The first documentary mentions of the fiery inhabitants of the heavens date back to the times of the Roman Empire. In 106 BC. giant red ravens were seen over Rome.
“They carried red-hot coals in their beaks,” says the chronicler. - Coals fell down and set fire to houses. Half of Rome was on fire."
Fireballs often appear in historical chronicles. Roman historian Amin Marcellinus in 252 A. D. wrote:
"Balls of fire that came down from heaven set fire to all the workers who were trying to rebuild the Jerusalem Temple."
And here is a description of the fire creatures that visited Britain:
“In 793, the monks from St. Gutbert's Monastery, located on the islet of Lindisfarne off the east coast of England, heard a loud hiss … A truly extraordinary sight was presented to their eyes: many dragons were playing and frolicking in the sky. The scales of huge serpents glittered dimly in the indistinct northern sun …"
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In September 1891, an amazing incident happened in the American city of Crofardsville (Indiana): a 10-meter fire serpent appeared over the main square! Many townspeople saw him, claiming that it was undoubtedly a living being.
As the local pastor swornly assured, the serpent had red "fiery" eyes and hot breath, felt at a distance of several tens of meters.
Less than a hundred years later, fire serpents reappear over Indiana. In the 60s and 70s of the last century, director William Gordon Allen, based on the descriptions of numerous witnesses who saw the fire creatures, painted this creature. His drawing was used in the documentary "Lords of the UFO", which was released in 1976.
In the mid-80s of the last century, in San Juan, a city on the island of Puerto Rico, and the surrounding villages, mysterious firebirds caused countless fires. People pointed to their enormous size. The wingspan of some individuals reached four meters, and instead of feathers they had tongues of flame.
Russia on fire
The masters of the atmosphere did not bypass Russia either. Researchers of the unknown only on the territory of the Yaroslavl region recorded 166 stories about fiery snakes. These creatures do not fly quickly, wriggling, sometimes spinning and tumbling with noise.
In the Vladimir region, the "fire serpent zone" stretches from Vyazniki to Gorokhovets. Villagers here quite often see fiery creatures in the sky.
They repeatedly appear on the Lukh River near the Yegoryevsky Skete, built in 1365. The skete is dedicated to George the Victorious. The main icon in it is “Saint George strikes the fire-breathing Serpent with a spear”.
Ufologist from Vladimir Dmitry Regan decided to cross the “fire serpent zone” by car. Near the village of Bolshiye Udoly, Vyaznikovsky district, the car got stuck in the mud, and it was there that it met with a fiery creature. D. Regan writes:
“The fireball hung against an almost black sky. Dimensions - about a third of the lunar disk - he did not change. Through the optics of the TV camera, one could see its loose structure - like cells of different shapes and sizes. I calmly filmed it for about 20 minutes, simultaneously calling my friends on my mobile: “The snake exists! He's right here in front of me!"
In some anomalous zones, fire snakes and balls arrange real parades. One of them is Zhiguli. A group of local historians from Samara came here for several years in a row. Once they observed a group of fireballs flying over the Zhiguli. A large single ball with a small tail flew ahead, followed by nine smaller balls - in a row, lined up in three and intertwined with bright long tails.
Sallies out of the ground
Some scholars believe that the fire snakes are "poetic" eyewitness accounts, arising from the big imagination or inspired by myth. In fact, people are faced with phenomena that can be explained on the basis of modern knowledge.
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For example, here is what Dmitry Regan thinks about the origin of the "fire serpent":
“Most likely, it is a poisonous hallucinogenic gas of natural origin. When the legends say that the Serpent strangled entire villages to death, the word “strangled” must be taken literally. That is, it was not the supernatural monster that was choking with its paws, but the peasants suffocated in the poisoned atmosphere!
A kind of psychotropic gas accumulates in the earth's karst voids. There are plenty of such caves from Vyazniki to Gorokhovets. Due to the movement of the earth, the gas comes up in the form of a huge luminous ball."
According to Regan, the fiery serpent, which, according to legend, drove the Tatars away from Gorokhovets, could be a poisonous ball of gas that arose as a result of the 1230 earthquake.
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Canadian professor Michael Persinger also believes that fireballs are born underground, but suggests a different mechanism for their formation. Even weak tectonic movements lead to mechanical stresses. Electricity is generated in siliceous rocks, which can reach significant amounts.
Under its influence, a column of air is ionized over this section of rocks and twisted around the axis. As a result, ball lightning occurs, ranging in size from a few centimeters to 1-2 meters. Their movements are so unusual that people could easily take these formations for living beings.
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The American researcher Charles Fort, in his monograph "The Book of the Damned", put forward the assumption that jelly-like organisms live in the atmosphere of our planet. They resemble sea jellyfish and can hunt birds with their tentacles. After scientists have created an amazing substance - "airgel", many biologists began to relate to the ideas of Fort with great interest.
"Airgel" is a cross between a solid and a gaseous state of matter. By weight - lighter than air. If the bodies of "carnivorous celestial jellyfish" consist of a substance similar in its properties to the "airgel", they may well live permanently in the upper atmosphere and hunt birds.
Indirectly, Fort's assumption about the existence of "predatory celestial jellyfish" is confirmed by cases of mass death of birds. For example, in May 1917, hundreds of dead birds fell from the sky over the American city of Baton Rouge. On the bodies of many there were traces of strange burns.
Sometimes the "inhabitants of the atmosphere" attack people. In 1939, the San Diego military base's radar services received an SOS signal sent by a BBC military transport aircraft. An hour later, a transport worker in trouble landed at the airfield. When ground personnel opened the hatch, they saw twelve dead passengers and a dying pilot.
They all had strange burn injuries. The investigation established that both the crew and passengers, using personal weapons, tried to hit some evasive enemy that appeared in the cabin.
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Russian scientists have long been talking about the existence of creatures on our planet whose life is based on energy fields.
“There are many works in Russian natural science and in world literature, indicating that the protein-nucleic form of life on Earth is not the only one, and other forms of organization of living matter, in particular field or energy forms, probably coexist with it on the planet”, - emphasized the director of the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, academician Vlail Kaznacheev, specifying:
"If we are talking about other energy levels, that is, about parallel worlds with local inhabitants, then it is possible that they are generally associated with other types of energy, which we have no idea about."
Mikhail Burleshin