Heartbeats from Space

Abroad, it is the year 1961. We find ourselves in the city of Turin, following in the footsteps of the Italian Alps. Here are a couple of brothers Akele and Jam Batista Yudica Cordiglia, their Avid ham radio enthusiasts and have set up a makeshift tracking station on a Terrace on February 2 at around 10:55 pm they tuned into a high frequency signal and received a transmission that they believed was from

space

. We have an audio recording here. Let's listen to it abroad. While the recording is short, the content is immediately interesting. The sound appears. being of a person Breathing heavily as if they were fighting for oxygen deepening the mystery the brothers also received a second transmission thanks to the repetitive rhythm sounds as if it could be a heartbeat at the time Aquila yudica cordiglia was a medical student at the University From Turin he called one of his professors, who turned out to be a prominent cardiologist, Dr.

Akele Mario Dagliotti, upon listening to the tape, the dog Leoti said that this is the heart of a dying man. The implications of that statement would be staggering if the signal had actually come from

space

then there was someone orbiting the Earth who at that very moment was fighting for his life someone who would have been totally unknown if it weren't for the brothers who had received their radio signals. but things were going beyond that in 1961 the space race was heating up a duel between the Soviet Union and the United States for technological superiority in space flight at that time the first man in space had not yet taken off Yuri Gagarin had not He would make his famous vostok One Flight until a month later, which meant that on this February afternoon no human being had yet reached the immense outer space, which made the recordings even stranger.

Could there have been an unannounced launch that hadn't gone as planned? Two days after the recording, the Soviets announced that a spacecraft had burned up on the planet. The entry does not mention a human on board, but Jean Batista and Aquile were convinced that they had discovered a secret manned mission that had been covered up and this was not the only one the duo were about to find themselves in the middle of a fascinating story told. . through the invisible radio waves that reach their antennas this is the story of the lost cosmonauts to understand how they got to this point we need to go back in time aquile and jam Batista was interested in immature radio for years in 1949 at the age ages 10 and 16 purchased surplus U.S.

Army radio equipment for five cents a pound and used it to build a makeshift receiving station after their move to Turin in 1959. The brothers built antennas using materials such as chicken wire and pipes and placed them on the terrace of their house. They named their station Torrebert As the brothers grew curious about radio technology The space race was in its early stages The couple found themselves perfectly positioned to experience one of the era's crucial moments On October 4, 1957 Achillion Giambautista was listening to the radio when he heard the news of the launch of a Soviet satellite called Sputnik the broadcast included the frequencies on which Sputnik transmitted, they adjusted their radio equipment and heard a sound that would captivate the outside world on Earth marked a turning point in the successful space race of the Soviet Union.

The launch of Sputnik was a major achievement and created the perception of technological superiority over the United States. The event led to the formation of NASA and sparked a renewed sense of urgency in the United States space program for the brothers. The launch of the first Sputnik was a defining moment that ignited their passion for space radio, they dedicated themselves to capturing recordings of more spacecraft and in later interviews they often reflected on the importance of that moment. Just a month later, the brothers would have the opportunity to receive signals from another Soviet satellite, Sputnik. 2. However, these signals were different from the first, instead of constant beeps, they were inconsistent and fluctuating, these signals were the heartbeat of a dog named Leica, the first living being to orbit the Earth, but the recordings Thought until now were all space launches that Widely known observers around the world had recordings of both Sputnik launches.

This would continue in 1958 with the reception of a signal from Explorer 1, the first American satellite in foreign orbit, but on November 28, 1960, the brothers reportedly received a very different signal. type of transmission the Bosham radio observatory in West Germany announced that they had picked up signals on the frequencies used by the Soviet satellites that the brothers tuned into; However, this transmission was not a series of repeated beeps or the heartbeat of a space dog, but rather it was Morse code. The code details three letters SOS, a well-known distress signal, while the audio here only contains the first letters.

The brothers claim to have received a more complete SOS message for everyone repeated three times. A 2008 interview with John Batista mentioned that they were able to calculate the speed of the object transmitting the signal. When they did this, they discovered that the vehicle was not orbiting the Earth like most satellites, but was instead on an escape trajectory, meaning that the ship was moving away from Earth and would eventually break free of its Gravity: the implications of this were puzzling as of yet, neither the US nor the USSR had made human launches into space, but this seemed to be evidence of a failed launch: a cosmonaut trapped in a spacecraft that was moving further and further away from home.

