For centuries, humans have pondered the possibility of life on other planets. Do extraterrestrials actually exist? If they do, what do they look like? Are they really more intelligent than the rest of us? Are we talking Ridley Scott's blood-curdling Freudian lizard nightmare in Alien or would they be more like the idiotic motley crew of worms in Men in Black? Well, contemplate no more, because a 21-year-old Russian man may be able to answer all of our many questions. How, you ask? Because he is an alien himself.
Boriska Kipriyanovich, from Volgograd, Russia, claims that he lived on Mars, before being sent down to Earth to save humans from an apocalyptic nuclear war. Reborn on Earth in 1996, Kipriyanovich's own race of Martians were apparently mostly wiped out in a nuclear conflict thousands of years ago. Furthermore, he comes to us with a dire warning: the same catastrophic fate could happen to us.
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To truly understand his story, perhaps we should go back to the very beginning of his life on Earth. According to the Russian's mother, from the start, there were some evident signs that her son wasn't your average baby boy. Her first warning of this was allegedly when he held his head up without any support just two weeks after being born and then began to speak just a few months later. His mother, a Russian doctor, claims that by the age of one and a half, he was even able to read, draw and paint.
While he was a young child, Kipriyanovich, who was attending kindergarten by the age of two, apparently repeatedly told his parents that he was a previously a Martian pilot who travelled to Earth. While you may assume that he had watched a few too many episodes of the X Files, his mother and father claim that they didn't teach their son anything about space as a child, so had no idea how this came about. His parents told news outlets that before he revealed his "true self", he had a fascination with space and would often sit and talk about Mars, the planetary systems and alien civilisations. Allegedly, his outstanding knowledge of the planetary system has confounded experts and scientists around the world. Pretty impressive stuff for a kid, right? If you believe him, that is.
Now 21-years-old, Kipriyanovich is making a name for himself by telling us all about life on other planets, as well as making a chilling prediction about our one. Recalling his former life, he spoke of the war that broke out between two sets of beings that lived on the red planet at the time.
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"I remember that time, when I was 14 or 15 years old," he said. "The Martians were waging wars all the time so I would often have to participate in air raids with a friend of mine. We could travel in time and space flying in round spaceships, but we would observe life on Earth on triangular aircraft. Martian spaceships are very complicated. They are layered, and they can fly all across the Universe.”
Allegedly, the nuclear war eventually wiped out most life forms on Mars, leaving only a few survivors, some of which are still there today having learned how to build houses and weapons. The others? Like Kipriyanovich, they live among us, sent here on a mission to save humanity; the reborn Russian claims they are all reincarnations and referred to as “Indigo Children”. According to Boriska, many Martians are immortal and stop ageing at 35, as well as being tall, technologically advanced and capable of interstellar travel.
His concerns that Earth may be heading towards an untimely end come as tensions between the US and North Korea reach breaking point over trigger-happy Kim Jong-un’s rapidly expanding nuclear weapons programme and Trump's equally belligerent Twitter rants. Amid the North Korean leader claims that war is inevitable, so could this be the end for Planet Earth as we know it?
In addition to alerting us to the impending crisis, the 21-year-old - who claims that extraterrestrials breathe carbon dioxide and would have to breathe from pipes filled with it if they ever came to visit Earth - gave us advice on how to delve deeper into Planet Earth's secrets. Insisting that there is a lot more to be discovered on our planet, he points to the Great Pyramid of Giza, which he claims hides secrets we could never imagine: "The human life will change when the Sphinx is opened," he said. "It has an opening mechanism somewhere behind the ear; I do not remember exactly."
Are you convinced? Does Boriska Kipriyanovich's story sound like cold, hard evidence that unquestionably confirms life on other planets, or are you calling poppycock on a web of lies? Well, many scientists believe that during the ancient Noachian time period, the surface environment of Mars had liquid water and may have been habitable for microorganisms. Nonetheless, this is not to say the existence of habitable conditions necessarily indicates the presence of life.
Scientific evidence aside, there's no denying that Kipriyanovich's tale is a compelling one, and one a lot of people around the world would be keen to buy into. But is it one fit for reality, or one fit for a fantastical science fiction movie? It's up to you to decide.
