Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about Devil's Grave UFO Crash.
That's correct, Devil's Grave UFO Crash.
Now, if you use just a little bit of artistic license with the
name there, we're talking about a case that happened in a region
of the old Soviet Union called Shaitaan Mazar, which translates
into Grave of the Devil. I found this article over on
ufoinsight.com. It looks like it's been updated
maybe on October 12, 2021. Original article was August 22nd
2021. Written by Marcus Louth.
It says the Grave of the Devil case, UFO crash and retrieval in
Russia Following the Glasnost agreement of the 1980s, coupled
with the collapse of the Soviet Union, a surge of UFO reports
would enter the wider public domain, some of which are as
intriguing as they are startling.
One particular account alleges that a UFO crashed in the
Shaitan Mazar. That's spelled SHAITAN Mazar
MAZAR, which translates as Grave of the Devil, located in
Tianshan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan near the Chinese border.
Not only did the incident feature a dramatic chase and
intercept mission involving multiple mega fighter jets, but
it would result in several search and retrieval missions of
various successes. The incident is perhaps one of
the best documented cases of both a UFO sighting and crash.
And what's more, as we shall see, it is just one of several
such claims of a crashed vehicle of another world to come out of
Russia in the final years of the Cold War and the Soviet Union.
Was this perhaps due to the imminent collapse of the
communist regime behind Aaron Curtin?
Did these apparent visitors from another world have an interest
in such matters? Yeah, pretty wild stuff.
Of course, you know, when the Soviet Union collapsed, a lot of
their a lot of their military stuff was sold.
If you're if you've ever seen the movie Lords of War, kind of
think does a pretty good job describing how the country was
just pretty much picked clean. Hard to imagine they wouldn't
have sold this stuff too. Maybe they did.
It says the account comes in to us specifically from Russian
ufologist Nikolay Subatin and e-mail Baccarin and it is from
their research that the following is based.
It goes on down and says, according to the account, at
around 5:00 PM on August 28th of 1991, a huge unknown object was
spotted over the Caspian Sea. Of course, the Caspian Sea has
all kinds of stories itself to tell about UFOs and
extraterrestrials. It was tracked by radar
operators at the tracking station on the Megashlok
Peninsula with estimates that were around 2000 feet long and
around 300 feet wide and it was at an altitude of 21,000 feet.
Of more concerning, it was moving at an approximate speed
of 6000 mph. After issuing the standard
friend or foe request and receiving no reply, the tracking
station notified the Cosmodrome at Caputsin Yard.
They would confirm they too had the object on their radars and
that no other aircraft from their facility was in the
region. It was at this point that a
military alert was sounded. Moments later, 2 Mig 29 fighter
jets that were already airborne on a routine mission were sent
toward the region in an attempt to intercept the invading
object. At the same time, 2 further Migs
were scrambled from the ground to join them.
Their orders were simple, have the unknown craft land and if
they refuse, shoot it. A short time later all four of
The Jets were over the Aral Sea and soon had radar followed by
visual confirmation. They would describe the unknown
aerial vehicle as being metallic Gray and elongated.
At this point the leader of the Migs issued another friend or
foe request before ordering it to fall in behind so they could
guide it to the ground once more.
They received no response. The Migs flying around 2500 feet
from the object began to close in.
The closer the Mig fighters got to the object, the more detailed
they could make out. For example, there appeared to
be some writing or symbols on the green exterior, but the
pilots claimed these were an unknown language.
They also noticed what appeared to be two portholes at what they
assumed was the front of the object.
With the object, or at least their occupants, seeming little
concerned about the Mig fighters all all around it, the flight
leader radioed to the ground control for further instruction.
Rather than open fire at this stage, they were ordered to
close in on the craft a little tighter.
Once they were parallel to the vehicle, they were ordered to
fire warning shots in front of it.
The Migs reduced their distance from the object from about 2500
feet to around 1500 feet to on each side.
However, when they went to fire the warning shots, there was no
response. In fact, all the electrical
systems suddenly went down. Even worse, the plane's engines
started to fail. Forced to head back to base as
best they could, the object soon took off into the distance.
Incidentally, the plane's controls and engines recovered
once the object had moved away from the fighters.
In the meantime, radar operators continued to follow the object's
progress, noting that it appeared to be heading back to
the RLC. And what's more, operators
calculated its speed at an almost unbelievable 42,000 mph.
