Secret Soviet UFOs: What happened when two scientists knocked on a door in Estonia? | Reality Check
Reality Check with Ross CoulthartShow Notes
Something metallic turned up under a garden in a quiet Tallinn suburb in 1969, and the Soviets spent the next twenty years trying to get it out, bringing in excavators and scientists and military, borrowing the house from its owners and living in it, digging on and off until perestroika ended the whole effort and they walked away. Astrophysicist Dr. Beatriz Villarroel and Ocean X co-founder Dennis Åsberg went to that address to find out what is still down there. Nobody came to the door, but the neighbor who had watched all of it from his window talked to them for an hour.
This is their full conversation with Ross Coulthart, recorded for "Secret Soviet UFOs" and running well past what the special had room for. Villarroel walks through the peer-reviewed work that brought her to Estonia, highly reflective objects photographed in orbit years before anyone on Earth had launched a satellite, and why she thinks the same search belongs in the ground. Åsberg ties Merivälja to the Baltic Sea anomaly his team found on sonar roughly 300 kilometers away and argues that both could predate the last ice age. Between them, they count five European cases and will not give up the coordinates of one of them. What nobody can answer yet is what sits under that garden, and the only thing that would settle it is ground-penetrating radar in the yard of a man who has already told them no.
This interview is part of our Secret Soviet UFOs special, which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-vjO5Xn56s Watch the full interview with Mart Sander here: https://youtu.be/OQULI6QqIhY?si=LahZm4UFT_lF4PmY Follow Reality Check on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/ @RealityCheckNN
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CREDITS: Host: Ross Coulthart Executive Producer: Andy Gipson Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick Associate Producer: Will Tomasi Research Producer: Rob Jones Editor: Anthony Diasio
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CHAPTER SUMMARY: 0:00 Intro 1:55 The European Crash Retrieval Initiative 3:09 The Australian Who Sent the Tip 4:39 The Whole Street Knows 5:44 An Unanswered Door, and an Hour With the Neighbor 7:13 Is It Still Down There? 10:03 Reflective Objects Before Satellites 12:00 The Nuremberg Engraving and The Baltic Sea Anomaly Connection 14:22 Five Cases, Coordinates Withheld 16:16 Dead Sensors and KGB Reports 17:41 Too Large to Move 19:13 The Japanese Radar Survey 21:45 Twenty Years in the House 23:14 The 2017 Analysis 24:53 Before the Last Ice Age 27:58 Why Science Assumes the Mundane 30:17 How to Reach Us
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