The artist Ingo Swann demonstrated his unusual abilities. He was given geographic coordinates - 49 degrees 20 minutes south latitude and 70 degrees 14 minutes east longitude. Swann closed his eyes and remained silent for a long time. The tension on his face grew more and more until it became frightening. After a while, Swann spoke softly, as if dropping his words. His mind's eye discerned bare rocky ground, large boulders eroded by winds, antennas of radio masts, a small house ... Using the given coordinates, the psychic Swann accurately described the Soviet-French meteorological station he had never seen on Kerguelen Island in Antarctica.

The Swann session was also attended by representatives of the CIA, an institution that tries to adapt not only any new scientific discovery for its own purposes, but also explores the potential possibility of using such phenomena that have not yet found their explanation. These include parapsychology - extrasensory perception, clairvoyance, telepathy and telekinesis, the interest in which in the United States has long gone beyond the scope of the philistine environment and the study of which significant appropriations are spent.

The active interest of the CIA in parapsychology dates back to 1973, when several employees of the Science and Technology Directorate were instructed to contact research laboratories engaged in the study of this issue and encourage them to find out the possibilities of using this phenomenon for intelligence or military purposes. At that time, CIA officers, disguised as the general public, frequented the sensational sessions of the Israeli psychic Uri Geller, who, as it turned out later, was an ordinary charlatan. Geller demonstrated to the amazed public his “ability” to bend teaspoons and tablespoons at a distance, to stop clocks, and similar tricks never seen before. The agents, on the other hand, carefully memorized what they saw and then reported in detail to their superiors about it, suggesting that since the impulses emitted by the brain could stop the clock, then perhaps they could also disable the enemy’s computer equipment.

The first time the CIA got involved directly in the dubious field of parapsychology was in 1976 when George W. Bush became director of the agency. He invited his longtime friend Edgar Mitchell, founder of the New Science Institute in San Francisco, established for research in the field of mental science, to give a seminar at the CIA on "The use of parapsychology in intelligence work." Under him, various research organizations began to receive allocations for scientific activities in this area. One hundred thousand dollars was allocated to the California AI Research Manufacturing Company for the development of the theme "Unknown Mechanism of Biological Information Transfer".

Stanfield Turner, who replaced Bush as head of the spy "company", showed great interest in the research work begun by his predecessor and formulated his position against the opponents of parapsychology as follows: "Before me, the CIA carried out a program to study various phenomena in the field of parapsychology. As part of this program, parapsychologists tried to demonstrate their ability to describe objects and objects that they had never seen. Sometimes it worked, in other cases it didn't... All people can be divided into two types - those who consider all this to be a delusion of a sick imagination, and those who themselves with a shift and are sure that these phenomena can give much more than they actually do. deed. I am in intermediate positions. I don't think it should be completely abandoned."

The destruction of computers in other countries was only one of the possible tasks of parapsychology that the CIA could entrust to it. The spy and sabotage agency harbored hopes associated with it in many areas - in checking the propensity of agents to continue to carry out American intelligence tasks, reading ciphers through the thick walls of safes, familiarizing themselves with secret documents in the same way, searching for military installations, sabotage groups that disappeared on the territory of another country , etc.

The negative attitude of many Americans, including congressmen, towards parapsychology as something related to the field of the occult, led the CIA and other government agencies to not recognize their interest in "extrasensory perception" issues. They try to avoid using the term itself, replacing it with some other, for example, "previously unexplored biological information transmission systems."

As Barbara Honegger, a former White House staffer, pointed out, the CIA is classified with the highest possible classification of any document on the problem of parapsychology. In telephone conversations, this word itself can be used only when using those communication lines that are considered guaranteed from eavesdropping. The reason for such “shamelessness”, obviously, is not the unwillingness to admit that reputable government bodies are engaged in dubious and strange things, but that the main goal of research in the field of parapsychology is to sow death and destruction even more effectively. Not without reason, when characterizing the potential possibilities of parapsychology, the CIA uses such terminology as “deadly weapon”, “means of suppression”, “destruction”, “possibility of sinking”, “destruction potential”, etc.

