Visitors from space?

Press, 1 October 1979, Page 9

Visitors from space?

NZPA-Reuter Moscow! A Soviet scientist believes archaeological evidence discovered in a remote area of Siberia strongly suggests that extra-terrestial beings visited the Earth during ancient times, according to Tass news agency. The Soviet news agency said Vladimir Avinsky, a

specialist from Kuibyshey in the Ukraine, presented his findings at a scientific seminar held in Kaluga, a city south of Moscow that has a big museum devoted to Soviet space exploration.

Mr Avinsky told the conference that the most interesting evidence of extra-ter-restial contacts was socalled winged objects found in 2000-year-old bone carvings from burial mounds on Siberia’s Chukotka Peninsula, across the Bering Strait from Alaska.

An engineering analysis of the winged objects had shown they might be representations of winged flying apparatuses that used the principles of bionics for flying and a rocket motor for take-off, Tass quoted Mr Avinsky as saying. He also pointed to a series of ancient petroglyphic drawings found in the Ural Mountains, including geometric figures that have been interpreted by some specialists as depicting formulas for certain chemical compounds.