The "Roswell incident" divided earthlings into two camps: those who believe in the existence of UFOs, and those who doubt it. Correspondent of the MIR 24 TV channel Sergey Polyakov met people who claim to have seen extraterrestrial objects and even communicated with aliens.

Most eyewitnesses encounter unidentified flying objects many times. Skeptics say - this is just a desire to see something inexplicable around you. But they believe - UFOs are among us. To meet with alien objects, it is enough just to carefully look at the sky.

Researcher of anomalous phenomena Anna Azhazha is sure that earthlings are being monitored everywhere. Any major event takes place under the watchful eye of aliens. According to her, UFOs accompanied the first rocket launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome and they followed the Victory Parade on Red Square. But the human eye cannot distinguish unearthly aircraft in the sky due to the ultra-high flight speed.

“One second is 30 frames. It is difficult for the human eye to observe, only video filming, a digital camera can capture an unidentified flying object, ”explained the researcher of anomalous phenomena.

Fresh facts of alien activity are also regularly published on the Internet by residents of Europe, Australia, and the USA. Whether this is true or fake is a question, because any video evidence can have a completely earthly origin.

The director of the Russian ufological station, Nikolai Subbotin, is the owner of a rare artifact. Neither the military nor metallurgists can explain the origin of this metal. Tungsten of ultra-high purity and rare structure may well be part of an unidentified aircraft.

“We understand what it is, what kind of material it is, but we are not yet ready to repeat it,” Subbotin said.

Every day in the space of our planet, from 3 to 10 objects are recorded, which cannot be identified - these are military data, the researcher explains. Like any technique, UFOs from time to time have the imprudence to break and fall to the ground.

People and aliens are not always separated by distance. There are those who say that guests from other worlds made contact with them and even invited them on a space journey.

Svetlana Litovchenko claims that she has more space flights than all the cosmonauts of the Earth. She was on Mars and Venus, only on the Sun - she flew four times! I haven’t seen aliens, but every day I communicate with them at exactly 10 pm. She is the so-called contactee.

“Any person can be a contact. This is not a special person, this is any person on Earth. Another thing is that some of us deal with earthly problems, while others are interested in something more,” Svetlana explained.

She flies into space in the company of extraterrestrial intelligence. He says it's very exciting. The woman appeared even extraordinary abilities. Aliens allegedly taught her healing and gave her the gift of poetry.

Many telepathic contacts are more of a paranormal terrestrial origin, and by no means interplanetary.

Contactees, unlike abductees (people who are kidnapped without their consent), make contacts voluntarily and are often convinced that they are doing a good deed for all of humanity. Contactees usually only annoy ufologists. But there are those who carefully study this phenomenon.

For example, Scott Corrales, who rightly notes that many researchers are closely following the countries of Latin America. There is a real kaleidoscope of "anomalies". Is it because in these countries there was a very strong contacting movement from the very beginning?

Communication in the astral plane

In most countries, including Russia, the contactee communicates with space brothers in mind without witnesses. The situation is different in Latin America. There for a long time it was, as it were, a variation or continuation of séances. But if before people gathered for a session and communicated with the spirits of the dead, now they are with cosmites. How did the first contact with aliens happen?

Brazilian Ercilio Maes in 1949 began to receive information from an invisible alien creature who called himself Ramatis. Ra-matis "lectured" to a whole crowd of people, using this or that medium as an intermediary. The materials of these "lectures" were collected in a work called "Messages from the Astral Plane", and they even published the book "Life on the Planet Mars and Flying Disks".

There were other treatises, which spoke, in particular, of the forthcoming destruction of the Earth by the stray planet Hercolubus, revolving around the invisible sun Tila and coming into our solar system only once every 6666 years.

Around the beginning of the 1960s, the family of contactees began to replenish at the expense of residents of Puerto Rico who wished to join the UFO group "Space Brotherhood of the New Age", created by Carlos Ochoa. This group has set itself the goal of demonstrating in every possible way its benevolent attitude towards aliens.

Ochoa, he said, personally received messages "from above" through telepathy and automatic writing. In these messages, people were informed that the Earth was in danger of destruction, unless they came to their senses: “This is your last chance on Earth,” the cosmic sermons said, “because you carelessly neglected the teachings of the Great Master, whom you call Christ, and distorted them on your own I need..."

The aliens, however, hinted that they were ready to save their adherents on giant interstellar ships, to take earthlings to better worlds. To analyze the messages received by Ochoa and his Brotherhood, the Center for Metaphysical Sciences was established. In 1972, he conducted an experiment on the introduction of one of the intelligent extraterrestrial beings into a teenage contactee. During this unprecedented session, the guy suddenly spoke in a powerful inhuman voice, declaring that he was a sentient and intelligent being from a "parallel universe consisting of antimatter", capable of using someone else's brain to overcome the boundaries in time and space.

The earthling brothers tried to establish a dialogue and asked what, they say, to call you. The creature stated that it does not have an individual name, since it is only a part of a single whole called "life core". It also claimed that it could destroy vast areas of outer space around it if it were not now contained in the medium's body.

