The "flying people" have been known since ancient times. Fairy tales and legends of almost all peoples of the world contain descriptions of winged creatures similar to humans. And over the past century and a half, a lot of evidence has accumulated in favor of the fact that flying humanoid creatures are not a figment of fantasy.
Meetings with them do not happen so rarely, and it's time to figure out what the nature of these creatures is.
Earlier than all, "flying people" became interested in the United States. In the American press, their appearance was reported back in 1877-1880. One of them often visited Brooklyn, performing air pirouettes over the heads of sunbathers on Coney Island. A certain Mr. W. H. Smith, who first wrote about these strange flights in the New York newspaper on September 18, 1877, stressed that the creature he noticed was not a bird, but "the figure of a winged man."
The man in the sky became a local sensation. The New York Times of September 12, 1880 reported that he had been seen by "many trustworthy persons." He maneuvered at an altitude of about a thousand feet (approximately 300 m), flaunting "bat-like wings" and making movements resembling those of a swimmer. Witnesses stated that they clearly saw his face: it "had a hard and determined expression."
Chasing cars
In the next century, the American military began to chronicle meetings with "flying people". In the US Air Force UFO archives, there is a report from William S. Lamb of Nebraska. On February 22, 1922, at 5 o'clock in the morning, Lamb, who went hunting, heard a strange high-pitched sound in the sky. Looking up, he saw a large, dark object flying overhead. Then this creature, about two and a half meters tall, landed and went, leaving traces in deep snow. Lamb tried to catch up with the alien, but failed.
And here are some more descriptions of amazing encounters from the same archive. They all happened near the small town of Point Pleasant.
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On November 15, 1966, at 11.30 pm, two young married couples, Scarbury and Malette, drove out of town to visit their friends and got lost. We circled aimlessly and drove up to an old factory. As they passed the open gates, one of the women opened her mouth in amazement. Following her gaze, everyone saw two bright red circles. They were about 5 cm in diameter and 15 cm apart. Suddenly the lights separated from the building, moving towards the car, and the young people realized that these were the eyes of a huge creature. In its outlines it resembled a man, but it was much larger: its height was at least two meters. And, most importantly, it had large wings folded behind its back!
Red and huge, like headlights, eyes had a hypnotic effect on those sitting in the car. Young people for some time seemed to freeze, not taking their eyes off them, but then someone shouted: "Get out of here!" The car jumped out onto the highway, and on a small hill they saw another, exactly the same creature. When they caught up with it, it spread its wings, "like a bat," and soared straight up. The car was rushing at a speed of 150 kilometers per hour, but the strange "bird" kept above it, and never flapped its wings.
The winged creature from Point Pleasant was nicknamed the Moth Man
On November 17, 1966, a 17-year-old boy was driving down Highway 7 from Point Pleasant. Suddenly, a "big bird" appeared next to his car, pursuing for a mile and a half. The next day, November 18, two firefighters from the same town, Paul Yoder and Benjamin Enochs, also encountered a "giant bird" with huge red eyes.
On November 25, at 7.15 am, a young shoe salesman, Thomas Urie, was driving a car and saw a tall humanoid figure standing in a field near the road. Suddenly she opened a pair of wings and flew vertically upward like a helicopter. The guy pressed the gas all the way, but the "flying man" did not lag behind.
Around the same time, a similar flying creature appeared near New Haven, West Virginia. On Sunday morning, 18-year-old Connie was driving back from church. As she drove by the lawns of the local golf club, a large gray figure more than two meters tall appeared to the side. But it was not the height that struck Connie, but the eyes - large, round, glowing with red fire. Suddenly, behind the figure, a pair of wings opened, and it slowly and silently rose vertically upward, like a helicopter. During the flight, the creature did not flap its wings.
