The most mysterious phenomenon. Unexplained natural phenomena: what are they?

Very often, phenomena occur in nature that even science cannot explain. Even in ancient times, people considered such phenomena, occurring once every 10 or even 100 years, to be special and worshiped them. So, the most amazing and inexplicable phenomena found in nature:

Colored Moon.

Mirage.

Lunar rainbow.

Halo.

Fire tornado.

Rains of animals.

Green beam.

Ball lightning.

Moving stones.

No matter how hard scientists tried to observe moving stones, these observations did not bring success; the stones seemed to grow to the ground and did not move.

Stone balls.

Rain jelly.

Animals in stone.

All these phenomena cannot but surprise the common man. Perhaps speculation about the existence of other civilizations and worlds is not so meaningless.

April 12 marks the 56th anniversary of the appearance of man in space. Since then, astronauts regularly tell incredible stories that happened to them in space. Strange sounds that cannot propagate in airless space, inexplicable visions and mysterious objects are present in the reports of many astronauts. Next, the story will talk about something for which there are no clear explanations yet.

A few years after the flight, Yuri Gagarin attended one of the concerts of the popular VIA. Then he admitted that he had already heard similar music, but not on Earth, but during a flight into space.

This fact is all the more strange because before Gagarin’s flight, electronic music did not yet exist in our country, and it was precisely this melody that the first cosmonaut heard.

People who visited space later experienced similar sensations. For example, Vladislav Volkov spoke about strange sounds that literally surrounded him while in space.

“The earthly night was flying below. And suddenly from this night came... the barking of a dog. And then the crying of a child began to be clearly heard! And some voices. It is impossible to explain all this,” is how Volkov described the experience.

The sounds followed him almost the entire flight.

American astronaut Gordon Cooper said that while flying over the territory of Tibet, he was able to see houses and surrounding buildings with the naked eye.

Scientists have given the effect the name “magnification of ground objects,” but there is no scientific explanation for the possibility of viewing something from a distance of 300 kilometers.

A similar phenomenon was experienced by cosmonaut Vitaly Sevastyanov, who said that while flying over Sochi he was able to see his own two-story house, which caused controversy among optics specialists.

Candidate of technical and philosophical sciences, test cosmonaut Sergei Krichevsky first heard about inexplicable space visions and sounds from his colleague, who spent six months on the Mir orbital complex.

When Krichevsky was preparing for his first flight into space, a colleague told him that while in space a person can be subject to fantastic daydreams, which were observed by many astronauts.

Literally, the warning was as follows: “A person undergoes one or more transformations. Transformations at that moment seem to him to be a natural phenomenon, as if it should be so. All astronauts have different visions...

One thing is similar: those who have been in such a state identify a certain powerful flow of information coming from outside. None of the astronauts can call this a hallucination - the sensations are too real."

Later, Krichevsky called this phenomenon the “Solaris effect,” which was described by the author Stanislav Lemm, whose science fiction work “Solaris” quite accurately predicted inexplicable cosmic phenomena.

Although there is no clear scientific answer regarding the occurrence of such visions, some scientists believe that the occurrence of such inexplicable cases is due to exposure to microwave radiation.

In 2003, Yang Liwei, who became the first Chinese astronaut to travel into space, also witnessed the inexplicable.

He was on board the Shenzhou 5 when one night on October 16 he heard a strange sound outside, like a crash.

According to the astronaut, he had the feeling that someone was knocking on the wall of the spaceship in the same way as an iron ladle knocking on a tree. Liwei says that the sound did not come from outside, but also not from inside the spacecraft.

Liwei's stories have been called into question, since the propagation of any sound in a vacuum is impossible. But during Shenzhou's subsequent missions in space, two other Chinese astronauts heard the same knocking sound.

In 1969, American astronauts Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan and John Young were on the dark side of the Moon, quietly photographing craters. At that moment, they heard “an otherworldly, organized noise” coming from their headset.