Messages from there

In late 1960, a contactee named Ricardo Martinez appeared in Levittown. He suddenly began to feel an irresistible desire to transfer to paper some strange thoughts that overwhelmed his head. With the help of automatic writing, Martinez not only wrote down numerous “dictated” texts, but also drew space maps equipped with mysterious hieroglyphs. The messages spoke of forgotten cosmic cataclysms that shook the Earth billions of years ago. The source of these messages also said that they have been watching our Earth for a long time and that even in time immemorial their civilization was instructed to promote the development of intelligent life, wherever it appeared.

Martinez also received messages such as: “We are the children of the Universe... We have peaceful intentions... Out of every ten stars, one has habitable planets... Many earthlings, regardless of their narrow affiliation, are in unity with the universal mind."

Yet no contactee has been as active in spreading the messages received "from above" as Samael Aum Weor, leader of the so-called International Gnostic Movement. His "teachings" were a mixture of North American Indian beliefs, which were practiced by the Maya, Incas and other indigenous tribes of America. Adepts of Samael moved to South America from Spain.

According to Samael, he met with Venusians while he was meditating in the vicinity of Mexico City. He was suddenly irresistibly drawn to a certain specific point in the forest, and there he found a rather large spaceship standing on three pillars. The captain of the spaceship greeted Samael, and he asked if he could fly to Mars to see everything with his own eyes. Instead, he was given a philosophical sermon on the laws of karma and their influence on the cosmic races.

In the 70s of the XX century, the mysterious “Operation Rama” arose and began to develop rapidly. Its initiator was a group of Peruvian youth, eager to make contact with cosmic brothers in mind. The dream came true, and a whole community of incorporeal beings began to communicate with enthusiasts through automatic writing. Young Peruvians believed that these creatures came from Orion, from Jupiter's satellites Callisto and Ganymede, so they had something to tell homegrown ufologists about life on distant planets.

Inspired by the contacts, the earthlings soon called their movement "Operation Rama" and quickly gained supporters in almost all countries of Latin America and Europe. Led by twin brothers Carlos and Sixto Paz Wells, they professed the so-called Gospel of Oxalcos - one of those "space brothers" with whom they contacted. Oksatk told them about such new concepts as the "Galactic Confederation" and "Shendra" - an interdimensional portal leading to other worlds.

In Argentina, contacting began in 1952 with the publication of a monograph that Jorge Duclout wrote on the basis of his contacts and called "The Origin of Flying Saucers, Their Structure and Purpose." This message was allegedly given to him by a late engineer who, in his new afterlife capacity, got the opportunity to study the vehicles of aliens visiting our Earth.

The resulting text became fundamental in the belief system of other Argentine contactees for a long time. Modern seekers of "space brothers" feel at home in Argentina, especially since a colossal cosmic mythology has developed there, especially around the underground cities of Isidris and Erx, which are allegedly controlled by an interplanetary community.

Some of the adherents of this cosmic cult “huddle” around the top of Arko in the Andes, under which the city is supposedly located, and the stones themselves on this mountain have healing properties. The location of the underground city was revealed to a contactee named Kerver (formerly a systems analyst). And the alien who transmitted this information called himself Commander Nhemmok. In 1993, the information received from him was published under the title "Isidris - the golden underground city."

According to them, anyone who wishes to use their "super-spatial" capabilities can see the wonderful underground city. How to implement them? Meditation. And, in addition, the permission of the Higher Brotherhood, which governs all this area, must be obtained. Then supernatural guides will be sent to help the person, they will take him to the appropriate place, from where it will be possible to see the city “in another dimension”.

In the Argentine province of Cordoba, in the area that surrounds the sacred hill of Uri Torco, you can often hear some underground noises. It is believed that these sounds are produced by three huge "mirrors" used by the underground city of Erx to receive information from the depths of space. Access to the city is possible through "dimensional shifting". Contactees believe that the Holy Grail is kept above this beautiful underground city in the Sphere Temple.

Anyone who reads the stories of contactees about encounters with alien beings finds himself, as it were, in the world of a fairy tale, where everything is possible - reading thoughts at a distance, and teleporting through solid barriers, and controlling a spaceship with the help of thought. Sometimes the contactee is even endowed with supernatural abilities, cured of annoying ailments, given the opportunity to fly on a spaceship and see unearthly worlds.

Look at the sky, whose call is heard

But these contacts also have a "reverse side of the coin", which even ufologists themselves do not write about very often.
One of the most famous cases occurred in 1966 in Brazil, in the region of Morro do Vitem, in the suburbs of Niterchi. Two men, Miguel Viana and Manuel Pereira, were found dead. They died under mysterious circumstances, which are obviously related to the participation of these unfortunates in the activities of the UFO contact group.

On the corpses they found masks made of ordinary sheet metal, which is used, say, for covering roofs. From all the data that could be collected, the two were waiting for the arrival of humanoids from a spacecraft that was supposed to come from Jupiter.