That is really fast. They warned other military and
civilian airfields in the approximate flight path of the
object of its presence. Now worried that a collision
with another aircraft was a distinct possibility, they
watched the object for around 45 minutes.
Then, without warning, it simply vanished from the radar screens.
It wasn't, however, the end of the incident.
Over the following weeks, there was much discussion and military
briefings regarding the incident, as well as preliminary
investigations. It would soon come to light that
according to local rumors, on the day of the incident, several
members of the local population witnessed a huge object crash in
a Shaitaan Mazar Mountain region.
By the end of September, an expedition team was formed with
a view to locating the downed craft.
This unit was made of a combination of UFO researchers
from the UFO organization Sakhufan led by Anton Bogotov,
several locals who knew the area well, and several experienced
mountain climbers. The environment of the Tianshen
Mountains they were about to enter could be far from
forgiving as placed to spot like a moonscape.
The search was two weeks old, but no sign of the crash site or
the wreckage was found. However, rumors reached the team
through local messengers that several local residents had
indeed found the site. Of concern was that they
appeared to have suffered burns shortly after venturing there,
and bizarrely, their watches all ceased working.
The government eventually headed to the Sara Desert River Valley,
determined to visit the location of the apparent crash.
However, after a further two weeks in the harsh snowy
environment and with several members of the search team
suffering from frostbite, they made the decision to head back
to their base camp. Ultimately, the search mission
was unsuccessful. The rumors and local gossip of
the UFO crash, though, continued, and so did talk of
the event among high-ranking Russian officials.
Despite the fact that the first team had failed to locate the
crash even after a month of searching, Russian authorities
were looking to launch a second attempt.
When the Russian Air Force claimed to have located the
wreckage in November of 1991, it appeared their fortunes had
turned. However, as the unit attempted
to hoist a piece of the wreckage, it caused the
helicopter to crash. All those on board were killed.
Sakophon was informed of the incident.
That's the folks that were the UFO group trying to investigate
this thing, as well as the fact that a new church was to be
arranged for the late spring or early summer of 1992.
This time though, the unit was much larger and under the
overall leader of a retired Russian major, German Chekhov.
What's more, rather than just set out for the crash site, all
of those involved had to undergo training and pass multiple
examinations and tests. Ultimately, when the second
search mission set out in June 1992, they did so as 3 units,
each covering a different area around the location of the
Discovery helicopter crew the previous November.
Within several weeks, after combing much of the area, they
discovered what appeared to be the site where the UFO had come
down. The huge object had broken in
two and set on a plateau in the grave of the Devil region.
Many of the crew would recall how there appeared to be an
energy of sorts coming from the object, an energy that was
almost palpable even when at a distance of around 5000 feet.
As they moved closer to the downed other worldly vehicle,
however, the feelings of jubilation began to turn to
sudden and unexplained feelings of anxiousness and fear, and the
closer they got, the stronger these feelings became.
As they got closer still, various electronic devices and
equipment began to malfunction. At the same time, there was an
electrical feel to the air, which now appeared very humid.
Even stranger, when they checked their compasses, all of these
needles were pointed directly to the monstrous craft.
Due to many of their devices malfunctioning, most of the
planned test had to be abandoned.
Despite not being able to get any closer than around 2500 feet
to the cripple craft, they could take plenty of details visually.
As the unit looked around the scene around them, they were
able to work out a likely scenario as to what had happened
to this futuristic vehicle. Above where they stood was a
large overhanging Cliff. It appeared to those present
that the object had crashed into this overhang which had caused
it to break in two and come crashing down to the ground,
skidding around 5000 feet before stopping.
It was also clear that an explosion likely to have
happened as a result of the impact with the overhang was the
cause of the craft having broken A2.
The resulting gaping holes in the two sides of the object
allowed the search unit to see inside.
Although they could see no sign of a crew, they could see
strange beams and flooring of the craft.
There was also considerable damage to the front of the
vehicle where it had hit the ground.
The symbols reported by the Mig pilots on the day the object
appeared were also clearly visible.
Copies were quickly drawn and all those who studied them
attested they had not seen anything like them and so it
could not be matched to any known human language.