RT continues to study the archives of the CIA, which have 13 million pages of declassified documents. In addition to records of UFO sightings, documents from the Stargate project were found in the archives of the US Central Intelligence Agency. As part of this program, in the early 1970s, American intelligence officers, with the help of the legendary psychic Ingo Swann, tried to find out what was happening on the planet Jupiter.

In previous articles in the series, RT has already talked about a trip to Mars that CIA agents made with the help of a specialist in the field of "remote surveillance". This term appeared as part of the Stargate project, which was carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency in conjunction with the US Army. The project involved the use of people with paranormal abilities in the interests of national security. One such specialist was the artist and parapsychologist Ingo Swann.

Artist, psychic and remote viewing pioneer Ingo Swann

A 13-page document posted on the official CIA website tells about one of the sessions with Swann: Stargate project participant, engineer and author of the book "Fundamentals of Quantum Electronics" Harold Puthoff controls an experiment in which Swann, using the power of thought, is on the planet Jupiter. The document is dated April 27, 1973.

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“In the space to the right of this room, I see Jupiter many millions of miles away. I see it glowing with a blinding light. I am sure that ordinary vision is not able to see what I observe internally. I can look in all directions with my mind's eye. First I see everything in miniature, and then everything is enlarged, ”Swann describes his feelings.

“A huge gaseous mass of different colors: yellow, red, ultraviolet, a little green - like a huge firework. There must be chemical elements involved in these processes beyond my comprehension. Something big and red moves across the surface, then an even larger dark cloud follows... I see ice crystals. They hang in the atmosphere like trillions of silver needles, some near the surface,” Swann’s words are quoted later in the document.

An excerpt from a document in which Swann describes his impressions of Jupiter. © cia.gov

The psychic also "saw" the rings around Jupiter, however, according to him, not as noticeable as those of Saturn. Later, in 1979, the Voyager space probe confirmed the presence of the Jupiter ring system, but the Soviet astronomer Sergei Vsekhsvyatsky put forward a hypothesis about its existence back in 1960. Swann's other claims have not been supported by research.

Swann's revelations impressed the CIA, and he, along with Harold Puthoff, became a member of the Stargate project. It is likely that Swann was the specialist who provided the CIA agents with information about the ancient civilization on Mars. RT wrote about this in one of the previous articles.

The American Stargate project was launched in the 1970s after the CIA announced that the USSR was spending up to 60 million rubles a year on research in the field of psychotronics. This conclusion was drawn on the basis of a book by two journalists from Canada - Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, who visited the Soviet Union in the early 1970s. The authors continue to publish books on parapsychology to this day.

The organizers and participants of the Stargate project were located at the Fort Meade base in Maryland, they were led by Major General Albert Stubblebine and his assistant, Lieutenant Frederick Atwater. Both are former adherents of the philosophical and religious movement of the New Age. The military recruited a physicist from the Stanford Research Institute, who was also a US Naval Intelligence Reserve officer, as the scientific director.

Almost three decades later, the CIA came to the conclusion that the Stargate program had not produced any significant results, and its leaders were suspected of fitting the data of various experiments to the tasks set. Among these leaders was Harold Puthoff, whose experiments yielded results only when Swann was the psychic on the project. Repeated attempts by CIA agents to obtain any truly useful intelligence information had failed, the report said. However, Swann and Puthoff willingly shared with agents observations of distant planets and civilizations lost in space and time.

It was later revealed that the physicist Harold Puthoff, who by his own account also possessed the gift of "remote viewing," acquired it after he attained the highest OT VII enlightenment rank in the Church of Scientology. Ingo Swann was also a member of the church, who was expelled from the American Association of Parapsychologists ASPR in 1972 for his collaboration with Scientologists. A year later, under the leadership of Puthoff, he would become one of the leading psychics of the Stargate project.

Some intelligence experts have claimed that the actions of Puthoff and Swann were part of the so-called Operation White Snow, in which the Church of Scientology intended to infiltrate about 5,000 of its agents in various government structures, including the US military.