Another event that shocked the UFO community took place in Spain under no less tragic circumstances and is still being discussed in narrow circles. It became known as "the suicide at Tarras". Two contactees were clearly expecting "space brothers" and committed suicide in the hope that they could reunite with aliens and leave our troubled Earth only on the condition that they get rid of the "dense shell" of their "I".

One was 47 years old, and his name was Rodriguez Montero, and the other, Juan Turfu, was only 21 years old. Both belonged to a group that believed in the "deliverance" that the aliens would bring us. Rodriguez, who considered himself an expert ufologist, sent out a lot of letters before his suicide. In them, he announced that he intended to board the spacecraft and fly to Jupiter at the hour appointed by the "space brothers."

Juan Turf at first kept quiet about the flight to Jupiter and, it seems, was not eager to part with the Earth, but after a quarrel with his bride, apparently, he finally broke down. And on the evening of June 19, 1972, both of them sprawled on the railroad tracks, with their heads on the rail in front of the approaching train. In the morning, next to two decapitated corpses, they found a sign with the words: "Aliens are calling us."

An equally terrible incident happened in 1977 with 14-year-old Sergio Bayardi Porta. The strange death of a teenager is explained by the fact that he allegedly received an order to do just that. From whom? From the little "cloud" that drew him into the conversation. In a note left to his mother, Sergio wrote that aliens from the planet Sonolkuklo, located "three centuries away from our galaxy," asked him for help that their world needs. Unfortunately, the only way to reach this unimaginably distant place is by suicide.

This "method", by the way, is still in service, judging by the tragic accidents in the infamous Temple of the Sun and the mass suicide in Santa Fe.

The so-called Order of the Temple of the Sun had its branch in Canada, in French-speaking Quebec, and the members of this sect died just terribly - everyone was burned alive, deliberately positioned so that their bodies formed a giant cross. The police identified the bodies. Two of the women were French, two of the men were Swiss, and one lady was a local lady from Canada.

About the same way, their fellow sects in Europe parted ways with their lives, hoping to "return to the planet Sirius." 16 local members of the Order of the Temple of the Sun burned themselves in Grenoble, in the French Alps. During the investigation, the police found out that among the 16 corpses, two belonged to colleagues - officers of the French police. And even earlier, in October 1994, the Swiss police found the bodies of 48 members of the Temple of the Sun sect on one of the farms and three more in a country house.

Something even more terrible happened in the USA. When CNN abruptly interrupted its regular program on March 26, 1997, and gave the "Breaking News" banner, hardly anyone expected what followed. Millions of television viewers heard the gruesome story of the bodies of 39 young people aged 18 to 24 who were found by police in Santa Fe, a suburb of San Diego.

The faces of the dead were covered with a purple cloth, and by all indications it was a real ritual suicide. Members of this ufological sect believed that they were aliens who were temporarily on Earth, and as soon as the body shell was thrown off the immortal soul, they would be immediately taken away by a “flying saucer going to Earth in the wake of the Hale-Bopp comet”.

Waiting for benefactors

The phenomenon of contacting, no matter what shades it acquires in different countries, almost always gives rise to similar quasi-religious groups of enthusiasts who begin to fanatically seek meetings with unearthly beings. All this takes on one or another fantastic coloring - the appearance of supernatural intermediary beings, receiving messages with the promise of salvation in the event of a global catastrophe on Earth, demands to dedicate one's life to high goals and do everything that is said for the good of oneself or humanity.

The parallels between spiritualism and contacting, which are particularly evident in Latin America, suggest that many (if not all) telepathic contacts are of paranormal terrestrial origin rather than interplanetary. The consequences of such communications are, as we see, the most deplorable.

It is almost certain that for every ufologist who is trying to understand the UFO phenomenon and get to the bottom of this phenomenon through serious research, there is at least one who is now sitting in the lotus position and meditating, waiting for benefactors from among the “brothers in mind”.

Anna Volodina

What do our contemporaries see inside the UFO? The first thing that surprises those who boarded the mysterious ships is the large internal volume of the room, devoid of the usual pile of cables, instruments, tubes, toggle switches for a spaceship. The whole atmosphere is most often made up of comfortable chairs, a control panel, an overview screen and a star map.

"... When the morning came, Rama sat in the heavenly chariot... This chariot moved by itself... It had two floors with many rooms and windows... When the chariot made its flight in the air, it made a monotonous sound" (ancient Indian epic "Ramayana").

"... There were no objects, only ingenious devices and something that looked like a small cloth, all with stars and dots, each of which pulsated in its own way" (Alberto Gordoni; Sicily, Italy; May 3, 1753).

One can imagine how unusual such an environment looked for a medieval inhabitant. However, even in our enlightened 20th century, even engineers with higher technical education inside the UFO still feel like ignorant savages ...

"... Looking into one of the windows of a ship that looked like a cone, I saw a wonderful picture. 5 rectangles were glowing, similar to television screens. One of them was very large - I have never seen such in my life! .. There is a woman in front of the screen in an empty room with a golden scythe she looked at some images - drawings ... "(Magda; city of Kranj, Slovenia, Yugoslavia; mid-1960s).

