About "flying people" has been known for a long time. 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. First of all, the United States became interested in “flying people”. 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, noted a remarkable fact: the creature he noticed was not a bird, but "the figure of a winged man."
The creature in the sky became a local sensation. The New York Times of September 12, 1880 reported that he was 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. The witnesses stated that they saw his face clearly: it "had a hard and determined expression."
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. At 5 a.m. on February 22, 1922, 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 2.5 m tall, landed and went, leaving traces in the deep snow. Lamb tried to catch up with the alien, but it was impossible.
And a few more descriptions of amazing encounters from the same archive. They all happened near the small town of Point Pleasant: on November 15, 1966, at 11:30 pm, two young married couples, Scarbury and Malette, went out of town by car to visit friends and got lost. Circling aimlessly, we drove up to the old factory. As they drove past the open gate, 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: it was at least 2 m tall. And most importantly, it had large wings folded behind its back!
Red and huge, like headlights, eyes produced a hypnotic effect on those sitting in the car. The young people seemed to have frozen for a while, not taking their eyes off them, but then someone shouted: "Get out of here!" The car drove onto the highway, and the motorists saw another similar creature on a small hill. When they caught up with it, it spread its wings, "like a bat," and soared straight up.
And on November 17, 1966, a seventeen-year-old boy was driving along Highway 7 from the town of Point Pleasant. Suddenly a "big bird" appeared next to his car, chasing 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. A young shoe salesman, Thomas Urie, was driving a car on November 25 at 7:15 am and saw a tall, humanoid figure standing in a field near the road. Suddenly, it opened a pair of wings and flew vertically upward like a helicopter, and then followed the car. The guy pressed the gas all the way, but the "flying man" did not lag behind.
Around this time, a similar creature appeared near the city of New Haven in West Virginia. On Sunday morning, eighteen-year-old Connie was driving back from church. As she drove near the lawns of the local golf club, a large gray figure more than 2 m tall appeared from the side. But it was not even the height that struck Connie, but the eyes - large, round, glowing with red fire. Suddenly a pair of wings opened behind the figure, and it slowly and silently flew upward.
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 2 m tall, had a hypnotic look and clearly had tremendous strength. The wings of the "bird-man" folded behind his back, during the flight he did not wave them, but seemed to float. He flew at high speed, easily catching up with cars rushing along the highway.
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Similar monsters have been seen in Russia. So, in September 1979, student Igor Kuleshov was sent to the village of Nagorye, Pereslavsky District, Yaroslavl Region, for agricultural work. In the evening, he and the girl went for a walk in the field. The sun had already set over the horizon, and it was early dusk. Suddenly the young man saw that from the side where the sun had just set, at an altitude of 25–30 m from the ground, something dark was slowly flying. When the object 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 barely perceptible halo of glow. Suddenly, the flying man abruptly changed course and headed straight for the young people. Flying over their heads, he straightened his left arm,and the direction of his flight changed smoothly towards the forest, behind which the "knight" disappeared in a moment. 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 few days after that, he suffered a heart attack and was sent home. Before his trip to the Yaroslavl region, Kuleshov was an absolutely healthy person. But after 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.
More than once flights in the sky were observed in Primorye. Especially often, sometimes 3-4 times a year, such meetings take place in the vicinity of Pidan Mountain. One of the local residents said: “In 1968, my father was brought from the taiga, wounded. There are lacerations on the face and arms. He lost one eye, the fingers on his left hand do not work. And he no longer walks into the taiga, not because he cannot shoot, but because he is afraid even to leave the outskirts. He then hunted near Mount Pidan and at dusk began to look for a place to spend the night. Passing the rock, I saw a cave. The entrance was narrow, it barely squeezed into the crevice, but further the cave expanded.
