The parallel world can manifest itself in different ways on Earth. Things and people disappear to return elsewhere, or not to return at all. “Windows” open in the sky, demonstrating a different reality. But the best of all the complexity of the universe was shown by the phenomenon of "heavenly woods".
Silver thread
Provincial America is monotonous and dull. It is not accepted here to stand out among the neighbors. Local authorities can tell residents to paint their roofs the same color or put up flagpoles of a certain height. Perhaps that is why Forest Avenue in Caldwell, New Jersey, lined with neat two-story houses, seemed boring and monotonous.
In the house No. 85 that has survived to this day, retired journalist A. P. Smith (history has not retained his full name) with his wife. Mr. Smith was used to waking up early and usually met the dawn sitting on the porch.
On August 2, 1970, Smith noticed that something glittered in the sky. The rising sun illuminated what looked like a taut silvery thread. The former journalist called his wife and made sure that he did not think. Soon, neighbors appeared on the street, who also saw the thread, tried to understand what it was holding on, but did not find any supports.
When the number of onlookers on the streets became significant, the police decided to deal with the thread. The patrol car drove along it, but soon the thread rose so high that it disappeared from sight. Twenty binoculars proved to be useless.
The police decided to find the other end of the string, which runs to the ground at an angle over Hillside Avenue. The trail was soon lost: it seemed that she simply disappeared against the background of the blue sky. Knowing the direction and angle of inclination, the officers calculated the place where the mysterious thread should have reached the ground, but found nothing there.
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House no. 85
The local newspaper Progress reported the incident only on August 6 - in a city of 8,500 there is not enough news to publish a daily newspaper.
The newspaper clipping fell into the hands of psychiatrist Berthold Schwartz, who worked with people who came into contact with UFOs. He arrived in the city and saw that the thread was still hanging in the sky at a height of about 25 meters.
Schwartz wanted to invite firefighters with a retractable staircase from a nearby town (there were no long staircases in low-rise Caldwell), but the police considered trying to get to the thread too risky. Schwartz left a business card for the Smiths and asked to call if there was any news.
I had to wait a long time. The thread hung in one place throughout August, despite the thunderstorms and gusty winds.
Sample research
On the afternoon of August 31, 1970, Mrs. Smith heard a loud crash. The house literally shook at the same time. A fan blew from a second-floor window. Looking out into the street, the woman saw that the thread was falling, on the fly curling into balls and spirals. Up close, it was greenish and stiff, like bristles on a plastic mop. The woman cut a piece for Dr. Schwartz and called the police.
Arriving at 15:30, the police were surprised to see a lot of balls, into which a thread rolled up, in the Smith yard. At the same time, the end of the thread hung from the sky. The police loaded the finds into the car and began to pull at the end that went into the sky. To everyone's surprise, the thread did not end.
It stretched from somewhere in the sky, meter by meter, covering the ground with new turns. Finally, the wind caught the thread on the top of the tree. The officer pulled too hard and tore it high above the ground.
Berthold Schwartz sent the sample sent by Mrs. Smith to DuPont. Chemists replied that the chemical composition of the thread resembles a regular fishing line. But not a single line manufacturer identified their products in samples from New Jersey. Dr. Vargas, a chemist at the University of Rhode Island, confirmed the findings of colleagues at DuPont.
The Caldwell line turned out to be hollow, resembling a narrow tube along its entire length. Vargas put the sample in a vacuum for one of the analyzes and, taking it out, saw that the inner cavity was filled with a solid substance. It was not possible to determine its composition.
Knowing the diameter of the fishing line, its density and strength, the scientists made simple calculations and were convinced that the events at Caldwell violated the laws of physics. Such a line could not stretch in a straight line for several kilometers without supports and not break. She was kept taut by some unknown force.
Samples of the "heavenly woods" collected by Sanderson are now in the custody of Professor Michael Swords.
Split sky
After the fall of the fishing line, the townspeople began to carefully peer into the sky. Less than two weeks later, people saw a second line running from nowhere to nowhere over the outdoor city pool. After hanging for about a month, she fell among the sun loungers by the pool.
