Boy Who Claims To Be ‘The First Of His Kind’ Has A Warning About Humanity's Future

Is Boris the real deal? Well, according to his mom, when he was born, he was a little different from other babies. Nadezhda Kipriyanovich told Pravda, “When they showed the baby to me, the boy was looking at me with a grown-up look. As a pediatrician, I know that newborns cannot concentrate looks on anything. However, my little baby was staring at me with his big brown eyes.”

But that unusual look was only half of it. According to Pravda, scientists at the Russian Academy of Sciences measured the boy’s aura. Apparently, it was exceptionally robust and had an orange hue. Professor Vladislav Lugovenko claimed that this meant Boris had “a powerful intellect.”

And then there were young Boris’ claims of being a Martian in a past life. Speaking of his alleged time on the Red Planet, he has said, “We could travel in time and space flying in round spaceships, but we would observe life on planet Earth on triangular aircraft.” Yet Boris predicted dire times ahead for Earth, saying, “Catastrophes will be connected with water.”

Had Boris’ parents trained him? Or was he just making things up? Well, his life started just like any other kid’s. He entered the world on January 11, 1996. And he lived in the Russian city of Volgograd — formerly Stalingrad — with mom Nadezhda, a doctor, and his father.

But Nadezhda spotted that her son was unusual as soon as he was born, and it’s said that he continued to reveal a strange precociousness. According to Pravda, at just 15 days old, he could hold his head up without help. And that’s unusual for a baby. In fact, it’s a milestone not usually reached until four months old.

Then, when Boris was four months old, he supposedly said his first word, “baba.” And, apparently, his speech developed rapidly from there. Pravda claimed that, at eight months, he could speak in short sentences. At two and a half years old, he could allegedly draw and paint. So he was something of a child prodigy – at least according to his mother.

Further evidence of Boris’ talents came when his parents gave him a construction kit. According to Pravda, he quickly and skillfully began to create accurate geometric shapes. And by this time, his mother was beginning to feel somewhat uneasy. She recalled, “I had a very weird feeling that we were like aliens to him... [ones] he was trying to establish a contact with.”

That aside, Boris drew some unusual pictures. They appeared to be abstract in style, with shades of purple and blue. And according to Nadezhda, she consulted a psychologist about these drawings. The professional allegedly claimed the boy was trying to depict the auras that are said to surround people.

Then, as the months went by, Nadezhda noticed that Boris knew things he’d never been told about. It was, his mother felt, as if he was receiving information from a hidden source. In 2008 she said to Pravda, “No one has ever taught him. Sometimes he would sit in a lotus position and start telling us detailed facts about Mars, planetary systems, and other civilizations, which really puzzled us.”

Nadezhda continued to explain to Pravda, “He could name all the planets of the solar systems and even their satellites. He was showering me with names and numbers of galaxies. At first, I found it very frightening, I thought that my son was out of mind, but then I decided to check if those names really existed. I took some books on astronomy, and I was shocked to find out that the boy knew so much about this science.”

And the Pravda report said that little Boris was also unusual in the way he treated adults. Apparently, he would approach complete strangers in the street and warn them about their sinful behavior. He scolded guys for being unfaithful to their wives. He would even foretell people’s health problems, which didn’t go down well for his folks.

And if the report in Pravda is to be believed, the things Boris told his parents became increasingly astonishing. He said, for example, that he had previously lived on Mars. Supposedly, it had been an underground existence as a devastating disaster had stripped the planet of its atmosphere. Boris explained that all Martians were now living in cities beneath the planet’s surface.

In his previous life, Boris claimed, he had traveled to Earth on research projects, piloting his own spaceship. And he elaborated on the disaster that had befallen Mars. He told Pravda, “There was a catastrophe on Mars where I lived. People like us still live there. There was a nuclear war between them. Everything burnt down. Only some of them survived.”

Unbelievably, Boris described how the surviving Martians had lived after the planet’s nuclear holocaust. “They built shelters and created new weapons. All materials changed,” he explained. And he added, “Martians mostly breathe carbon dioxide. If they flew to our planet now, they would have to spend all the time standing next to pipes and breathing in fumes.” Faced with these strange stories from her child, Nadezhda decided she should have him checked out.

Turns out, though, that the experts were as baffled as Nadezhda was. At least, that’s what she told Pravda. “When we showed our boy to a variety of scientists, including ufologists, astronomers, and historians, all of them agreed that it would be impossible to make all those stories up. Foreign languages and scientific terms, which he says, are usually used by specialists studying this or that particular science,” the mom said.

