Rocket Weapons Testing
On March 2, 1959, a radiogram was sent to search headquarters, saying, “…the main mystery of the tragedy remains the exit of the entire group out of the tent…The reason could be any extraordinary natural phenomenon, such as the flight of a meteorological rockets, observed on the 1st of February in Ivdel, and by Karelin’s group.” The theory is that the Dyatlov group witnessed a top-secret rocket experiment or weapons test. The military killed the group to keep the program quiet. They staged the bodies around the slope at elevation 1079 to create a different story. The military, then, staged the crime scene to make it look like a “compelling natural disaster” with no known origin. They edited the hiker’s journals to support the staged crime scene. The whole rescue effort was a show to soothe the families and to put on a show for the public.