The traveler gathered dry wood and made a fire. Entering the cave with branches for the second time, he saw something stirring in the darkness. The father rushed to the gun, but suddenly "something" shrieked and rushed at the hunter. Huge wings with a span of about two meters were like an extension of the arms. The almost human head was hairless. The father is not sure that this creature wanted to attack him, perhaps it was blinded by the fire, and she was trying to get out of the cave. The monster began to tear his father with its claws. He fell, and the creature flew out. Throughout the night, despite suffering, he sat with his back to the fire. At night I heard screams and flapping of wings at the entrance, and in the afternoon, losing consciousness, I began to get home. Hunters found him on the trail …"
Rumors of a winged monster inhabiting the area of this mountain have already attracted researchers from different countries to the Far East. Almost every year, scientists and just curious tourists from Japan, Korea and China come there hoping to see a flying man. 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 makes aerial "pirouettes" for 17 seconds.
Ufologists from Japan, China and Korea spend several weeks annually in the seaside 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 tourist from Vladivostok, which shows a winged monster that has got into the lens for a few moments; this film was purchased by a Korean collector businessman. The photographs taken from the videotape are on display in Seoul, in a private UFO museum.
“Flying people” in Primorye were met in other places as well. Once, four hunters from the village of Tigrovy, after a hard day, were resting near a fire. Suddenly a terrible noise was heard from the side of the small lake. Taking an interest in the night guest, the hunters took their guns and lanterns, 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 tend to exaggerate in their stories. Therefore, the 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 1960s, 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.
We saw these creatures in Western Europe. Manuela B., a 22-year-old student from Parma (Italy), on December 16, 1991 saw a "flying humanoid." According to her, it was a dark green creature, wrinkled and awkward 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.
In 1984, a certain Hector Urdiales with a friend, while hiking in the Cerro de la Silla hill (North America), 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, tourists saw a surreal picture: at a height of ten meters, a fat hog hung on a strong branch! What force dragged the heavy animal there? Most likely, experts suggested then, the tourists found the "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, near 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 the 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 it had no intention of leaving. Only when it reached the crossroads, it took several heavy bouncing steps and rose into the air. Five days later, a woman who came to visit the graves of her loved ones saw a similar creature at the same cemetery. 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.
The facts are amazing, but how seriously can you take them? Alas, there is no single answer to this question. Mainstream science tends to be skeptical about such reports. For example, Anatoly Darensky, director of the Research Institute of Hunting in the city of Khabarovsk, commented on the materials collected in the archives of the Vladivostok Association of Ufologists:
“Personally, I don't believe in all this. I do not even admit the thought that there is a large animal in nature that is not known to science. Of course, not all of these stories are fantasies, events are tied to locality and reality. People in the forest hear a fairly specific set of calls from each beast, but this does not mean that nothing can surprise them. Each animal has individual differences. And the weather, humidity, terrain distort sounds. Well, something unusual was heard. And then everything depends on the characteristics of the person. Some have stronger nerves, others - immediately fear or even hallucinations …"
And yet the question remains open: is it true that the winged monster is not an invention, not a mythological character, not a hero of hunting tales, but a real creature? Can we hope that the mystery exists, despite the belief of scientists that everything flying, crawling, running and floating has long been known? And finally, what are the rather numerous witnesses facing in countries located in different hemispheres?
Despite the fact that in some cases the “flying people” had wings, and in others they didn’t 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 creatures, without moving their wings, easily catch up with fast-moving cars, it is clear that some other force moves them in the air.
Scientists from the USA, where flying creatures have been observed, perhaps most often, have put forward two hypotheses of their possible origin. The first 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 affected them with some kind of special radiation that caused the same type of hallucinations. But in the Yaroslavl region, Primorye, Parma and other places where "bird-people" were seen, there were no American or other special objects!
The second hypothesis suggests that winged half-humans-half-birds actually exist. But their homeland is some of the parallel worlds. They periodically appear in our dimension, and then disappear without a trace. This version, like the very existence of parallel worlds, is still impossible to confirm or refute.
One thing is for sure - the mystery does exist. It lies in an obvious contradiction: on the one hand, science, which asserts that there is nothing of the kind and cannot be, on the other, there are numerous witnesses of the very thing that does not exist from a scientific point of view. However, where there are contradictions, guesses and various versions - there researchers are just waiting for, perhaps, the most sensational discoveries.
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