Visions of astronauts

There is a mysterious cosmic phenomenon - mysterious visions that people who have been in space face. The first to report the phenomenon back in October 1995 was Russian Sergey Krichevsky. He is a research cosmonaut who circled the globe several times on an orbital station, a serious scientist, candidate of technical sciences, a full member of the Tsiolkovsky Academy of Cosmonautics. What Krichevsky said in his speech at the Novosibirsk International Institute of Space Anthropology literally shocked scientists then and immediately became a sensation.

Here are excerpts from his report.

“The fantastic visions observed in flight are a new, previously unknown phenomenon that can be attributed to the classical state of altered consciousness ... Imagine: an astronaut unexpectedly quickly leaves his usual initial - human appearance-self-perception, turns into some kind of animal and at the same time moves to the appropriate environment. In the future, he continues to feel himself in a transformed form or successively reincarnates into another supernatural being. For example, one colleague told me about his stay in the “skin” of a dinosaur. And notice, he felt like an animal moving on the surface of an unknown planet, stepping over ravines, abysses, some kind of physical barriers. The astronaut described his appearance in sufficient detail: paws, scales, webbing between the fingers, skin color, huge claws, and so on.

The fusion of his “I” with the biological essence of the ancient lizard was so complete that all the sensations of this seemingly alien organism were perceived by him as his own. With the skin of his back, he felt the horny plates on the ridge rise up. About the piercing cry that escaped from the mouth, he could say: “That was my cry...” Moreover: at the same time, the corresponding scenarios of transformations, transformations of the external environment took place. At the same time, not only did the astronaut feel like he was in the “skin” of certain organisms, animals from previous eras, but the person seemed to turn into a different personality, and he could also turn out to be an alien creature - a humanoid.

What is interesting: the observed pictures-visions are unusually bright, colored. Various sounds were heard, including the speech of other creatures, and it was understandable - it was assimilated right there, without training. The astronaut was transported to a different space-time, including other unknown celestial bodies. And, finding himself in a completely new world for him, at that moment he perceived it as something familiar, dear.

And here is the message of the pilot-cosmonaut Alexander Serebrov: “I flew into space twice ... Fortunately, I didn’t have anything like that. But my partner Vasily Tsibliyev, for example, sometimes behaved as if he had eaten too much henbane: he shouted, rushed about, did somersaults with his feet. It turns out that he had absolutely amazing, enchanting, indescribable dreams. He couldn't tell them at all. He only insisted that he had never seen anything like it in his life. Such states could be repeated in reality. There, in orbit, sometimes you don’t understand where the dream is, where the reality is ... ”

Doctor of Technical Sciences Valentin Lebedev, who flew many times, first on the Soyuz, then on the Salyut-7, had something similar. It turns out that many astronauts saw during the flights of some monsters, monsters that seemed to them absolutely real. But this information has always been taken to be carefully concealed. People who have been in space were afraid that their stories would not be believed and they would simply be expelled from the detachment, put in a psychiatric hospital.

And here is what cosmonaut Vladislav Volkov told about the mysterious voices he heard in October 1969 on Soyuz-7: “There is a characteristic crackle of ether in headsets. The earthly night flew below. And suddenly out of that night... came the barking of a dog. An ordinary dog, maybe even a simple mongrel... I don't know where the paths of associations go, but it seemed to me that this was the voice of our Laika. He hit the air and forever remained a satellite of the Earth. And then, after a few seconds, the cry of a child became clearly audible. And some voices. And again the very earthly cry of a child.

Relatively frankly, the American Aldrin, the second earthling who set foot on the surface of the Moon, spoke about the reasons for such a change in his behavior. According to him, during his descent to the lunar surface, he was “attacked” by cosmic dust: “This cosmic wind penetrated my brain, it was he who, obviously, disturbed my nervous and mental balance. I know that many astronauts have been exposed to similar effects...”

What happened to people in space? Sergei Krichevsky was the first to try to answer this question. He proposed two hypotheses at once. According to the first, the source of visions is in the subconscious of a person. During a long stay in conditions of weightlessness in space flight, states arise when information emerges from the depths of the subconscious in the form of fragments of the life of various organisms - the distant ancestors of man in the process of evolution. The second hypothesis assumes that information flows into the brain from outside. It can be assumed, Krichevsky believes, that some non-stationary flow of galactic radiation triggers these dreams. If at the same time the spacecraft falls into this “beam” and the astronaut is in a relaxed slumber, a phenomenon arises. Came out of the beam - everything disappears.

