An old document from the CIA, dated back to the time of the Cold War, has gained significant attention online due to its description of an alleged encounter between Soviet troops and a UFO. According to the account, the UFO’s occupants allegedly turned the soldiers into stone before departing.

Upon the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, the CIA came into possession of a detailed 250-page report from the KGB documenting the sequence of events that followed an incident where a group of soldiers opened fire on a UFO in Ukraine.

The report contained firsthand testimonies and photographs of the aftermath, with one American operative noting the chilling nature of the scene as “a chilling depiction of retribution carried out by beings from another world, an image that sends shivers down one’s spine.”

The report claims Soviets conducting a training exercise in Ukraine spotted a “low-flying spaceship in the shape of a saucer” soaring above their heads.

During the encounter, one of the Soviets fired a surface-to-air missile, which struck the UFO and sent it crashing to the ground.

“It fell to Earth not far away, and five short humanoids with ‘large heads and large black eyes’ emerged from it,” the report claims.

After escaping the debris of their ruined ship, the beings huddled together and “merged into a single object that acquired a spherical shape,” the surviving soldiers recalled.

“In a few seconds, the spheres grew much bigger and exploded by flaring up with an extremely bright light. At that very instant, 23 soldiers who had watched the phenomenon turned into… stone poles,” the report states.

“Only two soldiers who stood in the shade and were less exposed to the luminous explosion survived,” it added.

The KGB allegedly took custody of the ‘petrified soldiers” and the ruined spacecraft, which were transported to a secret base near Moscow.

The Soviet scientists found that whatever the light was, it somehow transformed the soldier’s living cells into a substance that was identical to that of limestone.

“If the KGB file corresponds to reality, this is an extremely menacing case,” the CIA concluded. “The Aliens possess such weapons and technology that go beyond all our assumptions.

“They can stand up for themselves if attacked.”

The CIA document was declassified in 2000 and originally covered by the Canadian Weekly World News and the Ukrainian paper Holos Ukrayiny, but it has remained of interest by UFO aficionados and was even featured on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast last year.

Stories of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and alien visitors have resurfaced in the public’s mind following the Department of Defense’s establishment of the UAP Task Force in 2020.

It saw the government release a plethora of new files on the mysterious flying objects recorded by the federal government with a goal to “detect, analyze and catalog” the UAPs.