Some more UFO stuff

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Strange story I stumbled across in the tales of the CIA reading room.

Cosmic Revenge by UFO Medusa caused Petrified Soldiers in Siberia, March 27, 1993.


PAPER REPORTS ALLEGED EVIDENCE ON MISHAP INVOLVING UFO

UFO Turns Soldiers to Stone

This is a truly outstanding tale of tabloid newspapers, bizarre declassified CIA documents, and 23 Soviet soldiers killed in an extremely odd fashion by a flying saucer. I had previously come across this story in the earlier days of my research, but had dismissed it out of hand because of how sensational it seemed, and due to the only places in which it was widely reported being tabloid newspapers. However, recently I have managed to unearth the genuine declassified CIA files on the incident using the FOIA archives online - but these have only left me more confused than ever as to what exactly this incident really was.


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I have a theory as to what might've happened here, and as to why this exceedingly odd CIA document exists. I would wager that this information was drawn to the attention of the Central Intelligence Agency thanks to an article published in the Weekly World News, and then some bright spark in the Government offices traced the tale back to the Ukrainian newspapers, which were claiming that the CIA were in possession of the 250-page document when they really were not. The animosity between the USA and the Soviet Nations might've led the researchers of this story to believe that this could've been some sort of smear tactic against the CIA, meant to associate them with ridiculous tales of UFO attacks. This may or may not have been true, obviously, but I would wager that it was not a deliberate attack, and was rather just a piece of badly-thought-out yellow journalism. Thus, the CIA investigated the matter and wrote a file up about the incident because someone had alleged that they were involved in it, and then when the story was inevitably discovered to be bogus, the file was cast aside and automatically declassified later - only to stir up interest in modern tabloid newspapers (mostly of the British variety, oddly) and become a story reported as being factual. That's my best guess as to why this file exists - but who knows? Perhaps 23 soldiers really were petrified by basilisks from beyond the stars...

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