“Cosmic Music” lasted for one hour. Scientists assumed that the sound arose due to radio interference between spacecraft, but could three experienced astronauts mistake ordinary interference for an alien phenomenon.

On May 5, 1981, Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot-cosmonaut Major General Vladimir Kovalenok noticed something inexplicable in the window of the Salyut station.

"Many astronauts have seen phenomena that go beyond the experience of earthlings. For ten years I never spoke about such things. At that time we were over the area of ​​\u200b\u200bSouth Africa, moving towards the Indian Ocean. I was just doing some gymnastic exercises when I saw in front of me through the porthole was an object whose appearance I could not explain...

I was looking at this object, and then something happened that is impossible according to the laws of physics. The object had an elliptical shape. From the outside it seemed as if it was rotating in the direction of flight. After this, there was a kind of explosion of golden light...

Then a second or two later there was a second explosion somewhere else and two spheres appeared, golden and very beautiful. After this explosion I saw white smoke. The two spheres never returned."

In 2005, American astronaut Leroy Chiao, commander of the ISS, led it for six and a half months. One day he was installing antennas 230 miles above the Earth when he witnessed the inexplicable.

"I saw lights that seemed to be lined up. I saw them flying and thought it looked really weird," he later said.

Cosmonaut Musa Manarov spent a total of 541 days in space, of which one in 1991 was memorable for him more than others. On the way to the Mir space station, he managed to film a cigar-shaped UFO.

The video recording lasts two minutes. The astronaut said that this object glowed at certain moments and moved in a spiral in space.

Dr. Story Musgrave has six degrees and is a NASA astronaut. It was he who told a very colorful story about UFOs.

In a 1994 interview, he said: “I saw a snake in space. It was elastic because it had internal waves, and it followed us for quite a long period of time. The more you spend in space, the more incredible things you can see there.” .

Cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliev was tormented by visions in his sleep. While sleeping in this position, Tsibliev behaved extremely restlessly, he screamed, ground his teeth, and rushed about.

“I asked Vasily what was the matter? It turned out that he had enchanting dreams, which he sometimes took for reality. He could not retell them. He only insisted that he had never seen anything like this in his life,” said a colleague of the ship’s commander.

Six cosmonauts aboard the ISS, waiting for the arrival of Soyuz-6, observed translucent figures 10 meters high that accompanied the station for 10 minutes, and then disappeared.

Nikolai Rukavishnikov observed flares in near-Earth space while flying on board the Soyuz-10 spacecraft.

While resting, he was in a darkened compartment with his eyes closed. Suddenly he saw flashes, which at first he took for signals from a flashing light board, shining through his eyelids.

However, the display burned with an even light and its brightness was not sufficient to create the observed effect.

Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin recalled: "There was something there, close enough to us that we could see it."

"During the Apollo 11 mission on the way to the Moon, I noticed a light in the ship's window that seemed to move with us. There were several explanations for this phenomenon, another ship from another country, or it was panels that came off when we removed from the rocket's landing module. But it wasn't all that."

“I feel absolutely convinced that we came face to face with something incomprehensible. I could not classify what it was. Technically, the definition can only be “unidentified.”

James McDivitt made the first manned flight on Gemini 4 on June 3, 1965 and recorded: “I looked out the window and saw a white spherical object against the black sky. It abruptly changed the direction of flight.”

McDivitt also managed to photograph a long metal cylinder. The Air Force command again resorted to a tried and tested technique, announcing that the pilot had confused what he saw with the Pegasus 2 satellite.

McDivitt replied: "I would like to report that during my flight I actually saw what some people call a UFO, namely an unidentified flying object."

At the same time, many fellow astronauts also observed unidentified flying objects during flights.

They say that the archives of Roscosmos describe an unusual story with the crew of the Soyuz-18 spacecraft that happened in April 1975 - it was classified for 20 years. Due to a launch vehicle accident, the ship's cabin was shot off from the rocket at an altitude of 195 km and rushed towards the Earth.