Just to add to the mystery, it seemed Boris also had the ability to sense a pending disaster. One example his mother gave was the Kursk nuclear submarine sinking, which claimed the lives of 118 Russian sailors in 2000. In the days before the calamity, Nadezdha said, Boris had experienced pain throughout his body.

Then there was the terrible school siege in the Russian city of Beslan. Back in 2004, terrorists held more than 1,000 children, teachers, and others hostage. Ultimately, the death toll was a horrifying 334, with 186 of those children. But how did it affect Boris?

Well, on this occasion, too, Boris reportedly experienced physical symptoms during the three-day siege. And his mother said that he refused to go to school. As the boy described to Pravda, “It was like as if a flame was burning inside of me. I knew that the story in Beslan would have a horrible end.”

If that wasn’t weird enough, Boris’ knowledge supposedly extended to some truly bizarre corners of mythology. According to his mother, he knew all about the Lemurians. These people, 30 feet tall, purportedly lived 70,000 ago on Earth’s lost continent of Lemuria. Funnily enough, though, this fanciful story was only developed in the 19th century. And, somewhat unsurprisingly, it’s since been dismissed.

How could a small boy know about this strange 19th-century tale? Well, Boris’ answer to that question was straightforward: he’d seen it with his own eyes on one of his visits to Earth from Mars. And the Russian also had some jaw-dropping information about the Great Sphinx of Giza. As you may know, it stands in the Egyptian desert overlooked by the most famous of the pyramids.

Boris explained to Pravda, “The human life will change when the Sphinx is opened. It has an opening mechanism somewhere behind the ear. I do not remember exactly.” Of course, the Sphinx has been meticulously studied over the years by some of the world’s leading archeologists. And to date, none of them has found such a mechanism.

Then, in October 2007, Boris gave a video interview for an organization called Project Camelot. And it’s probably worth pointing out how Project Camelot describes itself on its website. Apparently, the group’s mission is to report on “conspiracies, the secret space program, black projects, ETs, free energy, and more.” Make of that what you will.

In the interview, Boris opened up about life on Mars, including the terrible nuclear war. He said, “I remember that time, when I was 14 or 15 years old. The Martians were waging wars all the time, so I would often have to participate in air raids with a friend of mine.” And it didn’t end there.

Boris also spoke about mortality after apparently surviving the devastating nuclear war on his first home planet. He claimed, “No, I have no fear of death, for we live eternally. There was a catastrophe on Mars where I lived. People like us still live there.”

The unique youngster also talked about the wonders of spaceflight with his fellow Martians. “Martian spaceships are very complicated. They are layered, and they can fly all across the universe,” he said.

And Boris continued with his extraordinary memories of Mars. For example, he described how Martians don’t grow older and die as humans do. Apparently, according to Boris, they reach the age of 35, and after that they become no older. Martians, he claimed, live forever. Obviously, that could not have included those who died in the nuclear war.

By now, all of these incredible tales may have left you feeling slightly giddy. But there’s more to come thanks to Pravda, which returned to the story in November 2017. By that time Boris was 21, but it didn’t appear that the Russian newspaper had interviewed him as an adult.

But although Pravda may not have secured a new interview with Boris, it had supposedly found some previously unpublished quotes from his childhood. According to the paper, the former Martian had said, “I used to live on Mars. There are people there, just like us here on Earth, but they are taller, and they breathe carbon dioxide. There was a global disaster on Mars, and everything was scorched out.”

As the Martians reportedly breathed carbonic gas or carbon dioxide, Boris was asked how it felt to live on oxygen. His answer was, “I breathe oxygen, because I now live here, in this body of a human being, an earthling. But we hate breathing air on Earth because it makes you grow old. On Mars, there are no old people. Everyone looks as they do in their thirties here.” And, crucially, there’s one other topic Boris expanded upon.

That is the future of our planet. Back in 2005, Boris had given a dire warning, and this was reported in Pravda that same year. At first, he seemed hopeful about the future of Russia. He was far less upbeat, though, about the fate of Earth.

Boris explained, “The situation in the country [Russia] will be improving gradually. However, planet Earth will have to experience two very dangerous years: 2009 and 2013. Those catastrophes will be connected with water.” Obviously, those two years he mentioned have passed without widespread catastrophe. But there’s more.

You see, according to The Sun, Boris said he’d actually been sent to Earth from Mars to save humanity. From what, you may ask? A bleak nuclear apocalypse. It could be strikingly similar to the war that befell his fellow Martians all those years ago. And with ongoing tensions between the United States, North Korea, and Iran, who’s to say he’s wrong? Boris even claimed that there are other Martians on Earth just like him, trying to save the planet by issuing such warnings.

Yet there’s an obvious question at the root of this story. How can we explain this Russian youngster’s extraordinary “memories” of life as a Martian? Well, back in 2005, Russian professor Vladislav Lugovenko thought he may have the answer. Lugovenko is said to have known Boris for a number of years, and he believed the boy may have psychic powers.

Lugovenko told Pravda, “One of the most remarkable abilities of the human brain is its ability to save information about experience, emotions, and thoughts both inwardly and outwardly, in the single informational space of the universe. There are some unique individuals who can draw information from that field. In my opinion, every human being is connected with space by means of energy channels.”

Interestingly, the professor went on to suggest that Boris fell into a special category known as “indigo children.” He said, “Boriska is one of them [the indigo children]. Apparently, indigo children have a special mission to change our planet. Many of them have amended DNA spirals, which gives them incredibly strong immune systems [that] can even defeat AIDS.” Sounds unlikely, but that’s what the professor apparently claimed.

And Lugovenko went on, “I have met such [indigo] children in China, India, Vietnam, and so on. I am sure that they will change the future of our civilization.” Who exactly are these indigo children? Well, the concept comes from the New Age movement and was developed in the 1970s by a woman called Nancy Anne Tappe.

Indigo children are so-called because of the apparent color of their aura. Writing in her 1982 book Understanding Your Life Through Color, Tappe explained, “The indigo phenomenon has been recognized as one of the most exciting changes in human nature ever documented in society.” And these youngsters, she continued, are, “extremely bright, precocious children with an amazing memory and a strong desire to live instinctively.”

On the flip side, parents who accept their youngsters as “indigo children” could be simply putting off an inevitable truth. This, some argue, is that their kids may have learning disabilities. For example, the indigo tag – for those who believe it – could provide an alternative explanation for attention deficit disorder or even autism. As we all know, these are genuine conditions that require the utmost professional support.

And while there is no suggestion that Boris had been suffering from any neurological issues, a 2018 Pravda article noted that he had been excluded from school for being disruptive. What would be really fascinating would be to hear from Boris again now that he is an adult. But he seems to have disappeared without a trace. Perhaps he went back to Mars.

Boris’ claims may be outlandish, but one scientist has suggested he’s right about there being life on Mars. More than four decades ago, two U.S. space probes landed on the surface of the Red Planet. On a mission to carry out a series of experiments, the craft began searching for evidence of life. And shockingly, according to Gilbert Levin, they actually found what they were looking for. Years later, people are finally getting to the bottom of this seedy mystery – and questioning NASA's true motives for keeping things under wraps.

Since the first observations of Mars in the 17th century, humankind has wondered one pivotal question: could there be life on this distant planet? Even today, finding proof that we’re not alone in the universe remains the holy grail of countless researchers who spend their days looking to the stars. And from the 1960s, NASA has been leading the race to answer this conundrum once and for all.

To that end, in 1993 NASA launched the Mars Exploration Program – an endeavor with four distinct goals. Along with determining whether life has ever existed on the Red Planet, the project seeks to study both the geological make-up and meteorological conditions of this far-off piece of the universe. In addition, NASA aims to lay the groundwork for human visitors to Mars.

And over the years, NASA has made many attempts to gather data about Mars, which is located 140 million miles from Earth. The first successful mission was launched back in 1964, when Mariner 4 rocketed into space from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Then, the following year, the probe undertook a fly-by of the planet – a pioneering feat in itself.

That was far from the only breakthrough made, either. As the probe passed close to Mars, it managed to capture images of the terrain below – the first-ever close-up glimpse of a planet from deep space. But then, later that year, communications stopped, only resuming briefly in 1967.

Today, Mariner 4 has been abandoned, a wreck of a spacecraft floating uselessly somewhere around the sun. Over the years, though, other NASA missions have taken up the mantle. In 1969, for example, both Mariner 6 and Mariner 7 traveled to Mars, sending vital information back to Earth during their respective journeys.

Apparently, these later probes were tasked with laying the groundwork for future research – including the hunt for life on the Red Planet. But while neither Mariner 6 nor Mariner 7 spotted any actual Martians, it wouldn’t be long before a NASA mission uncovered something intriguing.

