The strange phenomenon, which will be discussed, is not only quite rare in itself, but is observed only in the sparsely populated northern regions of Russia. They call it differently: “wall of ghost fire”, “crimson fog”, “red haze” … There are quite a few evidences of this strange phenomenon.
Novosibirsk engineer Vadim Fedoseev first encountered this mysterious phenomenon during the taiga expedition of Tomsk and Novosibirsk physicists more than thirty years ago - in the late summer of 1980. He then headed a small group of eleven scientific workers, whose purpose was to study the area of the fall of the famous Tunguska meteorite. But first, in order to train and test people for compatibility, the expedition headed in a completely different direction - to the north. There is a small lake there, rather, even a swamp, and in it some people observed a kind of devilry. This was the reason to go there.
The expedition was prepared seriously, the equipment and equipment were very carefully selected: radio receivers, a dosimeter, a magnetometer, photographic and cinematographic equipment. On the third day, the paths came to a ridge of low hills and decided to make a halt at the well-blown and almost treeless summit of one of them. And when Fedoseev and his colleagues went up there, they saw something incredible below on the other side of the hill: the entire space in the northern part of the horizon was filled with seething fiery lava. So, in any case, it seemed to the members of the expedition. From this endless sea of fire burst out fiery clubs, similar to prominences, and, what is most terrible, all this fiery mass was rapidly rising up to the camp of researchers.
Physicists knew very well how terrible the fire in the taiga was, and, probably, then they broke all records of cross-country running. Having run away to a safe distance, we came to our senses for about an hour, exchanging the most fantastic assumptions. The most interesting thing is that the fire died down somewhere in the distance by itself. This does not happen - the scientists decided, and Fedoseev with two colleagues went back - for exploration. They approached the top of the hill, like novice parachutists to the edge of the tower, and stopped, struck no less than the first time: the fiery lava, which flooded all visible space to the horizon, disappeared! There were no charred trees or scorched strips of forest. Below, behind the trees, gleamed a small cozy lake, slightly covered with evening fog. Further, to the very horizon, the endless wall of taiga stretched …
But a resident of St. Petersburg N. Kh. Langova did not manage to escape from the ghostly fire. She was fourteen years old, and the case took place in Kazakhstan. Father, driving around in a truck on his own business, often brought the girl to his acquaintances, and he himself followed on. On that trip, he left his daughter with her grandmother in Bazar Tubbe (now Bazarchulan), where she helped her work on the melons.
The weather was clear, calm and very hot that morning. The girl worried, straightened up and suddenly saw something far away on the horizon that looked like a cloud. She and her grandmother were glad that it might rain in the evening, and again bent over the beds. And after 15-20 minutes, a veil of fire came very close, covering everything around. She went to infinity to the right, left, up … And quickly rushed in the direction of the village. The grandmother shouted for the girl to run to the village. She still couldn't run - she was old. And she stayed on the melon.
The girl tried to persuade her grandmother to run, but the fire got close, and the fear of death took its toll - the girl ran. It was about four kilometers to the village. Several times she looked back and saw that the wall of fire was catching up with her. And she caught up. The frightened girl felt an orange haze surround her, but the temperature rise has not yet been felt. Then there was a stomp from behind, and literally someone's heavy breathing began to wheeze at her ear. It became even more frightening, and the girl stopped looking around, and near the village itself the shroud still overtook her, but … passed through it and rushed on. And the hoarse breathing did not stop. It turned out that he was running after the girl like a crazed, frightened baby camel.
A commotion began in the village, even the old people did not remember such a phenomenon. In the evening, my father arrived and said that everything was in order with my grandmother, and he himself also met a veil of fire. But the fire did neither him nor the car any harm, although there was a barrel of gasoline in the back.
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If it were a mirage or an optical illusion, could he scare the animals so much? With what speed did this wall of ghostly fire rush without wind, if in a quarter of an hour it flew from the horizon to melon?
