In the 1920s, American physicist Robert William Wood, famous for his discoveries in the field of spectroscopy and laying the foundations for ultraviolet and infrared photography, while experimenting in the open air, drew attention to the fact that bright rays can be formed in the upper layers of the atmosphere, stretching to the earth's surface and existing on their own, carrying sources recorded visually and sensitive devices. In order to understand the essence of the anomaly, the scientist went to the library, where, after looking through the works of his predecessors, he was surprised to find that "stumps of light" were not such a rarity, and, starting from the Middle Ages, they were periodically recorded by people of different professions, for official needs or for the pleasure of taking long journeys.
Paradoxically, Wood, who put forward a number of intriguing hypotheses about the nature of the "frozen aurora", did not find understanding among his colleagues in the United States. Soviet physicists listened with interest to his report on this exotic topic in 1930, in Moscow, when he was elected a foreign honorary member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The transcript of the report has been preserved in the scientist's personal fund. Now, wanting to correct the "annoying blunder", the Americans have launched a special program, generously funded. It is, of course, too early to say that the genesis of light without sources has been deciphered. But some encouraging progress has been outlined.
In short, they boil down to the fact that the mysterious glow is possibly akin to laser radiation. “If this is so, then where is the generator that pumps energy such a powerful laser?” Asks one of the project participants, Stephane Marche, who, following Wood, is inclined to believe that plasma lenses that form in the ionosphere produce cold light emissions.
The opinion is controversial, if only because for a long time a reasonable person, it turns out, was able to predict the convergence of "chopped off rays" with sufficient accuracy. Moreover, sorcerers of almost all countries and continents, as follows from Wood's report, causing luminiferous streams, cured serious diseases with their help. “All that was required was a necessarily black stone with magical notches, a deep reservoir nearby and a lot of brightly burning torches to happen what is practiced by the shamans of Western Siberia in spring and autumn,” Wood said, referring to the practice of the most famous in the 80s-90s years of the Shor shaman Ignatiy Kostoev, whose amazing deeds are reflected in the English-language ethnographic sources.
Unbelievable, but it is a fact. The Russian sorcerer did exactly the same thing with the light as his Indian, African, Indian, Eskimo brothers did and are doing. And since the effect of collective rituals everywhere and for everyone was identical, coincided in the smallest details, it is not a sin to immerse yourself in the mystery of the spell of light, usually accompanied by its enchanting convergence. The witness was Vladimir Kuskov, the purveyor of furs and cedar oil, to whose testimony Wood refers.
According to Kuskov, trouble brought him to Kostoev - incipient gangrene of the right hand, caused by a gunshot wound. Looking intently into the eyes of the purveyor, the sorcerer uttered strange words: Your God has turned away from you forever, but you will be saved if you accept our faith. Kuskov was Orthodox, the shaman professed pagan polytheism. He did not want to die, and he agreed "becoming like all Shors", having recovered, as demanded by the new faith, to marry the shaman's daughter.
The rite of ritual, which at first seemed to be the purest wild nonsense, in the end, shocked both its development and results. Contrary to expectations, Kostoev played a completely detached role, "as if he was not present." The women of the tribe acted actively, who now and then burned torches of wet needles, burning greenish, very dimly and very slowly. They burned pine needles on the shore of the lake, randomly crowding around a large mossy stone, painted on top with a kind of white and yellow concentric circles. The burning, interrupted by a monotonous howl, lasted from midnight to four in the morning.
When Kuskov got tired of waiting, starting to faint from the unbearable pain in his hand, the bright light of countless stars scored another incomparably brighter light. Around the reservoir, from four sides, “out of nowhere, without visible sources, massive light stumps stood up. They stood, or rather, they hung for at least half an hour, motionless. At the same time, it seemed to Kuskov that people were sprinkled with chalk - even their eyes and hair - of the purest white color. “There’s nothing, death will take you,” the shaman broke the silence. As soon as he pronounced this sentence, a luminous wedge hit the stone, instantly swelling to the volume of the lower part of the century-old cedar trunk. The shaman immediately pushed the purveyor. Pieces appeared under the carved, like a round sole, the lower part of the light flux. It seemed to him that he was standing in the center of the icy streams of the waterfall. The sore arm seemed to be cut off.
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The last thing that the purveyor saw before he collapsed into unconsciousness was that the light columns simultaneously went out, and that the light attracted by the stone, breaking away from the stone, “sets fire to his seemingly dead and useless body.” Kuskov's story contains an important summary: “From now on I am sure that the shamanic light was not the light in the usual sense. It is rather glass, from which lamps are inexplicably fashioned, hanging independently, held by the will of the shaman and his fellow tribesmen. The will is strong if this is how it is possible to solve the usually unsolvable tasks!"
Individual or collective will must be applied to something, to influence something, so that an individual or a group of people achieve their goal. The universal rule is that, if you follow common sense, it is by no means always workable. Indeed, it is hard to believe that volitional impulses can generate such phenomena as celestial light without sources, and even in a "solidified" form. But we know by no means everything about the mysterious properties of nature, about how it - the whole - interacts with a part - our mind. There is little doubt that this kind of interaction is ubiquitous.
For example, the Soviet geologist Anatoly Privalov, who in 1932 headed the exploration activities to find oil and gas on the Ustyurt plateau, reaching an altitude of 370 meters, bounded by steep cliffs, did not doubt this. The table - this is also the name of the plateau - is located at the western end of the Mangyshlak peninsula, in the east it borders the Aral Sea and the Amu Darya River. It was here, where "the night sky is amazingly rich in starlight," Privalov and his staff watched the witchcraft rituals of Asian sorcerers.
“Luminous wedges like shards of a mirror were falling from the heights. In the midst of the monotonously singing nomads, almost at their feet, hollow tubes, emitting a soft milky white light, lay down, in any, carefully thrusting your palm, you can feel a cold swirl. Games with light existing in limbo are used by the aborigines for health improvement. They also say that in a short 10-15 minutes there is an opportunity to see deceased relatives,”the geologist writes in an ethnographic essay published three months later in the Uzbek newspaper“Soviet Uzbekistan”, stressing that these imaginary miracles are caused ahead of time by the natural natural features of the area … That studying them will dispel the superstitious fog.
Light without sources has been recorded many times by the optics of orbiting spacecraft,?.. Luminous anomalies, which have various geometric shapes, received a characteristic name - the eyes of the Earth.