UFO phenomenon was strictly tabooed in USSR
The
world celebrates the International UFO Day on July 2. Oleg Stolyarov
became the first person in Russia who chose the UFO subject for his
doctoral dissertation.
The world’s first-ever
scientific work dedicated to strange objects in the sky was penned by
Carl Yung, a renowned Swiss psychologist. He equated the phenomenon of
the UFO with Maya myths and the symbols of unconscious collective. He
returned to the subject in 50 years in his article “UFOs as Rumors.”
US
professor Joseph Allen Hynek founded the Center for UFO Studies in
1974. Several other scientists dedicated their works to the mysterious
phenomenon afterwards, but no one dared to do it in the Soviet Union.
“That
was a tabooed subject in the USSR. Any piece of information about the
flying saucers was treasured. Any public jokes about the UFO were
strictly forbidden,” Mr. Stolyarov said.
The
situation changed drastically in the beginning of the 1980s. Everyone in
the country started speaking about the phenomenon. Newspaper articles,
TV and radio programs about the UFO became plentiful. Many respectable
scientists even lost their interest in the mystery because of the
national boom.
The UFO Day is celebrated on July 2
in honor of the so-called Roswell incident. An unidentified aircraft,
which many consider to be of extraterrestrial origin, crashed on the
outskirts of Roswell on July 2, 1947.
On July 8,
1947, many US newspapers wrote that the US Air Force found the debris of
the unknown aircraft on the crash site in Roswell. General Roger Ramey
rejected the information several hours later. The official explained
that it was not an alien spacecraft, but a top secret space probe that
crashed near the town. The probe, Ramey said, was launched within the
scope of the program to observe the nuclear tests of the USSR.
Major
Jesse Marcel, a former intelligence officer, said in1947 that the story
with the probe was not true. The major said that the debris found on
the crash site was of extraterrestrial origin indeed.
There
is no evidence to prove the fact that it was a UFO that crashed in
Roswell. However, over 200,000 people visit the town every year in the
beginning of July to take part in seminars, lectures and the alien
parade.
The UFO industry brings $5.2 million of profit to the town every year.
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