>> THE SOVIET UNION, THE 20th CENTURY'S OTHER
SUPERPOWER. IT WAS THE BIGGEST NATION THE
WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN, AND ITS VAST SKIES CONTINUE TO BEAR
WITNESS TO THOUSANDS OF UFO SIGHTINGS. BUT THE SOVIET REGIME
WAS NOTORIOUS FOR ITS SECRECY. >> THE SOVIET UNION AND
COMMUNIST CHINA HAD THEIR OWN REASONS WHY THEY DIDN'T WANT TO
BE TELLING THEIR PEOPLE ABOUT EXTRATERRESTRIALS.
>> MANY OF THESE ALIEN ENCOUNTERS HAD POTENTIALLY
DEADLY CONSEQUENCES FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD.
TONIGHT, WE GO BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN TO INVESTIGATE 50 YEARS
OF SOVIET UFO ENCOUNTERS, ON "UNSEALED: ALIEN FILES."
A GLOBAL EFFORT HAS BEGUN. SECRET FILES HIDDEN FROM THE
PUBLIC FOR DECADES, DETAILING EVERY UFO ACCOUNT,
ARE NOW AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC. WE ARE ABOUT TO UNCOVER
THE TRUTH BEHIND THESE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS.
FIND OUT WHAT THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW.
"UNSEALED: ALIEN FILES." EXPOSING THE BIGGEST SECRETS
ON PLANET EARTH. DALNEGORSK.
JANUARY 29, 1986. THOUSANDS OF MILES EAST OF
MOSCOW, THIS TINY MINING TOWN IS ABOUT TO WITNESS AN EVENT
THAT WILL SEND SHOCKWAVES THROUGH THE UFO COMMUNITY.
HUNDREDS WATCH IN DISBELIEF AS A FIREBALL STREAKS ACROSS THE
SKY AND CRASHES INTO A NEARBY MOUNTAIN. NEWS OF THIS MASS
SIGHTING WILL QUICKLY SPREAD BEYOND THE NATION'S BORDERS,
OPENING THE WORLD'S EYES TO DECADES OF PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN
UFO ENCOUNTERS. UNSEALED CASE FILE:
THE RUSSIAN ROSWELL. CROWDS QUICKLY GATHER AT THE
CRASH SITE, WHERE THEY DISCOVER A SCORCHED CRATER 3 METERS IN
DIAMETER, SURROUNDED BY A DEBRIS FIELD OF SMALL METALLIC BEADS.
GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES ARRIVE ON THE SCENE AND COLLECT SAMPLES OF
THE STRANGE MATERIAL, WHICH IS IMMEDIATELY SENT TO THE SOVIET
UNION'S TOP SCIENTIFIC MINDS FOR TESTING.
THEY ARE DUMBFOUNDED BY THEIR FINDINGS. THE BEADS ARE UNLIKE
ANYTHING EVER OBSERVED BEFORE IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE.
>> 3 SOVIET ACADEMIC CENTERS AND 11 RESEARCH INSTITUTES
ANALYZED THE OBJECTS FROM THIS UFO CRASH. THE DISTANCE BETWEEN
ATOMS IS DIFFERENT FROM ORDINARY IRON IN THIS MATERIAL. RADAR
CANNOT BE REFLECTED FROM THE MATERIAL. ELEMENTS IN THE
MATERIAL MAY DISAPPEAR AND NEW ONES APPEAR AFTER HEATING.
ONE PIECE APPARENTLY DISAPPEARED COMPLETELY IN FRONT OF 4
WITNESSES. >> BUT ONE CHARACTERISTIC ABOVE
ALL LEAVES THE SOVIETS IN DISBELIEF. THE BEADS EXHIBIT
ANTI-GRAVITATIONAL PROPERTIES. THEY ARE LEFT WITH ONLY ONE
POSSIBLE ANSWER. A DECLASSIFIED 1989 CIA REPORT
ON SOVIET UFOs STATES THAT "SCIENTISTS HAVE CONCLUDED THAT
THE OBJECT THAT CRASHED...WAS AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACE VEHICLE
CONSTRUCTED BY HIGHLY INTELLIGENT BEINGS."
AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST CLAIMS TO HAVE SMUGGLED SAMPLES OF THE
MATERIAL BACK TO THE UNITED STATES.
>> AMERICAN JOURNALIST GEORGE KNAPP, HE WAS THE ONLY BROADCAST
JOURNALIST TO GO TO RUSSIA, GET SOME OF THE MATERIALS OF THE
DALNEGORSK CRASH, NOW WHAT SOME PEOPLE ARE REFERRING TO AFTER
ALL THESE YEARS AS THE RUSSIAN ROSWELL.
>> IT'S A NOD TO THE INFAMOUS STORY OF A UFO CRASH NEAR
ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO, IN 1947, THAT WAS AT FIRST CONFIRMED BY
THE AMERICAN MILITARY, ONLY TO BE LATER DENIED IN A STUNNING
ABOUT FACE. IT'S THE EVENT THAT BROUGHT UFOs AND GOVERNMENT
CONSPIRACIES INTO THE PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE WEST.
IN THE EAST, THE SOVIETS WOULD ATTEMPT A MORE OPEN POLICY ON
UFOs. IN 1967, THE FIRST UFO STUDY GROUP WAS FORMED.
ITS LEADERS WENT ON STATE TELEVISION TO APPEAL TO THE
PUBLIC TO SUBMIT THEIR STORIES OF UFO SIGHTINGS AND ALIEN
ENCOUNTERS. THE RESPONSE WAS OVERWHELMING.
BUT LIKE THE UNITED STATES, THE SOVIET UNION WOULD PERFORM
AN ABRUPT ABOUT FACE ON THE ISSUE, DISSOLVING THE STUDY
GROUP AFTER LESS THAN A YEAR, WITH NO EXPLANATION.
IN THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED, THE SOVIETS WOULD MAINTAIN
A STRICT CODE OF SILENCE ON THE SUBJECT OF UFOs. WHAT DID THE
SOVIET STUDY GROUP DISCOVER THAT FORCED THE KREMLIN TO BRING
A SWIFT END TO THE PROJECT? WHAT WERE THEY HIDING?
LIKE THE AMERICAN COVER-UP AFTER ROSWELL, SOVIET OFFICIALS
ARE QUICK TO DOWNPLAY THE DALNEGORSK EVENT.
BUT IN THE LATE 1980s, THE SOVIET UNION ISN'T THE SAME
HARDLINE STATE OF DECADES PAST. NEW COMMUNIST PARTY SECRETARY
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV HAS USHERED IN AN ERA OF GLASNOST, OR OPENNESS.
PEOPLE ARE NO LONGER AS AFRAID TO SPEAK OUT ON TABOO SUBJECTS,
LIKE UFOs. IN THE WAKE OF THE DALNEGORSK INCIDENT,
WORD OF DECADES OF SOVIET UFO REPORTS BEGINS TO SPREAD.
AND MANY OF THESE HAD DEADLY CONSEQUENCES.
COMING UP, THE CHILLING STORY OF WHAT MAY BE THE BIGGEST UFO
ABDUCTION IN SOVIET HISTORY. THIS IS "UNSEALED: ALIEN FILES."
EXPOSING THE BIGGEST SECRET ON PLANET EARTH.
>> WELCOME BACK TO "UNSEALED: ALIEN FILES."
THE SOVIET UNION PAID WITNESS TO THOUSANDS OF UFO SIGHTINGS
DURING ITS EXISTENCE. BUT VIRTUALLY ALL OF THESE
REPORTS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED OR LOST TO HISTORY.
ONE OF THE FEW THAT DID SURVIVE CONTINUES TO HAUNT THE REGION
TODAY. UNSEALED CASE FILE:
THE DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT. THE URAL MOUNTAINS, 1959.
9 FRIENDS EMBARK ON A CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING TRIP
THROUGH A VALLEY KNOWN TODAY AS THE DYATLOV PASS.
ALL ARE EXPERIENCED IN SURVIVING EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS.
