Now, based on several underwater UFO encounters, it appears that their vicinity is not just limited to space, but they also appear to have a secret base on Earth, more specifically underwater.
Unidentified submersible objects (NOSIs) have gained popularity over the years, despite being much less common than typical UFO sightings. Underwater UFO encounters have been reported all over the world. In this article, we will look at some encounters of people from Russia with UFOs and aliens underwater.
Russian ship Maria encounters underwater UFOs
First on the list is a 1936 encounter between the Russian civilian transport ship Maria and a strange anomalous object while crossing the Pacific Ocean from Leningrad. Crew members saw a mysterious object rise straight out of the water at some point during their journey. It hovered in the sky for a moment before landing on the surface of the nearby Earth. The ship’s captain, intrigued, tried to contact the missing object, but to no avail. So he sent a small boat to investigate the whole affair. But as soon as the boat approached the object, it abruptly accelerated in the opposite direction, making pursuit impossible.
Along with him, the five members of the ship disappeared into a mist that appeared out of nowhere. The captain tried to locate the five occupants but they were not found, so he proceeded to complete their delivery. Once the task was completed, the Maria Ship returned to the same route where it had found the anomalous object.
On the way back, however, when they followed the same path, the strangeness persisted. In the distance, close to where they had first seen the strange object, they saw what they described as a “boat made of a transparent material” and inside they saw what appeared to be three of the missing sailors who had set out in their small boat to investigate.
Upon being rescued, one of them cried and threw himself into the sea to drown, while the other two began to invent crazy stories. The two sailors told the captain and the other crew members that they had been abducted by the mysterious object. During the entire time they were aboard the UFO, they were surrounded by “strange entities with webbed fingers, dressed in dark, shiny suits.” In addition, the entities had frog-like faces and communicated telepathically. Two of the sailors telepathically agreed to stay with the aliens and disappeared without a trace. The other sailors were presumably held captive in a chamber for two days.
Then suddenly they were floating in this peculiar transparent vessel, eating unusual food that looked like tablets stored in transparent pockets, with presumably enough food in each tablet to keep a man alive for a day. When the three men were rescued, suddenly the mysterious transparent boat sank underwater. It was an inexplicable event for those sailors and no one knew what had happened. These two sailors and the anomalous object were never found again. It remained a mystery until now.
Soviet Navy Officer’s Encounter with Underwater UFOs
Another such encounter dates back to the early 1950s, when interest in flying saucers was at its peak. This encounter took place in the Black Sea, bordered by Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. It has a maximum depth of 7,257 feet and a total area of 168,500 square miles. The account was given by an unidentified Soviet Navy officer who served at the Sevastopol naval base. He said that while doing exercises aboard a ship, he witnessed something unthinkable.
He saw a metallic sphere rise from the water, hover over a battlecruiser, and then sink into the depths of the water behind the ship. This incident was witnessed by the crew on board, and they also reported that the strange object was completely smooth, with no windows or propulsion system. It also made no noise whatsoever. Even though a photo of the strange object was taken, no one knows where it is because the Soviet military kept everything secret.
Moving on, in 1965, a UFO was spotted in the Red Sea, which lies between Africa and Asia. It occurred when the crew of the ship Raduga was crossing the Red Sea. The crew claims to have witnessed “a sphere of fire” rising from the sea, pulling a column of water with it. They saw the object from two miles away and were told that the enigmatic object was about 200 feet in diameter. After hovering for some time at a height of about 150 feet, it illuminated the sea below and the mysterious object descended into the waves with a deafening roar.
The crew reported the entire incident to their superiors, but were warned not to reveal it to the public. The incident was kept secret for many years until ufologist and head of the Russian Ufology Research Center, Paul Stonehill, made it public. During the Cold War, he claims that Soviet submarines made several reports, including one of a nuclear submarine being followed by six unknown underwater objects traveling at great speeds before shooting into the air and disappearing.
Mr. Krapiva attended lectures given by senior Soviet nuclear-powered submarine officers. They served in the Soviet North at secret naval installations and bases.
The lectures sometimes deviated from the planned presentations and many fascinating stories were told. For example, episodes where Soviet sonar operators (military hydroacoustic technicians) “heard” strange “targets” at great depths. Their submarines were being chased by other “submarines”. The pursuers changed their speed at will – speeds that were far faster than any other similar craft in the world at that time. Lieutenant-Commander Oleg Sokolov confidentially informed the students that during the service while sailing his submarine he had observed through a periscope the rise of some strange object in the water. He could not identify it because he saw it through the periscope’s optical system. This underwater “takeoff” occurred in the early 1960s.
Head of Russian UFO Research Center Paul Stonehill
The Secrets of Russia’s USO
Reports of Soviet submarine encounters with underwater UFOs do not end there; they go further than that. In his book Russia’s USO Secrets, based on evidence from declassified records and testimonies of Russian military veterans, British UFO investigator Philip Mantle mentions a number of such occurrences involving Soviet submarines. One such report of a UFO encounter comes from Yury Beketov, a former commander of a nuclear submarine who claims that while maneuvering near the Bermuda Triangle, his submarine encountered an anomalous object.
We have repeatedly observed that instruments detect the movements of material objects at an unimaginable speed of about 230 knots (400 km per hour). It is difficult to reach such a speed on the surface – it is only possible in the air. The beings who created these material objects significantly exceed us in development.
Yuri Beketov
One bizarre case mentioned in the book claims that in 1951, a Soviet submarine spotted a large underwater object, measuring between 200 and 250 meters in length, emerging from the depths and heading towards the coast. The captain reportedly ordered depth charges to be dropped on the object, which initially had no impact, but eventually forced it to halt its upward trajectory, change course, and accelerate towards deeper waters. Certainly, in all of these cases, something seems strange and suspicious, as these anomalous objects are extremely active underwater and even in the air or on land.