Incidentally, the search unit managed to capture multiple
photographs of the down craft. However it would appear that the
energy field ruined the films as all came severely darkened and
blurred. This was much the same for the
attempts to video the fine, with the video cameras not working at
all. The unit also discovered the
remains of the wrecked helicopter, now theorizing that
these strong magnetic fields could very well have caused the
helicopter's equipment to malfunction and ultimately send
it crashing to the harsh train below.
To the harsh train below. They did find it a little
perplexing and perhaps unnerving that there was no sign of any of
the bodies. As Nikolai Subatin and e-mail
background asked, might it be that the military secretly
recovered the bodies? If so, why?
Although 1/3 mission to the site was in the planning almost
immediately after the discovery of the crash craft, it would not
go ahead until six years later, in August of 1998.
And even then, it was a severely depleted effort, not least as
they failed to secure the services and funding of German
Sekhov, who had led the successful second mission.
As the Russian economy was in a severe downturn, he declined to
become involved with the third attempt so he could concentrate
on his already struggling businesses.
They would find the site once more.
However, all that remained were the markers they themselves had
left to mark the points of the craft.
The wreckage itself was nowhere to be found.
They suspected that the military had discreetly returned
following the discovery of the craft and retrieved it
successfully. Perhaps the fact that the ground
had seemingly been planned as to take away any evidence that an
impact had happened backed up their suspicion.
There's much to contemplate from this apparent case of crashed
UFO. It is certainly an intriguing
account, and one that has details that arise at other such
cases of downed UFOs. However, while the credibility
of the source here is not a question, there are several
sticking points that are perhaps worth examining.
The fact that no photographs or video footage were captured, for
example, falls nicely into the hands of skeptics.
After all, if we assume that electromagnetic energy did ruin
the film and cause cameras to stop working, we might assume
that authorities would have dispatched a plane on a
photographic mission, or even send another unit to the area
and have them photograph it from much further away.
And what should we think of the third search mission?
Did the military remove the wreckage of the craft and time
and the time it took to organize it?
And might his concerns of business not only been the only
reason that Chekov declined to set out to the site a third
time? Might it be giving his military
a background, as speculative as it might be, that he was fully
aware that the craft was no longer there?
Well, maybe he was just told to back off.
That could be. Or maybe some ET situation
happened where this craft was part of a bigger fleet and maybe
their own own kind came back and got them.
Then it goes on talks about another crash here.
Apparently that happened in 1989, it says near the Zinni
Chagam. We'll leave that one for another
day. I had to have another article
here I wanted to look at on this crash over what we're calling
Devil's Grave. This comes to us from Brat
guides.com. It's got some cool pictures.
Man, really where this thing happened at.
It's really a desolate area. The title of this is The Strange
Tale of Shaitan Mazar UFO written by Lawrence Mitchell.
Lawrence Mitchell investigates one of the country's strangest
encounters by firsty admin. So they did.
February 12, 2019. Very beautiful stark area here,
a little green, but I mean other than some of these small juniper
type pine trees at the bottom of the hill, nothing on these
mountains, just it almost looks like someplace in Nevada or
something. It says in the early morning of
August 28th, 1991, an extremely large flying object described as
being 600 meters long and 100 meters in diameter.
So what are we looking like? 800 feet long or something and
350 feet in diameter? Pretty good sized craft showed
up over the Caspian Sea, tracked by the Soviet radar station on
the Mangleschek Peninsula. The radar showed the object to
be traveling at a speed of around 960 kilometers per hour.
What's that? 600 miles an hour and an
altitude of 6600 meters, say 20,000 feet.
Alarmed by this unexplained manifestation, the Soviet
authorities immediately broadcast a friend or foe radio
signal, but it received no answer.
Knowing that no test flights were taking place in the
vicinity, the operators at Manglishak issued a military
alert. 2 Mig 29 fighters were diverted from a routine mission
to intervene over the RLC and their pilots were shocked to see
organic Zeppelin shaped object. When the vessel came within
range. The UFO was described as being
metallic grey with two portals toward its front and strange
green symbols at the rear. So here we have a little clearer
picture of this saying this metallic grey looking craft.
The skin of the craft is not green is the other account.
Kind of insinuated, but it's actually these green colored
letters that are printed or maybe engraved into this
metallic Gray craft. And why would they do that?
There was still no response from the craft, so it was decided
that the pilots should fire warning shots across this flight
path, forcing it to follow the Migs to land.
