Brief
Alexander Deyev
The claims the writer was given for Alexander Deyev, in the order they were given.
1
According to Mart Sander's research, the Soviet researcher Alexander Deyev, who occupied the Merivälja site for several years investigating the object, analysed the Nuremberg celestial phenomenon engraving of 1566.
“the Soviet researcher who occupied the site for quite a few years investigating the Merivälja object, I think his name was Alexander Deyev, he had done an analysis of this Nuremberg uh engraving”
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2
Alexander Deyev theorised, based on the position of celestial objects depicted, that the Nuremberg celestial phenomenon engraving of 1566 more likely depicted an event over the Baltic Sea, possibly over Tallinn, rather than over Nuremberg.
“he apparently had the theory that it was more likely because of the position of celestial objects somewhere over the Baltic Sea and possibly over Tallinn”
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3
Alexander Deyev hypothesised that the Merivälja object might be one of a group of objects that fell during an alleged aerial or orbital battle depicted in the Nuremberg celestial phenomenon engraving of 1566.
“he hypothesized that Merivälja might be one of a group of objects that had fallen during this alleged aerial battle or perhaps orbital battle into the area”
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4
Alexander Deyev was an aviation engineer who had ties to the Soviet Defense Ministry.
“he was an aviation engineer who had ties to the Soviet Defense Ministry.”
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5
Alexander Deyev was passionately interested in the paranormal even before the investigations into the Merivalja object.
“He was passionately interested in the paranormal even before the investigations into this object.”
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6
Alexander Deyev worked for a top secret Soviet UFO investigation team headed by physicist Felix Siegel.
“he ended up working for a top secret Soviet UFO investigation team headed by a physicist, Felix Siegel.”
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7
Alexander Deyev was the person who came to the door of the house in Merivalja regarding the object.
“it was Alexander Deyev who came knocking on the door in this little street in Merivälja, wasn't it?”
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8
Mart Sander describes Alexander Deyev as a classic villain-type figure with a very dark past who became a protagonist or antagonist in his book.
“he's kind of a mixed bag, and he's turned into this protagonist or antagonist or whoever in my book because he's just such a classic villain, a very interesting type with a very dark past.”
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9
Alexander Deyev may have been employed by the Committee for State Security (KGB) as one of the best known psychics used by the KGB in the Soviet Union.
“he's always been like this on this cutting edge, perhaps employed by the KGB, perhaps as one of the best known psychics, let's call it that way, in the Soviet Union, who were used by the KGB.”
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10
Alexander Deyev's fall from grace within the Soviet establishment was spectacular, involving being disgraced and ridiculed at the highest level of the Soviets.
“his fall from grace was spectacular. The way he was disgraced and ridiculed is something to marvel at. And this will stand on the highest level of the Soviets.”
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11
Alexander Deyev possessed a smoky glass orb that he claimed generated what he called the D field.
“He made a fuss about a smoky glass orb he had, which supposedly generated what he called the D field.”
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12
Some people said the smoky glass orb that Alexander Deyev attributed to the D field was really a device that had been used in a previous century to iron shirt sleeves.
“a lot of people said that glass orb was really something that had been used in a previous century to iron shirt sleeves.”
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13
Mart Sander thinks Alexander Deyev was genuinely interested in mysteries such as the Merivalja object and was really trying to get to the bottom of them, but also thinks Deyev was a fantasist.
“I think he was genuinely interested in all these things. He was really trying to get to the bottom of this mystery and probably other mysteries as well. But then again, I think he was a fantasist, a necromancer, whatever you call it, as well.”
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14
Alexander Deyev initially suggested the smoky glass orb was millions of years old and claimed to have proven this by scientific methods, contradicting later claims that it was a century-old ironing device.
“How can modern science not conclude whether the piece is millions of years old, as he first suggested, and evidently was able to prove it by scientific methods? Or how can the same object be about a century-old ironing device”
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15
Alexander Deyev reportedly calculated the location of the 1561 Nuremberg celestial phenomenon.
“he reportedly calculated the whereabouts of the event”
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16
Alexander Deyev reportedly concluded that the 1561 Nuremberg celestial phenomenon took place over the Gulf of Finland.
“he calculated reportedly that this event took place over the Gulf of Finland”
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17
Alexander Deyev set up a laboratory in the house above the Merivalja object.
“he set up a laboratory in the house, which must have driven the owners crazy”
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18
Alexander Deyev allegedly used D-generators, described as energy-creating devices, supposedly to try to lure the Merivalja object to the surface.