Still, the space agency saw some failure in the interim. Setting off from Cape Canaveral in May 1971, Mariner 8 was intended to be the first probe to go into orbit around Mars. Yet unfortunately there was an equipment failure during the launch, and this led the craft to crash down into the Atlantic Ocean.

Undeterred, NASA launched Mariner 9 just weeks later, beating the Soviet Union in the race to send a probe into Martian orbit. And for almost a year, the craft circled the Red Planet, ultimately transmitting more than 7,000 images back to researchers on Earth.

Mariner 9 proved an invaluable source of data, too. In total, it photographed 85 percent of Mars’ surface, revealing in detail a complex terrain of canyons and craters. But for those hoping for signs of life in the vicinity, there was sadly very little to go on.

Meanwhile, another ambitious NASA project was coming to the end of its run. Back in the 1960s, it seems, some had believed that man would land on Mars as early as the 1980s. And as a precursor to these hypothetical missions, the agency therefore initiated the Voyager Mars Program in 1966.

Originally, the Voyager Mars Program intended to send a series of probes into outer space in the mid-’70s. But this endeavor was ultimately called off in 1971 – the same year in which Mariner 9 reached Martian orbit. According to experts, the design of the proposed Voyager Mars spacecraft was flawed, and so such a rocket may have proved both costly and dangerous to launch.

Yet despite this cancellation, NASA’s big plans for Mars did not fade away. And, eventually, the Voyager Mars Program evolved into the Viking Program. This time, the objectives of the mission were threefold: to capture detailed images of the planet, to study its composition and to uncover whether life existed there.

In fact, the Viking Program would go on to develop the very first landers designed to search for biosignatures – indicators of past or present life – on Mars. So, on August 20, 1975, Viking 1 left Cape Canaveral, arriving at the Red Planet close to a year later. Viking 2, on the other hand, departed Earth on September 9, 1975, and found Mars a month after its partner probe in 1976.

Both Viking 1 and Viking 2 consisted of two parts. One of these, the orbiter, was designed to detach above the Martian atmosphere and take snapshots of the planet below. The lander, by contrast, would continue on and finally come to rest on the alien terrain.

And for just over four weeks, Viking 1 orbited around Mars, scanning for a suitable landing site. Then, to the delight of those at NASA, the units successfully detached, with each embarking on its unique mission. Altogether, the program cost somewhere in the region of $1 billion – or around $5 billion today.

So, what exactly did NASA get for its money? Well, amazingly, the Viking Program delivered results that would inform the study of Mars for decades to come. While the landers of both Viking 1 and Viking 2 busied themselves on the surface below, the orbiters gathered a steady stream of information about the Red Planet. And with that data, researchers were able to develop a startling theory.

By this point, NASA knew that the surface of the planet was littered with the remnants of extinct volcanoes. Incredibly, though, the images captured by the two orbiters revealed something new: evidence that water may have once existed. For example, the probes detected geological aspects on Mars that could have been created as the result of flowing liquid.

The two Viking orbiters also detected signs that there was still water on the planet – albeit deep underground. And even though this data has been questioned over the years, it has never been disproved. Understandably, then, some researchers have jumped on the possible presence of water as proof that Mars could once have supported life.

As the Viking orbiters delivered these revelations back to Earth, however, the two landers were busy conducting experiments on the surface. Deployed to different locations on Mars, they were tasked to search the planet for evidence of life, among other things. And what they found continues to cause controversy to this day.

After their respective arrivals on Mars, each of the landers carried out a series of identical procedures designed to collect soil samples from the surface. Near the equator of the planet, Viking 1 utilized its robotic arm to place specimens within a special container; in the northern hemisphere, Viking 2 completed the exact same process.

Together, the NASA team back on Earth hoped that these samples would ultimately provide more information about the biology of Mars – determining, perhaps, how likely it was to support life. And while the majority of the materials were later found to contain no evidence of any thriving organisms, there were also some surprising results.

In one experiment, a device known as a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer identified the chemicals present in Martian soil. Ultimately, this test concluded that the samples showed little sign of organic life. There was also a gas exchange study, which looked at the vapors released by the specimens in a laboratory setting.

In the so-called pyrolytic release experiment, meanwhile, the samples were subjected to conditions designed to mimic those on Mars. Apparently, researchers theorized that any microorganisms present would convert the carbon in the atmosphere into biomass, which could then be detected. But, yet again, this process also failed to turn up anything notable.