This is the first example where we have a supposed audio recording of the event. Shortly after, the brothers would record their heartbeat signal and forced breathing from earlier on video. This gave them at least two recordings of apparent cosmonauts on Bosch missions, neither of which. They were confirmed as missions manned by the Soviet Union. The brothers began to speculate that these recordings were evidence of intentional cover-ups possibly to hide failures from the West. Unlike the Americans, the Soviets did not announce the launches in advance and only revealed the result of the mission, once completed, it led some to the perception that the Soviet Union had had more failures than they publicly acknowledged.

Achilles and John Batista shared this belief. These suspicions would reach their peak just a few weeks later, when the brothers recorded what could be their The most chilling reception sources vary on the dates, but it appears to have been sometime between May 16 and 23. Let's listen to some fragments of this recording with the translation provided by Giovanni. Open Foreign Foreign Foreign Of all the recordings claimed by the brothers this is the most memorable a woman apparently on a spaceship appears to be talking about a failure of some kind she mentions that she is hot asks if things are dangerous and makes reference to flames various sources from the 1960s refer to other people aboard the spacecraft a Reader's Digest article from 1965 mentions that there were voices of two men and a woman, they are quoted as saying that conditions were getting worse, why don't you respond?

We go slower. The world will never know about us. There was another station that claimed to have picked up these signals. boshroom observatory in west germany this was the same station that received the SOS signal director heinz kaminsky reported hearing the words moon and cave in russian the brothers had discovered what they believed was another failed soviet space flight if this were true then i would challenge the history records Valentina Tereskova is widely recognized as the first woman in space for her solo mission in 1963, however these recordings were from 1961, indicating that a woman could have flown into space a year before a Vostok 6.

This would mean that, like Gagarin, he may not. Having been the first man in space, Theruskova may not have been the first woman. Would the sacrifice of these cosmonauts be in vain and their contributions to the history of space flight not be recognized? Let's step back for a moment and look at the chronology of the reports. Torrebert's includes all space missions where they claim to have received transmissions. Some of these missions are well known. These include the one we discussed, such as Sputnik 1, Sputnik 2 and Explorer. Some broadcasts we haven't mentioned yet include Vostok 1. Flight with Yuri Gagarin, the first crude American orbital spaceflight Mercury Atlas 6, a Soviet Luna 4 satellite and the final Vostok mission containing the first spacewalk, other events in the timeline They are Soviet missions that are said to have been discovered by the brothers, including the SOS.

Mission, heavy breathing and the woman talking. I have included a recorder symbol for Missions where we have the audio currently recorded; However, there are several more reports where the audio has not yet surfaced; some of these only have one or two sources. Mentioning them, Rocketman by Rex Hall and David Shaler mentions that the brothers reported Soviet launch failures as early as 1957. Other reported missions include a Soviet spacecraft veering off course and a deep-space disappearance in October 1961, a voice additional female in June 1963 and a cosmonaut lost on reentry in 1964. None of these contain any known audio evidence, however, they will be included in the timeline with a question mark with all receptions reported by Thora in a Where we can begin to evaluate claims by the Utica Cordiglia brothers as a whole, an obvious question is how two amateur radio enthusiasts were able to identify so many Soviet failures that have no other reference.

I count nine cases of alleged transmissions from a manned launch, none of which have known recordings abroad. of torbert of these nine there are only three where the recording has been located at present this gives us about three minutes of evidence in total when we start to dig a little deeper many of the stories become increasingly difficult to believe, let's take a look Let's look at some of the alleged transmissions and see what we can find, the most interesting receptions are the ones that were verified to change the history of the space race, take for example the February 1961 report on

heartbeats

and breathing if It was about a Soviet cosmonaut. then Yuri Gagarin would not have been the first human being in space, that honor would have gone to whoever sent the transmission, however, the very nature of these recordings is questionable and in the Vostok capsules the heartbeat data was not transmitted as pure audio, but were encoded. a carrier signal that would be decoded on the ground listen to this transmission from vostok 5 in 1963. notice how the heartbeat is an interruption of a signal when the pitch drops, indicating that there is a strange rhythm now let's compare this with the supposed recording of the Yudica Codiglia brothers, this is an audio file of the beating heart not encoded into a signal, so if it was actually from a spacecraft, it used a telemetry scheme that had not been seen before on any Soviet equipment and was not I would see again.