"... A strange matte-colored object was the size of a car 2.5 meters high, shaped like a rugby ball (i.e., an ellipsoidal UFO. - Auth.). On the side there was a door that looked like a sliding door. There were 2 creatures nearby about a meter tall, they had big ears and a hole instead of a mouth ... The lower part of the apparatus was 50 centimeters from the ground, it rested on a cylindrical pipe. The upper part of the apparatus consisted of a transparent (like plexiglass) dome, so you could see what was inside there is nothing that could attract attention ... Both strangers went inside, the door slid down, and those who entered did not make any action or gesture for this.

They were perfectly visible through the dome. Then a dull noise was heard, the apparatus rose about half a meter, the pipe came out of the ground, and the four legs began to rotate clockwise. The device flew down the slope at a very high speed and after 50 meters disappeared altogether (dematerialized?). For about a quarter of an hour, the eyewitness could not move ... "(peasant Maurice Massa; grape field near the village of Valensole, south of France; 3.45 am on July 1, 1965). did not notice. As they pushed the second door, he also did not notice, but felt that we closed ourselves off from outside space.” The “leader” put his hand on the remote control and began to press something.

The car began to slowly rise up, simultaneously turning around a vertical axis. Having risen about 40 meters, we stopped... Suddenly I noticed a very fast acceleration upwards. There were no overloads, but everything began to rapidly decrease in size "(V.S. Kharitonov; farm 27 km from Pskov, USSR; January 1978).

"... A rectangular object 3 x 5 m in size and 2.5 m high, similar to a bus, hung at a height of 2-3 meters. No seams or rivets were visible on its surface, and helical rods 1-1.5 m long, reminiscent of the rotating part of a meat grinder.These rods rotated at high speed, emitting a quiet hum.Then a sheet of metal on the object rolled up and opened a hatch from which a ladder descended.The strangers gestured to go inside.Inside the spacious there was nothing else in the room, except for a kind of lantern upstairs, a dozen benches near the "black and gray" smooth wall and paralyzed birds lying on the floor" (Jan Volsky; Emilchin, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland; May 15, 1978).

"... I again began to ask them to return me home and again lost consciousness. I woke up when they flew up to the ship, which was hovering in the air at a short distance from the ground. It looked like an overturned dark gray frying pan with many small light bulbs, symmetrically located around the ship. The lights would go on and off... I woke up inside, in a round hall, sitting in a red chair without armrests. The hall was equipped in such a way that a control panel was installed on all sides (in a circle) with flashing red lights Then THEY entered through a rounded doorway..." (employee of the military academy; Otradnoye district, Moscow, USSR; August 1989).

"... I am a skeptic and a realist, and therefore at first I mistook a UFO for our spacecraft ... I climbed the "petal" (ladder?) into an 8-10-meter egg-shaped apparatus and ended up in a small shower room, where a foamy liquid poured and blew a warm wind... The inner door opened... Inside there were three armchairs, in the center of the round table stood the globe of the Earth. , Ukraine, USSR; September 1989).

"... I grabbed the handrail and found myself in the corridor. It was wider than the opening, the smooth floor was made of some kind of metal, there were no doors, the walls and ceiling formed an oval from above, some reinforcements and fastenings were visible on the back of the skin "Along a 7-8-meter corridor, I got into a large white hall with a diameter of about 20 meters, along its perimeter there were five more of the same entrances, between which there were 5-6 racks with flickering light. The dome of the ceiling emitted a soft diffused blue light. On on one wall was an information screen, and on the other wall was a console with a large number of switches with black knobs and rectangular glowing buttons with painted symbols, the same flashing buttons were on the racks.

Instruments and scales, I did not notice. Nearby was a long straight sofa. There was a gap along all the walls in a circle, apparently, the central part of the hall with a remote control and a sofa could rotate and stop near any counter" (Oleg K.; Arkhangelsk region, 80 km from Plesetsk, USSR; November 1989).

"... Half a meter from the window hung a small object, similar to two folded plates, from which zigzag (?) rays emanated - green, yellow and blue. The plate became transparent, then it gradually opened up like a shell, only a computer was inside, keyboards, a screen, a starry sky on the screen and the same cymbals. There were also six white-haired people in identical silver (even sparkling) suits, one of them was a woman ... "(Yuvelina, 8 years old; Sterlitamak, USSR; early 90- x years).

"...Inside the plate, I remember only one remote control, on which there were 25 buttons: 5 rows by 5 columns ..." (Yura K.; Moscow Region, USSR; early 90s).

"...Two large luminous balls, each with a diameter of several meters, descended from above. The white ball remained, and a strange many-eyed creature taller than a man came out of the red one ... We were both "dragged" inside the ship. Only the seat on which I was seated, and a flickering screen was right in front of the chair... The stranger said that the ship has 4 shapes (?) and is capable of moving at the speed of light..." (Zhenya X., fifth-grader; Omsk, Russia; October 14, 1991).

In addition, people who have been inside alien ships are struck by the abundance of various mysterious equipment and devices.