Shot from the film "Mad Special Forces" ("People who look at goats"), 2009.

British journalist John Ronson subsequently wrote a book about the project called "The men who stare at goats", which was filmed twice - as a documentary and a feature film.

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The phenomenon of Ingo Swan is staggering, and his claims of "out-of-body travel" in outer space are overwhelming. Being in the astral body of Ingo Swan, leaving the body made a swift flight to Jupiter and described the rings of the planet, when the spacecraft had not yet flown past the planet.

Have you ever heard of a concept called "remote viewing"? Of course you heard, though this concept is usually associated with information technology. But in recent years, the concept seems to define another concept - the exit of "consciousness" into the astral world and walks in the information fields of space!

This is a mind-blowing idea of ​​human paranormal abilities, that someone can leave their own body to visit geographically distant places. So, for example, Ingo Swan, being in the "astral body" can go to any object millions of kilometers from the original location of the physical body.

And although the mind-blowingly incredible concept has been proven to many researchers, the mainstream scientific community does not understand how this can be achieved.

Several decades ago, NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft was launched into space. Scientists were able to witness how the reconnaissance craft flew directly through the asteroid belt, making a trip to the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter.

Interestingly, long before this, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, in conjunction with scientists at Stanford University, were involved in the so-called "remote viewing" project.

Paranormal Research Project.

According to researchers, one of the main participants in strange research was a man named Ingo Swan, who described Jupiter's rings in detail. The incredible thing is that this happened before NASA's Pioneer 10 mission that identified the rings of the gas giant, and six years before Voyager.

The experiment "Ingo Swan visits Jupiter in the astral body" was not an official project. The sensetiva's expedition was wrapped up in very strict secrecy protocols.
Viewing the data acquired during the experiment confirmed that he was in the vicinity of Jupiter before the probe flew to the planet. The underlying data has been accepted by many of the top scientists in Silicon Valley.

The intelligence services of any country are serious organizations, so they carefully study the possibilities of "Psi Potentials" from the field of parapsychology. “Because of my unusual abilities, I was dragged into realms of idiotic secrecy, endless paranoid security checks” ... “into all kinds of intelligence intrigues, with rather nervous military and political consequences,” Ingo Swan said of his gift.

He repeatedly had to prove his superpowers. Ingo Swan himself proposed to conduct an experiment to remotely view the planet Jupiter before the upcoming Pioneer 10 flight. However, when he met the ring around Jupiter, he thought that he was most likely mistaken and was looking at the rings of Saturn.

Astronomers were not at all impressed by the flights of the "astral body", causing critical ridicule against the sensitiv. This was exactly until the probe's flyby showed the existence of rings around Jupiter. After that, the attitude towards Swann's abilities changed dramatically, becoming an "interest" for the special services.

Ingo Swan is the dark side of the moon.

Ingo Swan's paranormal abilities are amazing, as they allow him to enter fascinating places. He saw and described many phenomena that were not acquired in various studies, all thanks to the paranormal possibilities of remote viewing in the astral body.

“It's a completely different thing to read about UFOs and stuff in the papers or in books and see it with your own eyes,” the sensetiv says. Hearing rumors about the military allegedly shooting down UFOs and capturing aliens is not at all like seeing amazing things in person. I found towers, machines and buildings, I saw humanoids at work on the far side of the moon.

The impossibly strange project has been documented by several researchers and government agencies, leaving us to wonder: what else was there? How many more studies like this are being done right now? What about extraterrestrial life on the moon?

It is remarkable to think of human potential with enhanced capabilities to the wonderful quote of Nikola Tesla: “Tomorrow science will begin to study non-physical phenomena, and will make more progress in ten years than in all previous centuries of its existence.”

Everyone has paranormal abilities.

Beginning in 1970, Ingo Swan worked with researchers in the field of parapsychology and cognitive perception, leading an additional 14 projects under a non-disclosure agreement.

The early work of 1970-1972 in the field of parapsychology attracted international attention and recognition. Already by 1973, having gone through probably a thousand experimental studies, Ingo was popular in parapsychology as a “pig” for testing.