“he started using his alleged D-generators... these energy creating devices that he used supposedly to try and lure the UFO craft to come to the surface”
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19
One of Alexander Deyev's D field generators was reportedly tested by the Estonian Academy of Sciences and found to be inoperative and useless.
“one of these generators was reportedly tested by the Student Academy of Sciences and found to be quite inoperative and useless”
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20
Mart Sander visited the Merivalja house, whose name means Silver Fir Road, about a year or two after Alexander Deyev was forced to leave.
“I visited Vivica's house on this, which, by the way, means Silver Fir Road. a couple of years or a year after Deyev was forced to leave”
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21
Alexander Deyev was forced to leave Merivalja when the political situation changed and the Committee for State Security (KGB) and Soviet defence systems were no longer welcome in Estonia.
“a year after Deyev was forced to leave because that's when the political situations started to change and the KGB and Soviet defense systems were no longer welcome in Estonia”
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22
Mart Sander did not find any of Alexander Deyev's equipment when he visited the Merivalja house, as it had all been removed.
“I sadly did not find any equipment. He had removed everything”
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23
Alexander Deyev was a self-styled academic without a formal academic education, who Mart Sander describes as a mentalist claiming telepathic contact with the Merivalja object.
“a man who was a self-styled academic of the people, meaning he didn't really have an academic education, but he was a mentalist, he was telepathically in contact with the object”
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24
The impressions Linus Kordes revealed about the Merivalja object were very much in line with what Alexander Deyev previously said.
“he revealed quite interesting things which are actually very much in line with what Dejev said”
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25
A Russian document indicated Alexander Deyev tried to sing to the Merivalja object to lure it and awaken it using a specific sound produced by his apparatus.
“I found this one Russian document that said Deyev was trying to sing to the object and to lure it, to awaken it by a specific sound which was produced by his magical apparatus”
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26
In the late 1980s, before the Soviet collapse and Alexander Deyev's forced return to Russia in disgrace, there were plans to purchase the Merivalja house and neighbouring lots to clear them for scientific research.
“in the late 80s, just before the Soviet power collapse and Dejev was forced to return to Russia in disgrace, there were plans to purchase the house and also the neighboring lots to clear them for the scientific research”
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27
Mart Sander believes the final closing date of the Merivalja shaft was 1988, after Alexander Deyev was forced to leave.
“I think the final closing date was 1988. It must have been after Deyev was forced to leave.”
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28
Alexander Deyev, a KGB (Committee for State Security) figure, promoted the Merivalja object as anomalous.
“the gentleman from the KGB who was promoting this as being an anomalous object, Alexander Deyev,”
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29
Alexander Deyev was discredited by Estonian investigations into the alleged worthlessness of his smoky glass orb (D field generator) device.
“He was discredited in a really serious way by Estonian investigations into the alleged worthlessness of his D-generator device.”
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30
Alexander Deyev was hounded out of Estonia for being considered a fraud.
“Basically, he was hounded out of Estonia for being a bit of a fraud, wasn't he?”
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31
Alexander Deyev took over a large electronics factory in Estonia to manufacture his own devices, which were later completely discredited.
“He did some shady business in Estonia. He took over this large electronics factory to manufacture or produce his own magical systems, which were then later on discredited completely.”
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32
Alexander Deyev's downfall was orchestrated from the highest level of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, including a special television programme ridiculing him and pamphlets written about him.
“his downfall wasn't orchestrated in Estonia, it was orchestrated from the highest level of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, because the way they attacked him publicly, it was really like a public execution with all the, like a special TV program produced, ridiculing him, the pamphlets being written about him”
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33
Ross Coulthart wonders whether discrediting Alexander Deyev as a hoaxer was a cover-up intended to stop the West from taking an interest in the Merivalja object as the Cold War ended.
“Well, I'm just wondering if it wasn't a cover-up. I mean, one good way of stopping the West from taking an interest in this object at the beginning of the end of the Cold War as Glasnost began would be to suggest the whole thing was just a silly hoax by this Alexander Deyev guy.”
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34
Mart Sander considers the scale of the public campaign against Alexander Deyev, who had been a valuable Soviet asset for many years, proof that the campaign was organised to thoroughly discredit everything he had been involved with.
“knowing how the Russian system works, the way the system attacked Deyev who had been its priceless asset for many years. It is spectacular and it can only prove that this public execution was organized to really, really discredit everything that he had dealings with.”
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