A declassified CIA file from the Cold War era detailing a possible encounter between Soviet soldiers and a UFO has gone viral, describing how extraterrestrial beings allegedly turned 23 soldiers into stone.
The 250-page report was originally compiled by the KGB, the foreign intelligence and domestic security agency of the Soviet Union, and was later obtained by the CIA, following the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. The report describes a chilling incident during a Soviet military exercise in Ukraine.
According to the document, soldiers fired a surface-to-air missile at a low-flying, saucer-shaped craft, forcing it to crash nearby. The report included eyewitnesses accounts and pictures of the aftermath, which one American agent described as a “horrific picture of revenge on the part of extraterrestrial creatures, a picture that makes one’s blood freeze.”
Eyewitnesses claimed that five short humanoids with large heads and black eyes emerged from the wreckage. They reportedly huddled together and morphed into a glowing spherical shape, which then exploded in a bright flash of light. The blast allegedly literally petrified 23 soldiers, turning them into stone, leaving only two survivors who were partially shielded from the blast.
The report states that Soviet scientists concluded the blast somehow altered the cellular structure of the soldiers, turning their bodies into material similar to limestone. The KGB allegedly took custody of the “petrified soldiers” and the ruined spacecraft, which were transported to a secret base near Moscow.
“If the KGB file corresponds to reality, this is an extremely menacing case,” the CIA concluded. “The Aliens possess such weapons and technology that go beyond all our assumptions. They can stand up for themselves if attacked.”
The report was originally declassified in 2000 and the incident was first reported by Canadian and Ukrainian news outlets. It later gained renewed attention on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
US Intelligence reports increase in UFO sightings, before CIA declassified Soviet encounter with aliens
In January 2023, the US military and intelligence agencies gathered 366 reports of “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP), the military’s terminology for UFOs, since March 2021. This was when the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) issued its preliminary assessment on UAPs, according to a report released by ODNI over two years ago. Only 144 UAP sightings had been reported to the military in the preceding seventeen years.
As explained by ODNI in the report—an unclassified twelve-page summary submitted to Congress—the increase in reported UFO sightings was “partially due to a better understanding of the possible threats that UAP may represent” and “partially due to reduced stigma surrounding UFO reporting.”
About half of the 366 newly reported sightings had “unremarkable characteristics.” For instance, 26 were identified as drones, 163 turned out to be “balloon-like entities,” and six were merely “clutter,” such as birds or flying plastic bags.
In terms of the remaining reports, ODNI says that certain UAPs “appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities.”
However, Ronald Moultrie, undersecretary of defense for intelligence and security, told reporters that the Pentagon and ODNI had “not seen anything” that would “lead us to believe that any of the objects that we have seen are of alien origin.”
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