For some, the paranormal abilities of Ingo Swan (Ingo Douglas Swan, September 14, 1933, Tellurium, Colorado - January 31, 2013, New York) may look like another "urban legend". However, he is a participant in the official studies of Dr. E.P. Puthoff at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI).

Extensive work (between 1972 and 1988 in the field of remote viewing / astral travel - there is still no right term for the phenomenon) achieves significant results thanks to sponsorship from US intelligence and military departments.
Years of work and hundreds of dozens of experimental studies have led to the acquisition of knowledge that was not widely publicized for the sake of the secrecy of projects.

After retiring in 1989 from so much time and research, Swan has continued to work intermittently in multidimensional mental imagery, perception, and subtle brainwave extensions.

Discovering the extraordinary abilities of the organism, confirming the amazing nature of the human genome, it is clearly established that the genetic basis of these abilities is present in most people, although they are undeveloped in most.

And yet, the scientific community retains a certain intolerance towards the scientific development of telepathy and the active paranormal.

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The Moon is the closest planet to the Earth, and the only astronomical object known to date, where a human foot has set foot. The moon is a planet of many mysteries and incredible hypotheses.

When we look at the Moon, we always see the same side, about 60 percent of its surface - even though the planet rotates on its own axis. This feature of our satellite is due to the fact that the rotation of the Moon around our planet and around its own axis is synchronized - this is another mystery of our neighbor.

The often invisible part of the Moon is referred to as the far side of the Moon, or the "dark side of the Moon". Although the "dark side" is of course a metaphor rather than a reflection of reality, since on average the dark side of the Moon receives as much sunlight as the part of the satellite that we see.
And yet it is really "", a territory that has not been visible to mankind for many hundreds of years. What can be happening there, what is hidden in invisibility? - According to conversations in certain circles, there is no better place for aliens to deploy bases secret from us.

A bit of history.

Little by little, the mystery of the dark side of the moon began to lose its mystery in 1959, when the automatic satellite of the USSR Luna-3, making a circle around the satellite, photographed the invisible area. Of course, the first images were rough and in poor quality, but they were able to show the lifeless deserts in the pockmarks of the craters, as well as on the side facing us.

Subsequent flights of robotic explorers, such as Lunar Orbiter 4, were able to provide more detailed images of the invisible region of the Moon by 1967. And a year later, Apollo 8 astronauts (Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders), flying around the moon in preparation for the Apollo 11 mission, examined the far side of the satellite through human eyes.

• The official accounts of the expedition are uninteresting and dry - a dead planet whose surface has been plowed by asteroids for billions of years. TV broadcasts given by the crew from the Moon also showed the planet's gray surface. Is that this mysterious phrase that flew from the ship to Earth - confirmation that Santa Claus exists. - Allegedly, this is the code designation for a UFO adopted by NASA.

Today, many photographs show details of the invisible side of the Moon, topographic maps have been compiled showing the main features of this area. It would seem that in our time the dark side of the moon has lost a significant part of its secrets and hypotheses. But still, there is an opinion that many secrets are hidden in this area of ​​\u200b\u200byour neighbor, for example, why did the manned Apollo expeditions abruptly turn off? A number of researchers hold a unanimous opinion, the reason for this was one thing: aliens do not want to see humanity on the moon! They do not care that we consider the satellite "ours", they know whose it is, and are ready to defend their rights.

Hypothesis of ufologists about the moon.

Ufology is generally very sensitive to everything extraterrestrial, and even more so to the Moon - there are a lot of anomalous phenomena visible through a telescope. A long-standing theory from UFO hunters warns that the far side of the Moon hosts the oldest base of alien observers. It is possible that this is not even one base, but a huge laboratory complex for studying all aspects of human life will be deployed.

It is assumed that they (aliens) come from some other star system. It is logical to assume that for long-term observations and regular visits to the Earth, they need to have a working base in our system. Naturally, considering this plane of question, the invisible side of the Moon would be the best place to set up a secret outpost. A place where you can not only relax after the flight, but also the closest base to Earth.

