The Voronezh UFO Landing, 1989

By popular request, I did my next case review on the famous UFO landing in Voronezh, Russia. The story is spectacular in its own right, and I tried to do it justice in my retelling, but I've also chosen to use it as another example of the way in which modern encounters with "aliens" resemble centuries-old encounters with fairies and goblins and the like. Here I've tried to compare the being's paralyzing tube with the fairy wands and other hand-held devices of supposedly mythical peoples. Coincidence?

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Sources:

Jacques Vallee, "UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: a Cosmic Samizdat" (New York: Ballantine Books, 1992).

[FatovMikhail]

there was not only one but 10 landings over the course of 10 days in that region. but this exact landing took place in the Voronezh city itself and had 14 witnesses, not 3. those robot-like and TV with legs taking samples were seen in other different locations, here there was only the neckless one. first a red glowing orb came down, hovered and left, then the metallic craft came and landed. very unusual or even unique feature of this landing was that the craft descended on top of a tree, then the door openned and the creature looked out to check. it couldn't turn it's head so it moved the whole body to look around, then the door closed and it continued to descend breaking some branches and leaving the tree leaned down a bit. the boy was just standing still and after that shot he disappeared only for a few seconds and then reappeared again that made the others run for their lives, so they didn't watch it departing, but there was a witness who saw it rising a few meters and then disappearing. besides the broken tree there were 4 indentations on the ground and at another location there was one thin hole more than a foot deep, there was a witness who heard a drilling sound, some aliens were seen disappearing and those places were found to be rich in phosphorus. there was a TV show featuring the investigators and eye witnesses, it was later used in the Discovery channel documentary "soviet ufo files", but the original tape of that show is now lost. just a few weeks ago spanish TV show was aired called "otros mundos - episodio 7: el último ovni de la urss". i didn't see it but they found the eye witnesses, took more interviews and recreated the event in details. the case was not very popular because no solid evidence was left and it was mostly dismissed as a hoax, claiming that it was all made up by the kids. but that's not true because there were hundreds of other witnesses including local police, teachers, scientists, workers etc. contact me if you ever going to cover some more russian cases, i will be glad to help with info and translations.

[shelper]

I was 10 yrs. old that day, when I heard about this incident on greek TV news. This started my interest on UFOs.

[jalsbrook]

“It was only a barn owl.” -Joe Nickel, 1989

[tracydillon]

Similar to the Flatwoods Incedent. I talked to the former police chief of Flatwoods. He said the witnesses got so fed up with all the disruptive fallout from the event that they started saying that they hoaxed it to try and get out of the spotlight. He also said that he knew that it was no hoax. The Witnesses just wanted everyone to leave them alone.

[ArcadeMusicTribute]

I remember when this happened it was in the media, TV and newspapers. I believe one of the kids died and another became blind after the incident. It's very hard to get anything on this anywhere. Thank you for this video and all of the others. I love your content!

[fourshore]

hey where are the witnesses to this case i wonder? i mean 89 wasnt THAT long ago almost all of those people involved should still be alive but I havent seen or heard or read statements from a single witness of that day.

[jcs]

This channel should have well over 500, 000 subscribers. YouTube algorithm wake up and highlight the quality content of this channel.

[Nautilus]

I care not whether anyone believes this or not, I will just share it for those who keep an open mind, and wish the rest of you all the best.

The 'dark matter' which generates the unaccounted gravity we can detect in the universe may be direct evidence for the parallel dimensions which share the space we live in. Other beings may have discovered ways of moving between dimensions, perhaps prompted by our fondness for nuclear explosions, which may impact their dimensions in some way, hence making our nuclear programs of great interest to them. As an amateur fan of quantum mechanics, I naively believed that Einstein's theories were sound regarding super-luminal speeds, and dismissed the likelihood of FTL space travel and therefore the presence of aliens on this planet. I have, however, always believed that there is most probably life elsewhere in the universe, and maintained an open mind regarding the possibility of 'folding' the space-time continuum, or inter-dimensional travel by the alteration of quantum frequencies. As 85% of the universe's gravitational forces have an unknown source, one likelihood could be that this is 'leakage' from parallel universes, and this 'dark' gravity is the manifestation of another universe in this one. I now believe, within reasonable doubt, that either FTL travel or inter-dimensional travel is possible as a result of this conversation. I had heard from a Professor of material science at the same university we worked at that Yuri had seen material in Russia that he could not explain the origin of, nor did he know its composition. Yuri told me that the metal was roughly coin-sized, very thin and impervious to force, bending, scratching etc.