However, the pilots could not fire as when they drew close
there was no response from their flight controls, so they had to
abandon their mission. As they withdrew, the pilots
regained control of their planes and were able to make a safe
landing. Ground radar continued to track
the vessel, which made a zigzag course back over the RLC at an
astonishing speed estimated at 6800 kilometers an hour.
After a total of 45 minutes of track of radar tracking, the
craft vanished from the radar screen somewhere in the region
of Lake Issaquahl and Kyrgyzstan.
By the end of September, rumors started to emerge that a large
object had crashed in a Shaytan Mazar gorge near the source of
the Sarjac River in the central 10 Shen Mountains of eastern
Kyrgyzstan. Witnesses from the region
claimed they had seen an immense object crash deep into the
mountains of the east. At the same time, rumors spread
that some locals had found the crash site but had received
radiation burns when they approached the wreckage.
An expedition was set up to investigate.
A UFO group travelled into the mountains for two weeks but
could not find any evidence of a crash and eventually had to
leave, suffering from frostbite and exposure.
You can see from these pictures this is this area is just, it's
literally the middle of nowhere. A report came to the attention
of the same Russian UFO group in November 1991 that the Russian
Air Force had found the crash site, but while attempting to
hoist the wreckage from the snow, a helicopter had crashed,
killing all on board. As it was winter, there was no
opportunity to explore the crash site further until the following
year. The group prepared to make a
journey to the site in June 1992.
This time they found the crash site, but as they approached
within 1000 meters, So what little over half a mile of the
craft, they suffered from an overwhelming sense of dread and
fatigue. In addition, the group's
instruments started to fail spectacularly, as if they were
being affected by a powerful electromagnetic field emanating
from the wreckage. They were not able to approach
closer than 800 meters as some of the team were experiencing
radiation burns. Photographs were taken, but
these turned out to be hopelessly overexposed and
useless, as did the videotapes they tried to record. 1/3
journey was planned a few months later, but this was ill-fated
and ended up being delayed for six years.
By the time they returned, the UFO was gone, as was the Russian
helicopter. Whether the name or location of
Shaitaan Mazar Devil's Grave has any real bearing on the story,
or is merely therefore dematic effect is unclear.
The district of Shaitaan Mazar. Close to the source of the
Sarrijak river already holds some mystical intrigue for the
local population as there is said to be a sacred stream here
which is gifted with mysterious healing properties.
Today, the name Shaitan Mazar will forever be linked with a
strange and perhaps a procifal incident that is claimed to have
taken place on the eve of the birth of the Kurzik Republic.
Is also the name adopted by an American heavy metal band, as it
turns out. Well, pretty cool story there.
Such a communication gap though when it comes to these UFO
crashes in other countries, let alone when it's someplace that's
in far eastern Russia, right there near the Chinese border.
Of course, this is over 30 years ago.
If that would have happened today, I can imagine it might
even be a race between the Chinese and the Russians as to
who gets there. So while we have all this talk
about hidden UFO craft here in the States, we've got Gary Nolan
recently implying that he knows where it's at.
You know what this materials at, but he can't tell us.
Doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
Tom the longest come out years ago saying that he had acquired
some other people have supposedly had UFO meta material
over the years. For crying out loud.
They, they had the material that was discovered there near
Council Bluffs, IA I believe back in the 60s or whatever.
Nolan, they just did test on that recently and found out that
it's a very, very strange combination of iron or whatever.
I don't know how it ended up in this cornfield.
Seems like it would have been pretty hard to carry there from
a local factory which was several 100 yards away of the
amount they were talking about at least.
So we have case after case after case of UFO meta material being
bound. If there's UFO meta material,
then doesn't understand the reason that there's UFOSI mean
that material had to come somewhere.
And so it seems like lately we've been having a lot of the
UFO, the mate guys come out, Louis Elizondo and a few others
that have claimed that well, we know where they're keeping this
stuff out, implying that it's at Wright Patterson.
Who knows, right? Thing that we forget is that
these things could have crashed all over the place and it looks
like it was a good case to be made for this one here going
down in Kyrgyzstan. Now where it ended up at, who
knows I mean you had you had Russian military personnel
selling all kinds of arms at that time, it's hard to believe
that the CIA wouldn't have been in there to purchase this thing.
Where the stuff is at, we probably never will know because
if they get their hands on something like that.
And so I guess we can just kind of keep our eyes open and see if
whoever left these things here, we'll come back to get them.
Until next time. This is UFO warning over now.