In support of this hypothesis, the authors of numerous publications on the economy of aliens on the moon, refer to the statements of William Cooper, a high-ranking US intelligence officer in the past. In 1989, Cooper, allegedly under oath - the case took place at a special meeting of the UN Committee on Space Studies - said that the US government was aware of alien ships appearing near the Earth, and was well aware of the alien lunar complex.

Alien base on the far side of the moon.

Some of the videos allegedly taken by the crews of the Apollo program expeditions show details of the alien base. - There are huge mining machines, nearby lies an alien ship of a large size - most likely a transport transporting the mined. In the center of the crater, where all this action takes place, giant towers rise. Of course, all this is extremely suspicious information - for example, the Apollo 8 expedition, and the Luna 3 apparatus, did not see any bases on the Moon (at least this is not known). Although, what can be seen on the planet from orbit?

By the way, the story of William or Bill Cooper is shrouded in detective mystery. After retiring, since the 90s, he has been describing cases of alien presence, about a secret government, about UFOs, about the US treaty with a race of aliens. Many people spoke about falsification and other speculations on the wrong topic. However, there is one "But", in 2001, Cooper was killed by sheriff's officers, in his home in Arizona - the reason was allegedly tax evasion (it is believed that Cooper was the first to start shooting). Maybe it was not accidental, he really knew “something like that”?

Virtual explorers point to the existence of large alien structures on the far side of the moon. It sounds strange, but it really is, the researchers say, and we get solid evidence of this from NASA satellites.

In 1994, America sent the Clementine satellite to the moon to get detailed photographs of the object under study. However, earlier in the early 1970s, abruptly ending the Apollo program before completion, NASA clearly announced: "The moon has been studied well enough and is no longer of interest." It makes no sense to spend taxpayers' money on the study of the Moon, here it is necessary to build bases, and move on not along the path of mastering our system and exploring deep space. But nevertheless, the Moon continues to be studied no less closely, but already remotely - with the help of satellites.

The Clementine satellite took 1.8 million images during its operation, but only 170,000 images were made public, foreign researchers point out. And the available ones were not in the quality that was expected. What happened to the rest of the pictures? The rest were classified!

But why did both American and Soviet scientists abandon manned flights to the Moon? Moreover, they refused almost simultaneously, as if coordinating their actions. Is it possible that someone - say the owners of alien bases - really gave us a turn from the gate?

There are no working alien complexes there, the researchers voice a rare version. No one is mining helium-3, as many assume.

In one of their visits, the Americans discovered the destroyed remains and ... a graveyard of alien creatures! Assessing the state of the remains of buildings, scientists came to the conclusion about a deliberate explosion. Reflecting on the destruction, the graveyard and the warning signs, scientists come to the conclusion about an unknown epidemic that killed the ancient aliens - which even they, more advanced than our knowledge, could not overcome. Having correctly interpreted all these "signs", people decide to get out of the moon, but continue to conduct remote study.

Paranormal explorers, astral travelers.

Confirmation of the base of an extraterrestrial race on the far side of the Moon, and as a result, proof of the existence of aliens, is brought by a psychic and a person who knows how to live in the astral field of the Earth, Ingo Swan. Specialist in astral life (traveling to other worlds with the help of thought in a special state of the physical body) Ingo Swan, allegedly worked for the American government and participated in the creation of a program of extrasensory observation in the 70s.

As an example of his amazing abilities, one can cite the discovery of 1973. Then, making an astral journey to the planet Jupiter, Swan confidently stated that the rings of Jupiter are a gas and dust formation. Which was confirmed six years later by Voyager 1, in 1979.
In one of his astral (mental?) trips to the Moon, Svan, while looking around the dark side of the satellite, stumbled upon buildings of extraterrestrial origin.

Being in the astral body, the traveler saw high towers in the depths of the crater, from the tip of which came a powerful illumination of the crater. As the remote explorer himself spoke of his experience, he was stunned by the realization of the importance and improbability of the fact that a certain civilization had built some structures on the moon.

