Former Soviet spy told stories about flying saucers

When the Soviet Union existed, Russian scientists hardly paid attention to stories about UFOs that the people told and the media reported.

But Feliz Zigel, a Russian mathematician and astronomer, realized that he had to study those stories seriously. In the 60s, Zigel gave public lectures on the topic of UFOs. His lectures inspired many people to gather information about unidentified flying objects.

Government and scientific indifference to UFOs changed in 1978, when several hundred people in the city of Petrozavodsk, the capital of the Soviet Republic of Karelia, saw a strange glowing object in the sky in many hours. People call and send letters to authorities. Even the neighboring countries thought the Soviet Union was executing secret exercises and asked Moscow to publish information about the exercises.

UFOs are not popular in Russia since the time of the former Soviet Union. (Artwork: blogspot.com)

At that time, Vasily Yeremenko, an officer of the Russian Intelligence Agency (KGB), was in charge of air monitoring and aircraft production. The Soviet government asked Yeremenko's department to collect all UFO stories from the people.

'We received so many reports about UFOs that the army had to guide missile units on how to react if they detected UFOs. The government's policy is that the military must act smartly so that the UFOs will not respond with force , "Yeremenko told RBTH, a Russian news site.

A UFO experiment took place in the Astrakhan region in the early 1980s. Back then, experts found UFOs often appeared in 'hot' areas - that is, places where conflict could be or frequent outbreaks. Most of the objects that the test participants found were spherical and glowing.

After a period of time, everyone is accustomed to seeing UFOs so they are considered natural in their daily lives. Some even find ways to contact objects.

'You can imagine this: A person stood on the ground and waved his arms, twice to the right and twice to the left. Suddenly the sphere in the sky responded by throwing twice to the right and then twice to the left. We cannot explain the phenomenon ' , Yeremenko said.

Finally, the Russian army and the scientists involved in the experiment gave three conclusions. First, the UFOs they see may be a natural phenomenon that science could not explain at the time. Second, they could be American or Japanese airplanes. Finally, they can be objects outside the earth.

Today, UFOs often appear in tabloids. According to Yeremenko, that situation makes serious scientists not express their views on UFOs

'I used to talk privately with many pilots and astronauts. Some of them once talked about UFOs. But they do not want to publish their stories in public ' , Yeremenko said.