In Ohio, a giant flying creature was seen several times both at night and during the day, and the number of observers reached hundreds. It then chased cars, then suddenly appeared in the air above residential buildings or farms. Most eyewitnesses said that the creature was more than two meters tall, had a hypnotizing gaze and clearly possessed tremendous strength. The wings of the "bird-man" folded behind his back, during the flight he did not wave them, but seemed to float. This creature flew at great speed, easily catching up with cars rushing along the highway.
"Knight" over the Yaroslavl fields
Very similar creatures were seen in Russia. So, student Igor Kuleshov was sent to the village of Nagorye, Pereslavsky District, Yaroslavl Region, for agricultural work. On a September evening in 1979, he and a girl he knew went for a walk in the field. The sun had already set over the horizon, and it was early twilight.
Suddenly the student saw that from the side where the sun had just set, at a height of 25-30 meters from the ground, a dark object was slowly flying. When he approached, Igor and his girlfriend managed to see a man who was slowly flying through the air. Moreover, he was dressed in a space suit reminiscent of the armor of a medieval knight. His head was like an overturned bucket. The body was surrounded by a faint halo of glow.
Suddenly, the flying man abruptly changed course and went straight for the young people. Flying over their heads, he straightened his left hand, and the direction of his flight smoothly changed towards the forest, behind which the "knight" disappeared a moment later. When he was directly above the student and the girl, they heard a sound reminiscent of the rustling of leaves in the wind.
Recalling this amazing meeting, Igor said that when the flying man approached him, his body became numb. He couldn't even move. This state lasted for 5-7 minutes. Gradually, the young man began to feel again that he could move.
A couple of days after that, Igor had a heart attack and was sent home. Before his trip to the Yaroslavl region, Kuleshov was an absolutely healthy person. But after the meeting with the "flying knight" the doctor, having studied the cardiogram made in the clinic, told the patient that he could not go to agricultural work with such a heart.
Meetings in Primorye
More than once flights in the sky were observed in Primorye. Especially often, sometimes three or four times a year, such meetings take place in the vicinity of Pidan Mountain. In 1994, a group of Paramount Pictures made a special trip there to shoot a film about the "flying man." In 1995, he was shown on US national television. There are documentaries in the film, in which a certain creature performs aerial "pirouettes" for seventeen seconds.
Ufologists from Japan, China and Korea spend several weeks annually in the coastal taiga in the hope of seeing this mysterious "alien" either from the past or from the future. There is another video footage made by a Vladivostok tourist, where a winged monster is seen caught in the lens for a few moments, but this film was bought by a Korean collector businessman. The videotaped photographs are on display in Seoul at a private UFO museum.
"Flying people" in Primorye were met not only near Pidan Mountain. After a hard day, four hunters from the village of Tigrovy were resting by the fire. Suddenly a terrible noise was heard from the side of the small lake. Taking an interest in the night guest, the hunters took guns and lanterns, a couple of dogs and went to the lake. The closer they got to the water, the more plaintively the dogs howled and the closer they clung to people.
Near a large tree, the light of lanterns tore out of the darkness a humanoid creature with huge red-orange eyes and wing-like arms. It took off, swept between the trees and disappeared into the darkness.
As you know, hunters and fishermen in their stories are prone to exaggeration. Therefore, descriptions of meetings with "winged people" belonging to the military seem to be more reliable. In this case, the border guards became eyewitnesses.
In the 60s, due to the complication of relations with China, patrolling of the Amur by warships intensified. One night an object resembling a man with wings flying from the Chinese coast was seen from a border armored boat. A rapid automatic fire was immediately opened on it from the ship. The creature stopped flapping its wings and glided sharply into the coastal taiga. A suspicious intruder was reported to the nearest outpost, but the search for him with the dogs yielded nothing.
However, "flying people" were also observed in Western Europe. On December 16, 1991, 22-year-old student Manuela B. from Parma (Italy) saw a "flying humanoid". According to her, it was a dark green creature, wrinkled and clumsy in appearance. On the face stood out two huge eyes, red, round and blinking. The creature moved horizontally, slowly, like an astronaut in zero gravity, and turned its head like a robot. At the same time, his eyes blinked. "Humanoid" then hung motionless in the air, then moved from its place, then rose and fell.
