A shocking CIA document claiming aliens turned Soviet soldiers into stone has gone viral after resurfacing online.
The one-page report, declassified and published on the CIA’s website, outlines a bizarre event said to have occurred in Siberia around 1989 or 1990. According to the file, Soviet troops fired a missile at a UFO—and were met with deadly retaliation.
The incident was originally reported in Weekly World News and the Ukrainian paper Holos Ukrayiny in 1993. The articles claimed the information came from a 250-page KGB file packed with photos and witness accounts.
The report describes a “low-flying spaceship in the shape of a saucer” that hovered over a Soviet military base. Without warning, the soldiers launched a surface-to-air missile, which hit the craft and brought it down.
Then, according to the file, the truly strange began.
“Five short humanoids with ‘large heads and large black eyes’” crawled from the wreckage. They quickly merged into a “single object,” a glowing sphere that gave off a strange buzzing noise.
Seconds later, it exploded in a burst of blinding white light.
Twenty-three soldiers were instantly “turned into stone poles,” the file claims. Only two survived—reportedly because they had been standing in the shade and were shielded from the blast.
The Red Army supposedly recovered the petrified bodies and sent them to a top-secret lab near Moscow. There, scientists found the soldiers’ molecular structure had changed—they had literally turned to limestone.
No one could explain how.
The CIA file quotes an unnamed analyst saying, “If the KGB file corresponds to reality, this is an extremely menacing case. The aliens possess such weapons and technology that go beyond all our assumptions. They can stand up for themselves if attacked.”
Not everyone believes it.
Ex-CIA agent Mike Baker told Fox News Digital he doubts the story is legit. “If there was an incident, regardless of the nature of the incident, I suspect that the actual report doesn’t look much like what has now come out from five or six or seven iterations of what originally was [written],” he said.
“I’m sure there’s something out there,” Baker added. “I just don’t think that they landed decades ago, turned Soviet soldiers into limestone, and we’re just now hearing about it. I don’t think that’s the case.”
Still, UFOs remain a hot topic. Former President Donald Trump said during a podcast appearance in 2024 that he doesn’t believe in aliens—but admitted he ordered the release of all federal documents about them early in his presidency to stop the rumors.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon received 757 reports of unexplained aerial phenomena between May 2023 and June 2024. Most turned out to be drones, balloons, or birds. But some, like a near-collision between a passenger plane and an unidentified object off the coast of New York, are still unexplained.
So did aliens really attack a Soviet base? Or is this just Cold War-era sci-fi gone viral?
No one knows for sure. But the file is real. And it’s raising eyebrows.
Read the report below, or at this link:
