Repeatedly in different eras, people have observed mysterious images of people and various objects in heaven. They were often credited with mystical or religious significance.
Trumpet Voice
One of the earliest documented episodes occurred on October 3, 1843 in England. A local peasant named Charles Cooper worked in a field near Warwick Castle. Suddenly he heard a roar coming from above and, raising his head, saw a strange-shaped cloud in the sky, above which three white figures similar to human beings hovered. They seemed to be addressing Cooper, but he could not make out the words: it was more like trumpets …
It turned out that the cloud was also observed by other peasants working in the fields several miles away. True, except for Cooper, no one saw the white pieces or heard the "trumpet". By the way, despite the rather windy weather, the cloud remained in one place for a long time.
Heavenly Host
In November 1956, Peter and Patrick Skipunt watched as several dozen medieval Scottish warriors fought in the area of Mount Cuillin. The locals told them that they were not the first to see the "heavenly battle". It was assumed that this is either a fragment of a military battle of the 13th century, or a picture of the popular uprising of 1745.
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Often, such pictures appeared over the battlefields. One of the first such mentions is found in the Russian annals for March 1111. Chronicle pages refer to the battle between Russians and Polovtsy. As follows from the above, the Russian soldiers defeated the Polovtsians, although they had a significant superiority. When the latter were asked why they lost, the answer was the following: "How could we defeat you when others in heaven were traveling with a bright and terrible weapon, helping you."
In July 1240, after the historic victory of the Novgorod prince Alexander Nevsky over the Swedes, he and his retinue rode along the banks of the Izhora River. And when they reached the middle of the river, they saw a "regiment of angels" moving across the sky. They soon found many dead enemies on the ground.
Many similar phenomena took place during the Battle of Kulikovo. On the night before September 8, 1380, the head of the Russian guard on the Chyura River Foma Katsybei saw in the sky two "bright youths" who, in front of his eyes, destroyed a whole regiment of "busurman" with the words: "Who told you to destroy our fatherland?"
On the same night, Vasily Kapitsa and Semyon Antonov from the camp of Dmitry Donskoy watched in the heavens a vision of the holy Apostle Peter, who was executing the Ethiopian army on horses and chariots. Peter asked them: "Why did you come to destroy the flock?" And then, with his wand, he began to pierce them through. Those who managed to escape fled, many of them drowned in the river … The rest writhed on the ground from their wounds. Eyewitnesses reported the miracle to the prince, and he ordered to be silent about it.
In the course of the battle, the strength of the Russian soldiers began to dry up, and then the "heavenly host" headed by the Archangel Michael came to their aid. The heavenly warriors began to hit the Tatars with “fiery arrows”, and Mamai and his retinue were forced to flee. They were chased to the River Beautiful Sword.
In 1579, during Yermak's campaign to Siberia, Khan Kuchum more than once had a chance to observe a bright cloud in the sky, in which visions of future battles appeared. Moreover, most often their outcome was unfavorable for the khan's army. Sometimes, with an unfavorable "prognosis", they simply refused to go "into the field".
Another such case relates to the period of the Crimean War. On November 19, 1853, in the battle at Bash-Kadyk-Lara, a detachment of Russian soldiers of 9,000 people completely defeated a detachment of Turks, of which there were 36,000.
Many Turks were captured. Subsequently, they said that during the battle they saw a dazzlingly shining female figure above the Russian army, holding a banner in her hand. She was accompanied by two other figures, whom the Turks recognized as Russian soldiers. The Turkish soldiers were so scared that they dropped their weapons. The battle was lost. At the same time, the Russians did not notice anything special and did not understand why the Turks surrendered so easily.
"Portrait" of Hitler
On June 22, 1941, on the day of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, residents of the town of Kotelnich, Kirov region, watched a white cloud floating across the sky, which stopped above the spire of the church on Kotelnicheskaya Gora, thickened and suddenly took the form of an oblong dish on which a human head "lay". After some time, eyewitnesses easily recognized her … Hitler! The similarity with the numerous portraits of the Fuhrer on posters and in newspapers was detailed: mustache, hair combed obliquely … Many began to cross themselves. A few minutes later, the image began to deform, blur, and soon turned back into an ordinary cloud, which continued its way across the sky.
Most of the eyewitnesses immediately decided: this is a sign from above, it indicates the impending defeat of Nazi Germany! As you can see, they were not mistaken …