The Soviet Union led the Space Race with groundbreaking achievements, including the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, the first animal in orbit, and the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, in 1963. While NASA’s Apollo 11 mission landed the first man on the moon, the Soviets were pioneers in lunar exploration and achieved another feat: sending a spacecraft to Venus’s atmosphere. Amid these triumphs, a Soviet cosmonaut revealed shocking secrets before his death, unveiling hidden truths about the cosmos.
The Venera Missions: Conquering Venus
Venus, with its 900°F surface temperature, sulfuric acid rain, and 92 times Earth’s atmospheric pressure, posed immense challenges. Despite early failures, the Soviet Venera program succeeded with Venera 4 in 1967, which landed on Venus and transmitted data for 90 minutes before melting. It revealed Venus’s atmosphere lacked oxygen and water, consisting mainly of carbon dioxide, with no magnetic field. Subsequent missions (Venera 5–12, 1969–1978) gathered extensive data, with Venera 9–12 capturing clear images despite Venus’s harsh conditions. However, the Soviets kept these photos and other findings secret.
The Mars Missions: Rovers and Mysteries
Inspired by Venus’s success, the Soviets targeted Mars with missions from 1960 to 1973. Mars 2 (1971) crashed, but Mars 3 achieved the first soft landing on Mars, deploying the Prop-M Rover—a 5kg autonomous robot with skis for navigating rugged terrain. Connected by a 15-meter cable, it analyzed Martian soil but lasted only 20 seconds. Mars 3 transmitted for 15 seconds before going silent, possibly due to a dust storm, though some speculate alien interference. The Soviets hid the rover’s existence until 1990. In 2005, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found Mars 3’s debris, confirming the mission’s authenticity and fostering U.S.-Soviet collaboration.
A Cosmonaut’s UFO Revelation
In 2020, cosmonaut Ivan Vagner, while orbiting Earth on the International Space Station, recorded the Aurora Australis. His video captured four or five bright objects moving in formation, visible for 52 seconds in real-time. Vagner believed they were UFOs, sparking widespread debate. The ISS never commented, leaving the incident a mystery. This event, alongside allegations of withheld data, suggests space agencies may conceal cosmic discoveries.
Hidden Truths and Alien Speculation
The Venera 13 mission (1982) detected organic molecules on Venus, hinting at possible biological life. The Soviets’ secrecy about Venus and Mars missions fuels speculation about encounters with extraterrestrial entities. While dust storms likely caused Mars 3’s failure, the abrupt loss of contact and unshared data raise questions. These revelations challenge our understanding of the cosmos and highlight the uncertainties of space exploration, where mishaps drive technological evolution.
The Soviet cosmonaut’s disclosures underscore how much remains hidden. Whether about aliens or cosmic phenomena, the full truth about these missions may emerge in time, reshaping our knowledge of the universe.
There are already dozens of claims in favor of extraterrestrial visitation. Today, numerous astronauts and government officials support the UAP phenomena, and some are highly positive that they could have an alien origin. The Honorable Paul Hellyer (1923-2021), former Canadian Minister of Defense said extraterrestrials have been visiting our planet for thousands of years and it is likely that at least two of them are working with the U.S. government and sharing their highly-advanced technologies with humans.
In the 1960s, Paul Hellyer, a high-ranking official during the Cold War, asserted that he had discovered with certainty about the existence of aliens while serving in the military. He said that people from other worlds had been coming to Earth for a very long time. He insisted that a lot of the stuff that makes up our high-tech gadgetry had been gifted to us by overly-advanced ETs.
Hellyer had long expressed his views on extraterrestrials in public. He testified at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure in May 2013 in Washington, DC. Five former members of U.S. Congress and one former U.S. senator listened to more than thirty hours of testimony from government officials, military personnel, researchers, and witnesses.
Huffington Post Canada described that, as part of his testimony, Hellyer stated that “aliens are living among us and that it is likely at least two of them are working with the U.S. government.” More specifically, Hellyer announced that at least four species of extraterrestrials had been visiting Earth for thousands of years. According to Huffington Post Canada, he also stated that some extraterrestrials originate from the “Zeta Reticuli, the Pleiades, Orion, Andromeda, and Altair star systems” and “may have different agendas.”