NOT LONG INTO THEIR JOURNEY, THE URALS ARE HIT BY A POWERFUL
SNOWSTORM. WHEN THE SKIERS FAIL TO ARRIVE
AT THEIR DESTINATION, A SEARCH PARTY SETS OUT TO LOCATE THEM.
WHAT THEY FIND IS THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES. THE RESCUERS
DISCOVER A BADLY DAMAGED TENT, BUT NO ONE IS WITHIN.
THE GROUP'S BELONGINGS, HOWEVER, ARE THERE, INCLUDING THE GROUP'S
CAMERAS AND DIARIES. FURTHER EXAMINATION REVEALS THE
TENT HAD BEEN CUT OPEN, FROM THE INSIDE. THE RESCUERS
FOLLOW A TRAIL OF FOOTPRINTS TO THE EDGE OF A NEARBY FOREST,
WHERE THEY MAKE A GRISLY DISCOVERY. 5 BODIES CLAD IN ONLY
THEIR UNDERWEAR, FROZEN IN THE SNOW. EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THEY
WERE TRYING TO RETURN TO THE TENT. FORENSIC EXAMINATION
SUGGESTS THAT ALL EXPIRED FROM HYPOTHERMIA. IT SEEMS THE PARTY
EMBARKED ON A BIZARRE MISADVENTURE, DISORIENTED BY THE
INTENSE COLD. THAT IS, UNTIL THE REMAINING
4 BODIES ARE DISCOVERED MONTHS LATER. THEIR CAUSES OF DEATH
WILL CAST A SINISTER NEW LIGHT ON THE CASE. TWO OF THE NEWLY
DISCOVERED BODIES HAVE MAJOR SKULL FRACTURES, AND THE OTHERS
CHEST FRACTURES. ONE FEMALE HAS HAD HER TONGUE
CUT OUT. THE FINAL REPORT ON THE DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT IS SENT TO
A SECRET ARCHIVE, WHERE IT WILL REMAIN UNTIL THE 1990s.
WHEN THE FILE IS FINALLY RELEASED, CRUCIAL DOCUMENTS ARE
MISSING. THOSE THAT SURVIVE STATE THAT "THE FATAL INJURIES
COULD NOT HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY ANOTHER HUMAN BEING."
AND THAT "HIGH DOSES OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION" WERE
PRESENT IN SOME ARTICLES OF CLOTHING."
WHAT COMPELLED 9 SKIERS TO BURST FROM THEIR TENT AND RUN NAKED
INTO A RAGING SNOWSTORM? WHAT CAUSED THE RADIOACTIVITY IN
THEIR CLOTHING? AND WHAT INFLICTED THE GRUESOME INJURIES,
INCLUDING THE SEVERED TONGUE? MANY THEORIES ARE CONSIDERED--
FROM MADNESS BROUGHT ON BY THE ONSET OF HYPOTHERMIA, TO AN
ATTACK BY THE INDIGENOUS MANSI PEOPLE. DURING THE INVESTIGATION
ANOTHER GROUP OF SKIERS COMES FORWARD CLAIMING TO HAVE SEEN
STRANGE GLOWING SPHERES IN THE SKY DURING THE TIME OF THE
INCIDENT. NONETHELESS, SOVIET AUTHORITIES DISMISS THE INCIDENT
AS DEATH BY MISADVENTURE, CITING THE "ABSENCE OF ANY GUILTY
PARTY." BUT MANY UFO EXPERTS NOW POINT TO A GLARING GOVERNMENT
COVER-UP OF A DEADLY ALIEN ABDUCTION.
>> FROM THAT POINT FORWARD, THE TRUTH EMBARGO STARTS TO DEVELOP.
THE SOVIET UNION HAD THEIR OWN REASONS WHY THEY DIDN'T WANT TO
BE TELLING THEIR PEOPLE ABOUT EXTRATERRESTRIALS.
>> WHY WOULD THE SOVIETS CENSOR THE DYATLOV PASS REPORTS?