The second frequently encountered feature of UFOs remembered by contactees is the abundance of instruments and equipment. As a matter of fact, it cannot be otherwise, contactees, if they are invited, then on research ships. Well, on UFOs for other purposes, even if they exist, guests are not taken. And if they take them (for example, to a warship), they are unlikely to let them out ... But we already know that man-made UFOs have large empty internal volumes, which probably makes them very versatile in use. For example, transport ships can easily be converted into research ships if the interior spaces are filled with appropriate equipment.

As a matter of fact, the contactees noticed not only multifunctional or repurposed premises (a characteristic sign is passages and corridors cluttered with devices), but also specialized laboratories, workshops, storage facilities, museums, operating rooms and other compartments incomprehensible in terms of functions.

"... I was examined with some instruments and devices, like a large needle, on the "operating table", which stood in the center of the room... The humanoid gave me a book to look at, instead of letters there were dots and all kinds of thick and thin, He crossed the room to the corner of the table, opened some hole in the metal wall and took out (unfolded) a map with dots the size of a pinhead to a coin and connecting them with thick, thin, dotted lines ... It was a diagram interstellar routes." (Barney and Betty Hill; New Hampshire, USA; September 20, 1961).

"... Monet Stafford lay in a room that looked like an operating room, and around her sat 3-4 figures in white coats and surgical masks. She was paralyzed and saw a large "eye" watching her. Elaine Thomas was observed by humanoids of height 1, 2 m in an empty dark room, where, apart from the table, there was nothing else "(L. Smith, M. Stafford, E. Thomas; Liberty, Kentucky, USA; January 1976).

"... I woke up in the laboratory. It was a room with white walls, similar to a classroom. There were a lot of all sorts of machines. Luminous dials were everywhere. Luminous balls the size of an orange were constantly moving around the room" (Frank Fontaine; Cergy-Pontoise, France; 1980).

"... I saw a green room and ... myself with loose hair, wrapped in something white, but not in my clothes. I appeared, and we - the one that looked, and the one that was on the table, - merged. And I felt a panic fear ... There was no one in the green room. But I saw a long, 20 centimeters, metal rod, like a pencil. It was as if someone's hands were passing it to each other, like a surgeon's tool. But I I didn't see..." (N., an employee of one of the Moscow scientific centers; USSR; until 1993).

"... There were no lamps to be seen, but it was very light, although the light did not hurt the eyes. And this light greatly contributed to the feeling of comfort ... Then all the women were transferred to an adjacent smaller room, they stayed there one by one, put them on some armchairs, the walls - all consoles, all interlacing of some kind of tubes through which something seemed to be flowing. All this is a continuous play of light and color, the movement of color flows. Some of the tubes had suction cups. There was a feeling that these tubes with suckers, as it were, endowed with the rudiments of reason.The woman was here and was all covered with these suckers.

Moreover, if the suction cup flew off from the movement of a person, then she automatically again looked for the same point and stuck to it ... "(woman N.; the case was studied by N.I. Makarova from Tolyatti, Russia; late 1994).

Turning to the archives of the domestic UFO center, one can easily supplement the general ideas about the situation on man-made UFOs. According to the generalized data of Russian contactees abducted and later returned home, the first thing they often see is an oblong hall or tunnel. In 35 cases described by V. Azhazha, this tunnel was quite long and winding (perhaps the "tunnel" is not material, but is only a visible manifestation of some fields). Then the abducted get into a room that resembles an operating room or a dentist's office. The description of the premises coincides in many stories (there are 95 in total).

In 29 cases, the UFO room was described as having a round or domed shape. In 18 cases out of 31, white light prevailed in it, in 11 cases - gray (or metallic). In 3 cases black walls were mentioned. 32 subjects reported poor lighting on board. In 25 cases, a very bright room was mentioned, and in 13 cases, a semi-dark or completely dark one. Several subjects encountered both options. The furnishings of the room included variations of the usual items for us. One or more tables were marked in 52 cases.

Usually the table is solid, smooth, rather narrow, on one stand. Sometimes the table is raised high, lowered low, or shaped like a reclining chair. Of the other furniture, most often there were items similar to kitchen shelves, computers, screens. In concrete terms, it looks like this: tables were seen by 52 people; screens, displays - 17 people; computers - 16; chairs - 11; shelves, racks - 10; cabinets - 10; benches - 6. In 18 cases, the subjects noted a specific aroma, unlike ordinary odors. Four of them smelled their burnt hair or body, and six noticed an unpleasant odor coming from the aliens.

Some were also able to describe certain devices present there, designed for certain medical procedures (for example, scanning the body of a subject).

It also happens that correspondents do not just describe cases heard from other people's words, some see such anomalous phenomena with their own eyes. Here is what, for example, Izvestia's own correspondent wrote in Maputo (issue dated February 27, 1988):

“After I passed on to Izvestia a message about a mysterious object that I saw in the sky from a plane taking off from Beira, the newspaper Diariu de Mozambique, published in this city, arrived. Three UFO photographs and a story about how it was observed by many residents of the city.