The astronauts experienced enormous overloads, during which they heard a “mechanical, robot-like” voice that asked if they wanted to live. They didn’t have the strength to answer, then a voice said: We won’t let you die so that you can tell your people that you need to give up conquering space.

Having landed and climbed out of the capsule, the astronauts began to wait for rescuers. When night came, they lit a fire. Suddenly they heard a growing whistle and at the same time saw some luminous object in the sky, hovering right above them.

By the way, ISS cameras record unknown space objects with enviable regularity.

Cosmonaut Alexander Serebrov expressed his opinion on this issue: “There, in the depths of the Universe, no one knows what is happening to people. The physical condition is studied at the very least, but changes in consciousness are a dark forest. Doctors pretend that a person can be prepared for anything on Earth "In fact, this is absolutely not true."

Vladimir Vorobyov, Doctor of Medical Sciences and senior researcher at the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Center, states the following: “But visions and other inexplicable sensations in space orbit, as a rule, do not torment the astronaut, but give him a kind of pleasure, despite the fact that they cause fear. ..

It is worth considering that there is a hidden danger in this too. It is no secret that, after returning to Earth, most space explorers begin to experience a state of longing for these phenomena and at the same time experience an irresistible and sometimes painful craving to feel these states again.”

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Scientists have discovered the nature of mysterious lights - harbingers of earthquakes. Canadian geologists have come to the conclusion that these glows occur in rift zones, where special charge carriers appear in the rocks. Scientists hope that using these lights it will be possible to predict earthquakes. However, there are many more similar phenomena in the world that still remain a mystery.

EARTHQUAKE LIGHTS
The strangest and mystical harbingers of tremors are glows in the atmosphere that people have observed for centuries on the eve of earthquakes.

Geologist Robert Theriault, an employee of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Canadian province of Quebec, recently concluded that most cases of sightings of lights occur in areas of rift zones - areas of rupture in the earth's crust, formed as a result of its longitudinal movement or fracture.

The emergence of fires is caused by the rapid accumulation of mechanical stresses in the earth's crust and their changes at the time of propagation of seismic waves. Positive charge carriers (holes) arising due to stresses in the rocks quickly flow along the stress gradient, reaching the surface, where they ionize air molecules and cause it to glow.

BALL LIGHTNING
The most famous and interesting natural phenomenon is ball lightning, which people have been observing for many centuries. It is a luminous fireball floating in the air. According to eyewitnesses, ball lightning usually appears in thundery, stormy weather. Most often, it “comes out” of a conductor or is generated by ordinary lightning, sometimes it unexpectedly appears in the air or can come out of an object. Lightning also disappears unexpectedly: it can simply disappear, fly away, or go into some object, for example, into an outlet.

To date, no unified physical theory of the occurrence and course of this phenomenon has been presented. In 2010, a theory of the origin of ball lightning was developed by Austrian scientists Joseph Peer and Alexander Kendl from the University of Innsbruck. They suggested that evidence of ball lightning can be interpreted as a manifestation of phosphenes - visual sensations without exposure to light on the eye, that is, ball lightning is a hallucination.

WALKING LIGHTS
Will-o'-the-wisps or "demonic lights" are rare natural phenomena observed at night in swamps, fields and cemeteries.
Most often, will-o'-the-wisps burn at the height of a person's raised hand, have a spherical shape or resemble the flame of a candle, for which they received another name - “dead man's candle.” The color of the fire may be white, bluish or greenish, or appear as a living flame without smoke.

FOOFIGHTERS
The term Foo fighters, which translated into Russian means “certain fighters,” was used during World War II by pilots of the anti-Hitler coalition countries to refer to unidentified flying objects or unusual atmospheric phenomena observed in the European and Pacific theaters of war.