WHY DID THE GOVERNMENT NOT WARN THE NATION OF A POTENTIALLY
DEADLY UFO THREAT? WHAT DID THE KREMLIN HAVE TO HIDE?
THE DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT OCCURS AT A MOMENT WHEN SECRECY MIGHT
DECIDE THE FATE OF THE WORLD. IN THE LATE 1940s, THE COLD WAR
BEGINS BETWEEN THE SOVIET UNION AND ITS RIVAL SUPERPOWER,
THE UNITED STATES. THE TWO NATIONS BEGIN A
DANGEROUS NUCLEAR ARMS RACE. IN THE EARLY 1950s, AMERICAN B52
BOMBER SQUADRONS ARMED WITH ATOMIC WEAPONS BEGIN FLYING
CONTINUOUS SORTIES TOWARD THE SOVIET HOMELAND, ONLY TO BE
CALLED BACK AT THE LAST SECOND. TO COUNTER THIS THREAT, THE
SOVIETS EXPAND THEIR NETWORK OF RADAR STATIONS TO DETECT ANY
INCURSION INTO ITS MASSIVE AIRSPACE. BUT IT ISN'T LONG
BEFORE THESE STATIONS BEGIN PICKING UP MORE THAN JUST
AMERICAN BOMBERS. UFOs BEGIN APPEARING WITH INCREASING
REGULARITY NEAR THE NATION'S MILITARY INSTALLATIONS.
IT'S AN ALARMING TREND THAT WILL REACH A PEAK AT THE END OF THE
DECADE. UNSEALED CASE FILE:
THE SVERDLOVSK INCIDENT. SVERDLOVSK, UKRAINE.
JUNE 1959. SOVIET RADAR DETECTS A UFO
APPROACHING A NEARBY NUCLEAR TEST FACILITY. MILITARY
PERSONNEL MAKE VISUAL CONTACT WITH THE SAUCER-SHAPED UFO THAT
BEGINS HOVERING OVER THE BASE. A FIGHTER JET SCRAMBLES TO MEET
THE MYSTERIOUS THREAT. BUT AS IT APPROACHES, THE SAUCER TAKES
EVASIVE ACTION, ZIG-ZAGGING OUT OF HARM'S WAY WITH LIGHTNING
SPEED, AND THEN RETURNING TO LOOM OVERHEAD.
THE STANDOFF CONTINUES FOR 24 TENSE HOURS BEFORE THE UFO FLIES
OFF WITHOUT WARNING OR EXPLANATION. THE SVERDLOVSK
INCIDENT UNDERSCORES THE DANGER POSED BY UFOs AT A CRITICAL TIME
IN HISTORY. RIVAL SUPERPOWERS ARE MAKING THEIR FIRST STEPS
INTO A VAST NEW REALM. BUT BEHIND THE SCENES, THE
ENDEAVOUR WILL LEAVE BOTH FACED WITH A TROUBLING NEW QUESTION.
IS SOMEONE ALREADY OUT THERE? COMING UP, THE WORLD'S TWO MOST
POWERFUL LEADERS BECOME ALLIES IN THE FACE OF AN IMPENDING
ALIEN THREAT. AND UFOs BRING THE WORLD TO THE BRINK OF
ARMAGEDDON.
THIS IS "UNSEALED: ALIEN FILES." EXPOSING THE BIGGEST SECRET
ON PLANET EARTH.
>> WELCOME BACK TO "UNSEALED: ALIEN FILES."
LIKE THE UNITED STATES, THE SOVIET UNION SUPPRESSED DECADES
OF UFO REPORTS. MANY OF THESE FILES CONTAINED DEADLY SECRETS.
BUT ACCORDING TO SOME EXPERTS, IN THE 1960s, THE WORLD'S TWO
MOST PROMINENT MEN MADE AN UNPRECEDENTED ATTEMPT TO LIFT
THE VEIL OF SECRECY SURROUNDING UFOs. IN THE END, IT MAY HAVE
BEEN THEIR UNDOING.
>> WE CHOOSE TO GO TO THE MOON...