The lifeguards on duty by the pool called for help from four guys to pull her from the sky together. An hour passed, but the line did not end. The guys rolled a 210 liter barrel of gasoline to stack the loot and filled it to the brim. Then the line broke, hitting the power line.
Soon another line appeared in the sky. It hung rather low, and the townspeople decided not to wait for the thread to fall. They brought a fishing rod and began to throw it up. Finally, one of the throws reached the target. The line resisted their efforts, but still managed to break it. When the inhabitants passed along one end, they were amazed. The line came out of nowhere.
In the winter of 1970, experts from the Society for the Study of the Unknown, founded by the famous zoologist Ivan Sanderson, came to Caldwell. By that time, the townspeople had discovered six woods in the sky, taut at angles from 30 to 50 degrees. As in previous cases, they stretched out of nowhere and went so high that they lost sight of). The police marked their position on the map, but they could not identify any patterns.
The researchers sent a formal request to the US Air Force asking if they knew anything about the phenomenon. The reply, signed by Colonel William T. Coleman of Public Affairs, read: "For financial reasons, we cannot scientifically analyze the samples you submitted."
The reply received alerted Sanderson. He suspected that the military knew more about the phenomenon than they wanted to show.
New finds
When discussing the Caldwell events with reporters, Ivan Sanderson noted that one of the journalists was overly agitated. Answering his question, the girl told in secret that she saw a fishing line over her house in New York and thought that someone had stretched it between the skyscrapers. On March 21, 1971, the line broke, one of its ends tangled in the fire escape. The second recently fell near her home.
Ivan asked the girl to get some line samples. Under the microscope, they looked the same as the Caldwell specimens, but were noticeably thinner.
Another line was found stretched over Elberton, Georgia. A certain Hut Wallace was the first to notice her and called a journalist friend, Herbert Wilcox.
“When I got to Wallace, the line was visible in the sky, gleaming in the light of the rising sun and stretching as far as the eye could see,” Wilcox said. - At first I suspected it was a line from a kite, but where was the kite itself?
In the afternoon, Eddie Boswell, Hut's son-in-law, climbed onto the roof and managed to hook a mysterious thread with a rope with a hook. He dragged it by whole meters, but he never saw what it was attached to. The thread consisted of two types of material. The one coming from the west consisted of a shiny white substance. The one coming from the east consisted of a thin, hard green material, like fishing line. Both materials were torn with great difficulty.
Ivan Sanderson did not have time to complete the investigation into the "heavenly woods" case. On February 19, 1973, he was gone. The Society for the Exploration of the Unknown did not disintegrate, but its members lost interest in the phenomenon. They just filed new data into the dossier without trying to study it.
In 1975, a line emerged over Linwood, North Carolina. Local resident Wynn Snyder saw her already torn and lying on the ground. Snyder's family pulled the thread for an hour. When the pile of line began to reach to his waist, a puzzled Wynne called the police. The duty officer, taking his call for a joke, said:
- Call back when you pull the little green man from the sky.
After that, Wynne's father decided that they had had enough and cut the line.
Auto mechanic John Wright of Greensburg, Ohio was in exactly the same position. In September 1978, he saw a line caught in a backyard bush. Wright began to remove it and saw that one end of it went into the sky. With the help of neighbors, he pulled out from somewhere 300 meters of fishing line, winding it on a cable reel. Then the line broke and floated away into the heavens, out of sight.
The fact that the lines did not appear due to the experiments of the military was proved by a search in the archives. The Australian newspaper Brisbane Courier, dated June 24, 1925, described the same phenomenon. The lines were hovering over the sea two miles from the city of Darwin. An eyewitness called them "long spider webs" because he had never seen nylon lines. Nylon was invented 10 years later and patented in 1937.
Researchers of the unknown assume that the lines come out of the parallel world and go into it or into another world, having passed through our reality. While they are intact, the laws of physics of neighboring worlds act on them.
As soon as the lines break, both ends begin to fully obey our physical laws. The fact that people did not pull out the lines to the end saved them from unpleasant surprises. Who knows what kind of "fish" could hang on what in the other world replaces the hook!
German MIKHAILOV, magazine "Secrets of the XX century" №36 September 2017