However, it also happens that a strange and yet inexplicable "fiery" phenomenon not only puts people to flight and overtakes them, but also runs away from persecution. A similar incident occurred in Estonia, near the village of Rapla, on March 2, 1984. It burned so that people in the whole area saw the fire. Moreover, it seemed - a fire is nearby, two steps away. As it turned out later, the two extreme points where the glow was visible were separated by a distance of 60 kilometers. The first phone call came at 20:36. Someone reported that they had a farm on fire in Kehtna. At 20.48 the telephone in the control room rang again, and the same voice, embarrassed, said: “An error has occurred. I don't know what's wrong with my eyes, how could I have imagined ?! But the Ermi farm is obviously neither burning nor burning. The fire is somewhere further, only a very large glow. " As it turned out later,by this time, five fire engines were already racing in different directions in the area. They chased the glow here and there, to the very borders of the district, but in vain. Surprisingly, there was no smoke anywhere.
So this "fire" would have remained a blank spot in the dispatch logs, if not for the fire truck that left the state farm named after Michurin. The sun set at 6:52 pm that day. The moon was supposed to appear at 21.32. The weather was fine. And in this gradually deepening darkness, the house of Lizzie's grandmother flashed brightly. According to eyewitnesses, there was a feeling that a solid flame burst out of the windows and closed over the roof. And - no sound, no smoke! And at the same time - and the heat too. The fire engine in the blink of an eye flew up the hill. Has slowed down. But instead of jumping to the ground, the team remained in place, perplexed. There was no fire! The house stood intact. One of the firefighters walked around the house - no signs of burning. On the highway, another fire engine siren blared. The team called out to their comrades - neighboring houses were on fire. The firefighters were returning homeexcitedly discussing what he saw: what was it? All of them worked as firefighters for a long time, served in the army, had considerable life experience and tried to compare what they saw with something already familiar, but did not find analogues.
There are so many cases of imaginary fire that scientists, in theory, should no longer be silent. I wonder what they say about the "red haze" or "ghost fire"?
At one time, the geologist Yankov, who observed this phenomenon directly at the geological base, sent a corresponding request to the USSR Academy of Sciences. The answer was short and frank: “Dear Comrade Yankov! We cannot say anything about the origin of the “red fog”, or, more precisely, the “red glow of the atmosphere”. Probably, the reason for it is a complex optical process. This phenomenon is extremely rare. The reason for the "red glow" can be chemiluminescence - radiation caused by chemical processes."
The answer is vague and incomprehensible, agree! "A complex optical process" is an undignified formulation for academicians!
When the press began to write about the imaginary fire, new witnesses immediately appeared, who reported that "ghost fire", it turns out, happens on the sea. “I have been at sea for forty years,” wrote the captain of the long voyage N. Vasyukevich, “but only once observed an extraordinary phenomenon. We unloaded goods in Chukotka. Suddenly everything turned dark, the water turned lingonberry, and the ice - well, like the blood of a walrus! I was standing on the bridge. Everything around him turned red. He looked into the hold - and everything was red-red from the fire. There was no smoke or heat. I'm in the cabins - everything is on fire. And the fog is no longer fog, but a bright flame. The masts, the tank, the poop, the gangway, the railings - everything seemed to be red-hot! " Familiar geophysicists who read these stories just joked: "Nature is full of countless reasons!" Just remember Shakespeare with his sacramental “How much, friend Horatio, in the world that is beyond the control of our sages!"It's a shame something else - the" wise men "pretend that nothing is happening, so," a mirage in the desert "…
Another mysterious phenomenon associated with fire is popularly called "balls of fire". Scientists call them ball lightning. This phenomenon is also inexplicable, but much less harmless than the “wall of ghost fire”, because the temperature is rather big, and the consequences are like after a real fire. And scientists respond to them more actively. For example, a resident of the Kaluga region Olga N. sent a letter to the same RAS with the following lines: “A fireball suddenly appeared near my head. After spinning around for a short time, he rushed into the house. I heard the sound of broken glass and ran into the bedroom. I saw that the mirror was broken, some things were lying on the floor, the curtain on the window was on fire. I tore it off and began to stomp, and at that moment I saw a hole in the window glass, as if drilled with a drill. The ball went through this hole."