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
WE CHOOSE TO GO TO THE MOON IN THIS DECADE AND DO THE OTHER
THINGS, NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE EASY, BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD.
BECAUSE THAT GOAL WILL SERVE TO ORGANIZE AND MEASURE THE BEST OF
OUR ENERGIES AND SKILLS. >> 1961.
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ANNOUNCES AMERICA'S INTENTION TO
LAND A MAN ON THE MOON. POLITICALLY, IT IS AN ATTEMPT
TO KEEP PACE WITH THE SOVIET UNION IN THE SPACE RACE.
BUT MANY EXPERTS BELIEVE THAT BEHIND THE SCENES, THE MOON
MISSION WAS ABOUT MUCH MORE THAN NATIONAL PRIDE.
>> THE REAL REASON WHY PRESIDENT KENNEDY WANTED TO GET MEN TO THE
MOON WAS THAT HE WAS AWARE THAT THIS WAS A WAY IN WHICH THE
NATIONAL SECURITY APPARATUS IN THE UNITED STATES COULD SHARE
INFORMATION ABOUT UFOs. FROM THE EARLY 1950s, NATIONAL SECURITY
PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES WERE AWARE THAT THERE WOULD BE ALIEN
BASES ON THE MOON. >> THE PRESIDENT BELIEVES THE
SOVIETS HAVE THEIR OWN SECRET ALIEN FILES AND SUSPECTS THEY
ARE WORKING WITH RECOVERED UFO TECHNOLOGY IN THEIR TOP-SECRET
BASE AT KAPUSTIN YAR. BUT THE CIA KEEPS THE MOST
SENSITIVE UFO INTELLIGENCE HIDDEN FROM THE PRESIDENT.
KENNEDY REALIZES THAT THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN RACE HANGS IN THE
BALANCE. IMMEDIATE ACTION IS NEEDED TO PREVENT THE MOON FROM
FALLING INTO ENEMY HANDS-- HUMAN OR OTHERWISE.
HE DECIDES TO USE THE MOON MISSION AS MEANS TO FORCE THE
CIA TO BEGIN SHARING VITAL UFO INFORMATION.
UNKNOWN TO KENNEDY, KHRUSHCHEV, TOO, IS CONCERNED ABOUT ALIEN
ACTIVITY, LEADING TO AN UNPRECEDENTED SHOW OF TRUST
BETWEEN THE TWO GLOBAL RIVALS. NOVEMBER 12, 1963, SOVIET
PREMIER NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV HAD AGREED WITH PRESIDENT KENNEDY
THAT THE SOVIET UNION AND THE UNITED STATES WOULD JOINTLY
LAUNCH MISSIONS TO THE MOON, AND THAT PART OF THIS
AGREEMENT REQUIRED THE INTELLIGENCE DIVISIONS OF
BOTH THE SOVIET UNION AND THE UNITED STATES TO SHARE ALL
INFORMATION CONCERNING UFOs. >> BUT JUST 10 DAYS AFTER THE
TWO LEADERS COME TO TERMS, THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENS.
KENNEDY IS ASSASSINATED IN DALLAS. AND LESS THAN A YEAR
LATER, KHRUSHCHEV IS REMOVED FROM OFFICE.
WAS THIS A COINCIDENCE? OR WAS THIS SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
SOMEHOW TIED TO THE TWO LEADER'' SECRET AGREEMENT TO SHARE UFO
INTELLIGENCE? DID SOMEONE OF SOMETHING
ORCHESTRATE THEIR FALL FROM POWER?
IN THE YEARS THAT FOLLOW, THE TWO COMPETING SUPERPOWERS
WILL FIND THEMSELVES THE TARGETS OF DANGEROUS ALIEN INTERFERENCE.
BUT NOT IN SPACE. IN MARCH 1967,
A UFO APPEARS OVER THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS FACILITY AT
MALMSTROM AIR FORCE BASE IN MONTANA, RENDERING ITS WARHEADS
INOPERABLE. IT'S THE FIRST IN A STRING OF INCIDENTS THAT SEE
UFOs TARGETING NUCLEAR WEAPONS FACILITIES. ONE EVENT WILL PUSH
THE WORLD TO THE BRINK OF ALL-OUT NUCLEAR WAR.
