Nuclear prophecies, UFOs and radioactive contamination in 1993 Russia

Summary

In June 1993 the Moscow newspaper Rossiyskiye Vesti published a series of citizen testimonies as part of so-called Operation "Radiation", an effort to document cases of radioactive contamination across Russia. From the Urals, N. Mironova, coordinator of the "Nuclear Safety" movement, compared the actions of the Ministry of Atomic Power against the population to Stalinist genocide, denouncing the dumping of radioactive waste during weapons production and the supposedly peaceful nuclear explosions authorized on Russian territory. Near Kirovo-Chepetskiy, residents of the Karintorf settlement discovered they had been living next to a uranium deposit that authorities had kept secret for thirty years, while along the Volga, nuclear power plants were being built on geologically unstable ground near active faults.

The most unusual aspect of the report links predictions of nuclear accidents to the UFO phenomenon. In Tomsk, beginning in 1989, a wave of rumors prophesied a catastrophic explosion at the Siberian Chemical Works in Tomsk-7. The author, N. Novgorodtsev, traced the sources of these rumors and found them identical to those described by John Keel in his book "UFO: Operation Trojan Horse": clairvoyants, mediums, spirits, and altered states of consciousness. UFO researchers led by K. Butusov also warned of an impending accident at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant, and the plant's leadership threatened to go to the prosecutor over the alarming rumors. Yet the third power unit at Leningrad did indeed undergo an emergency shutdown with radioactive releases into the atmosphere. An aviation engineer from Tomsk claimed to have received telepathic information from "aliens" about the coming catastrophe, and when a real accident occurred at Tomsk-7 in 1993, the article suggested that prior public attention may have forced a milder outcome.