Unlike the other tests, though, the labeled release experiment yielded results that made scientists think twice about life on Mars. In fact, after just one month on the Red Planet, Viking 1 had apparently delivered data that suggested something truly exciting.

The labeled release experiment was a relatively simple affair. Essentially, it took a sample of Martian soil and doused it in a special mixture of nutrients. Then, if any microorganisms were present in the specimen, they would begin to metabolize the solution – a process that could be monitored and tracked.

Crucially, both the pyrolytic release and labeled release experiments incorporated control tests that would allow researchers to check the results. If either of these experiments returned a positive response, the same soil would then be subjected to a secondary procedure. And by heating the sample, researchers would thus be able to determine whether or not the reaction had been by chemical or biological means.

Even before Viking 1 had landed on Mars, researchers had conducted a number of trial runs of the labeled release experiment. Crucially, not a single one had returned a false result. And when the lander relayed the first set of data to Earth on July 30, 1976, staff at NASA were in for a shock.

Amazingly, the results of the first labeled release experiment suggested that there were indeed living microbes present on Mars. Not only that, but this conclusion was also supported by the control test – apparently confirming that the activity was biological rather than chemical. The stunning finding didn’t appear to be a one-off, either.

Over the course of the program, both Viking 1 and Viking 2 continued to conduct labeled release experiments on Mars, with NASA ultimately receiving four indications of the presence of microbes in Martian soil. Apparently, the data resembled that collected from samples here on planet Earth.

But if this was the case, you may ask, why wasn’t more of a fanfare made of this remarkable discovery? Well, unfortunately, the results did not appear to bear up to scrutiny. And when another Viking experiment, a molecule analysis, failed to turn up any corroborating evidence, NASA reached a rather disappointing conclusion.

Ultimately, the agency’s researchers concluded, the positive results generated by the labeled release experiment were not proof of microbial activity on Mars. Instead, they represented something in the Martian soil that was merely echoing the appearance of life. Yet not everyone agreed with this conclusion. And in 1997 two of the scientists involved in the study explained their own views on the matter.

In the book Mars: The Living Planet, engineer Dr. Gilbert Levin and co-experimenter Patricia Ann Straat – along with academic Barry DiGregorio – discussed the labeled release procedures. And according to Levin, the tests really had indicated the presence of microbial life on Mars. That’s an opinion he still holds to this day, in fact.

For many years, Levin remained in the minority, with his conclusions questioned by most of his fellow scientists. But the engineer received vindication of a sort in April 2012, when the results of a new analysis were released. Over at the University of Southern California, ex-NASA project director Joseph Miller had decided to take another look at the labeled release experiment.

Together with Giorgio Bianciardi from the University of Siena in Italy, Miller ran the Viking Program’s data through a different test. This time, the process involved a method known as cluster analysis, which divided the biological and non-biological indicators. And the scientists consequently reached a fascinating conclusion: Levin may have been right after all.

“We just plugged all the [Viking experimental and control] data in and said, ‘Let the cluster analysis sort it out,’” Miller told National Geographic in 2012. “What happened was [that] we found two clusters. One cluster constituted the two active experiments on Viking, [while] the other cluster was the five control experiments.”

This wasn’t all. During the study, the researchers also compared the data collected by the Viking Program with various samples – both biological and non-biological – from Earth. And according to Miller, the results spoke for themselves. “It turned out that all the biological experiments from Earth sorted with the active experiments from Viking, and all the non-biological data series sorted with the control experiments,” he explained. “It was an extremely clear-cut phenomenon.”

Elsewhere, the specialists found evidence to suggest that a circadian rhythm – an internal day clock found in all organisms – could be detected in the Viking Program’s samples. However, Miller has since expressed his disappointment in NASA for failing to take the necessary measures to investigate this further. And in a 2019 article for Scientific American, Levin also puzzled over the agency’s apparent loss of interest in the search for extraterrestrial life.

According to Levin, NASA has never sent any life-detection equipment back to Mars to check up on the Viking program’s original results. Even so, that hasn’t stopped more astonishing finds from emerging over the years. When the Curiosity rover landed in 2012, for example, it found reason to suggest that the Martian environment may once have provided suitable conditions for life to thrive.

Methane has also been detected in the atmosphere of Mars, further hinting at the presence of biological organisms there. But at present, NASA only has one future mission planned to the Red Planet to collect Martian soil. If alien life is ever discovered, then, it may be down to the work of private companies such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX.