Have you heard about the secret space programs of the USSR? Lost Cosmonauts in Space? It is almost a plot out of a science fiction movie. There are hundreds of books and publications around the world which have talked about the space race and the numerous incidents that occurred.
Who has not heard about Apollo XII and its failures, or the disaster aboard the Apollo I capsule that took the lives of Astronauts Grissom, White and Chafee… These two are only some of the many incidents that have occurred during the space race between the United States and the USSR.
According to many, throughout the years, dozens of details about Soviet missions have come to light where people confirmed many myths which have circulated for years about allegedly lost cosmonauts in space.
The Space Race between the USSR and the United States began during the Cold War, and both sides used their success in space as war propaganda against each other. The United States was more open about its space program while the USSR created an iron curtain which made it nearly impossible for anyone to find out more about the failures and successes of the USSR.
Basically many people believe that the USSR showed only what they wanted to show. With the passage of time, theories about terrible disasters which occurred in space spread around the world, disclosing secrets that the USSR tried very hard to keep far away from prying eyes.
Some believe that somewhere in the vast darkness of space, currently over 9,000 million kilometers away from the Sun, the first human being is reaching the limits of our Solar System. The Cosmonauts body, perfectly preserved, is frozen at 270 degrees below zero, and the tiny spaceship drifted for over 50 years away from Earth at a speed of almost 30,000 km per hour. This would mean that this is the first cosmonaut lost in space, forgotten in the ‘secret’ history of mankind’s attempt to conquer space.
The lost cosmonauts in space, the so-called phantom cosmonauts, are the forgotten souls of mankind’s space race. All relate to Soviet astronauts and their existence, never recognized by the Soviets nor ‘officially’ demonstrated by governmental sources would prove that Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first man in space, but rather the first man ever to return to Earth alive, after being in space.
According to many conspiracy theories, early missions of the Soviet Space Program experienced terrible accidents in their attempt to conquer space. These failures resulted in loss of life: many Cosmonauts made it to space but never actually made it back home.
The Story about ‘Lost Cosmonauts’ begins with two Italian Brother, Giovanni and Achille Judica-Cordiglia who were amateur radio operators with an incredible passion for picking up transmission from space: specifically transmission between Russian cosmonauts and Soviet Ground control. Utilizing a very limited set up, the two Italian brothers allegedly intercepted signals which were sent by the Sputnik Satellite and even eavesdrop on Laika, the canine explorer aboard Sputnik II.
The Cordiglia brothers picked up several transmission that originated in space. One transmission that they had picked up sounded like an SOS signals coming from beyond Earth: according to the Cordiglia brothers, the signal they picked up weakened and eventually disappeared: the most mysterious part is that the registered Signal had almost no speed relative to Earth: meaning that if you combine the gradual weakening of the signal it suggests that the point where the signal originated was actually moving away from our planet.
The Cordiglia brothers were convinced that they picked up the distress call of a desperate Russian Cosmonaut whose spaceship overshot Earth’s orbit and was drifting away towards outer space.
Not long after detecting the signal of a cosmonaut that had overshot the Earth’s orbit, the Cordiglia brothers believed they picked up another signal of a Soviet Transmission which allegedly sounded like the strained breathing and irregular heartbeat of an unconscious man. According to reports, the Cordiglia brothers showed the transmission to their father who was a cardiologist who in turn suggested that the recording they were listening was that of a man that was suffocating and suffering cardiac arrest.
During a period of four years, the Cordiglia brothers released a total of nine recordings… but one of them is the most interesting of all.
The mysterious signal picked up on May 1961, is a dramatic transmission where the voice of a woman can be heard… the transmission features the last minutes of a Russian female cosmonaut as her capsule burned up during reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. The transcript of the dramatic transmission and the recording can be found below:
YouTube Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sgc1I9sjfc
five…four…three…two…one…one…two…three…four…five
come in…come in…come in…
Listen!…Listen…COME IN!…COME IN!…COME IN!…Talk to me!
TALK TO ME!…I am hot!…I AM HOT!
What?…Forty-five?…WHAT?…
FORTY-FIVE?…FIFTY?…
YES…YES…YES…BREATHING…
BREATHING…OXYGEN…OXYGEN…
I AM HOT…(THIS)…
ISN’T THIS DANGEROUS?…IT’S ALL…
ISN’T THIS DANGEROUS?…IT’S ALL…
YES…YES…YES…HOW IS THIS?…
WHAT?…TALK TO ME!…HOW SHOULD I TRANSMIT?…
YES…YES…WHAT?…
OUR TRANSMISSION BEGINS NOW…
FORTY-ONE…THIS WAY…OUR TRANSMISSION BEGINS NOW…
FORTY-ONE…THIS WAY…OUR TRANSMISSION BEGINS NOW…
FORTY-ONE…YES…I FEEL HOT…I FEEL HOT…
IT’S ALL…IT’S HOT…I FEEL HOT…I FEEL HOT…
I CAN SEE A FLAME!…WHAT?…
I CAN SEE A FLAME!…I CAN SEE A FLAME!…
I FEEL HOT…I FEEL HOT…THIRTY-TWO…
THIRTY-TWO…FORTY-ONE…FORTY-ONE…
AM I GOING TO CRASH?…YES…YES…I FEEL HOT!…
I FEEL HOT!…I WILL REENTER!…I WILL REENTER…
I AM LISTENING!…I FEEL HOT…
end transmission”
While many people question the authenticity of the above transcripts, many people believe that the recordings of the Cordiglia brothers are irrefutable proof of the casualties of USSR’s space program. People who firmly believe that many Russian Cosmonauts were lost in space suggest that eleven Cosmonauts from the USSR lost their lives in space. The Soviet Union denied all of the above while providing very little information about their Space program which has remained an enigma in the eyes of the world.
Is it possible that the Cordiglia brothers did in fact intercept numerous transmission from lost Cosmonauts? The lost Cosmonauts of the USSR space program will probably remain an enigma and the truth, if accurate, will remain in the cold and dark ‘corners’ of space.