Moreover, building on his success, Swan mentally ventured deep into the alien structure, where he discovered two humanoids inhabiting the moon base. He also realized that the aliens felt his presence, after which the visit was interrupted, and he himself was "thrown out" from the moon! - in the sense of his astral spirit.

Return to the Moon.

Most (maybe all) of these stories about secret alien bases on the far side of the moon are fiction - well, or scary campfire stories. The experience of traveling in the astral body is also unprovable, in order to treat its results with great confidence. None of these stories about the moon has been confirmed. And it cannot find confirmation or refutation until a person returns to the surface of the moon again. But something is not going well with the exploration of the moon.

The moon lies from the Earth at an average distance of 384 thousand kilometers (the centers of the planets), the flight takes less than a week - this is practically a neighboring area. Huge prospects are lunar laboratories and telescopes - a gigantic scale of space exploration! What about the lunar spaceport? - this is a start from a planet whose gravity is six times less than the earth's! The resources of the planet also go into the same piggy bank of the exploration of the moon.

The plans for the exploration of the Moon and the creation of a “Village” of earthlings (settlements) on its surface were discussed more than once. So, in the spring of 2006, NASA announced the development of a manned expedition to the satellite. The program called for the landing of four astronauts on the dark side of the moon. They will collect samples, study and find a place for lunar bases ... but, the program was postponed to 2015, then another year - and this is just one example of the postponed programs for the development of our nearest neighbor.

Curious, but what can be found on the Moon, buildings? Spaceships of an alien civilization? Proof that the Earth was visited by ancient astronauts? Returning to the Moon is no guarantee that these issues will be resolved. Even without finding an alien base on the moon, conspiracy theorists can always justify it with the silence of the government, which wants to protect the public from realizing the terrible fact that aliens exist.

Isn't it true that many interested in this issue will not be able to stay on the moon? At the same time, some suspect that we will not be returning to the Moon any time soon, if at all, skeptics add dejectedly.

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This story was published in UFO magazine in 2004 and hasn't appeared anywhere else since then, so it may well be just an invention of its author, a certain Solomon Naffert. However, the story is nonetheless very interesting.

In the summer of 1968, in the North Vietnamese province of Lap That, near the village of Don Nyang, a group of Soviet specialists worked to study the possibility of building a hydroelectric power station on the territory of a fraternal country. There were no strategic goals and large settlements nearby, and therefore American planes appeared in the sky quite rarely, which no one regretted.

On the night of August 12-13, hydrologists were awakened by a low, heavy rumble coming from the sky. Deciding that this was a “flying fortress” - a strategic American B-52 bomber, people ran out of the tents and saw a strange object floating across the black, cloudy sky. Most of all, it resembled a faceted diamond emitting greenish-blue light.

A few moments later, a fiery comet rushed towards the object from somewhere on the ground. After she made contact with the object, the brightest flash blinded everyone, and then a powerful shock wave knocked the hydrologists to the ground, tore off the tents and scattered the equipment.

Fortunately, no one was seriously injured, but the explosion (if it was an explosion) made a colossal impression. They even thought that a low-yield nuclear charge was used. For several hours, neither the radio station nor the Speedola received anything but a crackle of static.

In the morning, engineers managed to contact the central base and report the incident. They promised to forward the information to the appropriate authorities. After restoring order in the camp, the people went to the village of Donnyang, which was located five kilometers from the camp. Strange, but there was no destruction there, and the residents believed that there was a thunderstorm nearby at night, and nothing more.

Two days later, half a kilometer from the camp, a black ball with a diameter of about three meters was found that had sunk into the ground up to half. The surface of the ball was completely black, the light falling on it was not reflected from the surface. In addition, the ball did not cast a shadow: the rays of the low evening sun went around the strange object, falling on the tall grass behind it!

To the touch, the find seemed cool and a little slippery, as if doused with soapy water. The knife of the best Ural steel could not leave even the smallest scratch on the black surface.

