Seventy years ago, on the morning of August 6, 1945, two suns rose at once over Japan. One is what flaunts on the flag of this country, our star, which brings warmth and life. Another is the deadly outbreak of a nuclear explosion over Hiroshima.
CHRONICLE OF TRAGEDY
It all started a few months before that fateful day. On July 16, 1945, the first ever nuclear explosion took place in the US state of New Mexico at the Alamogordo test site, heralding the successful completion of the Manhattan Project.
The United States of America acquired atomic weapons and, at the same time, the temptation to use them during the still ongoing Second World War.
Without at all justifying the atomic bombing of Japanese cities, nevertheless, one can try to understand the logic of the American generals. By that time, Italy and then Germany were defeated, and the war was nearing its end, but the last of the Axis countries - Japan - was not going to surrender. Moreover, the Japanese were preparing for a life-and-death battle for their home islands.
Proud that in the entire history of their country not a single conqueror was able to conquer, driven to ecstasy by propaganda calling to lay down their heads for the divine emperor, the islanders were more than determined. Not only the army was preparing for defense, but also civilians - to the point that children in schools were taught how to kill enemy soldiers with the help of improvised means.
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And, I must say, the American command and ordinary soldiers have already had a chance to experience the desperate courage of the Japanese. The closer the war came to their home islands, the more fiercely they fought. Since 1944, the previously unknown word "kamikaze" has terrified sailors. In February-March 1945, the assault on the tiny 23-kilometer island of Iwo Jima cost the United States twenty-six thousand killed and wounded Marines - and this despite the complete superiority in technology and manpower.
The Japanese soldiers defending the island fought until they ran out of ammunition, provisions and water. After that, the last survivors rushed to the attack, to certain death, having in their hands only edged weapons. A similar story repeated itself between April 1 and June 23, when Anglo-American forces captured the island of Okinawa.
This time, the victory claimed even more human lives. And ahead was the whole archipelago, inhabited by desperate fearless people.
Having estimated what the attempt to capture all of Japan would cost, the American command was horrified: according to the most optimistic estimates, it was necessary to dig graves for about a million seven hundred thousand people. As a result, instead of a direct invasion, it was decided to take a different path - namely, to intimidate the Japanese with the use of hitherto unseen weapons.
On August 6, a B-29 Enola Gay bomber took off from Tinian Island, carrying a four-ton Baby Uranium bomb on board. His target was the Japanese city of Hiroshima - an important supply base, where, moreover, the headquarters of the defense command of southern Japan was located.
At 8:15 in the morning, an explosion with a yield of 13 kilotons of TNT occurred over the waking city at an altitude of 600 meters. All living things died within a kilometer radius from the epicenter. The monstrous destruction caused by the shock wave was complemented by the strongest light and heat radiation, from which light wooden Japanese houses flared like matches.
The ruins of the city were engulfed in a fiery tornado, leaving behind an ashes of eleven square kilometers. In Hiroshima, eighty percent of the buildings were destroyed, 80 thousand people died directly from the explosion, the consequences of the tragedy claimed the lives of another 120 thousand.
LIGHTS IN THE SKY
The whole world that day started talking about what had happened, because even against the background of the monstrous Second World War, the instant destruction of an entire city with a single bomb was terrifying. And it is not surprising that, against this background, behind the curtains of the terrible tragedy, few people noticed little lights in the sky.
Only after decades had passed, ufologists began to notice some oddities in the documents that have survived from that time.
For the first time, information that a UFO was seen over Hiroshima was published in 1974 in the Japanese ufological magazine UFO News. It was accompanied by a unique black and white photograph taken in the ruined city.
Despite the rather low quality of the image, a black disc-shaped object in the air is clearly visible in it.
This photograph puzzled specialists and prompted them to begin an intensive search for evidence of the presence of unidentified flying objects at the scene of the tragedy. And pretty soon, new facts began to appear in the hands of ufologists, leaving no doubt: the aliens closely followed the events of August 1945.
So, we managed to find a report from Captain Matsuo Takenak, who commanded one of the anti-aircraft batteries, which were supposed to defend Hiroshima from the air. Dated August 4th, 1945, the document contains information about the appearance of strange glowing lights in the night sky.
The captain at first decided that these were American aircraft, and gave the order to catch them in the beam of a searchlight mounted on an anti-aircraft battery. However, when trying to execute the order, Matsuo Takenaki's subordinates were faced with the fact that an unidentified aircraft was evading the beam of light, while making maneuvers that were physically impossible for aircraft.