Nikolai Gubasov, an employee of the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Russian Academy of Sciences, commented on the letter. He believes that in order to make such a hole in a fraction of a second, an energy of about 20 thousand joules and a temperature of about 3000 degrees would be required. It is difficult to imagine that such a fire-breathing "ball" just flies through the air, appears from nowhere and disappears into nowhere.
Serious scientists have been working on ball lightning for several hundred years. A huge number of observations have been collected, and many hypotheses about their origin have also been put forward. One thing is bad: scientists cannot yet explain the behavior of ball lightning, they do not obey generally accepted laws. Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Vadim Speransky believes that only one thing is known for certain about ball lightning: it is a plasma clot with a spherical shape and glow. The rest is sheer riddles. A sort of whims of fire.
And there are really a lot of mysteries around the "fireballs". One might think that fireballs exist specifically to baffle scientists. For example, the movement of ball lightning. All observers noted that these lightning bolts move very slowly. But one pilot told of a fireball that floated for several minutes in front of his plane, flying at a speed of 520 kilometers per hour.
Ball lightning trajectories are also difficult to explain. The glowing balls either neatly walk around the room, keeping at the same height all the time, then move along the wires, or write strange zigzags around the room. And at different speeds. Some researchers tried to explain the movement of ball lightning by wind or drafts, but there are cases when lightning slowly rolled along the wing of a flying aircraft, not paying the slightest attention to the wind.
The contacts of ball lightning with a person look especially strange. They simply amaze with their illogicality. In one case, lightning easily overturns the tractor, in the other, it explodes upon light contact with the car, in the third, it allows the motorcyclist to run over itself. For some people, it allows itself to be touched, for some it leaves terrible burns "in memory", and for some it even sends them to the next world.
It is also interesting that "fireballs" (such a formulation is more general, because the fact that they are just ball lightning still needs to be proved) can, it turns out, be "scared". Such an incident happened to a thirteen-year-old girl in the early 1980s. She helped her parents who lived and worked on a collective farm in the Urals region - she grazed a small herd of cows. It was August, the weather was clear, there was not a cloud in the sky. Suddenly, a bright, now flashing, now dying spot appeared in the air, which began to quickly approach the shepherdess. Frightened, she covered her face with her hands and felt how something, pouring hot air over her, quickly swept past her head. For several minutes the fireball flew between the cows. The cows mooed in fright and, completely dumbfounded, rushed about the field. And then the girl came to her senses and got angry at the air bully. She armed herself with a stick and fearlessly rushed into the "battle". The ball seemed to get scared and backed away. The girl threw a stick after him, there was a cracking sound, and the flared stick burned out like a match.
A similar case happened in Ukraine, and also with a shepherd boy. During a thunderstorm, the boy saw a luminous ball slowly moving towards him. He grabbed a branch and began waving it, driving away the terrible object. In about five minutes the ball got tired of "fighting" with the child, and he retreated.
But not only fearless children manage to cope with annoying fireball formations. In one of the state farms, three excavators were in a hurry to dig a trench - they were in a hurry somewhere. They did not stop working even when the thunderstorms were rapidly approaching. Suddenly, from the electric wires stretched not far from them, a flaming ball separated and began to slowly move directly towards them. The two workers froze in horror. And the third one suddenly grabbed a shovel and threw himself at the lightning. The luminous ball stubbornly floated towards the people, but each time it flew away from the energetic sweeps of the shovel, as if driven by the stream of air it created, and then disappeared.