He first spoke openly about his belief governments are covering up an alien presence back in 2005, saying UFOs are as plentiful in our sky as airplanes. “Much of the media won’t touch it, so you just have to keep working away at it and we will get a critical mass and one day they will say Mr. President or Mr. Prime Minister, we want the truth and we want it now because it affects our lives.”
In 2013, Hellyer appeared on the RT interview show SophieCo with Sophie Shevardnadze to discuss extraterrestrials and UFOs. Shevardnadze asked Hellyer, “Why do you say that UFOs are as real as airplanes flying over our heads?” Hellyer replied, “Because I know that they are. As a matter of fact, they’ve been visiting our planet for thousands of years.” He further stated military action had brought down UFOs, and humans had adapted alien technology for use on Earth.
He said: “As far as technology is concerned, they are light years ahead of us, and we have learned a lot of things from them. A lot of the things we use today we got from them, you know – led lights and microchips and Kevlar vests and all sorts things that we got from their technology and we could get a lot more too, especially in the fields of medicine and agriculture if we would go about it peacefully. But, I think, maybe some of our people are more interested in getting the military technology, and I think that’s wrong-headed, and that’s one of the things that we are going to have to change, because we’re going to have to work together, all of us, everywhere on the planet.”
Shevardnadze asked: “Have you ever had your own encounter with aliens?” Hellyer replied: “Not encounter with aliens, no. I’ve seen a UFO, about 120 miles north of Toronto, over Lake Muskoka, where I have a cottage. Two years ago, at Thanksgiving, which is October, [my wife?] said that she wanted to go out and look at the stars, so… I’m not much of a night man… but I put on my cap and went out with her and she looked into the eastern sky and said, ‘There’s a star,’ and I turned the other way and said, ‘Oh, there’s a much brighter one over here,’ and she looked there and we watched it until our necks almost broke for about 20 minutes, and it was definitely a UFO because it could change position in the sky by three or four degrees in three or four seconds.”
Shevardnadze further asked Hellyer if shooting down those UFOs was risking an interstellar war, and, if so, “should we be creating a Star Wars force to defend ourselves from possible invasion or something like that?”
Hellyer said: “I think it’s a possibility, but it’s a possibility especially if we shoot down every UFO that comes into our airspace without asking who they are and what they want. Right from the beginning, we started scrambling planes, trying to shoot them down, but their technology was superior enough that we weren’t able to get away with it, certainly not for a long while.”
He continued: “During that period of time they could have taken us over without any trouble if they wanted to, so I think, rather than developing our own Star Wars to protect ourselves against them, we should work with the benign species that are of a vast majority and work together, and rely largely on them, of course, and cooperate, so that we would be contributing something at the same time; I don’t think there’s any point in us developing a galactic force that would tempt us to ride on our own and get into mischief, which is one of the things that some of them are concerned about.”
On countering physicist Stephen Hawking’s assertion that any alien visitors to Earth would likely be malevolent, Hellyer argued that not only have aliens already visited Earth but that they have helped contribute to humanity’s technological progress. He said earthlings owe a lot to their alien friends. “Even that computer screen on your desk,” he said, “can trace its origins to spaceships. Microchips, for example, fiber-optics, they are just two of the many things that allegedly — and probably for real — came from crashed vehicles,” Hellyer added. (Source)
Hellyer was not the only one speaking of a partnership between humans and extraterrestrial intelligence. The former head of the Israeli space security program and retired general Haim Eshed also claimed that a sort of agreement had been made between aliens and the US government to keep silent on their experiments on Earth and secret bases on Mars.
Mr. Eshed said that aliens and “Galactic federation” do exist and have been working with the US and the Israel government for years, but they keep it a secret to avoid mass hysteria. According to him, President Trump was aware of it and has already been in contact with space aliens. He further said that the aliens have been waiting for humans to evolve and reach a certain stage to actually understand space and spaceships. Besides, they signed a contract with humans to do experiments on Earth and also research with them to learn the fabric of the universe.