The specialists again contacted the central base and spoke in detail about the find. We got an answer pretty quickly: putting aside all the cases, organize covert security around the object and wait for a special group to come for it. They specifically warned that no one should approach the ball or closer than twenty meters, and that no one should under any circumstances try to open it, damage it, or touch it at all.

The order, of course, was strictly followed: the entire group (five people) was located twenty meters from the ball. Waiting, wondering what it could be? The latest military development? Descent spacecraft? Soviet? American? Or some third party?

The falling night made guarding the facility meaningless - it was impossible to see the ball in the dark, but an order is an order. Having gathered in one place near a low, almost imperceptible fire, they began to rest.

Guests were not expected: after sunset, the villagers did not leave their homes, and there simply could not be outsiders loitering through the jungle in socialist Vietnam.

The invisible and silent ball nevertheless made itself felt. Everyone constantly looked around, looked into the darkness and could not get rid of the feeling that something alien and unkind was watching them. This often happens at night in the forest, whether it is the Russian oak forest, the Siberian taiga or the Vietnamese jungle: a wary organism gives alarm signals unconsciously, out of touch with the real danger. So, at least, hydrologists convinced themselves.

One of the specialists, Boris Ivanov, later wrote in his diary:

“The flame of the fire illuminated a tiny circle, plunging everything else into pitch, impenetrable darkness. The fire was needed - not for the sake of warmth, of course. Every animal is found in the Vietnamese jungle, and although fire is not a perfect defense, it scares away most of them.

Carabiners lay nearby, everyone had their own - as peaceful people, we were not supposed to have machine guns, and we didn’t need anything - the carbine shoots at a hunting target much more accurately. Five grown-ups who have seen the views of peasants, who have walked both the tundra and the taiga, each armed, it would seem, what is there to be afraid of?

But we were afraid. In addition, because of the find, time was lost: it was not known when a special detachment would arrive. The already stressful survey plan was jeopardized and had to be completed before the start of the rainy season.

When Vyacheslav G. got up and went into the thicket, we did not pay attention, we thought the reason for this was the most prosaic. When he did not return after five minutes, they began to deliberately joke, after ten they called out loudly, but Vyacheslav did not return.

Illuminating the area with electric lamps, we walked two dozen steps after Vyacheslav, in the direction of the ball, but found nothing. They did not dare to go deep into the thickets, explaining this by the senselessness of the search for the whole crowd.

Separating one by one was simply unreasonable: if there was danger in the darkness, then such a separation could cost the lives of us all. In addition, there was hope that Vyacheslav simply woke up at the wrong time with a passion for practical jokes. Of the five of us, he was the youngest and most restless.

We returned to the fire, threw up firewood, damp, they burned badly, the smoke drove out tears. Or not smoke? An hour later, Pyotr K. silently got up and walked into the thicket in the same way as Vyacheslav had walked before him. He moved awkwardly, swaying as if half asleep. We called out to him, but quietly, in an undertone, we were suddenly seized by unaccountable anxiety, indecision appeared.

Peter did not return. This time we did not look for the missing person, but simply sat and waited. Everyone was overcome by a sense of doom. Two hours later, Vladimir M. went to the ball. It was clear that he was resisting with all his might, but he was attracted by something that he could not resist.

We were left alone with Sergei T., numb from the growing horror. We did not try to leave, find a way to salvation, were we all thinking - who is next? Looking at how Sergey's face suddenly distorted, I realized that something had chosen him. He stood up like a weak-willed puppet, and on unbending legs trudged into the darkness.

The numbness for a minute let me go. Not so much that I could run, but I had the strength to take a carbine. I shot myself in the leg and lost consciousness from the pain. Perhaps this saved me. The special squad arrived in the morning. I was found by an extinguished fire, having lost a lot of blood, but alive. The ball is gone. My comrades disappeared with him.”

Boris Ivanov was certain that their group had come across an alien probe, possibly shot down by Vietnamese air defenses. Probably, the probe managed to self-repair and leave the Earth. Have hydrologists become the object of his experiment, collecting, or were the aliens just hungry? Boris Ivanov prefers not to think about this.