The latest FOIA from John Greenewald at BlackVault is a brief account of a UFO sighting by Sen Richard Russell on a 1955 trip through the Soviet Union. Near Baku, Russell saw a greenish bright orb rising from the ground. He told the other people in the group, who hadn’t seen the orb. A second orb then rose from the ground while everyone was watching.
Nothing was seen on the ground with the exception of a searchlight which was about one-half to one mile away and appeared to be aimed at a very low trajectory almost at the train.
Hmm. Sounds like a classic seance trick.
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Looking up Baku led to a far more interesting set of facts. Baku was THE FIRST OIL BOOM TOWN. Oil was found in the 1830s and a REFINERY WAS BUILT IN 1837. The first mechanically drilled well was 1846.
Between 1856 and 1910 Baku’s population grew at a faster rate than that of London, Paris or New York.
The first oil in US was the Drake well in Pennsylvania, in 1859. Twenty years after the first Russian REFINERY.
Wikipedia quotes a 1911 travel book:
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Baku is a city founded upon oil, for to its inexhaustible founts of naphtha it owes its very existence, its maintenance, its prosperity. At present Baku produces one-fifth of the oil that is used in the world, and the immense output in crude petroleum from this single city far surpasses that in any other district where oil is found. Verily, the words of the Scriptures find illustration here: ‘the rock poured me out rivers of oil.’ Oil is in the air one breathes, in one’s nostrils, in one’s eyes, in the water of the morning bath (though not in the drinking water, for that is brought in bottles from distant mineral springs), in one’s starched linen – everywhere. This is the impression one carries away from Baku, and it is certainly true in the environs.
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Totally familiar to an old Okie!
More importantly, this explodes yet another standard American lie about Russia. We have constantly mocked Russian claims of superiority or first-ness in all possible ways, technical and economic. Most of those mockeries have turned out to be false.
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