Zhitkur – Russia’s Roswell

Roswell, New Mexico is one of the most famous locations with regard to UFO crash sites. Also, in the same vein, Area 51 might be the most famous military base in the world that doesn’t officially exist. Other places around the globe also have crash sites that are quite famous. One such crash site being Zhitkur, colloquially referred to as the “Russian Roswell.”

The Zhitkur crash occurred over 100 years ago. It was around 7:17 AM local time on the 30th of June in 1908. What was initially thought to be a meteor or fragment of comet entered the atmosphere in Siberia somewhere above the lower region of the Stony Tunguska River. The explosion it created was as much as 1,000 times the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb; it caused trees to become laid out like matchsticks in a huge circular pattern. Where there was supposed to be a huge crater, none was found, this meant that it could not have been a meteor or comet fragment. The object, whatever it was, had to have exploded high above the ground.

A popular theory which still sparks imaginations to this day is that a UFO crash-landed in the area. Since then there have been numerous reports and claims of UFO sightings and crashes where the wreckage was secretly transported to a highly shrouded Russian air force base for reverse engineering research. This base, Kapustin Yar is the Russian equivalent of our Area 51. Because of the highly sensitive secrets that the underground Russian base was purported to research, the nearby town of Zhitkur was emptied of its population and then leveled.

Less than a year after the famed Roswell incident in 1947, radar operators at the base picked up on an unidentified object. This silver-colored, cigar-shaped object was also witnessed by a fighter pilot flying in the area. After reporting of being blinded by the UFO, the pilot was ordered to engage it. After a dogfight that lasted about three minutes, a missile brought down the unidentified craft. The UFO was reported to have been firing some kind of energy beam or weapon, and subsequently both aircraft crashed.

Soviet recovery teams are reported to have scooped up all of the wreckage and transported it to the underground military base which, ironically enough was named Zhitkur. The reason that MiGs were ordered to engage and bring down any extraterrestrial aircraft was because Russia was desperate to find any advantage over the Americans.

The Zhitkur facility is located about a quarter mile beneath the Earth’s surface. People who have been there have described in detail what can be found inside. Inside there are dark, dank corridors. Numerous offshoots lead to chambers in which there are alien craft in various stages of disassembly. There were also areas where alien autopsies would take place and other sections where unidentified objects were being built.

Ongoing research at Kapustin Yar has been reported as recently as 1997. UFO wreckage is said to be transported into Zhitkur regularly. With the new Russian freedoms, perhaps we can get to know more about Zhitkur and if the UFOs brought there for research were really extraterrestrial in origin. It sure does beg the question of what secrets the Russians may still be hiding.

Roswell UFO Sightings

The Roswell UFO Incident is one of the most popular and mysterious incidents in the history of UFO theory. It involves the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico in United States of America. Since the late 1970s, this incident has become the subject of intense speculation, questioning and rumors. There are widely divergent views on what actually happened and heated debate about what evidence can be believed. The US military maintains that what was actually recovered was debris from an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon belonging to a classified program named “Mogul”. However many UFO proponents still believe that a crashed alien craft and bodies were recovered from Roswell, and that the military is covering up the whole incident. This event ranks as one of the most publicized and controversial UFO incidents ever.

On 8th July 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that its personnel had recovered a crashed “flying disc” from a ranch near Roswell, sparking intense media interest. However later on the same day, they issued another statement that contradicted the first saying, a weather balloon had been recovered by RAAF personnel, rather than a “flying saucer”. The case was quickly forgotten and almost completely ignored, even by UFO researchers.
Then, in 1978, a famous ufologist Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Major Jesse Marcel, who was involved with the original recovery of the debris in 1947. Marcel expressed his belief that the military had covered up the recovery of an alien spacecraft. This interview garnered huge national and worldwide attention for the Roswell incident.
Soon additional reports and witnesses emerged over the following years. They added significant new details, including claims of a huge military operation dedicated to recovering alien craft and aliens themselves and alleged witness intimidation. In 1989, former mortician Glenn Dennis put forth a detailed personal account, wherein he claimed that alien autopsies were carried out at the Roswell base.
In response to these reports, and after congressional inquiries, the General Accounting Office launched an inquiry and directed the officers to conduct an internal investigation. The reports maintained that it was not an UFO but was just a weather balloon. However, these reports were dismissed by UFO proponents as being either bogus or simply implausible. A significant number of people still believe that RAAF is still housing the flying saucers that crashed in Roswell on 8th July1947.

