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Kidding Gullible Believers: The Truth Behind the “KGB UFO Files”

by Antonio Huneeus
FATE Magazine, January 1999
Reprinted by permission

Hollywood loves sequels, so it shouldn't be surprising, after the high-ratings hoopla surrounding the Ray Santilli "alien autopsy" footage a couple of years ago, that a new UFOlogical blockbuster was recently unleashed.

On September 13, cable network TNT broadcast The Secret KGB UFO Files, a slick and entertaining 90-minute program produced by Associated Television International and hosted by Roger Moore. Several Russian and American experts were interviewed, including this columnist.

The show got off to a good start, showing three very interesting gun camera films taken from three different UFO scramble missions involving MIG fighters. These films are titled "Declassified Soviet Government Material," and Moore stated that the Soviet Air Force footage was "obtained by a group of Russian UFOlogists and declassified by the USSR's Ministry of Defense." This UFO footage is very dear: One shows two dark oval objects merging in the air and another depicts a cylindrical object moving at incredible speed.

The bulk of the program, however, devoted to a more dubious endeavor: an alleged UFO crash and alien autopsy footage, in all its glory or infamy. The key expert was Verniamin G. Vereschagin, a Russian UFOlogist and author whom literally no one in the international UFO field had ever heard of.

Vereschagin had quite a story to tell. According to him, many residents of the Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg) region in central Russia had seen UFOs and later an explosion on November 27,1968. The event was allegedly published in the Soviet-controlled Sverdlovsk newspaper. In the spring of 1969, farmers in the area of Berezovsky found strange debris and contacted the KGB. When a crashed disc was discovered in the forest, Soviet troops were called in. KGB cameramen filmed the site and the troops' activity, and later, the autopsy of an alien occupant.

I feel entitled to comment at some length about this affair because of my involvement in the show. The producers used a sound bite of me endorsing the film: "This is the best footage of an alleged crashed UFO or dead alien that I've seen so far." But they conveniently left out my preceding line (which was tacked on later): "If this is real, and I do not have the elements to make that judgment...'" I was interviewed for more than half an hour about the general history of UFOs in Russia, but other than my short comment on the 1986 Dalnegorsk incident and physical evidence, they used only my remarks on the film.

More:
http://dagmar.lunarpages.com/~parasc2/nb/articles/kgbUFOhoax.htm