Rockport, Texas - According to letters written by a soldier in 1989, the Soviet army found the remains of five dead aliens in Afghanistan, and the bodies were sent to Moscow for scientific study.

The letters, which were mailed from Afghanistan to the soldier’s wife in Moscow, also state that the Russian military discovered the charred wreckage of the alien’s spaceship, which crashed about 60 miles south of Meymaneh.

The soldier, Rudolf Innokentiy, spent over two years in Afghanistan, serving as a field communications technician with the Russian army. Of the many letters he wrote to his wife, several mentioned details of finding the alien bodies. Other letters mentioned the discovery and removal of the spacecraft.

In his letters, Innokentiy described the aliens as being short, approximately four feet tall, with pointed ears and large black eyes. In another letter, he mentions that they were bald, with no eyebrows or eyelashes.

He also wrote that two of the dead extraterrestrials were horribly burned, but one body appeared to be in reasonably good shape.

Innokentiy claims that he was part of a detail which prepared the bodies for shipment to Moscow, where they would undergo scientific examination. He said the naked bodies were placed in plastic bags, with tags attached to their wrists, and loaded into a refrigerator truck bound for Moscow.

In the letters, he wrote that a scientist who arrived the day after the bodies were found said, “These men are from Mars. You must be very careful how you handle them.”

In other letters Innokentiy describes finding the crashed spaceship, saying it took military personnel a week to completely recover the wreckage from the crater made by the impact.

He also wrote of a massive search of the area around the crash site, where other parts of the craft were recovered.

The bodies were found some distance from the crashed spaceship, and Innokentiy wrote that he was not allowed to go near the actual crash site, but the recovery work was done out in the open and easily observed from outside the barricades which had been set up.

In one letter he wrote how an infantryman was quickly taken away by military police after he tried to take a photograph of the site.

Both Innokentiy and his wife are now deceased, and the letters are in the possession of Yemi Serik, who lives in Kazakhstan, and says he is a relative of the former Russian soldier.

Serik also claims to have spent time researching the events described in the letters and says he was able to find several news stories, written at the time of the crash, which support the details in Innokentiy’s letters.

A story, which was published in the Kabul Times, reported that a heavily guarded caravan of Russian army vehicles, including a refrigerator truck, passed through that region two days after Innokentiy said the bodies departed from near Meymaneh.

Serik also recovered several other archived news articles, concerning some type of space vehicle crashing in the hills south of Meymaneh, whose dates correspond with Innokentiy’s accounts.

Serik claims that although some details have been made public over the years, he was asked by government officials not to release any further information about the letters.

He says that despite this request, he was contacted by a French newspaper interested in publishing Innokentiy’s correspondence with his wife.

Serik says that if an agreeable situation can be reached, the complete text of the letters will be published in La Croix in a matter of weeks. - Dean Terry