Why would this spacecraft have such a different way of transmitting data compared to the other flights? The Soviet announcement of a ship that burned up on reentry probably referred to Venera 1va, a probe that was designed to go to Venus but suffered an explosion. almost nine minutes after release, so what about the recording of the woman who said she was hot and watched Flames? If true, this mission apparently lasted between three and six days, depending on the source, but only two stations are reported to have received any transmission. Torrebert and Bosham stationed in West Germany, however, a 24-hour mission launched just three months later was picked up by a wide variety of stations located in the United States, Great Britain, France and Italy, so if these stations could receive a much shorter flight why not a supposed three to six day flight why only the brothers and the boshroom observatory but even this apparent corroboration falls apart the beauchum observatory finally concluded that the transmission had come from the ground and not from a ship This would potentially explain why it was only ever recorded by a couple of stations, which brings us to Torebert, who believed he was from space, but even if this were true, it was reported that there were two men and a woman aboard the spacecraft, which however would have been completely unexpected: the Vostok capsule.

It only had room for one person, the first Soviet ship capable of carrying a crew would not be launched until 1964. How likely is it that there was a single three-person capsule more than three years earlier? It is not impossible,but it's not like that. It seems logical enough, while the woman's recordings are chilling, it is difficult for us to confirm that they were actually from a Soviet spacecraft, there is simply not enough evidence in favor of that interpretation, but even the minor recordings produced by the brothers show failures. Remember the SOS Aquila message. and John Batista stated that the ship was on an escape trajectory away from Earth, but the energy acquired to obtain said trajectory has to come from somewhere.

The brothers explained this by proposing that the retro rockets had fired in the wrong direction, taking the ship too far away. John Batista described this in a 1999 interview. An engineer employed at the Swedish Space Corporation named Sven Grant analyzed the possibility of a rocket failing. Gran calculated that for this to happen the spacecraft would have had to carry more than twice its dry mass as propellant, this would make the vehicle weigh more than 13 tons in orbit, much more than the known capacity of the Vostok rockets used at that time. moment, so it is unfeasible that the capsule accidentally ended up on an escape trajectory, there simply was not enough fuel.

Quran also criticizes the methods used to calculate the speed of the ship saying that if the vehicle was where they said it was then their equipment would not have been able to accurately detect the speed again, we have a case where the brothers' claims seem to fade. under deeper scrutiny. We have shown that there are serious doubts regarding many of the unknown flights that the brothers claimed to have discovered, but what about the flights that were known to have occurred? One of those missions is Vostok 1, the first manned orbital mission. The brother allegedly received a tip from an Italian journalist in Moscow that allowed them to receive signals from Gagarin's flight.

A documentary from 2007 titled Ipirati de los patio appears. However, in order to show these recordings abroad, James Oberg, a renowned journalist and space historian, presents arguments against the brothers being able to record Vostok 1. Obrecht says that the orbit of the spacecraft was at all times out of reach. from Italy and during the minutes of closest approach. On its way back to Earth, the spacecraft suffered a slowdown and radio plasma jamming. We can take a look at a map called Ground Trace that shows the path a satellite takes over the Earth during the vast majority of the flight.

Vostok is in fact very far from Italy, sometimes at the opposite end of the world, near the end the capsule approaches the country, but at this point it has begun to re-enter the atmosphere and would have found itself under a radio blackout; In other words, communication would not have been possible. A similar problem arises with a supposed recording from Mercury Atlas 6 in February 1962. The mission was carried out by John Glenn, the first American to orbit the globe. The Yurica Cordiglia brothers claimed to have a recording of Glenn's voice. Oberg again suggests that the spacecraft despite completing three orbits would have been out of reach of the Italians at all times.

In this terrain, the trail shows the tracking stations that collected the flight transmissions. Each of which has a range of approximately 700 nautical miles. Each of the three orbits would have been well out. from the area of ​​northern Italy, making it difficult to imagine how they could have received Glenn's voice. Problems continue with Luna 4, a Soviet spacecraft launched in April 1963. The brothers claimed to have received images of the Moon from this vehicle. These images were published by an Italian newspaper the next day, but even with supposed photographic evidence, the story crumbles under scrutiny to begin with. Luna4 used a spacecraft design called Yi Six, this was in contrast to Luna 3 which used a Yi2a design. , it is well known that Luna 3 was able to take the first photographs of the far side of the Moon luna4, however, it served a different purpose: it was designed to make a soft landing on the Moon by transmitting the photographs from the surface, so which lacked the in-flight imaging capabilities of the Moon. 3.

