Alien Lore No. 106 - The 1989 UFO Battle Over Russia

One of the best known Russian UFOlogists—Nikolay Subbotin—told this story to his fellow American UFOlogists. This bizarre story took place in the skies 0ver Zaostrovka on September 16, 1989. Six metallic UFOs and one golden UFO battled it out.

Mr. Subbotin says hundreds of people witnessed a group of six silver saucers fight against one golden UFO. The UFOs engaged in a stunning show of aerial acrobatics, flying as low as one mile above the earth. Red beams, or lasers of some sort were the weapons.


A Russian UFO web site says that an account of the battle was published in the local paper, the "Semipalatinsk." The report was written by a helicopter commander named Sichenko, who claimed that the energy generated by the warring UFOs was so intense that local power stations automatically shut down.


The witnesses interviewed by Sichenko said that the golden UFO was finally defeated, after fighting a heroic battle, and crashed into a bog on the military test range. The area was then zoned off to everyone except military personnel.

Subbotin says a Russian army team searched the area following the battle and crash and that the story leaked out from these searchers.


The entire area was insanely high in radiation readings following the crash, and was eventually shut down. A crew of military personnel guarded the site. And there the story comes to an crashing halt. This is one of those plausible sounding cases, with many witnesses, where so few details have actually emerged that it is impossible to vet its veracity.
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Alien Lore No. 105 - The Grey Aliens

The Grey Aliens is the title of a J. Hunter Holly 1964 British paperback. The book was published in the US as "The Gray Aliens" in 1963 by Avalon Books. This science fiction novel has an alien abduction twist. Humans are scooped up by the shadows a/k/a the grey aliens a/k/a the ghost makers.


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The term "grey alien" is iconic now in alien lore, and this book was probably an early harbinger of what was to come. The Greys are huge now in the realm of alien/ufo lore, along with their associated phenomena like abductions, cattle mutilations, government conspiracies, implanted devices in humans, crop circles, and vast under-earth colonies. The Greys were not really prominent in the lore until the 80s'. The now familiar grey alien's appearance was alluded to in tales of earlier encounters of the fifties, sixties and even the seventies, but not until the 1980's did the Greys emerge as the rock stars of alien lore.
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Alien Lore No. 105 - Alien stone/UFO Droppings (?) found near Seattle

A University of Washington (Seattle) aka U-dub research engineer Bill Beaty is about to test a piece of stone that was reportedly dropped from an alien spacecraft 60 years ago.

For many years, Philip Lipson and Charlette LeFevre, who run the Seattle Museum of the Mysteries, have been chasing a story that began in June 1947 when a government employee saw flying saucers only three days after a Tacoma man said UFOs had dropped metal and molten rock on his boat, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported earlier this week.

Lipson and LeFevre believe a B-52 bomber crashed 60 years ago while carrying slag from a UFO. A black chunk of rock is their best clue, and Beaty will test the rock this week.

"You can tell it's been liquid because it's all full of bubbles," said Beaty. "We have to look at the bedrock in the hill and see what's there. If it looks like that, then it's probably the same."
"If this is totally different than the bedrock that's there, then this will be very interesting," he added.

A B-25 bomber exploded and crashed twenty minutes after take off from McChord Field. The Bomber crashed near Kelso, Washington (one of the "tri-cities") after the left engine caught on fire.

A local newspaper article gave details about what happened aboard the plane. "Woodrow D. Matthews, crew chief of the bomber reported helping Davidson and Brown into their parachutes and that at the time he jumped, flames from the blazing left engine were pouring into the cockpit. It was reported that Brown was standing in the aisle ready to leave the plane ³ when Matthews himself jumped out. Brown was found at the crash site with his parachute harness on but had apparently returned to the cockpit. His body was found in the wreckage. Matthews related that the only reason he could see that the officers did not get out was that the left wing might have crumpled, trapping them in the plane. Woodrow D. Matthews, crew chief of the bomber who put the parachute on Sgt. Taff and saved his life was proposed for the Soldier's Medal. An FBI report states the left wing was found 125 yards from the plane impact site and likely fell off throwing the plane into a plummeting spin."

Kenneth Arnold received another call from Ted Morello who told him the B-25 bomber from Hamilton Field had been shot down by a 20mm cannon. The Tacoma Times headlines read

Sabotage Hinted in Crash of Army Bomber at Kelso
—Plane May Hold Flying Disk Secret—

The article by Paul Lance said the plane had been sabotaged or shot down to prevent shipment of flying disk fragments to Hamilton Field, California, for analysis. The disk parts were said by the informant to be those from one of the mysterious platters which plunged to earth on the Maury Island (see Alien Lore No. 104) recently. At McChord field, an intelligence officer confirmed the informants report that the B-25 Bomber had been carrying classified material.

In the Seattle Post Intelligencer August 3, 1947, an AP report states "Pieces not Located." Brig. Gen. Ned Schramm, chief of staff of the 4th Air Force said he knew nothing about reports that the plane was carrying classified or secret material. "As far as I know, the plane was supposed to come in here empty," he said, "and there wasn't a single, solitary, secret thing aboard".