Observation at the meteorological station was carried out through binoculars, but even with the naked eye a brightly luminous object was visible, motionless hovering over Beira. According to the local station, it was not an artificial satellite or a probe. The elongated body had two "whiskers" and two bright "eyes". According to the commander of the Boeing-737 passenger aircraft of the national airline LAM, he saw a luminous UFO from the pilot's cabin and turned on the aircraft headlights, as if attracting his attention. At that moment, both "eyes" of the mysterious object went out, and it began to fall off to the side, quickly hiding in a southerly direction..."

Before the New Year, aliens fly and congratulate us on the holiday
At least, one can imagine or even wish that the aliens in the new 2016 would be more friendly and caring. At the very least, they helped our civilization not to go off the rails and not slide into the Third World War. And one more thing - they instilled confidence in everyone that we are not alone in the Universe, and that the world is not as boring and prosaic as politicians and the media singing along with them want to present it to us.

What is a UFO
UFO (unidentified flying object) is an object at any distance from the earth's surface, the nature of which cannot be explained from the point of view of common sense. Usually, a UFO is a phenomenon associated with a compact moving or stationary object that can be luminous or dark, make sounds or remain silent.

The name UFO appeared as a result of a direct translation from English into Russian of the term UFO (unidentified flying object), which came into use in the early fifties of the 20th century. The activity related to the study of UFOs is called "ufology", and people who collect and verify information about UFOs are called ufologists.

Since there are numerous evidences of the appearance of UFOs, their existence is not denied, and most of the controversy around UFOs is about their foreign origin. Most of the phenomena, initially assessed as UFOs after study, are explained by meteorological or astronomical phenomena, but from 5 to 10% of UFO phenomena remain without a clear explanation.

Versions of the origin of UFOs
At the moment, there are several hypotheses for the origin of UFOs, including hypotheses about the extraterrestrial, natural, psychosocial and supernatural nature of phenomena. Most ufologists adhere exclusively to the version that aliens from near and far worlds are visiting us. Some ufologists believe that UFOs are ball lightning, meteorites, birds, swamp gases and other phenomena that are quite explainable by modern science. Some experts are of the opinion that "flying saucers" are visits to us by earthlings from another time or the result of the activities of quite earthly, but parallel civilizations. There is an opinion that UFOs are living objects.

Varieties of UFO
There are "solid" UFOs that look like objects made of matter, including metal. According to eyewitnesses who have been inside a UFO, flying saucers contain sophisticated equipment used for experiments on people. Contactees describe different types of aliens, some of which look like people, but most often they are creatures with large eyes and a strange skull without ears.

"Solid" UFOs include:
disk-shaped UFOs of various sizes and shapes;
triangular UFOs that can dramatically change speed and direction of flight;
spindle-shaped UFOs in the form of two cones with one base;
egg-shaped UFOs;
UFOs as unmarked terrestrial flying objects, including airplanes and airships;
rod-shaped UFOs from a few centimeters to tens of meters in length.

There are many reports of the arrival of "soft" UFOs that look like a strange fog, a mysterious glow or lights. Often, eyewitnesses like UFOs are compared with ghosts or angels.

Places of the most frequent encounters with UFOs
UFOs are found in different places on the Earth, but there are several areas - "windows" where their appearances are recorded most often. Usually "windows" are found in sparsely populated areas of the Earth, for example, in the desert regions of the USA and Australia, in the mountainous regions of France and Great Britain, in Brazil and Argentina.

What do our contemporaries see inside the UFO? The first thing that surprises those who boarded the mysterious ships is the large internal volume of the room, devoid of the usual pile of cables, instruments, tubes, toggle switches for a spaceship. The whole atmosphere is most often made up of comfortable chairs, a control panel, an overview screen and a star map.

"... When the morning came, Rama sat in the heavenly chariot... This chariot moved by itself... It had two floors with many rooms and windows... When the chariot made its flight in the air, it made a monotonous sound" (ancient Indian epic "Ramayana").

"... There were no objects, only ingenious devices and something that looked like a small cloth, all with stars and dots, each of which pulsated in its own way" (Alberto Gordoni; Sicily, Italy; May 3, 1753).

One can imagine how unusual such an environment looked for a medieval inhabitant. However, even in our enlightened 20th century, even engineers with higher technical education inside the UFO still feel like ignorant savages ...

"... Looking into one of the windows of a ship that looked like a cone, I saw a wonderful picture. 5 rectangles were glowing, similar to television screens. One of them was very large - I have never seen such in my life! .. There is a woman in front of the screen in an empty room with a golden scythe she looked at some images - drawings ... "(Magda; city of Kranj, Slovenia, Yugoslavia; mid-1960s).

"... A strange matte-colored object was the size of a car 2.5 meters high, shaped like a rugby ball (i.e., an ellipsoidal UFO. - Auth.). On the side there was a door that looked like a sliding door. There were 2 creatures nearby about a meter tall, they had big ears and a hole instead of a mouth ... The lower part of the apparatus was 50 centimeters from the ground, it rested on a cylindrical pipe. The upper part of the apparatus consisted of a transparent (like plexiglass) dome, so you could see what was inside there is nothing that could attract attention ... Both strangers went inside, the door slid down, and those who entered did not make any action or gesture for this.