Therefore, there is no way the brothers could have received any transmissions since the ship's cameras would not have been activated in flight. There were some at that time who realized that the immature radio operators named Corsian Rosati accused the Yurica Cordiglia brothers of lying, apparently they had spoken. to a Professor Lyakov in Moscow who gave them information about the camera systems on board because, furthermore, the designer of the medical radio telescope argued that the equipment the brothers possessed would not have been able to pick up such a weak signal, despite these obvious problems, a photograph of mare orientale was produced by the brothers a section of the Moon not completely visible from Earth and a place that Luna 3 did not photograph so what are we going to do with these images?

An Italian author named Luca Bushini offers an explanation, first noting that about half of Mari Orientale is sometimes visible from Earth, but because it is right on the edge, the view is distorted. In 1961, researchers at the University of Arizona projected images onto a sphere and photographed it from the outside as a way to undo this distortion. quality it was possible to at least have a visual idea of ​​what eastern mare was like these rectified images were published in an atlas but even with this knowledge the photograph obtained by the brothers seems to barely correspond with later known images of the moon, it is so low quality and blurry I'm not even totally sure I have it in the desired configuration.

The image also has a very different character to the Luna 3 images. Note the distinct lack of grain and lines. If that wasn't enough, there is no other tracking station. It is known that he collected these photos the only case recorded was the two amateurs this is a problem that extends beyond the luna4 mission lack of corroborating evidence there is no lack of transmissions that the brothers claim to have found but that no one else looked at on the line of time, of all the reports, almost none of them have evidence recorded outside of Torerbert. What about the other tracking stations in Europe?

Surely there would have been interest in identifying Soviet launches from entities with much more powerful equipment than a couple of amateurs. So why didn't anyone else notice this? When we examine the Utica Cordiglia brothers' claims in their entirety, we are left with no choice but to conclude that many or all of their reports are falsified, while the recordings justify consideration of the contradictory evidence. Aside from the lack of corroboration, it is enough to conclude that these recordings are somehow illegitimate. Many of the people who argue for these missing cosmonaut theories talk about the intense secrecy of the Soviet Union and tend to say that these missions were simply covered up and references to them erased in some sense, this seems plausible, so In fact, some important Soviet failures are known to have been hidden, for example, the Nadellan catastrophe in 1960 was an explosion on a launch pad that caused dozens of victims. was not admitted by the Soviet Union until 1989.

Other cover-ups include the death of cosmonaut trainee Valentin Bondarenko, which was concealed until 1980. These examples might make it seem logical that there were other failures that were suppressed, however, the key difference between events like these and the Utica cordiglia recordings is that a lot of evidence finally came to light, but this has not yet happened with Utica cordiglia's claims beyond what we cover here, there has not been any explicit evidence other than casual quotes, no written records, no photographs, nothing. but some short recordings that apparently came from space svengran, who has been referenced several times, already has a quote that really crystallizes the situation.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence to be believed. Many of the brothers' claims were certainly extraordinary and that the Soviets were covering up the failure. manned space flights that Gagarin was not the first man in space that Tereshkova was not the first woman the extraordinary evidence necessary to believe such claims has not yet been released it is worth mentioning that the brothers continue to support the reports even in later times interviews and appear to have continued respectable careers after operations ceased in the delivery of their daughter, Achilles died in 2015 after a career as a cardiologist and leader of the philanthropist Jean Batista became an audio and photography expert at the court of Turin and despite the fragility of some of their claims, it is likely that they actually had a functional tracking station and could at least pick up some transmissions, but for some reason many of their reports do not stand up to scrutiny before we conclude, let's take a look. a quick look. about the sponsor who made today's video possible I want to talk about the sponsor's custom post for today's video.

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I want to thank you all for joining me in this video. It's a little different from what I've done before and I hope you enjoyed it. I have done my best to present a fair and accurate representation of the Utica kodiglia brothers' reports. However, I may have made mistakes, so I'll do it. I try my best to write any kind of corrections in the description. Also, I couldn't cover everything. If you dig deeper, you're bound to find things I didn't have time to mention, like the brothers' trip to the United States in 1964 and their discovery. of radio codes indicating Soviet launches or the KGB agent who apparently confronted them at their home;

Additionally, others have done more detailed analysis on the climate that led to these claims taking off, and of course, this is just a small part of the larger story of the space race. If you enjoyed this video, feel free to subscribe and let me know. what you think in the comments. I really appreciate your comments, we'll go ahead and get it over with. This has been RGN. Thank you very much for watching and see you. everyone in the next video have a great day