An interesting fact serves as an indirect confirmation of this hypothesis. Russian psychics conducted a sounding of the Moon and unexpectedly discovered several points on its surface, from which intense mental radiation went into space. It is likely that it affected both American astronauts who landed on the lunar surface and Russian cosmonauts who worked in space for a long time.

There is also an attempt to explain visions by magnetic and other physical fields that affect the human brain and cause hallucinations. Another hypothesis connects this phenomenon with a little-studied type of physical interactions - torsion fields (their existence has not yet been proven). Allegedly getting into space, people also encounter other conditions of physical interactions than on Earth, and torsion effects are sharply activated. Every astronaut can feel them there...

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The pilot-cosmonaut of the Cosmonaut Training Center named after A.I. Yu. A. Gagarin, Air Force Colonel Valery Tokarev.

About fear

I wouldn't say it's scary. You are a professional and adapt to work, so you have no time to think about fear. I was not afraid either at the start or on the descent - in our country, both the pulse and pressure are constantly recorded. At the station, in general, after a while you feel at home. But there is a delicate moment when you need to go into outer space. I really don't want to go out there.

It's like the first parachute jump. Here is an open door in front of you and a height of 800 meters. As long as you're sitting on the plane and there's some sort of firmament under you, it's not scary. And then you have to step into the void. Defeat human nature, the instinct of self-preservation. It's the same feeling, only much stronger, when you go into outer space.

Before leaving, you put on a spacesuit, relieve pressure in the airlock, but you are still inside the station, which flies at a speed of 28 thousand kilometers per hour in orbit, but this is your home. And then you open the hatch - you open it manually - and there is darkness, an abyss.

When you're on the shadow side, you can't see anything underneath you. And you understand that there are hundreds of kilometers of abyss, gloom, darkness below, and you have to go from the illuminated inhabited station to where there is nothing.

At the same time, you are in a spacesuit, and this is not a business suit, it is uncomfortable in it. He is tough, and this toughness must be overcome physically. You move only on your hands, your legs hang like ballast. In addition, the review is deteriorating. And you need to move along the station. And you understand that if you unhooked, then death is inevitable. It is enough to miss two centimeters, one millimeter may not be enough for you - and you will forever drift near the station, but there is nothing to push off from, and no one will help you.

But even you get used to it. When you swim out to the sunny side, you can see the planets, the native blue Earth, it becomes calmer, even if it is thousands of kilometers away from you.

About what they take as astronauts

Any Russian citizen who meets certain requirements can become an astronaut. This is only the first, Gagarin, recruitment was from military pilots, then they began to take more and engineers, and representatives of other specialties. Now an application for astronauts can be submitted with any higher education, even philological. And then people are selected according to the standard: they check their health, conduct psychological tests ... In the last set, for example, there is only one pilot.

But in the end, far from everyone flies into space, according to statistics, about 40-50% of those who have been trained. The candidate is constantly being prepared, but it is not a fact that the flight will take place in the end.

The minimum training time is five years: a year and a half of general space training, then a year and a half of training in a group - this is not yet a crew, another year and a half of training in the crew with which you will fly. But on average, much more time passes before the first flight - for someone ten years, and for someone even longer. Therefore, there are practically no young and unmarried astronauts. People usually come to the training center already at the age of about 30, as a rule, married.

The astronaut must study the International Space Station, the ship, flight dynamics, flight theory, ballistics... Our tasks in orbit also include filming, editing and sending stories to Earth from the station. Therefore, cosmonauts also master operator work. And, of course, the requirements for maintaining physical fitness are constant, like those of athletes.

About health

We joke: cosmonauts are selected according to their health, and then they ask them as if they were smart. The problem of health is not even in surviving overloads, it is not as difficult as it is commonly believed, now even unprepared people fly into space as tourists.

But tourists still fly for a week, and a professional astronaut spends many months in orbit. And we work there. He fastened the tourist to the seat on takeoff - and that's it, his task is to survive. And the astronaut must work, regardless of the overload: both maintain contact with the Earth, and be ready to take control in case of failures - in general, he must control everything.

Medical selection for astronauts is now, as before, very difficult. We passed it in the Seventh Scientific Testing Hospital of the Air Force in Sokolniki and called this place the "Gestapo". Because there they scan you through and through, they will force you to drink something, they will inject something, they will vomit something.

Then it was fashionable to remove tonsils, say. They didn’t hurt me at all, but they told me that I had to cut them out. And when you pass the selection, contradicting the doctors is more expensive for yourself.

Although some were much worse. Many pilots were simply afraid to become astronauts, because many of them were written off from flight work after a medical examination. That is, you do not fly into space, and you are forbidden to fly on an airplane.

About the first flight

You have been preparing for it for a long time, you are a professional, you can do everything, but you have never really experienced the feeling of weightlessness.

Everything happens very quickly: pre-flight excitement, then strong vibration, acceleration, overloads and then - once! You are in space. Engines turn off - and complete silence. And at the same time, the entire crew floats up, that is, you are fastened with seat belts, but the body is already weightless. That's when the feeling of euphoria sets in. Outside the window - the brightest colors. There are no halftones in space, everything is saturated, very contrasting.

You immediately want to feel everything, spin in the air, succumb to a feeling of joy, but when you are a member of the crew, first of all you have to work. A lot of things happen at the same time: you need to monitor how the antennas open, check the tightness, and so on. And only after you are convinced that everything is in order, you can take off the spacesuit and really enjoy weightlessness - somersault.

Again, tumbling is dangerous. I remember that experienced astronauts began to move very smoothly, and we, the beginners, were spinning and spinning. And then the vestibular apparatus goes crazy. And you understand that you need to be careful with him, because bouts of nausea may begin.

About smells

It was you on Earth who ran to the toilet, and even if you didn’t run, it’s okay. And there, if you miss, all this will fly inside in the atmosphere. And it will be necessary to collect with a special vacuum cleaner. But you can't pick up odors with a vacuum cleaner. And the atmosphere is one, and it deteriorates.

Smells at the station are constantly accumulating, so when you first arrive there, you don't feel very comfortable. We also do sports there, but you can’t open the window, you can’t ventilate it.

But people get used to smells very quickly. So it cannot be said that you feel discomfort all the time in orbit. Only the first time, when you open the hatch of the ship and swim into the station. Although a few months ago, the time from launch to docking was 34 hours, so the atmosphere on the ship itself had time to be filled with different smells and there was not much difference. It's only a six-hour flight now, so there's more or less fresh air in the ship.

About weightlessness

The first days it is difficult to sleep: the head does not feel any support, it is very unusual. Some people tie their heads to a sleeping bag. No things can be left unsecured: they will fly away. But after a week, you completely get used to weightlessness and live in a regular mode, a daily routine is developed: how much to sleep, when to eat.

You don't use your legs in weightlessness at all, some muscles atrophy, despite the fact that every day you train on special simulators. Therefore, it is much more difficult to return to Earth than to fly away, the overload is more difficult to endure.

And then, for the first time on Earth, you still can’t get used to the fact that you have to carry the weight of your body. In the same place, he pushed off with his finger - flew. It is not necessary to transfer objects to a friend, he threw an object - he flew. What did some sin after they spent half a year in space? A feast, someone asks to pass something, a glass, for example. Well, the astronaut throws a glass across the table.

About the International Space Station

The station, like the spacecraft, consists of modules. These are compartments four meters in diameter and no more than 15 meters in length. Each astronaut has his own corner: you come at night, tie a sleeping bag, and swim there yourself. A laptop, a radio usually floats nearby, so that you can, if anything, be quickly picked up.

It's like a hostel. Nothing is isolated, not even the cabins without a screen, only the toilet can be a little secluded. Although American ships have completely isolated cabins.

Being at the station is not like a prison or a hospital. It's just your job with specific tasks. It is necessary to conduct experiments, take the station away from the collision with debris, maintain its operation, change some equipment, if necessary.

It is believed that the astronauts in the crews are carefully selected according to their psychological characteristics, but this is not entirely true. If the crew is multinational, then each country simply provides its own person. During preparation, doctors, of course, observe how you fit each other.

But I've always been lucky with crews. Some cosmonauts do not communicate with each other after a joint flight on Earth, but I maintain relations with all my colleagues.

Although in space, emotions, like colors, are very saturated. They flow more strongly, the slightest push is enough - and immediately a scandal. That is, the main art is the art of managing oneself. As well as on earth, in general.

About meaning

My path to astronauts was pretty consistent. I studied at the flight school, I liked the flight work, but I wanted to constantly test new equipment. Then I studied as a test pilot, tested the latest deck-based aircraft - this is when you need to land your car on the deck of a ship. With such exercises, the pulse of the pilots goes off scale more than when you fly into a combat zone. Then, when I became a first-class test pilot, I realized that everything, you can’t jump higher in the atmosphere. And it was very logical to go and fly on a space bird. So for me it was a consistent path. This is characteristic of a man and an astronaut. Although astronauts are also different.

Well, you can’t see God in space, we already know this from Gagarin. But I can tell you that space is alive. When you are there, some information passes through you, you just need to listen to it. We have not seen aliens, but when you visit there, there is a firm conviction that we are not alone in the Universe, there are those who are smarter and stronger than us.

Some astronauts admitted that very strange and unusual things happen to them in orbit - they feel themselves in the "skin" of animals from previous eras, another personality, and even an alien creature - a humanoid. Observed vision pictures are unusually bright, colorful...

Various sounds were heard, including the speech of other creatures, and it was understandable - it was assimilated right there, without training. The astronaut seemed to be transported to another space-time, including other, unknown celestial bodies. And, finding himself in a completely new world for him, at that moment he perceived it as something familiar, dear. What kind of phenomenon are the astronauts observing?

In the early 1990s, the editors of the Miracles and Adventures magazine commissioned Sergei Demkin to interview one of the cosmonauts. This cosmonaut and his colleagues saw during the flights all the unusual things that happen in outer space. “Only this is not for publication,” the astronaut warned. Fulfilling the promise, all the past years, Demkin did not write about what the astronaut told. But now we can talk about it, because the mysterious phenomenon that astronauts encounter is no longer a mystery.

During the flight, when approaching the orbital station, the commander who controlled the ship could not reach the calculated trajectory in any way in order to dock. The supply of energy carrier for maneuvers at the ship is limited. There was nothing left, as they say. If one more correction failed, we would fly past the station and return to Earth without completing the task, the astronaut began his story.

I could not help in any way, since the control of the ship is the exclusive prerogative of the commander. I, as a flight engineer, could only silently worry, sitting next to me in a chair. Suddenly, at some point in my head, a command was heard: “Take control!” Later, when I analyzed what happened, I could not determine for sure whether it was someone else's voice or not. I just accepted someone else's mental order, which for some reason I could not fail to fulfill. And what is absolutely surprising: the commander, without objecting, handed over control of the ship to me. Then he said that he did not hear any commands, but only suddenly realized that he had to behave in this way, although this went against all the "iron" instructions.

I did not lose consciousness, but I was as if in some kind of trance and obediently carried out the commands that arose in my head. It was only thanks to them that the docking was successfully completed. When we returned to Earth, during the dismantling of the flight, the commander was “sanded through”, and I got it, although not to the same extent. But we both said nothing about the "otherworldly" teams, - the astronaut finished.

I confess, - writes Demkin, - I was amazed by the astronaut's story, but I took it only as an example of mental zombification. Such cases have already been in my dossier. True, they did not take place in space, but on Earth. Quite unexpectedly for themselves, people suddenly performed some actions or, conversely, did not do something. Sometimes in such cases they spoke of an “inner voice” that seemed to guide them. Then I did not attach importance to who is the inductor, that is, an outside subject that influences the executors of his will. Meanwhile, as I now believe, this is the main thing, since there is a big difference between the terrestrial and cosmic manifestation of the “voice from outside” phenomenon. Later it became known that other astronauts also heard it.

It turns out that astronauts, while in orbit, see not only space landscapes. They are visited by strange hallucinations, the nature of which scientists cannot yet understand. It is known that Yuri Gagarin and Alexei Leonov heard music in space, and Vladislav Volkov - the barking of a dog, which was suddenly replaced by the crying of a child. However, in orbit, a person can experience more than just auditory hallucinations. According to Sergey Krichevsky, some colleagues told him about a slightly different experience.

It is necessary to study this phenomenon, says cosmonaut Sergei Krichevsky. However, scientists have not yet taken up this topic, he complained on the air of "Morning Russia" on March 17, 2011.

Cosmonaut Sergey Krichevsky is familiar to many from the sensational publication “Nightmares in Orbit”, where he spoke about unusual hallucinations visiting astronauts during a flight outside the earth's atmosphere. Alas, none of his flying counterparts, and even more so, scientists from the Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems, were in no hurry to confirm such information, and only a year and a half later they managed to “talk” some of them. For example, Alexander Serebrov, who has been in orbit four times, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Valery Burdakov, who has been engaged in the technical training of cosmonauts for many years.

“Astronauts - some, not all - in flight in near-Earth orbit felt in a completely different way. There were some visions. They moved in space and time to some other civilizations,” he said. “Nothing is written about it anywhere.” Sergei Krichevsky also said that in preparation for the flight he was warned about the possibility of such an experience, but he himself did not experience anything like that.

According to him, this phenomenon is not new, but astronauts are not very willing to talk about this topic. “For 15 years the problem has been raised. But our esteemed Academy of Sciences and colleagues at the Cosmonaut Training Center did not want to do this, he believes. - Cosmonauts are afraid to talk about it. I know three who have had it."

According to Sergei Krichevsky, this issue needs to be studied. “We need to set up experiments, make a good scientific program. We need to give the astronauts a chance to tell the truth,” he said. “If we manage to transfer this problem from a speculative one to a scientific one and gradually, bit by bit, explore it, it will be very interesting.”

Indeed, there have not yet been targeted studies of this phenomenon, but scientists do not refuse them, said Yury Bubeev, head of the Department of Psychology and Psychophysiology of the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. “At the moment, studies are being planned, we are collecting these facts bit by bit, we are going to make some generalizations and understand these phenomena,” he said.

The scientist emphasized that these are rather little-known facts that relate to altered states of consciousness. Astronauts observe such visions at the moment when the deep structures of consciousness are activated. “It is not clear why this is happening. Whether this is the influence of some types of radiation, or weightlessness. This needs to be studied. Peak states of consciousness are more known. When a person sees the Earth from the outside, he has a heightened perception of some spiritual things,” he concluded.

The first to report the mysterious cosmic phenomenon back in October 1995 was cosmonaut-researcher Sergei Krichevsky, a senior researcher at the Cosmonaut Training Center. Yu.A. Gagarin and the Institute of the History of Natural Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and besides, a candidate of technical sciences and a full member of the Academy of Cosmonautics. K.E. Tsiolkovsky. What the cosmonaut-scientist at the Novosibirsk International Institute of Space Anthropology told about is of great importance for comprehending the secrets hidden in space. Here are just a few excerpts from his report:

“Since 1989, I have been preparing for space flight and interacting directly in working and informal settings with my colleagues. Including with astronauts who have been in space. However, I received information about visions - let's call them fantastic dream states (FSS) - only in the second half of 1994, which, most likely, was due to the approaching dates of the upcoming flight ... All information about space visions is the property of a very narrow circle of people ... Information about such visions was transmitted and is being transmitted by the astronauts exclusively to each other, sharing information with those who will soon make a flight ...

The fantastic visions observed in flight are a new, previously unknown phenomenon that can be attributed to the classical state of altered consciousness... Imagine: an astronaut unexpectedly quickly leaves his usual initial - human appearance-self-perception and turns into some kind of animal and at the same time moves to the appropriate environment. In the future, he continues to feel himself in a transformed form or successively reincarnates into another supernatural being. Let's say one colleague told me about his stay in the "skin" of a dinosaur. And notice, he felt like an animal moving on the surface of an unknown planet, stepping over ravines, abysses, some kind of physical barriers. The astronaut described “his” appearance in sufficient detail: paws, scales, webbing between the fingers, skin color, huge claws, and so on.

The fusion of his "I" with the biological essence of the ancient lizard was so complete that all the sensations of this seemingly alien organism were perceived by him as his own. With the skin of his back, he felt the horny plates on the ridge rise up. About the piercing cry that escaped from the mouth, he could say: “It was my cry ...” Moreover: at the same time, the corresponding scenarios of transformations, transformations of the external environment took place. At the same time, there were not only sensations of the astronaut being in the "skin" of certain organisms, animals from previous eras, but the person, as it were, turned into a different personality, and he could also turn out to be an alien creature - a humanoid.

What is interesting: the observed pictures-visions are unusually bright, colored. Various sounds were heard, including the speech of other creatures, and it was understandable - it was assimilated right there, without training. The astronaut seemed to be transported to another space-time, including other, unknown celestial bodies. And, finding himself in a completely new world for him, at that moment he perceived it as something familiar, dear.

A characteristic property of fantastic dreams is a sharp change in the sense of time and the corresponding flow of information... The astronaut begins to perceive the flow of information coming from somewhere outside. That is, there is a feeling that someone powerful and great outside transmits some new and unusual information for a person.

It happened, moreover, with a very detailed forecast, and anticipation of future events - with a detailed "show" of threatening dangerous situations or moments that, as it were, were highlighted and commented on by an inner voice. And at the same time, it was “heard”: they say, everything will work out, it will end well ... Thus, the most difficult and dangerous moments of the flight program were anticipated in advance. And there was a case that if not for such a "prophetic dream", the astronauts could have died.

The accuracy and detailing of dangerous moments is also striking. So, the "voice" predicted the mortal danger that awaited the astronauts during the spacewalk. In a prophetic dream, this danger was shown several times, commented on by a “voice”. In a real exit, when working outside the station, all this was absolutely confirmed: the astronaut turned out to be prepared and saved his life (otherwise he would have flown away from the station). Astronauts have not encountered anything like this before (outside of flight) ...

The problem of space visions is stubbornly hidden from the scientific community. They don’t talk about it - it’s as if it doesn’t exist. None of the cosmonauts has ever officially reported fantastic visions to anyone, this kind of information has never been included in the official reports of the crews. Why? The answer is obvious: astronauts are afraid of negative consequences in the form of medical disqualification, publicity with the interpretation of signs of mental illness, and the like.

One of the astronauts kept a personal diary, which also describes his visions. It would seem that a unique document! Nevertheless, the cosmonaut answered with a categorical refusal to suggestions and requests to publish it or at least communicate with scientists involved in the problems of living matter, believing that it was still premature and dangerous for a professional career ...
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These phenomena find an interesting explanation from the point of view of the concept of Academician N.V. Levashov, according to which the qualitative structure of the Earth consists of six material spheres nested like a Russian "matryoshka" in each other. These spheres have both common qualities and differences (Levashov N.V. ]]> "Essence and Mind". V.1 ]]> ).

The orbits of manned spacecraft fall into the so-called. the "ethereal sphere" of the Earth, smoothly turning into the "lower astral". Those. astronauts get to one of several other material levels of our planet, where the coefficients of interaction between their physically dense body and the "ethereal sphere" are much higher than on Earth.

For their Essence to leave the body, much less energy is required to overcome the qualitative barrier between their physically dense body and the "etheric sphere". In addition, their "etheric bodies" (part of the Essence) are already in the "native element". As a result, astronauts, depending on their individual level of development and genetic characteristics, partially remove blockages, and they can communicate with their Essence, see the past, astral animals, themselves in other situations, etc.

The understanding of this mechanism, in addition to the sources already listed, can be helped by a short film "The Essence in the Cycle of Life and Death":

50 years have passed since the greatest event in the history of mankind: the representative of the Earth went beyond the boundaries of his planet, and the Soviet man Yuri Gagarin became this space pioneer. Earthlings are engaged in practical space exploration, and today these grandiose plans, in fact, are turning into everyday work.

In the city of Volzhsky, there is still tension with its own astronauts, and, probably, therefore, on the eve of April 12, they sometimes began to invite me, a researcher of anomalous phenomena and a ufologist, who does not consider it necessary to hide his views on the realities of the surrounding world, to talk with schoolchildren. Mankind is gradually maturing, we have already entered the near space, and in this difficult time, a new science was bound to arise to study extraterrestrial civilizations and determine the place of mankind in the hierarchy of intelligent space. Clearly, she did. Ufology quickly spread throughout the world, unkind and persecuted, like everything new and extraordinary - one has only to recall the difficult history of earthly science.

For me, a remarkable fact of the solidarity of researchers was the fact that Russian ufology at the dawn of its birth was supported by representatives of the Soviet cosmonautics. It was they, the cosmonauts, who considered it necessary to protect with their authority the weak sprout of a new scientific direction. But these courageous people risked a lot, and above all their unique career.