The Roswell Incident

The Roswell UFO incident is one of the major events in the history of unidentified flying objects or UFO’s on earth. On 7th July 1947, there was some recovery of materials from a crash site in Roswell, New Mexico in United States. And since that time these recovery of materials has become a subject of debate, speculation, questioning and rumor. There are divergent views on exactly what happened in Roswell on that day. The U.S Army maintains that it was a high altitude weather balloon and not a flying saucer. However there are many people who believe that the crashed craft was alien space ship and bodies were recovered from it and the military is hiding some facts. All these make the Roswell incident as one of the most controversial and publicized UFO event.

On 8th of July 1947, the RAAF which is the Roswell Army Air Field issued a press statement telling that they have recovered a crashed flying saucer from a ranch in Roswell. This report sparked interest from all sections of society. However later on the same day it issued another statement contradictory to its first and confirming that flying object as a hot air balloon and not a flying saucer, as was claimed earlier. The case was completely forgotten and was rarely talked about for around 30 years.

But in the year 1978, things changed when during an interview with a renowned ufologist, Major Jesse Marcel who was part of the team which recovered the debris from the site gave a shocking statement saying that military on that day, in actual recovered a flying saucer and is hiding the facts from the general public. This interview garnered attention from all over the world.

Over the following years additional reports and witnesses came forward. These witnesses added more significant details including claims of a secret military operation and alleged witness intimidation.

In the year 1989, a former mortician Glenn Dennis put forward a personal detail account where he claimed that alien autopsies are being carried out at the base in Roswell.

In 1990’s few well known UFO researchers interviewed over hundred people who had or claimed to have had some connection with the events that happened on 7th July 1947 in Roswell. Apart from this, thousands of documents were obtained with the help of Freedom of Information Act requests. As were some which were apparently leaked by the insiders, the most popular one being the “Majestic 12” documents.

Roswell Area 51

UFOs and flying saucers

Every year thousands of human beings see strange, shining objects, which whistle across the night-Heaven.

After most sightings are identified (air balloons, planes and more) a little part of them are not identifiable.

Is it spacecrafts from foreign globes?

What fell down in Roswell New Mexico in 1947?
Or is there a natural explanation on the UFOs?

The modern UFO era starts in 1947. That year pilot Kenneth Arnold reports that he saw nine crescent-shaped airships on June 24th fly in an almost unnatural way near Mount Rainier in the US. They resembled plates, which played ducks and drakes on a water level, Arnold explained,. Different newspapers published the history, and soon hundreds of people around the US had seen "flying saucers".

According to the conspiracy theories CIA turns up shortly afterwards on the stage like a hidden company, who stands behind "the blackout of the truth".

Roswell, 1947
Something falls down on July 4th 1947, on a field in the vicinity of the town of Roswell in the American state New Mexico.

Mac Brazel, chairman on one of the country farm areas, finds large quantities lightweight-metallic wreck parts, which lie spread on several fields, but to begin with he does not do anything about it.

Only the following day, as Brazel hears about a reward of 3000 dollars to the one, that can find signs of flying saucers, he acts.

July 6th Brazel shows the wreck rests to the local sheriff, George Wilcox, who contacts Roswell's air force and arranges a talk with the FBI-officer major Jesse Marcel.

Strange wreck rests
Together investigator Marcel and Wilcox agree that the wreck rests are unique and that they have never seen anything like that before.

The army is ordered to collect so many of the pieces, as it can, and the rumours will know that the air force take the parts from the foreign spacecraft to the military-base Area 51 in Arizona to interrogate the survivors and perform an alien autopsy on the dead.

Both the sheriff and the major collect some pieces of wreckage, and tell the curious press about the crashed spacecraft.

For instance about a weird metal piece, with lavender-coloured symbols in the middle.

Mac Brazel.
The blackout starts But shortly afterwards the army and the intelligence agency confiscates all the pieces of wreckage and forces sheriff Wilcox to pull his press statement back.

History reports that the army encloses the case entirely in darkness after that - and that they since that day have had an alien spacecraft standing on the Area 51 base together with the bodies of the dead aliens.

After 1952 the American government completely close out the Roswell case and all what follows about UFO observations. The official policy after that says that foreign spacecrafts do not exist.
The soldiers at the American Military Academy learn about the different types of UFOs admittedly, but an official statement about the subject can cost up more 10.000 in fine.