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UFO Lore 102 - Twelve favorite images of The Greys

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Alien Lore No. 102—The Reds Had Their Own Project Bluebook

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According to Pravda, KGB agents recording UFO observations in a Blue Folder. . .not unlike our own government's Project Bluebook. The Blue Folder was declassified years ago. Soviet cosmonaut Pavel Popovich received a copy of the folder from the KGB in 1991. Popovich is now an honorary president of the Academy of Informational and Applied Ufology.

The Blue Folder reports on observed UFO flights and details some attempts by the military to capture some of The Greys.

In 1968, 13 aircraft designers and engineers of the Soviet Committee on Space Technology and Exploration sent a letter, requesting a special organization for the study of UFOs to Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin. A reply to the letter was sent by an Academician Shchukin:

“A number of competent organizations of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Chief Directorate of Meteorological Service, Defense Ministry and a few other agencies considered the issue of nature of the so-called flying objects. The organizations involved in the study of the atmosphere and space have been instructed to register and do research on any cases of UFOs for identification purposes. The USSR Academy of Sciences is charged with general monitoring of the phenomena, and therefore a special organization for the study of UFOs is not required.”

“It was a real breakthrough,” says Vladimir Azhazha, president of the above academy and keeper of the Blue Folder. “The authorities not only acknowledged the existence of UFOs for the first time, they also showed their great interest in the issue."

According to Azhazha “Pavel Popovich was given the folder after requesting reports on the cases of UFOs. I received the folder from Popovich, it was a 124-page compilation of reports about the encounters with UFOs. The reports filed by authorities, military units COs and eyewitnesses. It took us a long time to get rid of some doubts before making the folder public."

Mr. Popovich saw a UFO once while flying in a passenger plane from Washington to Moscow. The object looked like a shining triangle and flew near the plane at about 600 miles per hour before vanishing into thin air.

Despite the letter that denied the KGB had tracked UFOs, the contents of the folder indicated seem to tell another story. The KGB launched investigations in several cases, for example, an anomaly observed near the village of Burkhala in the Magadan region on October 21, 1989. The report on the incident says: “The eyewitnesses claim to have watched a red shining sphere circulating above the village for half an hour.”

KGB agents never did figure out what happened at the airport of the city of Mineralnye Vody on December 15, 1987. According to the airport dispatchers, at 11:15 PM, flight No 65798 reported seeing an “object resembling an aircraft with its headlights on.” Radar showed no aircraft in the area. The UFO disappeared after three minutes.

The crew of another plane also observed a UFO flying in that area at 11:20. The UFO left a fiery trail in the air. The crews of the both planes reported that the UFO had disappeared after a flash or explosion. A villager saw "a burning plane" flying over his village at 11:30. Eyewitnesses said the plane then disappeared. There was no wreckage or any evidence of a plane crash.

The army at times made attempts to deal with UFOs without KGB involvement. In August 1987, servicemen of an antiaircraft unit based on the Tiksi Peninsula tried to “get to know better” an unidentified flying object that appeared on a radar screen. A report from Colonel Lobanov, a duty officer of a military unit said: “An unidentified target detected by the radar station of the commandant’s office of the antiaircraft unit at 05.45 Moscow time.” The target moved at a speed varying from 0 to 250 miles per hour. At 6:55, a helicopter took off for a closer examination of the object. The object became invisible (or just disappeared). Another aircraft flying in the vicinity at the time reported an green cloud with traces of purple and dark spots visible in the middle

An incident occurred in the Leningrad Military Region in early August of 1987. Five officers were dispatched to the northern part of Karelia to accompany an object of unknown origin that had been located near the city of Vyborg. The object was said to be 14 m long, 4 meters wide and 2.5 m high. The military failed to open the “extraterrestrial can.” Eventually, the object disappeared from the hangar late September.

On July 28, 1989, a UFO caused a panic military personnel near Kapustin Yar, in the Astrakhan region. Corporal Valery Voloshin was on duty in the communications center at the time. He filed a report on the case.

Researchers now believe the Blue Folder is a valuable cache of information. According to Mr. Azhazha, the evidence suggests that intelligent life forms control the objects that mean no harm to human beings. Nothing in the Blue Folder indicates that any UFO had ever taken action against any human. Every single episode the Soviets recorded depicts the aliens essentially performing drive-bys.

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Those Actually Were UFOs Over Phoenix in 1997 Says Former Governor Symington

Former Gov. Fife Symington says now that those strange lights that appeared over Phoenix a decade ago were from another world and he admitted having a close encounter with an alien craft on March 13, 1997. At the time, however, he publicly mocked the very idea at a press conference. The Arizona Daily Star has an interesting article about his new revelations.

Symington, who was in his second term as governor of Arizona during the Phoenix Lights incident, recently told a UFO investigator making a documentary that he had kept quiet about his personal close encounter because he didn't want to panic the populace.

Symington repeated his story Thursday on CNN, saying the craft he saw was "enormous. It just felt other-worldly. In your gut, you could just tell it was other-worldly."

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