Mentions of strange lights in the sky were also found in reports from other air defense batteries, not only in Hiroshima, but also in Nagasaki, a city that became a victim of the second atomic bombing.
According to some reports, the unidentified flying objects could also be seen by Lieutenant Norman Ray, the commander of the crew of Necessary Evil, one of the reconnaissance aircraft that accompanied the Enola Gay.
Shortly before dropping the Kid on the city, he noticed some movement among the clouds (the meteorological conditions that morning were not the best) and even decided that the Japanese had sent fighters to intercept. However, since no aircraft reappeared, he saw no cause for alarm.
Despite the fact that after the atomic explosion, the inhabitants of Hiroshima were not up to looking at the sky, evidence of the appearance of a UFO over the city was found in the memories of residents of its surroundings, who looked with horror at the growing nuclear mushroom.
For example, according to Usari Sato, a former resident of the Hiroshima suburb, recorded by one of the ufologists, when a nuclear mushroom grew at the site of the explosion, she noticed a strange aircraft next to it. At first, the woman mistook him for an American plane, but she soon realized that she was mistaken: an unidentified flying object flew right through the mushroom's “cap”.
Ufologists managed to find out that after the bombing of the city, the number of cases of disappearances increased sharply. It is not surprising that many Hiroshima residents were recorded as missing after August 6, but the disappearance of patients from hospital wards is truly mysterious.
Specific data differ, however, according to the calculations of ufologists, of the people who were admitted to the hospitals, at least a hundred people ended up missing. At that time, the disappearance of several patients was not paid attention - too many people died, too often they had to be buried, and it was simply impossible to keep track of the fate of each.
However, over the past decades, researchers have been able to find out that often the disappearance of people was preceded by strange phenomena: lights in the sky, high-frequency hum. Therefore, today some ufologists believe that in Hiroshima, since August 7, 1945, there have been mass abductions of people.
UFO FLYING ON BLOOD
This opinion is shared by a large number of experts on unidentified flying objects. The increased attention of aliens to Hiroshima, described above, is only a special case. Just days after the first bombing, a large number of UFOs were observed in the skies over Nagasaki - and on August 9, 1945, this city was also subjected to a deadly attack.
From ancient times to the present day, many cases are known when aliens watched the course of hostilities. Sometimes the appearance of strange lights even played a fateful role - as, for example, the famous case before the battle at the Mulvian Bridge, when the future Roman emperor Constantine the Great, seeing the lights in the sky, took them for a divine sign that would lead him to victory.
On the artist's canvas, the divine sign is depicted in the form of angels with a cross
The strange lights were seen in 1571 during the Battle of Lepanto, the bloodiest naval battle in history; during the Battle of Borodino in 1812; the Battle of the Somme in 1916 - and so on. Up to the present time, when alien ships were seen in Syria during the battles of the Kurdish paramilitaries "Peshmerga" against the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
World War II, which claimed more lives than any other, was particularly marked by the appearance of UFOs over the battlefields. The English-speaking pilots of the anti-Hitler coalition even had a special term for their designation - "foo fighters" ("some fighters"). Meeting such objects was not uncommon for pilots.
What attracts newcomers to the battlefield? There are several theories on this score.
First, they can be driven by curiosity. War is a great chance to study the advanced technologies of humanity in order to understand what exactly to expect from people. In addition, during major battles, an excellent opportunity is provided to kidnap dozens of soldiers: in the heat of battle, they simply will not pay attention to it.
The most famous case of mass disappearance is the story of the disappearance of soldiers and officers of the Norfolk Regiment. In 1915, during the battle between the British and Ottoman empires for the Gallipoli Peninsula, 267 people, led by Colonel Horace Bosch and Captain Frank Beck, seemed to disappear into the fog from nowhere.
Another version claims that the aliens, being present on the battlefields, for some reason are trying to prevent an even greater bloodshed. Supporters of this theory rely, among other things, on the fact that the bomb dropped on Hiroshima released only one percent of its potential power.
Of the 64 kilograms of enriched uranium contained in the "Malysh", only 700 grams entered a nuclear reaction, the rest of the mass was dispersed by the explosions. It is possible, some experts believe, that the reason for this was the intervention of aliens, which prevented the truly monstrous consequences of the bombing.
Finally, there is a hypothesis based on the assumption: UFOs do not belong to an alien civilization, but to our distant descendants who have mastered time travel. In this case, the appearance of unidentified flying objects during grandiose battles and major disasters should be regarded as a scientific expedition designed to fill the gaps in the historical knowledge of people of the future.
Be that as it may, today it is reliably known that the appearance of a large number of UFOs over a particular area may portend an imminent disaster.