In December 1977, during maneuvers near Novy Georgy Island, the crew of the fishing trawler Vasily Kiselev allegedly encountered a large donut-shaped object about 300 to 500 meters in diameter that rose from the surface of the water and hovered there. As soon as the object hovered, all of the trawler’s electrical systems and radar failed.
Surprisingly, the UFO hovered there for three hours until it again descended into deep water. After the UFO left, all electrical equipment returned to normal operation. However, despite the fact that the UFO hovered there for three hours, no photographs were taken.
Underwater UFO Encounter in Lake Baikal
During the summer of 1982, Major General V. Demyanko, Major of the Military Diving Service of the Engineering Forces of the Ministry of Defense, conducted training exercises for reconnaissance divers on Lake Baikal, located in the Trans-Baikal and Baikal Armed Forces of Western Siberia.
The divers were in the middle of their training when they saw three humanoid entities emerge from the icy, murky waters above them, dressed in tight-fitting silver suits and standing a whopping 10 feet tall. These entities were so enigmatic that they had no diving equipment, and intrigued by them, the commander sent a team of seven highly trained divers to capture one of the entities.
The divers went out with nets to capture the creatures, but as soon as they tried to throw the net at one of the creatures, they were thrown out of the water from a depth of 50 meters by an invisible force.
Decompression sickness caused by the rapid force eventually killed three of the divers. It was reported that the Soviet Ministry of Defense admitted that similar underwater beings had been seen in several deep-sea lakes across the country.
These sightings often coincided with the descent and emergence of giant disks and spheres, powerful luminescence emanating from the depths, and other unexplained phenomena. In addition, many extraterrestrial encounters have been reported near Lake Baikal.
There is another account reported by Oleg Chichulin who was on Lake Baikal in a boat instructing students and claims to have seen something really unusual.
There was a ball that was glowing. And then this ball began to fade, fade and blush. And it turned into a red ball. This red ball stayed in the water for a while and then it began to sink. And all this gradually, gradually went under the water. And it got dark.
Oleg Chichulin
The sequel is a 1977 report in which V. Alexandrov and G. Seliverstov turned off their searchlights while exploring a depth of 1,200 meters in a submersible to determine how far sunlight could travel. Out of nowhere, they were bathed in a strange light.
“It was as if our apparatus was illuminated from above and from the side by two strong searchlights. Just a minute later, the unknown searchlights went out and we found ourselves in total darkness.”
V. Alexandrov
There are many such encounters and the next account comes from Vyacheslav Lavretevich, who was sailing on Lake Baikal on his yacht.
We were on a yacht on Lake Baikal and a huge glowing disk flew under us. It blinded us and for a second it flew into the sky. We didn’t even have time to take any cameras or record a video, although many of us saw it. It was huge and illuminated our entire yacht. It was probably 500-700 meters in diameter, a huge disk. For three minutes it shone from below (the surface), and then abruptly left in a second. The show was huge, incredible. Beautiful and shocking.
Vyacheslav Lavretevich
Extraterrestrial Encounter in the Mediterranean Sea
Another report on the list dates from June 1984, when the Soviet tanker Gori, which was in the Mediterranean Sea at the time of the incident, was twenty nautical miles from the Strait of Gibraltar. While on deck, Alexander G. Globa and his second-in-command, S. Bolotov, witnessed a “strange polychromatic object” resembling “an upside-down frying pan” emerging from the water. Approximately 20 meters in diameter, it was described as being gray, metallic, and shiny with “many bright, sparkling lights” on its underside and with “waves” of protuberances on its outer shell.
The bottom of the strange object had a pipe sticking out of it. That pipe was so red it looked like it was on fire. The object rolled up and down “as if propelled by an invisible wave” for some time. When the object saw the Arab freighter approaching from the port side, it went and hovered over the freighter, according to the Arab Crew. Then the object shot up into the sky, emitting sparks and flames.
Mediterranean Sea
In the same year, Alexei Korzhev, commander of a Soviet submarine, reported an encounter in which his crew spotted two mysterious objects during routine training exercises at a secret location. This seemed suspicious, since no other submarines were supposed to be present in that area. Furthermore, the object they spotted was moving at an astonishing speed of about 200 mph (320 km/h) and making sudden adjustments in direction that defied the laws of physics. At that point, one of the objects was thrown straight out of the water and flew past them at high speed.
The submarine dove into the water and followed the object into the water and fired a beam that knocked out the submarine’s communications equipment. It then fired another beam, this time making a noise “like a cutter being used,” according to the crew. They thought the object was now attacking them, but it suddenly reversed course and sank into the ocean below, leaving the submarine unharmed.
Huge alien humanoids underwater
Strange reports of huge humanoid beings date back to the 1990s as well. In 1996, while hunting sharks in the Black Sea, a guy named B. Borovikov was surprised to observe three huge humanoid figures floating on the surface. The humanoids had bulging eyes, a humanoid face, and a milky white body. They also had some kind of fish tail. One of the creatures seemed to wave a webbed hand at him as he approached and then they all swam away into the darkness of the ocean again.
A similar account comes from the 1990s, when D. Povaliyayev was flying a hang glider over Kav Golov in the Leningrad area. His attention was drawn to huge humanoid “swimmers” in silvery suits in a lake below him, then the figures disappeared beneath the waves. The narratives we read here leave us wondering what we are to make of them. Does extraterrestrial life rule our oceans as it does our skies? It was certain that we had not yet discovered the origin of these extraterrestrial entities. Whatever happened, the reasons for this enigma are lost to history and the misplaced archives of UFO lore and will probably remain so for some time.