UFO technology
The proof of the crashed spacecraft in Roswell is found in our own time. Our own modern technology. The computer is a good example. Just because some people do not understand how something works, it does not necessarily mean that there is little green aliens behind it. Some human beings make that mistake that because they cannot see how e.g. the home pc works, they think nobody else can either. Therefore there must be aliens behind it.

Grain circles.
Many claims to have seen those strange phenomenas, but everything is very secret when it comes to alien activity. More than 400 high-ranked people, who earlier worked for US Airforce, FBI, NASA and CIA, stood forward in May 2001 in order to tell the truth about their UFO experiences. The goal was in one respect to tell the public the truth, and at the same time to cause safe-conduct to tell the truth without being punished, when they were included by professional secrecy. They talk under promise of secrecy and in addition to this a large part has furthermore presented documents that they stole, when they were employed there.

Answers from the space
On November 16th 1974 we sent messages about the human race from the Earth out into space against the galaxies from the Arecibo-telescope in Puerto Rico. They were sent out again three times in June and the month of July 2001. On August 13th and the night between the 18. and August 19th 2001 the transmission was maybe received in the shape of two grain circles near Chilbolton Radio Telescope in England.

Spacecraft or weather balloon?
But is there a more natural explanation on the wreck rests in Roswell instead of the crashed spacecraft from outer space?
In the start of July 1947 New Mexico was ravaged by a heavy storm. It happened while the top secret project Mogul tested huge, high-flying balloons, which were to catch Soviet atomic explosions. The balloons were made of a metallic lightweight material and strengthened along with a tape flower-inspect, bought in a local country shop ...

The Roswell occurrence
The events in Roswell took place over 55 years ago, and the UFO hysterics about this town didn't start at once.

Aliens or crash test dummie's?
First in 1980 the place got the ufologists' interest when Charles Berlitz and William Moore published the book "The Roswell Incident".

And it is this history that most people know:
The story about the crashed spacecraft, aliens and sinister blackouts. Maybe witnesses, who are interviewed 33 years after the occurrence not entirely remember what happened that day in July 1947.
Maybe people do mix up many different events, such as weather balloons, nuclear test balloons, crashed planes with sunburned bodies and crash test dummie's thrown out from planes in great height?

Roswell 2004
The crasharea lies about 150 miles north of Roswell, a small town, which has now done a scoop and puts itself at the disposal of untiring UFO enthusiasts, who flock to the place like pilgrims.
Roswell has two UFO museums and arranges a yearly festival. Souvenir penances sell merchandise, as people do it along Loch Ness. And just as Catholics go to Rome, Muslims travel to Mekka, Roswell is a place that UFO enthusiasts can visit in order to confirm faith. Many have concluded that the Roswell incident is fake, but the conspiracy theory continues and television shows built on it.

Roswell UFO

The UFO-mystery in Roswell is still a mystery.

60 years ago something fell down ostensibly an UFO at a farm close to the air base Roswell in the US.

The town of Roswell has for some time been exploiting the rumours of the UFO crash and has many UFO exhibitions.
At a time between the 4. and 6th of July 1947 something suspicious fell down near a farm in the American state New Mexico.
The farmer Mack Brazel found some pieces of wreckage, which he reported about to the local sheriff.
He informed captain Jesse Marcell from the military air base Roswell, who is situated in the neighbourhood.
The farmer had as a matter of fact said that the pieces of wreckage resembled isolated parts from a test plane, the BBC writes.
It however wasn't parts from a military test plane, which had fallen on the ground.
The captain from the air base sent out a press release, which informed that the army had picked up an UFO.
The case is later blacked out and mysteriously that press release was later drawn back.
The new official line was, according to General Roger Ramsey who took over the case that the episode had involved a weather balloon and consequently not an UFO as captain Marcell had claimed earlier.
Later captain Marcell participated in an interview on a local radio. Here he said that he had shown that the pieces of wreckage originated from a weather balloon all the time.
Speculations continue though According to the American Ministry of Defence the weather balloon is still the official explanation.
However, everybody by no means believe that version, and the conspiracy theories are numerous.
A large group of human beings think that the weather balloon was an UFO from outer space in the reality, and a number of theories maintain that the army - apart from the UFO's physical parts - saved three or four - ostensibly dead - aliens.

What happened with the pieces of wreckage or the aliens has never been revealed, but is still a very discussed subject.

In Roswell there is a museum, where you can learn more about the episode and other mysterious events.