UNSEALED CASE FILE: THE USOVO INCIDENT.
USOVO, OCTOBER 4, 1982. WITNESSES REPORT STRANGE LIGHTS
IN THE SKY OVER THE NEARBY NUCLEAR MISSILE BASE.
THEY DART BACK AND FORTH IN A SERIES OF DAZZLING MOVES.
SUDDENLY, THE BASE CONTROL PANEL SPRINGS TO LIFE. IN A LATER
DEPOSITION, MAJOR M. DAVIDOVICH KATAMAN WILL LATER STATE THAT HE
"OBSERVED SPONTANEOUS ILLUMINATION OF ALL DISPLAYS."
COMPLEX LAUNCH CODES ARE BEING ENTERED BY UNSEEN HANDS.
THE MISSILES ARE PREPARING TO FIRE. FOR 15 HEART-STOPPING
SECONDS, BASE PERSONNEL WATCH HELPLESSLY AS THE WORLD TEETERS
ON THE BRINK OF ARMAGEDDON. BUT THEN, JUST AS SUDDENLY AS
THE LAUNCH SEQUENCE BEGAN, THE SYSTEM SHUTS DOWN, AND THE
LIGHTS OUTSIDE DISAPPEAR. THE INCIDENT RAISES PERHAPS THE
MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION OF OUR TIME--WHY WOULD ALIEN BEINGS TOY
WITH THE ULTIMATE WEAPON? COMING UP, THE POSSIBLE ANSWER
TO WHY UFOs TAMPERED WITH THE WORLD'S DEADLIEST WEAPONS.
THIS IS "UNSEALED: ALIEN FILES." EXPOSING THE BIGGEST SECRET
ON PLANET EARTH.
>> WELCOME BACK TO "UNSEALED: ALIEN FILES."
THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW. TELL US YOUR STORY. GET INVOLVED
IN THE FIGHT TO UNSEAL THE TRUTH NOW.
ACCORDING TO REPORTS, IN 1982, UFOs TAMPERED WITH A SOVIET
NUCLEAR FACILITY, PUSHING THE WORLD TO THE BRINK OF
ARMAGEDDON. BUT THIS WASN'T THE FIRST INCIDENT OF ITS KIND.
IN 1967, A UFO REPORTEDLY DISARMED AN ENTIRE MISSILE SILO
AT MALMSTROM AIR FORCE BASE IN MONTANA. THE QUESTION IS,
WHY WERE ALIENS TAMPERING WITH THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL
NUCLEAR ARSENALS DURING THE COLD WAR? UFOLOGIST JOHN GREENWALD
BELIEVES THERE ARE NO EASY ANSWERS.
>> LET'S SAY EXTRATERRESTRIALS TRULY ARE APPEARING OVER OUR
MILITARY INSTALLATIONS. WE HAVE TO ASK OURSELVES WHY. IS THERE
A MESSAGE TO THAT? BUT I THINK WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO THEM
TRYING TO DISARM OUR NUCLEAR WEAPONS OR TO INSTILL FEAR THAT
OUR MILITARY TECHNOLOGY WILL PALE COMPARED TO WHAT THEY HAVE,
I DON'T THINK THEY NEED TO DO THAT.
>> GREENWALD BELIEVES THAT IF ALIENS ARE HERE, THEY AREN'T
HERE TO TEACH US A LESSON OR OFFER EASY ANSWERS, BUT THAT
THEIR PRESENCE ALONE MIGHT FORCE US TO START QUESTIONING OUR
PETTY DIFFERENCES. AND IF ALIENS ARE MONITORING OUR PROGRESS,
IT COULD MEAN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PEACEFUL CONTACT WITH
HUMANITY AND THE OBLITERATION... OF PLANET EARTH.
THIS IS "UNSEALED: ALIEN FILES." EXPOSING THE BIGGEST SECRET
ON PLANET EARTH.