In Burzyansky district of Bashkiria, villagers saw a ghost town. The mirage appeared in the mountains near the village of Starosubkhagulovo. Locals passing by stopped to photograph this mysterious phenomenon.
Darigat Yamalov was driving with his friends. Seeing something strange on the horizon, he decided to stop.
“The sky is covered with blue-green color, we can clearly see the plane with two-story wings. We started to appear at home."
There were more and more eyewitnesses on the spot. For example, librarian Farida Aitbaeva. According to her, the city was like a real one.
Farida Aitbaeva, librarian: “The streets were visible, houses, roofs, window openings. Everything was visible. I think there is some kind of portal that leads to a parallel world."
Several hours passed before the mirage disappeared. During this time, eyewitnesses managed to take several dozen photographs, some of which ended up on the pages of the local newspaper.
Tansylu Bagautdinova, journalist of the district newspaper: "Darigat says: look there, there are mountains, and a city hangs over the mountains."
Among the witnesses of the rare phenomenon are those who believe in its religious significance. We turned to the local mosque mullah for comments.
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Rasul Mukhamedyanov, imam-khatyb of the mosque with. Starosubkhagulovo: “We do not yet know for sure, we cannot say for sure what it was. Perhaps this is one of the omens that the times are already coming to an end, that people are beginning to see something intimate already."
Scientists have their own explanations for this. A teacher of the Faculty of Geography told us what mirages are from a scientific point of view.
Inber Yaparov, Candidate of Geographical Sciences, Associate Professor: "Mirage" is a French word, it is a reflection of objects in the sky. And it is quite possible that this is a reflection of the city of Orenburg with its airports, mosques, houses”.
According to the scientist, projections of cities can be seen many kilometers from their location. Surprisingly, such mirages reflect what is happening in the city in real time.
Where the locals saw houses, mosques and even planes landing, now there are only mountains and forests. One can argue for a long time whether the mysterious city-mirage was a rare natural phenomenon, a massive hallucination or a miracle. Most likely, this will remain a mystery. But on the eve of the holidays, everyone wants to believe in a fairy tale, because the New Year is coming soon.