Having sheltered a crashed alien, Pastor Sagynbai may have saved the Soviet nuclear-armed base from a UFO invasion.
This story took place in June 1979, in the Turgai region of the Kazakh SSR, near Arkalyk – now almost abandoned, but at the time – a prosperous industrial town.
A local shepherd named Sagynbay woke up in the middle of the night, went out of his house and saw that the sky was shining. It seemed to him that the source of light was not far away, and the shepherd, saddling his horse, decided to go and find out what was the reason for the strange glow.
Night guest
After driving several kilometers from his home village, he saw traces of a large object falling from the sky into the night steppe. Deciding that it might be an airplane or a Soviet space satellite, the shepherd approached and was surprised to see a silvery disk half buried in the rocky ground.
Deciding that such a discovery was not worth addressing, Sagynbay returned to the village. And a few hundred meters from the fallen object, he came across an escape pod, very similar to a coal-black egg.
The surface of the capsule had such a texture that the shepherd decided it was just a smoothly processed stone. But at that moment the “stone” suddenly opened, and from it, under the horse’s hooves, fell, as it seemed at first to Sagynbai, a tall man.
The shepherd’s horse snorted and reared, and the shepherd decided to move away from the stranger to a safe distance – to observe what would happen next.
He understood that it would be better to leave for good, but curiosity got in the way. However, the inhabitant of the aircraft himself got up and immediately went to the pastor.
The stranger was tall, with thin arms and legs. Huge eyes glowed in the darkness. The Kazakh greeted the stranger with an open palm, handed him the horse and on foot, leading him by the reins, returned home.
To say that his wife was surprised is an understatement. At other times, she would have simply run away from home, but this time she was as if hypnotized and obeyed her husband in everything. And he ordered that beshbarmak be cooked in the middle of the night and set the table. The shepherd placed his overnight guest in the most honorable place.
The woman prepared the dish, trying once again not to look at the guest and not to show any interest. But the stranger did not eat meat, but tasted the dough with appetite and ate the whole kurt – a national Kazakh dish, dry dumplings made from sheep, goat or camel cheese.
With gestures, he refused the bed prepared for him by the astonished woman and remained at the table during the night, closing his eyes. If he slept, the owners did not understand.
Unexpected Witness
In the morning, the shepherd woke up to the fact that a military UAZ drove into his yard. Immediately realizing that the Soviet military was probably looking for his night guest, the shepherd grabbed the stranger by the hand and led him to the hayloft, where he gave him signals to hide.
While the stranger was sitting on the fragrant hay, the shepherd went out to meet the soldiers.
When they began to ask him if he had seen anything unusual during the night, the pastor shrugged his shoulders and replied that he was sleeping soundly.
The soldiers, after walking a little further through the village, left.
The alien lived with the shepherd for two weeks. During this time, he managed to get to know the villagers, learned to play cards and checkers, and soon began to beat the Kazakhs. It is noteworthy that during the entire time he did not utter a single word, but at the same time he perfectly understood everything that was said to him, and people, in turn, understood him.
He disappeared from Sagynbay’s home on June 26, 1979.
The fact that such a story, in general, happened, was told to reporters by Russian citizen Tatyana Leonova. In 1979, she was nine years old and lived with her father, a veterinarian, in Arkalyk.
Sometimes the father would take the girl with him for a visit. Shepherd Sagynbai was an old acquaintance of the vet and one day he and his daughter went to visit him.
The shepherd warmly welcomed the vet, fed him and gave him tea, and then there was a low noise outside. The shepherd said something to the vet and, taking him by the elbow, led him out of the house.
Despite her father’s orders to stay at the table, the girl ran after him. She saw the men heading for the barn and followed them.
Looking inside the stable, Tatyana saw a gray creature surrounded by people. The creature had a head twice the size of a human’s and black eyes half the size of its face.
She learned the whole story from her father when she grew up. She also compared the alien’s disappearance to the Turgai incident, which happened only on June 26, 1979 – that is, the day the alien disappeared.
This incident, most directly related to the first, occurred a hundred kilometers from Arkalyk, near the city of Derzhavinsk, not far from the local military unit that serviced the mines with R-36 nuclear ballistic missiles, which the Americans nicknamed “Satan”.
The day before the incident, eyewitnesses saw fireballs in the sky, and on the day of the incident, schoolchildren from the Beryozka pioneer camp saw aliens.
After dinner, a group of pioneers, among whom was the daughter of a local police major, Svetlana Kvacheva, fled the camp and decided to light a fire on the slope of a nearby hill.
The idea had to be interrupted in the most unexpected way: three-meter humanoids stepped into the firelight. The children ran screaming towards the camp, the humanoids following them.
Hidden behind the fence of the pioneer camp and feeling relatively safe, the children began calling out to strangers to follow them: “Come here, let’s talk!”
However, the aliens did not accept the invitation. At that moment it was already getting dark, and Svetlana Kvacheva remembered the terrible eyes that glowed red in the darkness.
The pioneer leader, who was walking through the camp at night, came across a giant dark humanoid on one of the paths. The girl got scared and ran away. She returned later with the watchman, but there was no alien left and the legs of the chair were buried deep in the ground.
The next day, everyone in the camp heard a loud bang, as if a jet plane was taking off somewhere nearby. This whole story would be worth nothing if it weren’t for the nearby military rocket base. According to some reports, it contained up to 15% of the USSR’s nuclear potential.
Sveta Kvacheva told her father, a police major, about the incident, and he took the story seriously, after which the children were interviewed by the military and later also by KGB officers.
The incident became known to the general public only after one of the eyewitnesses, possibly a camp worker, wrote about it to the editors of one of the Soviet youth magazines.
If we relate this incident to the incident in Arkalyk, located not far from Derzhavinsk, we can assume that the “space guys” flew in to pick up their brother and at the same time conducted reconnaissance at the military base.
And who knows what would have happened if they hadn’t found him and approached the base with missiles.
