Por-Bajin is one of the most mysterious archaeological sites in Russia - an ancient complex engulfing a small island in the center of a remote lake in the mountains of southern Siberia.
Experts believe the 1,300-year-old structure has more mystical properties and might have been a summer palace, monastery, or even an astronomical observatory.
According to the Siberian Times, archaeologists found clay tablets of human feet, faded coloured drawings on the plaster of the walls, giant gates and fragments of burnt wood. But nothing yet has provided a definitive answer as to who built the structure and why.
It's probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century.
Although the USA won the race to the moon, if you'd been a betting person from the mid 1950's to 1960's, the chances are that you would have thought the Soviet Union had a very good chance of getting there first.
So why didn't Russia put a man on the moon?
At the time the soviets were leading the space race, they had already started with the launch of Sputnik, then launched several probes to the moon, including one in 1959 that orbited and taken photos of the far side and by 1961 they were the first to put a man in to space.
So when Kennedy made his now famous ''We choose to go to the moon'' speech in 1962 to rally public support, Khrushchev's response was silence, neither confirming nor denying that they had a plan for a manned moon mission.
But at the time Khrushchev wasn't really interested in competing with the US over the moon, he was more interested ICBM's the Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles for the strategic rocket forces.
But there were others that had harboured plans for manned mission for a long time, these included the man whose name was a state secret and the most powerful man outside the Kremlin when it came to space.
He was Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, outside the inner circle of the top space scientists he was known only as the ''Chief Designer'' or by his first 2 initials SP, because the Soviet leadership feared that the western powers would send agents to assassinate him.
Korolev was the man who was behind many of the soviet space successes and the head of the OKB-1 design bureau, he over saw sputnik, and the manned missions including the first man in space Yuri Gagarin. His authority extended over almost everything to do with space, his design group worked on missions to mars and venus, communications, spy and weather satellites, ICBM's and the soviet manned moon missions.
Korolev had a huge amount of control over the space program. In administrative power he was almost a one man version of NASA covering areas that in the US were done across multiple aerospace companies and flight centres.
But even a man with his power and connections didn't get everything his own way. He had to continuously fight against rival designers and design groups. Although Korolev wanted the moon missions, in 1960 the job was given to his rival, Vladimir Chelomei because of his patronage by Khrushchev but his lack of experience meant that progress was slow.
The progress of Apollo on the other hand worried the chief designers and as a result of this and the infighting between the design bureau's meant that there were multiple overlapping designs for the moon missions, at one point there were 30 different designs for launchers and spacecraft.
In 1964 and with the fall of Khrushchev, Korolev was given complete control over the moon missions and pushed through his designs ahead of Chelomei's and the decision to finally compete for the moon was given, with the aim to land in 1967 the 50th anniversary of the October revolution and get there before the Americans.
This created a problem for Korolev, in order to lift the payload weight of 95 tons, he needed a very large rocket. This new rocket would be called the N1, be as big as the American Saturn 5 and would require large powerful engines, similar to the F1 rockets in the Saturn.
Valentin Glushko was the leading Soviet rocket designer and head of the OKB 456 bureau, which had a near monopoly when its came rocket design & production. He specialized in making engines that used hypergolic propellants. These consist of a fuel and an oxidizer, that when mixed together spontaneously ignite when they come into contact with each other. Korolev thought these were too dangerous for manned missions due to the highly toxic and corrosive nature of the chemicals that made up the fuel.
Glushko said that it was not possible to create a new large engine design that used cryogenic fuel of liquid oxygen and Kerosene and get it ready in time with limited resources and cash. He also sited that at the time the Americans had been working on cryogenic Saturn engines for 5 years and still hadn't got them to work reliably...
Tercermilenio.tv report a strange UFO sighting that happened over the Balaklava, in Russia, on October 5, 2015. The images show UFO activity of the area. Intense activity caused by military movement. Some kind of plan developed by Russia.
October 5, 2015, Balaklava, Crimeea - This was recorded by an anonymous witness. He saw several objects in the sky. This is a city 10 km away from Sebastopol. An area of constant conflict. This is an area in Ukraine. Russia has military bases in this area. This is a place where UFOs are being seen. On this day the air use was orbidden. No Russian airship could be flying over here. The recording shows UFOs moving around. This was a very cloudy day. The witness thought these were missiles from Russia. He was nervous but kept on recording. The witness wanted to stay anonymous.
There were at least 10 objects in the sky. Most of the objects presented controlled movements. They were slowly moving. One of the objects was faster than the others. These are spherical bright objects.
According to reports, alien bodies were being kept in glass containers in a top-secret facility. A crashed UFO was taken to the Kapustin Yar range. The information contained in this report originated from three Russian investigators-Anton Anfalov, Lenura Azizova and Alexander Mosolov.
A team of doctors and other medical personnel made every effort to keep the alien alive, but failed. All three of the beings were about 3 1/2 to 4 feet tall, with gray outer wear. Underneath, their skin was a blue-green color with a reptilian texture. They had no hair, large black eyes covered with a protective lid, and web fingers ended their long, slender arms.
Allegedly, there was already an open door in the UFO, caused by its crash. Team members entered the craft, and began their investigation. There were many items found that one would expect-instrument panels, electronic switches and monitors. Also found were three alien bodies-two dead, one barely alive. It appeared that the two aliens were killed by equipment falling on them from above.
Another investigative team was sent to Mozdok to begin a scientific analysis of the UFO. A KGB cover-up was in full operation by this time. How information was leaked about the case has not been discovered.
On August 21, 2015, Olef Kosirek was running in a forest near Kimki in Russia. There he saw a flying saucer over the tree tops. He tooks these images with his cellphone.
According to Yohanan Diaz the object is not a balloon, airplaine or drone. This was a true UFO sighting.
Clouds very ''unusual'' nature made appeared on the skies of Vladivostock, Russia.
These ''clouds'' have attracted the attention of many people and users of social networks. Social networks quickly echoed and also Twitter and Instagram users began posting photos of a strange phenomenon appeared in the skies of Vladivostock, on February 18, 2015.
''Strange signs in the heavens'', what seemed clearly reflected in different messages.
The news was also reported by the Russian newspaper Primamedia RIA.
Many witnesses saw first-hand the event and many recordings were made with the mobile phones.
Some showed their disturbing concern, saying that UFOs might be leaving different messages in the sky. Others, however, argued that these bands could be created by a cloudy and natural air and many others said that was human beings with tehnology unknown launching this kind of ''smoke'' or messages.
As usual in this matters the debate is open and almost irreconcilable, where imagination becomes the protagonist.
Unfortunately, as always happens in this phenomena, editors Primamedia RIA did not receive any comments or statements of meteorologists and physicists, especially regarding the issue of the strange shapes of the ''clouds''.
