK BY A UFO ON A MILITARY UNIT IN SIBERIA.
THE FILE CONTAINS NOT ONLY MANY DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHS AND DRAWINGS, BUT ALSO TESTIMONIES BY ACTUAL PARTICIPANTS IN THE EVENTS. ONE OF THE CIA REPRESENTATIVES REFERRED TO THIS CASE AS "A HORRIFIC *PICTURE OF REVENGE ON THE PART OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL CREATURES, A PICTURE THAT MAKES ONE'S BLOOD FREEZE."
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. IT FELL TO EARTH NOT FAR AWAY, AND FIVE SHORT HUMANOIDS WITH "LARGE HEADS AND LARGE BLACK EYES" EMERGED FROM IT.
IT IS STATED IN THE TESTIMONIES BY THE TWO SOLDIERS WHO REMAINED ALIVE THAT, AFTER FREEING THEMSELVES FROM THE DEBRIS, THE ALIENS CAME CLOSE TOGETHER AND THEN "MERGED INTO A SINGLE OBJECT THAT ACQUIRED A SPHERICAL SHAPE." THAT OBJECT BEGAN TO BUZZ AND HISS SHARPLY, AND THEN BECAME BRILLIANT WHITE. IN A FEW SECONDS, THE SPHERES GREW MUCH BIGGER AND EXPLODED BY FLARING UP WITH AN EXTREMELY BRIGHT LIGHT. 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 KGB REPORT GOES ON TO SAY THAT THE REMAINS OF THE UFO AND THE "PETRIFIED SOLDIERS" WERE TRANSFERRED TO A SECRET SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTION NEAR MOSCOW. SPECIALISTS ASSUME THAT A SOURCE OF ENERGY THAT IS STILL UNKNOWN TO EARTHLINGS INSTANTLY CHANGED THE STRUCTURE OF THE SOLDIERS' LIVING ORGANISMS, HAVING TRANSFORMED IT INTO A SUBSTANCE WHOSE MOLECULAR COMPOSITION IS NO DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF LIMESTONE.
A CIA REPRESENTATIVE STATED: "IF THE KGB FILE CORRESPONDS TO REALITY, THIS IS AN EXTREMELY MENACING CASE. THE ALIENS POSSESS SUCH WEAPONS AND TECHNOLOGY THAT GO BEYOND ALL OUR ASSUMPTIONS.
THEY CAN STAND UP FOR THEMSELVES IF ATTACKED. (ENDALL) BT 23003.03 27 MAR
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