But, unfortunately, not all meetings ended so peacefully. The well-known ufologist Maxim Karpenko cites the following rather sad results of such contacts: out of 412 people, 17 lost consciousness, 4 were injured, and 7 died.
Here is a description of the tragedy that occurred near the city of Mednogorsk. There were three people in the motorcycle: a man in a sidecar, his 28-year-old son was driving, and a man's friend in the back seat. “I saw at a distance of about ten meters a dazzlingly sparkling ball the size of a button,” the unfortunate father later said. - The ball approached us and sat down on the handlebars of the motorcycle. There was a click, as if a switch had clicked, and the engine shut off. By inertia we drove into the valley. I looked at my son: he was lying on the steering wheel, my friend in the back seat leaned back. Both were dead."
Sometimes the fireball hits several people at once. But he does not kill them, but cripples them in the most sadistic way. A tragic example of the so-called "exploratory" activity of fireballs is described by one of the participants in the ascent to the unnamed peak of the Caucasus. This case has become a textbook in its own way.
“I woke up with a terrible feeling that someone else had entered the tent,” the victim later shared his “impressions”. - He stuck his head out of the bag and froze. A bright yellow ball the size of a tennis ball was floating about a meter above the floor. At the same moment, the balloon disappeared into Korovin's sleeping bag. There was a wild cry. The "ball" jumped out of his bag and began to walk above the others, hiding in turn in one or the other. When the ball burned through my bag too, I felt a hell of a pain, as if several welding machines were burning me, and I lost consciousness. After some time, having come to my senses, I saw the same ball, which methodically, observing the sequence known only to him, penetrated the bags, and each such visit caused a desperate inhuman cry. In the hospital where we were taken, they counted seven wounds. Those weren't burns. Pieces of muscle were simply torn to the bone. It was the same with my friends. In our tent lay a radio station, carbines and alpenstocks. But ball lightning did not touch a single metal object, disfiguring only people. It was a strange visitor. It seemed that he deliberately, viciously, like a real sadist, burned us, betraying terrible torture. And why did no one have any burns left? The holes in the bags were larger than a tennis ball, and our wounds reached 15-18 centimeters. "And why did no one have any burns left? The holes in the bags were larger than a tennis ball, and our wounds reached 15-18 centimeters. "And why did no one have any burns left? The holes in the bags were larger than a tennis ball, and our wounds reached 15-18 centimeters."
The sensations that people experienced from encounters with ball lightning - if we again assume that it is lightning, are completely different from what they experience when they see ordinary linear lightning. Most of them felt a strange state of stiffness. They saw everything, understood everything, but could not move. And some of them, quite unexpectedly for themselves, felt an irresistible desire … to stroke the lightning. Moreover, many of the eyewitnesses who met ball lightning talked about it as a living being.
And here is another side of the "activity" of fireballs, which is not at all linked to the idea of them as dead matter. One can understand the striving of lightning towards various energy installations, to live wires. For their "existence" a constant flow of electricity is required. But what can explain the strange interaction of lightning with matter, primarily with metals? Several cases were officially recorded when non-ferrous metal veins disappear from the latter when ball lightning "visits" electrical wires. It is impossible to explain where chains of holes, as if pierced with a red-hot needle, remain on the synthetic insulation that has not lost its elasticity. There were also cases when lightning cut off glass cans of electric lamps, when they appeared, metal rings disappeared from the fingers, and chains from the neck. The impression was created that the luminous balls with some intent were purposefully injected into the ionized plasma of which they consisted of additional elements.
Recently, some physicists dealing with problems located on the border of traditional science have suggested that fireballs are the product of a quantum vacuum that permeates our planet and all of outer space. He is by no means a void and has tremendous energy, the ability to memorize information. It is from this quantum vacuum that fireballs draw their fantastic energy and, possibly, information that allows them to perform actions that baffle scientists of traditional lines of research. For example, for some inexplicable reason, a fireball chooses the same people for "communication". He attacks some with completely senseless cruelty, for some reason he spares others, and revenges on others. Moreover, for some people, communication with such a ball passes without a trace, but others after the incident cannot recover for a long time,and for several years they have to heal their undermined psyche.