Information about them appeared in official sources from November 1944. Pilots flying at night over German territory began reporting sightings of fast-moving luminous objects following their planes. They have been described in various ways, usually as red, orange or white balls that perform complex maneuvers before suddenly disappearing. According to the pilots, the objects followed the planes and generally behaved as if they were being controlled by someone, but did not show hostility; It was not possible to break away from them or shoot them down.

ST ELM'S FIRE
St. Elmo's Fire is a well-studied and explained natural phenomenon. They are a discharge in the form of luminous beams or brushes that occurs at the sharp ends of tall objects (towers, masts, lonely trees, sharp tops of rocks) at high electric field strength in the atmosphere.

SPRITE
Sprites (from the English sprite - fairy, elf) are a rare type of thunderstorm discharge, a kind of lightning. Sprites appear tenths of a second after a very strong lightning strike and last less than 100 milliseconds. Most often, sprites propagate up and down at the same time, but the downward propagation is noticeably larger and faster.

They appear at an altitude of approximately 50 to 130 kilometers (the altitude of formation of “ordinary” lightning is no more than 16 kilometers) and reach a length of up to 60 km and up to 100 km in diameter.

LIGHTNING CATATUMBO
Catatumbo lightning is a local natural phenomenon that occurs above the confluence of the Catatumbo River into Lake Maracaibo (South America). The phenomenon is expressed in the appearance of a glow at an altitude of about five kilometers, while thunder cannot be heard at this moment. Lightning appears at night (140-160 times a day) and the discharges last about 10 hours. This adds up to about 1.2 million discharges per year.

FIREBALLS NAG
Naga fireballs are another local phenomenon observed once a year on the Mekong River in Thailand and Laos. From the depths of the river, luminous balls rise, similar to reddish chicken eggs. The balls rise 10-20 meters above the river and disappear.

The reasons for the phenomenon are not fully understood. It was assumed that the balls appear as a result of fermentation of suspension carried by the river, which ignites as a result of certain atmospheric conditions. Local residents claim that thousands of balls rising above the river are created by a naga (snake-like creature in Eastern religions) living in the river - Phaya Nag.

RED RAIN
Red rain is a single meteorological phenomenon. From July 25, 2001 to September 23, 2001, this rain fell sporadically and unevenly across the southern Indian state of Kerala.

It was initially suspected that the rains were colored by fallout from a hypothetical meteor explosion, but the Government of India commissioned a study that reported that the rains were colored by spores from local algae.

According to the testimony of local residents, the first colored rain was preceded by a loud clap of thunder and a flash of light. At the same time, dry gray leaves fell from the trees. Local residents reported dried leaves and sudden wells forming around the same time.

The reason for the coloring of the rain is the red particles that were in the rainwater in the form of a suspension. The color was often similar to the color of blood. The colored rain fell over an area of ​​no more than a few square kilometers, and was sometimes so localized that normal rain could fall within a few meters of the red rain. Red showers usually lasted no more than 20 minutes.

Underwater phenomenon - QUAKERS
Quaker or wah - the alleged source of unknown underwater sound vibrations in the low frequency range. These sounds were recorded by the echolocation systems of sea vessels. The name of the phenomenon comes from the similarity of some of the recorded signals to the sounds made by frogs. The first recorded cases date back to the 1970s, and after 1990 there have been no officially registered cases, which is most likely caused by a decrease in the intensity of maritime reconnaissance and submarine duty.

One of the main assumptions is that the source of these sounds is marine animals of poorly studied or unknown species.

Some researchers suggest that some species of cetaceans may be Quakers. According to other opinions, the Quaker may be a giant squid from the family Architeuthidae. Giant squid can prey on large marine mammals (which can be mistaken for submarines), and their boneless physique makes them difficult to detect with standard surveillance equipment.

This article brings to your attention several paranormal phenomena that scientists and skeptics have been puzzling over for many years and cannot come to a definite conclusion.

Taos Rumble

The Taos hum is a low-frequency noise of unknown origin. This phenomenon got its name thanks to the city in which it was recorded - Taos, New Mexico. In fact, such phenomena are not unique to this small town: the appearance of unexplained noises has been noticed in different countries around the world.

