Aliens Turned 23 Soviet Soldiers Into Stone? Declassified CIA File Sparks Debate

A declassified CIA document recently uncovered has rekindled interest among UFO buffs, describing a strange and frightening Cold War-era incident in Ukraine. The file says Soviet troops fought a flying saucer, which resulted in what the document calls an extraterrestrial counterattack that petrified 23 soldiers.

The report, declassified in 2000 and initially spotlighted by Canadian tabloid Weekly World News and Ukraine’s Holos Ukrayiny, has discovered a second life on the internet and even gained traction on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. The document cites a 250-page KGB report uncovered by the CIA after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, purportedly including eyewitness reports and creepy photos of what was left behind.

CIA Report: UFO Encounter in Soviet Ukraine

The document reports on a training exercise in which Soviet soldiers sighted a “low-flying spaceship in the shape of a saucer.” One soldier fired a surface-to-air missile at the vehicle, hitting it and causing it to crash on the ground.

The report asserts that five small humanoid creatures with “large heads and large black eyes” appeared from the wreckage. What happened next defies all logical explanation, “In a few seconds, the spheres grew much bigger and exploded by flaring up with an extremely bright light. At that very instant, 23 soldiers who had watched the phenomenon turned into … stone poles. Only two soldiers who stood in the shade and were less exposed to the luminous explosion survived.”

“A Horrific Picture of Revenge”

The incident has been described as “a horrific picture of revenge on the part of extraterrestrial creatures” by one CIA agent. Soviet officials allegedly took both the petrified soldiers and the wreckage to a secret base outside Moscow. Scientists eventually determined that the living cells of the soldiers had turned into a limestone-like material as a result of exposure to an unidentified source of light.

“If the KGB file corresponds to reality, this is an extremely menacing case,” the CIA observed. “The Aliens possess weapons and technology that go beyond all our assumptions. They can stand up for themselves if attacked.”

Skepticism Persists

The supposed incident, estimated to have occurred between 1989 and 1990, first gained public attention in 1993. Despite the chilling details, former CIA agent Mike Baker expressed strong doubts during a segment on Fox News. “If there was an incident, regardless of the nature of the incident, I suspect that the actual report doesn’t look much like what has now come out from five or six or seven iterations of what originally was [written],” he said.

Although authenticity is still questionable, the re-emerged CIA document has indeed generated discussion, adding yet another bizarre chapter to Cold War-era UFO history.