Pavel Popovich, the USSR pilot-cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Major General of Aviation, was the first to bravely put his shoulder. He went into space in 1962 and 1974. In 1990, Pavel Romanovich headed the All-Union UFO Association, and I, a Volga engineer, by the will of fate had a chance to participate in that first founding conference to create a new association. Later I saw this famous and very charming man close by more than once.

The astronaut in his opening speech said that although he did not see anything extraordinary in the Earth's orbit, he encountered UFOs, therefore he does not doubt their reality. So, once, as part of a delegation, he flew from Washington to Moscow, it was in 1978, and at an altitude of 10,200 meters, many passengers and the crew of the aircraft observed a bright object flying in a parallel course. It was a luminous equilateral triangle. Their plane flew at a speed of about 950 kilometers per hour, and the "triangle" - more than 1500. He easily overtook the liner and disappeared. All the rest of the time, the passengers only talked about him. But what it was, no one understood. “This phenomenon cannot be compared with anything,” Popovich recalled.

“Although I didn’t see anything extraordinary in Earth’s orbit, I encountered UFOs, so I don’t doubt their reality”

Many cosmonauts and military pilots of the Air Force knew about UFOs, who, by the nature of their service, more than once encountered strange devices that appeared most often during tests of flight or rocket technology, during launches of spacecraft. Such cases were not isolated, the reasonableness of the behavior of UFOs involuntarily made us think about extraterrestrial civilizations (ECs) that managed to build such amazing devices. Having gone into space, terrestrial testers and researchers could not but take into account the VC factor in their activities.
- I believe that there is extraterrestrial alien life, and if I believe, then I will meet ... - Pavel Popovich said in those years.

Ufology is actually close to astronautics. Only practical cosmonautics explores the near space of our three-dimensional world with the benefit of humanity, and ufology extends its interest to other dimensions of space and is striving for probable contacts with other intelligent civilizations of the Universe. However, astronautics also does not exclude meetings with extraterrestrial forces. And, perhaps, they have already been met ... on the moon. However, the fact that many of these mysteries still remain secrets can be explained not so much by the impotence of science as by the omnipotence of politics. Any facts of the presence of "strangers" are constantly and stubbornly kept secret. Few dare to break through the bans, and even then only after the end of their service career.

RECOGNITIONS AFTER FLIGHTS

The current time is characterized by the fact that many Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts who have already served have begun to boldly make confessions about unusual situations in space during orbital flights. Yes, they all gave a non-disclosure agreement, and it is difficult to wait for revelations about UFOs or anomalous phenomena from active astronauts. But over the years, some impressions of what they saw in space seep into the press or among ufologists.

For example, two Soviet cosmonauts at the dawn of the first flights around the Earth at some point in the flight heard a whisper in their ears and could make out the words that “people need to leave space and never come back here.” The commander was allegedly addressed by “his maternal ancestor”: “Son, you should not be here, return to Earth, do not violate the laws of the Creator ... Son, you must return, return, return ...” The flight engineer heard a different text, but the essence is the same - leave space. During the flight, such a "whisper" arose twice. Scientists subsequently called "whisper" a more accurate term - the presence effect, and it does sometimes haunt astronauts. (Gagarin, for example, heard some slurred music). However, both then did not dare to talk about a strange phenomenon. This was later told by other people, another crew.

Cosmonaut-researcher Sergei Krichevsky was the first to raise the question of a mysterious phenomenon called fantastic dream-states. They consisted in the fact that the astronaut suddenly left his usual human image and turned into some kind of creature or animal! More experienced comrades told Sergey about this strange effect in a private conversation before the deadline for his first flight was approaching, in order to warn of surprises. His colleague said that he had been in the "skin" of a dinosaur. He felt like an animal moving on the surface of an unknown planet, through ravines and rubble. The astronaut saw his paws, webbing between his fingers, scales, huge claws... With the skin of his back, he felt the horny plates on the ridge rise, he heard his own piercing cry. It happened that the astronaut felt how, in his words, "turns into an alien." He kept a diary, but categorically refused to publish it.

There is a tape recording of the conversations of cosmonauts Vladimir Kovalenko and Alexander Ivanchenkov from the Salyut-6 board with the Mission Control Center, made on June 17, 1978. They talked about seeing a bright object the size of a tennis ball.