Mexican bird people
On August 30, 1967, in Mexico, night watchman Jose Padrin was guarding a construction site near Mexico Route 57. At one o'clock in the morning, he was in the sentry box, when a suspicious rattle was heard outside, as if someone was trying to scratch the nearest fuel tank. Jose grabbed a rifle and rushed to catch the night thief. It could be seen well, the moon and stars gave enough light. To his horror, the watchman saw not a thief: a few meters from the booth, a winged monster was approaching directly at him - in any case, the eyewitness described him.
The creature's wingspan was like that of a small plane, and the gnashing sound that alarmed the watchman was made by huge claws that scratched on the metal beams lying on the ground. The watchman did not even think to shoot, but swiftly turned around and ran into the booth. Directly behind him there were heavy thuds of paws on the ground and the sound of opening wings - the night visitor rose into the air.
In the morning, after hearing the story of a terrified watchman to death, engineer Enrique Rueda examined the scene and found several fresh claw prints. The footprints were photographed and measured. Their length was a little more than 30 centimeters, and their depth was 10 centimeters. As calculations have shown, in order to leave such traces, the creature must weigh more than 300 kilograms!
The next day, several people remained to guard the construction site. Surprisingly, the winged visitor appeared again, and not even alone, but with a friend. In the false light of the moon, it seemed to the watchmen that the heads of the creatures were human - one male and the other female. The watchmen could not confirm this with evidence, and the only memory of the night guests was the traces of their clawed paws.
In 1984, a certain Hector Urdiales with a friend, while hiking in the Cerro de la Silla hill, came across an eerie find. Their attention was attracted by one large tree, along the trunk of which a trickle of blood flowed down. Having followed her path with a glance, the tourists saw a surreal picture: at a height of ten meters, a fat hog hung, impaled on a strong branch! What force dragged the heavy animal there? Most likely, experts suggested then, the tourists found a "stash" of some very large winged predator. But science has not yet heard of birds of prey of this size.
Finally, the most incredible encounter with a mysterious creature happened on July 20, 1994, not far from the farm "Rancho El Sabino". According to one of the workers, at 11 o'clock in the morning he was walking along the path of a local cemetery and suddenly, 30 meters away from him, on a parallel path, he noticed an unusual movement. Looking closer, he was dumbfounded with surprise: in front of him, waddling like a regular hen, was "something": the creature had bird wings and paws covered with gray feathers, but the shoulders and head belonged to a man!
The creature definitely knew that it was being watched, but did not think to fly away. Only when it reached the crossroads, it made several heavy bouncing steps and rose into the air. Five days later, at the same cemetery, a similar creature was seen by a woman who came to visit the graves of her loved ones. She, too, spoke of a half-bird, half-man, pacing among the gravestones. However, the arriving journalists and researchers of anomalous phenomena did not find any traces. The creature never returned to the graveyard.
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What have the rather numerous witnesses faced in countries located in different hemispheres? Despite the fact that in some cases the "flying people" had wings, while in others they did not seem to have, it still seems that they have the same origin. All have huge red eyes, and they have the ability to have a hypnotic effect. And judging by the fact that the creatures, without moving their wings, easily catch up with fast-moving cars, it is clear that some other device moves them in the air.
Scientists from the United States, where flying creatures have been observed, perhaps most often, have put forward two hypotheses about their possible origin. The first hypothesis boils down to the following. The military used the population of areas located near secret bases to conduct long-term experiments on the control of human consciousness and influenced them with some kind of special radiation that caused the same type of hallucinations. But in the Yaroslavl Region, Primorye and Parma, there are no American special facilities …
The second hypothesis suggests that winged half-humans-half-birds actually exist. But their homeland is not the Earth, but some of the parallel worlds. They periodically appear in our dimension, and then disappear without a trace in theirs. This version, like the very existence of parallel worlds, is still impossible to confirm or refute.