Audio recording of the Taos Rumble:

Often, these sounds are attributed to industrial origin. And yet, the situation in Taos is somewhat different: only 2% of the local population hear the noise. In addition, people who have heard the Taos hum note that it is amplified inside buildings, and in the case of ordinary noise of industrial origin the opposite would be true.

Basically, the nature of this phenomenon is explained in different ways:
1. Ordinary industrial or other noise produced by machines, acoustic systems, etc.
2. Infrasound, which can be of geological or tectonic nature.
3. Pulsed microwaves
4. Electromagnetic waves
5. Sound waves from low-frequency communication systems (for example, communications on submarines)
6. Radiation in the ionosphere, including that produced within the framework of HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program)
It is important to note that the source of the noise has not been conclusively determined, despite numerous studies carried out by local universities as well as individuals.

Near Death Experiences

Near-death experiences are the general name for the personal experiences people have at the time of their clinical death. The following phenomenon may answer questions about the possibility of life after death. Many people who have experienced clinical death claim that such life exists.

NDEs include physiological, psychological and transcendental aspects. Although different people describe the events that happen to them after clinical death differently, many elements are common to all:

• The first sensory impression is a very unpleasant sound (noise);
• Understanding that he has died;
• Pleasant emotions: calm and tranquility;
• The feeling of leaving the body, floating above your own body and observing others;
• A feeling of moving upward through a bright tunnel of light or narrow passage;
• Meeting with deceased relatives or clergy;
• An encounter with a being of light (often interpreted as a deity);
• Consideration of past life episodes;
• Reaching a boundary or boundaries;
• Feeling of reluctance to return to the body;
• Feeling warm despite lack of clothing.

It is also known that in some cases the experiences following the seventh stage, on the contrary, are extremely unpleasant.
Communities of people who experience or study the paranormal are more open to interpreting near-death experiences as evidence of the existence of an afterlife. In turn, scientists often interpret this phenomenon as hallucinations or fiction.
In 2008, a study was launched in the UK that will study 1,500 patients who experienced clinical death. The study will involve 25 hospitals in the UK and US.

Doppelgangers - ghostly doubles

In literature, doppelgängers (German doppelganger - “double”) are demonic doubles of people, the opposite of a guardian angel. The appearance of a doppelganger often foreshadows the death of the hero. Despite the fact that they are generally considered to be literary characters, there are several historical sources that indirectly prove the existence of these creatures.
One of these is the testimony of Queen Elizabeth I, recorded by a chronicler shortly before her death. According to the queen, she saw herself lying on the bed of her bedroom, or rather her double, who, according to her, was very pale.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe saw his own double, dressed in a gray suit trimmed with gold, while riding a horse towards Drusenheim. At the same time, the double was driving in the opposite direction. Eight years later, while traveling from Drusenheim along the same road, Goethe noticed that he was wearing the exact same suit as the one he had seen on the double.
It is known that Catherine II also saw her copy moving in her direction. Frightened, she ordered the soldiers to shoot her.
An unusual incident of a similar nature also happened to Abraham Lincoln: the reflection he saw in the mirror had two faces. Being a superstitious person, Lincoln remembered what he saw for a long time.

The sudarium from Oviedo is a piece of fabric measuring 84 x 53 cm with blood stains. Some people are inclined to believe that this sudarium was wrapped around the head of Christ after his death, as mentioned in the Gospel of John (20:6-7). It is believed that both the sudarium and the shroud were used in the funeral ritual. During the study, the purpose of which was to confirm or refute the authenticity of the sudarium, blood stains remaining on the fabric were examined. As it turned out, the blood on the sir and the shroud belongs to the fourth group. In addition, most of the stains on sudariya come from fluid from the lungs. This is explained by the fact that often people who were crucified died not from loss of blood, but from suffocation.

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