Did Ari wander off and go knock knock knocking on someone's door??
Эй я посадил как насчет прибытие, чтобы подобрать меня!!
[Borrows the phone: Hey I landed, how about sending someone to pick me up]
There is so much deception in Soviet history, used to protect Soviet pride, that claiming a UFO landing to cover scientific embarrassment seems likely. As another poster said, the Soviets are rumored to have astronauts dying in their attempts to win the space race so why wouldn’t the Soviets tell ‘peasants’ (anyone who wasn’t in Moscow, basically) that it was UFO’s? If not UFO’s then some other lie to cover those circumstances and/or everyone talking about the lie disappears forever or learns to stop talking.
I also think, in addition to UFO’s, that this page describing cosmonaut deaths probably holds some truth too. Here’s the link and I’ll put a summary below:
http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/1302/lost_in_space.html
A LIST OF THE SUSPECTED LOST COSMONAUTS THE BROTHERS CLAIM TO HAVE RECORDED
May 1960 Unnamed cosmonaut lost when his orbiting space capsule veered off course.
November 1960 The brothers picked up an SOS message in Morse code from a troubled spacecraft.
February 1961 Recorded the suffocation of a cosmonaut.
April 1961 Just prior to Yuri Gagarin’s flight, a capsule circled the Earth three times before re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
May 1961 Weak calls for help from an orbiting capsule.
October 1961 A Soviet spacecraft veered off course and vanished into deep space.
November 1962 A space capsule bounced off the Earth’s atmosphere during re-entry and disappeared.
November 1963 Unnamed female cosmonaut perished on re-entry.
April 1964 Cosmonaut lost when capsule burnt up on re-entry.