They were perfectly visible through the dome. Then a dull noise was heard, the apparatus rose about half a meter, the pipe came out of the ground, and the four legs began to rotate clockwise. The device flew down the slope at a very high speed and after 50 meters disappeared altogether (dematerialized?). For about a quarter of an hour, the eyewitness could not move ... "(peasant Maurice Massa; grape field near the village of Valensole, south of France; 3.45 am on July 1, 1965). did not notice. As they pushed the second door, he also did not notice, but felt that we closed ourselves off from outside space.” The “leader” put his hand on the remote control and began to press something.

The car began to slowly rise up, simultaneously turning around a vertical axis. Having risen about 40 meters, we stopped... Suddenly I noticed a very fast acceleration upwards. There were no overloads, but everything began to rapidly decrease in size "(V.S. Kharitonov; farm 27 km from Pskov, USSR; January 1978).

"... A rectangular object 3 x 5 m in size and 2.5 m high, similar to a bus, hung at a height of 2-3 meters. No seams or rivets were visible on its surface, and helical rods 1-1.5 m long, reminiscent of the rotating part of a meat grinder.These rods rotated at high speed, emitting a quiet hum.Then a sheet of metal on the object rolled up and opened a hatch from which a ladder descended.The strangers gestured to go inside.Inside the spacious there was nothing else in the room, except for a kind of lantern upstairs, a dozen benches near the "black and gray" smooth wall and paralyzed birds lying on the floor" (Jan Volsky; Emilchin, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland; May 15, 1978).

"... I again began to ask them to return me home and again lost consciousness. I woke up when they flew up to the ship, which was hovering in the air at a short distance from the ground. It looked like an overturned dark gray frying pan with many small light bulbs, symmetrically located around the ship. The lights would go on and off... I woke up inside, in a round hall, sitting in a red chair without armrests. The hall was equipped in such a way that a control panel was installed on all sides (in a circle) with flashing red lights Then THEY entered through a rounded doorway..." (employee of the military academy; Otradnoye district, Moscow, USSR; August 1989).

"... I am a skeptic and a realist, and therefore at first I mistook a UFO for our spacecraft ... I climbed the "petal" (ladder?) into an 8-10-meter egg-shaped apparatus and ended up in a small shower room, where a foamy liquid poured and blew a warm wind... The inner door opened... Inside there were three armchairs, in the center of the round table stood the globe of the Earth. , Ukraine, USSR; September 1989).

"... I grabbed the handrail and found myself in the corridor. It was wider than the opening, the smooth floor was made of some kind of metal, there were no doors, the walls and ceiling formed an oval from above, some reinforcements and fastenings were visible on the back of the skin "Along a 7-8-meter corridor, I got into a large white hall with a diameter of about 20 meters, along its perimeter there were five more of the same entrances, between which there were 5-6 racks with flickering light. The dome of the ceiling emitted a soft diffused blue light. On on one wall was an information screen, and on the other wall was a console with a large number of switches with black knobs and rectangular glowing buttons with painted symbols, the same flashing buttons were on the racks.

Instruments and scales, I did not notice. Nearby was a long straight sofa. There was a gap along all the walls in a circle, apparently, the central part of the hall with a remote control and a sofa could rotate and stop near any counter" (Oleg K.; Arkhangelsk region, 80 km from Plesetsk, USSR; November 1989).

"... Half a meter from the window hung a small object, similar to two folded plates, from which zigzag (?) rays emanated - green, yellow and blue. The plate became transparent, then it gradually opened up like a shell, only a computer was inside, keyboards, a screen, a starry sky on the screen and the same cymbals. There were also six white-haired people in identical silver (even sparkling) suits, one of them was a woman ... "(Yuvelina, 8 years old; Sterlitamak, USSR; early 90- x years).

"...Inside the plate, I remember only one remote control, on which there were 25 buttons: 5 rows by 5 columns ..." (Yura K.; Moscow Region, USSR; early 90s).

"...Two large luminous balls, each with a diameter of several meters, descended from above. The white ball remained, and a strange many-eyed creature taller than a man came out of the red one ... We were both "dragged" inside the ship. Only the seat on which I was seated, and a flickering screen was right in front of the chair... The stranger said that the ship has 4 shapes (?) and is capable of moving at the speed of light..." (Zhenya X., fifth-grader; Omsk, Russia; October 14, 1991).

In addition, people who have been inside alien ships are struck by the abundance of various mysterious equipment and devices.

The second frequently encountered feature of UFOs remembered by contactees is the abundance of instruments and equipment. As a matter of fact, it cannot be otherwise, contactees, if they are invited, then on research ships. Well, on UFOs for other purposes, even if they exist, guests are not taken. And if they take them (for example, to a warship), they are unlikely to let them out ... But we already know that man-made UFOs have large empty internal volumes, which probably makes them very versatile in use. For example, transport ships can easily be converted into research ships if the interior spaces are filled with appropriate equipment.

