It happened on one of the summer days in 1939. Without any particular problems, a transport plane with a dozen passengers on board took off from a military airfield in San Diego, a city in the southwestern United States.
However, less than half an hour later, the person on duty at the ground station for monitoring the airspace received the SOS! Signal sent from the transporter. And an hour later, the plane, which was in trouble, again rolled down the concrete path of the airfield in San Diego.
When the hatch was opened, everyone who was nearby at that time was horrified: all the passengers were dead. And only the commander still showed signs of life, but he died a few minutes later.
Burns were clearly visible on the faces of the dead. Everyone understood that they were inflicted by one or the other that caused their death. But who did it specifically, it was not possible to find out. It was subsequently established that the crew and passengers were using their personal weapons. This was indicated by the holes from the bullets, which during the investigation were found on the skin inside the aircraft cabin.
It was almost impossible to explain what happened with more or less real reasons, for example, a quarrel between the passengers, as a result of which the weapon went into operation. In this case, at least one person would have survived.
And then the experts who were investigating this incomprehensible incident put forward a rather bold assumption that the death of people on the plane is associated with unknown celestial beings. And for such a version, they had quite good reasons.
The fact is that, according to ancient sources, back in 106 BC, many Romans saw giant red birds in the sky. In their beaks were flaming embers. When the birds were over the city, they opened their beaks, and the embers fell on the houses, causing a massive fire.
In the Middle Ages, crimson-colored fiery entities, similar to birds, occasionally appeared in the sky over France and Portugal. At that time they were called fire spirits, or elementals. By the way, perhaps this is where the fabulous firebird came from.
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In the mid-80s of the last century in San Juan, the main city of the island of Puerto Rico and adjacent settlements, fires suddenly broke out one after another. The police initially thought it was the handiwork of a man with a morbid arson tendency. However, they could not find a pyromaniac. And only later, on the basis of many evidences, the detectives came to the conclusion that strange birds were the cause of numerous fires. According to eyewitnesses, they had huge, up to four meters in span, wings, and instead of feathers, their bodies were covered with numerous tongues of fire.
The fact that unknown forms of life live in the atmosphere are also indicated by the cases of mass death of birds.
So, in May 1917, the streets of the American city of Baton Rouge, which is located in Louisiana, were suddenly strewn with a huge number of dead birds that fell from the sky for several minutes. At the same time, traces of strange burns were clearly visible on the bodies of many of these birds!
Almost a similar incident happened in August 1960 near the American city of Capitol Beach (California). On that day, many dead birds also fell from the sky. What caused the mass death of birds, scientists have not figured out.
Analyzing these and similar cases, the American researcher of anomalous phenomena Charles Fort suggested that creatures live in the Earth's atmosphere with their appearance and consistency similar to sea jellyfish. They have stings and tentacles with which they hunt birds.
For a long time, none of the serious researchers believed in this version, since it absolutely did not correspond to the basic concepts of living organisms.
However, observations carried out by scientists in recent decades have shown that amazing and even mysterious objects appear at an altitude of 50 to 100 kilometers. They differ in shape, color and size, and therefore have different names: elves, sprites, blue jets, etc.
It is almost impossible to see them, since they appear only for thousandths of a second. And only with the help of modern photographic and video equipment installed on spacecraft, it is possible to record these incredible structures.
Previously, pilots reported about night ghosts. But few believed them. It was only in the 70s of the last century that real confirmation of the existence of unknown luminous objects in "near space" was obtained.
So, elves look like huge red rings. Blue jellyfish resemble sprites, or fairies, and red ones resemble tigers, or tigers. Blue jets, sometimes referred to as gnomes, appear as blue fountains.
Each type of these celestial creatures occupies a certain place in the sky: the gnomes are below, a little higher are the red-purple sprites, and above them are the elves hovering in the sky - the most short-lived among these exotic objects.
By the way, the astronauts of the American space shuttle Columbia, which burned down during the landing on February 1, 2003, also tried to photograph the "celestial ghosts." One of them, probably a tiger, was noticed by the researchers in the footage that was transmitted to Earth a few days before the tragedy. The object's red glow, captured by the camera, lasted for a split second. It was located approximately over Madagascar at an altitude of 150 kilometers. Therefore, today it is very difficult to immediately refute the stories about the fire birds. Who knows, what if they really exist.