Perhaps the ufologist Maxim Karpenko was able to solve this problem, who gave an unexpected explanation for the amazing behavior of fireballs: “Eyewitness accounts of encounters with ball lightning, like pieces of a puzzle, put together, create the image of an amazing creature with an incomprehensible mind and logic - a kind of clot of plasma, formed in the place of local concentration of energy and absorbed a part of this energy, self-organized and evolved to become aware of the surrounding world and oneself in it. A fireball or, if you prefer, ball lightning exists for only a few minutes. But the shortness of this time cannot serve as an obstacle to its evolution. “The time scale of ball lightning, living in its amazing electromagnetic world, where myriads of events occur every second,It cannot in any way coincide with the time scale of our slow world of cold chemical reactions,”says Maxim Karpenko. The lightning, which lasted only a few minutes, disappears, but if it really is a living object, then perhaps there is no need to grieve about its short life and untimely death. Indeed, some scientists, including Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who predicted the existence of life in the form of creatures consisting of plasma and physical fields, are sure that death is not final death, but only a transition to the next, qualitatively different stage of development. Indeed, some scientists, including Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who predicted the existence of life in the form of beings consisting of plasma and physical fields, are confident that death is not final death, but only a transition to the next, qualitatively different stage of development. Indeed, some scientists, including Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who predicted the existence of life in the form of beings consisting of plasma and physical fields, are confident that death is not final death, but only a transition to the next, qualitatively different stage of development.
To prove the reality of the existence of energetic, plasma life, Maxim Karpenko cites the results of research carried out by the Italian scientist Luciano Boccone. For three years, a research group led by him, located in a desert area on the shores of the Gulf of Genoa, monitored strange objects invisible to the human eye. For this, Luciano Boccone used not only the latest geophysical instruments and cameras with highly sensitive film, including a special infrared one that allows taking pictures in the dark, but also the amazing instinct of animals that sense the approach of objects invisible to humans.
The Boccone employees did not spend their time on the deserted hill for nothing. They opened a completely new world around us. Invisible, but quite real objects, which, according to the scientist, have a plasma nature, left their mark on the photographic film and in the changes in the readings of geophysical instruments. It turned out to be a life alien to us, represented now by light and dark, now by dense and transparent forms. What did the scientists see on the film? In those cases when the instruments showed radiation or magnetic anomalies on the "griffins", all these objects - shapeless amoeba structures or semitransparent plasma droplets - slid, galloped through the air at incredible speeds. It turned out that the non-protein life form photographed by the researchers showed a great interest in various natural disasters, accompanied by the release of energy. Infrared images,made during large fires in the mountains, showed that above the flared hearths "large amoeba-shaped objects hang, while others, smaller in size, slide at a height of one meter above the ground."
The neighboring life and energy-related objects of human activity did not disregard. They "… turned into luminous plasma creatures that followed, like dolphins, after air liners or hung at a low altitude over large industrial complexes, over sea and air ports of cities."
It is difficult to say how the interaction between our sedentary protein life and lightning energy occurs. But it certainly happens. And it is no coincidence that plasma creatures are described in ancient legends, and it is no coincidence that they are often seen over vast industrial zones and places of large-scale disasters, such as the Chernobyl one. But to the questions: “What is this interaction, but rather, the influence, is it? Where will it lead humanity? no one can answer yet.
Only one thing can be said: it is not for nothing that the element of fire has always interested mankind, it is not without reason that the most mystical properties were attributed to fire. And the point here is not in the panic fear of primitive man in front of an obscure element, the point here, apparently, in the much more complex structure of this, in general, little-studied area - fire.