As a matter of fact, the contactees noticed not only multifunctional or repurposed premises (a characteristic sign is passages and corridors cluttered with devices), but also specialized laboratories, workshops, storage facilities, museums, operating rooms and other compartments incomprehensible in terms of functions.

"... I was examined with some instruments and devices, like a large needle, on the "operating table", which stood in the center of the room... The humanoid gave me a book to look at, instead of letters there were dots and all kinds of thick and thin, He crossed the room to the corner of the table, opened some hole in the metal wall and took out (unfolded) a map with dots the size of a pinhead to a coin and connecting them with thick, thin, dotted lines ... It was a diagram interstellar routes." (Barney and Betty Hill; New Hampshire, USA; September 20, 1961).

"... Monet Stafford lay in a room that looked like an operating room, and around her sat 3-4 figures in white coats and surgical masks. She was paralyzed and saw a large "eye" watching her. Elaine Thomas was observed by humanoids of height 1, 2 m in an empty dark room, where, apart from the table, there was nothing else "(L. Smith, M. Stafford, E. Thomas; Liberty, Kentucky, USA; January 1976).

"... I woke up in the laboratory. It was a room with white walls, similar to a classroom. There were a lot of all sorts of machines. Luminous dials were everywhere. Luminous balls the size of an orange were constantly moving around the room" (Frank Fontaine; Cergy-Pontoise, France; 1980).

"... I saw a green room and ... myself with loose hair, wrapped in something white, but not in my clothes. I appeared, and we - the one that looked, and the one that was on the table, - merged. And I felt a panic fear ... There was no one in the green room. But I saw a long, 20 centimeters, metal rod, like a pencil. It was as if someone's hands were passing it to each other, like a surgeon's tool. But I I didn't see..." (N., an employee of one of the Moscow scientific centers; USSR; until 1993).

"... There were no lamps to be seen, but it was very light, although the light did not hurt the eyes. And this light greatly contributed to the feeling of comfort ... Then all the women were transferred to an adjacent smaller room, they stayed there one by one, put them on some armchairs, the walls - all consoles, all interlacing of some kind of tubes through which something seemed to be flowing. All this is a continuous play of light and color, the movement of color flows. Some of the tubes had suction cups. There was a feeling that these tubes with suckers, as it were, endowed with the rudiments of reason.The woman was here and was all covered with these suckers.

Moreover, if the suction cup flew off from the movement of a person, then she automatically again looked for the same point and stuck to it ... "(woman N.; the case was studied by N.I. Makarova from Tolyatti, Russia; late 1994).

Turning to the archives of the domestic UFO center, one can easily supplement the general ideas about the situation on man-made UFOs. According to the generalized data of Russian contactees abducted and later returned home, the first thing they often see is an oblong hall or tunnel. In 35 cases described by V. Azhazha, this tunnel was quite long and winding (perhaps the "tunnel" is not material, but is only a visible manifestation of some fields). Then the abducted get into a room that resembles an operating room or a dentist's office. The description of the premises coincides in many stories (there are 95 in total).

In 29 cases, the UFO room was described as having a round or domed shape. In 18 cases out of 31, white light prevailed in it, in 11 cases - gray (or metallic). In 3 cases black walls were mentioned. 32 subjects reported poor lighting on board. In 25 cases, a very bright room was mentioned, and in 13 cases, a semi-dark or completely dark one. Several subjects encountered both options. The furnishings of the room included variations of the usual items for us. One or more tables were marked in 52 cases.

Usually the table is solid, smooth, rather narrow, on one stand. Sometimes the table is raised high, lowered low, or shaped like a reclining chair. Of the other furniture, most often there were items similar to kitchen shelves, computers, screens. In concrete terms, it looks like this: tables were seen by 52 people; screens, displays - 17 people; computers - 16; chairs - 11; shelves, racks - 10; cabinets - 10; benches - 6. In 18 cases, the subjects noted a specific aroma, unlike ordinary odors. Four of them smelled their burnt hair or body, and six noticed an unpleasant odor coming from the aliens.

Some were also able to describe certain devices present there, designed for certain medical procedures (for example, scanning the body of a subject).

It also happens that correspondents do not just describe cases heard from other people's words, some see such anomalous phenomena with their own eyes. Here is what, for example, Izvestia's own correspondent wrote in Maputo (issue dated February 27, 1988):

“After I passed on to Izvestia a message about a mysterious object that I saw in the sky from a plane taking off from Beira, the newspaper Diariu de Mozambique, published in this city, arrived. Three UFO photographs and a story about how it was observed by many residents of the city.

Observation at the meteorological station was carried out through binoculars, but even with the naked eye a brightly luminous object was visible, motionless hovering over Beira. According to the local station, it was not an artificial satellite or a probe. The elongated body had two "whiskers" and two bright "eyes". According to the commander of the Boeing-737 passenger aircraft of the national airline LAM, he saw a luminous UFO from the pilot's cabin and turned on the aircraft headlights, as if attracting his attention. At that moment, both "eyes" of the mysterious object went out, and it began to fall off to the side, quickly hiding in a southerly direction..."