The overall idea of this episode is that the government of Russia (now and when it was the USSR) has information on alien contact that it has hidden and continues to do so.  The show claims that much of this information that is presented comes from KGB documents which were leaked in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The first piece of evidence given is a tenuous one at best: the claim that one of the people caught up in Stalin’s purges, Dr. Genrikh Ludvig, was killed because of his knowledge about aliens.  He was officially accused of being a spy for the Vatican, but in 2011, the Russian paper Top Secret[1] claimed that his work at the Vatican was studying manuscripts that indicated ancient alien contact.  The show simply offers up this suggestion with no other evidence, then moves on to the next thing.

A central element to the show’s argument is a discussion of the “Russian Stonehenge,” a Bronze Age settlement known as Arkaim.  The show claims it was some kind of observatory or a landing site for alien craft. Their evidence for the former claim that it is designed in such a way that it can be used to measure eighteen different astronomical events, though the show does not say how this is the case or what events are included in this list.  There are also claims of “strange anomalies,” which consist of magnetic disturbances, strange lights, odd fog formations, and hallucinations in the area. The supposed explanation for this is that the site is an energy point within the universe.  Evidence for the area being a landing site is offered in the form of a supposed ancient crash site in the Ural Mountains.  A geological expedition found tiny metal coils and springs about 30 feet below the surface, which the commentators claim are the remains of a UFO that exploded over the site.  No other information or explanation is given for any of their claims in this segment.

They then move on to a discussion of a UFO study group that was founded under the auspices of the Soviet government, with an astronomer, Felix Ziegel, at its head.  As part of the group’s research, a public request for reports of any and all UFO sightings was made on state television, prompting thousands of statements. Soon after, the group was disbanded, with the government claiming that it may inadvertently reveal top secret military planes (a perfectly reasonable concern).  Ziegel was permitted to publish a book discussing the claims, in which the standard UFO sighting story is recounted repeatedly.  Another UFO commission was created in 1977, this time under the supervision of a cosmonaut, Pavel Popovich, which claimed to find information on underwater alien bases.  His widow, a decorated test pilot, published a book in 2003 that discussed her own any many others’ experiences with UFOs while in the USSR’s military.  She claims that the current Russian government is holding the remains of at least five crashed alien craft.  A brief mention is then made of a 1986 crash, which is referred to as the “Russian Roswell,” but with very little discussion beyond that.

The last issues discussed are cosmonaut’s strange experiences while in space.  A crew in 1984 claimed to see “angelic being” floating outside their craft, a claim that was dismissed by their government as hallucinations resulting from oxygen deprivation.  The other common and strange experience is something called the “space whisper,” which is apparently some type of telepathic contact that encourages its hearers to prepare the way on Earth for alien contact.

Overall, this is not one of their better episodes, it felt as though they just threw a bunch of “facts” together and didn’t even try to give them serious support.

[1] I couldn’t find any information about this paper (Googling “Russian paper Top Secret” in today’s political environment is nearly useless for this topic), but I suspect it’s something akin to the Weekly World News.