I had a lengthy conversation with a former colleague of mine, the author of the first ever Russian publication of any book regarding the UFO phenomenon in Russia, Doctor Yuri Lozotsev. Yuri is a mechanical engineer (aircraft construction) who worked on the TU-144 and a Doctor of Material science. He is also a native of Voronezh. The book was not translated into English and likely never will be, as the rights were purchased by the French in what appears to be a cover-up. I was left quite shaken afterwards, as I have always separated my love of science fiction from reality and scientific 'fact'.

This led to the first story of 'giants'. As I understand it, he was summoned to a military base to look at this material they had found after an event which had occurred at the base. Two soldiers were patrolling the base perimeter when they witnessed a craft landing in front of them. They described it as a 'bus', although it sounded to me more like a double-wide trailer. Two of these giants exited via a ramp holding what appeared to be two large guns. This being a military base and they were uninvited, they opened fire on the beings. The bullets fell in a downward arc, and then one of the beings fired a beam of 'light' which drilled a hole in the magazine of one of the rifles. They then returned to their ships and left. It was the series of events in and around Voronezh, August 1989, that were even more compelling as there were many many witnesses, including children. Yuri was approached by a plain-clothed man who was a KGB (a Major, I think). Normally this would not be a good thing, but post-Gorbachev Russia was changing, there was an effort to open up to the world and learn as much as they could. He was provided with visual and audio recording equipment with which to interview witnesses and record their testimonies. Witnesses were interviewed, stories written down. Checked, re-checked, cross-checked, and Yuri is in no doubt that what was reported in a children's park one day actually happened. He told me other stories, but I will limit this mail to the one that has been verified to his satisfaction. (By the way, characteristics common to landings : wind dropping - if present. Birds stop singing, 'sizzling' sound. vegetation stems 'bent at 90 degrees but not broken' or tree trunks 'warped')

Whilst playing football, a group of children witnessed a craft landing. It was a metallic sphere of about 6 metres in diameter, orange-tinted in color. There were four landing legs, which left circular depressions in the ground he eventually estimated must have been caused by a load of 11, 500 KG (he also investigated these depressions personally and observed that although the playing surface was merely soil, this soil became 'solid' in the depressions, like cast iron.) The sizzling sound was noted. A ramp lowered and a being 3 metres in height walked down the ramp accompanied by a shorter robot with a rectangular body and an array of lights on its chest, similar to a 1950s version of what a 'robot' might look like. When somebody tried to approach the being, he suddenly left. Yuri seemed quite convinced that these things happened having completed his investigation. Stories were corroborated and consistent. Some interviewees could not continue and were very distressed and traumatized by what they had seen. Their minds simply unable to cope. One shepherd reported a giant landing, exiting his craft, waving at the shepherd, before leaving again. The site in the wheat field was investigated and the wheat had bent but not broken - it was bent in a very un-natural way, again the depressions were present and would have required immensely heavy equipment to reproduce, yet the surrounding field contained no evidence that such heavy equipment could have been moved into position by hoaxers/crop-circlers. Yuri also investigated other sightings/landings around Voronezh that had occurred over a period of 2 weeks I think. This was followed by an extended visitation by the world's media for another 2 years - he and his colleagues became quite the celebrities - including the man on whom the French scientist in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' was based, Jacques Valle. They swapped notes. He said the French have been recording all of these visitations for a couple of hundred years - though they deny this officially. In the 18th and 19th centuries, they would arrive in hot-air balloons, things recognizable to the people of the time. A high-ranking military friend of his also confided in him during his newly-found 'celebrity'. In 1986, in Chernobyl, 5 or so UFOs were recorded hovering over the reactor. They were responsible for stopping critical mass and an explosion.