During the flight on May 5, 1981, Kovalenok saw through the porthole an object in the form of a “melon”, in front of which there was something in the form of an umbrella or a fan. Then the body began to shrink, took the form of a dumbbell, there were two explosions of hemispheres, a puff of smoke - and everything disappeared. On board the station, radiation increased for a while. His partner Viktor Savinykh did not have time to approach the porthole in time and observed only a cloud of smoke.

Vladimir Kovalyonok eventually rose to the rank of Colonel General, led the Research Institute for Aviation Engineering, and now heads the Military Academy. Zhukovsky. So these people are quite adequate.

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Personally, I was struck by the case, about which the cosmonaut "Vladimir" told the journalist S. Demkin. He was a flight engineer, and he piloted the Soyuz, as it should be, the commander. For unknown reasons, they could not dock with the Salyut station in any way, and the fuel supply was running out. The question arose about returning from orbit. Suddenly, a clear voice sounded in the head of "Vladimir": "Take control!" - and the commander resignedly gave control of the ship. "Vladimir", as if in a trance, obediently carried out the commands that arose in his brain, and their "Soyuz" eventually docked with the orbital station!

On Earth, then there was a tough “debriefing”, however, both astronauts did not admit to violating the instructions and, moreover, did not talk about the “otherworldly” teams that saved the expedition. They themselves did not understand what this could mean.

An equally mysterious situation related to "foreign" teams was in April 1975 with the crew of the Soyuz-18 spacecraft, Colonel Vasily Lazarev and engineer OKB-1 named after S.P. Korolev Oleg Makarov. Due to the failure of the carrier rocket, the cabin of the spacecraft was fired from the rocket at an altitude of 195 km and rushed towards the Earth. At the same time, an unnatural voice was wedged into the radio communication with the center, as if someone was imitating human speech. Due to radio interference, they did not make out the meaning of the commands. Lazarev and Makarov experienced huge G-forces, random "tumbling", then there was a flight under a parachute canopy, and, finally, they felt a powerful push from the impact of the hull on the ground. They were told from the control center that the landing would take place in the Altai mountains.

According to the regulations, one of the crew members had to press the button of the device that shoots the parachute from the descent vehicle, but some inner voice insistently advised them not to touch this button. They opened the hatch and climbed out. From what the astronauts saw, they felt uneasy. Some miraculous force threw the canopy of the parachute over a ledge of rock, overgrown with thick bushes, and only due to the fact that the canopy was securely hooked on it, the stretched lines kept the descent vehicle on a steep mountain slope. A few meters below the slope ended in a deep abyss.

When journalists asked Lazarev why neither he nor Makarov said anything about UFOs after returning to Baikonur, he replied that in those days, if pilots or cosmonauts reported that they saw unknown objects or any supernatural phenomena in the sky, they were removed from further flights.

In 1985, on the 155th day of the Salyut-7 flight, there were already six people - L. Kizim, 0. Atkov, V. Solovyov, as well as guests from the Soyuz T-12 spacecraft S. Savitskaya, I. Volk and V. Dzhanibekov saw seven giant figures, which they, without saying a word, called "heavenly angels." The faces of the creatures were easily distinguished, they smiled happily. After 10 minutes the angels disappeared. After the astronauts reported on the incident, the ground medical team became interested in all of them. The tests showed the norm. Their report was marked "secret", removed from sight, and the astronauts were advised to keep their mouths shut.

However, in 2007, the Hubble telescope recorded the appearance of seven bright objects in Earth's orbit. The photographs showed figures of luminous winged creatures. “They were about 20 meters tall,” said Hubble project engineer John Pratchers. - Their wingspan reached the length of the wings of modern airbuses. These creatures emitted a strong glow. We thought they wanted to be photographed.”

So the observations of Soviet cosmonauts were confirmed many years later.

Many facts can be cited about unusual observations in space, but in fairness it should be said that some astronauts have not seen anything outside the Earth. For example, Sergey Krikalev, record holder of space stay, Gennady Padalka, Georgy Grechko did not meet anything strange in orbit. But they do not believe that the mind exists only on planet Earth.

With their observations, cosmonauts help ufologists in researching the manifestation of the mind outside the Earth and in deep space.

What is hidden from us - shooting UFOs in space

Clipping from the movie Secret Space. Several documentary footage that was obtained from hidden archives.