I had my own experience in 1994 (1995?) whilst at the Galway Races in Ballybrit, I and 20, 000 racegoers witnessed a golden ball/sphere that suddenly appeared and hung over the course for about 20-30 minutes before disappearing. It was not St. Elmo's fire as the Met office reported the next day. I had no frame of reference for this, but have begun to think about it more and more in recent years.

I contacted Paul Hellyer - former Canadian Defense Minister in relation to all of this. He informed me - though would not say how he knew - that gravity travels faster than light and their 'craft' may use this somehow. His son was also in the military and gave him the book 'The Day after Roswell' to read. Hellyer phoned his son's commanding general who claimed that it was all true. It is curious that the 509th bomb group released a statement one day claiming a flying disc had been recovered, but the next day released another saying that they had been mistaken, and that it was in fact a weather balloon that had been recovered. The 509th bomb group were responsible for Nagaski and Hiroshima ... yet they could not tell the difference between a balloon and a flying saucer from a distant galaxy/parallel dimension?

Not only are we not alone .. they are already here.?

[wormwood]

Some of the best videos on the paranormal/UFO phenomenon that Ive ever seen.  Keep it up, your videos should be much more popular than they are.  Your research is great.

[xxMrBaldyxx]

This is one of the most bizarre and interesting UFO encounters I have ever heard of.

[simonandrews]

The visitor's little robot buddy looks like a ham radio with legs. I approve.

[danedanes]

Fantastic! When I was 10 years old me, my whole class at school and the teachers watched a large silver metallic sphere being still in the air over Dayton, Ohio. When the Air Force jets got close to the sphere it would jump around a 1000 feet instantly and then hanged in the air still not moving, Itt played with the jets and even us little kids knew this sphere was a lot more advanced than the jets. When I was 30 years old in 1986 I was out in the field, farm land. I felt static electricity all over my body and my hair made a crackling sound. I looked up and there was a very large black triangle about the size of a football field. I could see portholes and the triangle was no more than 20 feet above me. I saw creatures looking down at me. They looked like reptiles. I was very very scared. I thought they were going to abduct. After a minute the craft slowly moved about 5 m, ph. When it was about 600 yards away it instantly shot straight up at incredible speed. About 3 minutes later military jets flew over. The ufo shot up so fast it literally punched a big hole in a large cloud. I laughged at the jets because  there was no way they could even hope to catch up with it. I called the nearest military  base and reported what I saw and reportedthat I saw their fighter jets fly over where I was at. They denied everything and warned me to stop making prank calls. I told them what I saw was real. They took my name aand address down and then hung up on me.

[FindingUFO]

Great video and interesting subject as always!

[astrianocastellon]

I like the way you narrated the show...
The music intensified the show....
This is my first ever time running acroos you channel and shows...
You got another
Tanx njoyed it alot....we did

[davidmiller]

1st time viewer, I am now subscribed. Thank YOU !!

[veilofreality]

5 second in and I already liked...thanks for making this, I am a big fan of Vallee's work and this case has always fascinated me in a special way

[julianbristow]

I have seen that “H” symbol with a vertical line appearing in between, in other, older, UFO photographs. This symbol or marking is seen on the bottom of flying discs. Very strange.

[RedcoatsReturn]

About 1973 a British tv farming program was being filmed in a field in Cambridgeshire England. They all saw the pink sphere maybe at 2000 ft or so and about that same 11meter diameter, the camera team broke off their work and filmed it. They filmed it for a minute or so when it suddenly left upward at incredible speed leaving a vapour trail. It remains today one of those few % observations on film which cannot be explained away and for sure means they are out there. That video was reported on BBC news and other documentaries but I could not find it in Youtube or the internet. If you see it, you have no doubt anymore!

[kenmanx]

He left and came back with a STICK! SAID
"NOW MESS WITH ME"

[nemesiswar]

Man, you deserve more views and subs, just enjoable narration! I remember back in my childhood days (i was like 15) i saw in the News Papper this news ... The article had a picture of the alien and it was horrible ... I remember also describes the three-meters Alien and the metal tube just like you ... I still have the image of the article inside my memory ....this shit terrorized me for years.SUSCRIBED!