April 12 marks 56 years since the appearance of man in space. Since then, astronauts have regularly told incredible stories that happened to them in space. Strange sounds that cannot propagate in airless space, inexplicable visions and mysterious objects are present in the reports of many astronauts. Further, the story will go about what so far there are no unambiguous explanations.
Several years after the flight, Yuri Gagarin attended one of the concerts of the popular VIA. Then he admitted that he had already heard similar music, but not on Earth, but during a flight into space.
This fact is all the more strange, since before Gagarin's flight electronic music did not exist in our country, and it was precisely such a melody that the first cosmonaut heard.
Similar sensations were experienced by people who visited space later. For example, Vladislav Volkov spoke about the strange sounds that literally surrounded him during his stay in space.
“The earthly night flew below. And suddenly from that night came … the barking of a dog. And then the crying of the child became distinctly audible! And some voices. It is impossible to explain all this, - this is how Volkov described his experience.
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Sounds followed him for almost the entire flight.
American astronaut Gordon Cooper said that, flying over the territory of Tibet, he was able to see houses with the surrounding buildings with the naked eye.
Scientists have named the effect "an increase in terrestrial objects", but there is still no scientific explanation for the possibility of viewing something from a distance of 300 kilometers.
A similar phenomenon was experienced by cosmonaut Vitaly Sevastyanov, who said that when flying over Sochi, he was able to see his own two-story house, which caused controversy among opticians.
Candidate of technical and philosophical sciences, test cosmonaut Sergei Krichevsky first heard about inexplicable space visions and sounds from his colleague, who spent six months on the Mir orbital complex.
When Krichevsky was preparing for the first flight into space, a colleague told him that while in space, a person may be subject to fantastic daydreams that many cosmonauts have observed.
Literally, the warning was as follows: “A person is undergoing one or more transformations. Transformations at that moment seem to him a natural phenomenon, as if it should be so. All cosmonauts have different visions …
… One thing is similar: those who have been in a similar state determine a powerful stream of information coming from outside. None of the cosmonauts can call it hallucinations - the sensations are too real."
Later Krichevsky called this phenomenon “the Solaris effect”, which was described by the author Stanislav Lemm, whose fantastic work “Solaris” predicted inexplicable cosmic phenomena quite accurately.
Although there is no definitive scientific answer to the occurrence of such visions, some scientists believe that the occurrence of such unexplained cases is due to exposure to microwave radiation.
In 2003, Yang Liwei, who became the first Chinese astronaut to travel to space, also witnessed the unexplained.
He was aboard the Shenzhou 5 when he heard a strange crackling sound outside one night on October 16.
According to the astronaut, he had the feeling that someone was knocking on the wall of the spacecraft in the same way that an iron ladle was knocking on a tree. Liwei says that the sound did not come from outside, but not from inside the spacecraft.
Livey's stories were called into question, since in a vacuum the propagation of any sound is impossible. But on subsequent Shenzhou missions in space, two other Chinese astronauts heard the same knock.
In 1969, American astronauts Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan and John Young were on the dark side of the moon, quietly shooting craters. At that moment, they heard "otherworldly organized noise" emanating from their headset.
“Space Music” lasted for one hour. Scientists have suggested that the sound was due to radio interference between spacecraft, but could three experienced astronauts mistake the usual interference for an alien phenomenon.
On May 5, 1981, Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot-cosmonaut, Major General Vladimir Kovalenok noticed something inexplicable in the window of the Salyut station.
“Many cosmonauts have seen phenomena that go beyond the experience of earthlings. For ten years I have never talked about such things. At that time we were over the South African region, heading towards the Indian Ocean. I was just doing some gymnastic exercises when I saw an object in front of me through the window, the appearance of which I could not explain …
… I looked at this object, and then something happened, which is impossible according to the laws of physics. The object was elliptical. From the side it seemed as if it was rotating in the direction of flight. After that there was a kind of explosion of golden light …
… Then, after one or two seconds, there was a second explosion somewhere else and two spheres appeared, golden and very beautiful. After this explosion, I saw white smoke. The two spheres never came back."
In 2005, the American astronaut Leroy Chiao, the ISS commander, led it for six and a half months. One day, he was setting up antennas 230 miles above the Earth when he witnessed the inexplicable.
“I saw lights that seemed to line up. I saw them flying and I thought it looked awfully strange,”he later said.
Cosmonaut Musa Manarov spent a total of 541 days in space, of which he remembered one more than others in 1991. On the way to the Mir space station, he managed to film a cigar-shaped UFO.
The video recording lasts two minutes. The astronaut said that this object glowed at certain moments and moved in a spiral in space.
Dr. Storey Musgrave has six degrees and is also a NASA astronaut. It was he who told a very colorful story about UFOs.
In a 1994 interview, he said: “I saw a snake in space. She is elastic because she had internal waves, and she followed us for a fairly long period of time. The more you are in space, the more incredible things you can see there."
Cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliev was tormented by visions in his dreams. During sleep in this position, Tsibliyev behaved extremely restlessly, he shouted, gritted his teeth, rushed about.
“I asked Vasily what was the matter? It turned out that he had enchanting dreams, which he sometimes took for reality. He could not retell them. He only insisted that he had never seen anything like it in his life,”said a colleague of the ship's commander.
Six cosmonauts on board the ISS, awaiting the arrival of Soyuz-6, observed for 10 minutes translucent figures 10 meters high, which accompanied the station, and then disappeared.
Nikolai Rukavishnikov observed flares in near-earth space during his flight aboard the Soyuz-10 spacecraft.
During rest, he was in a darkened compartment with his eyes closed. Suddenly he saw flashes, which at first he took for signals of a flashing light board, shining through the eyelids.
However, the scoreboard burned with an even light and its brightness was insufficient to create the observed effect.
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin recalled, "There was something there, close enough to us for us to see."
“During the Apollo 11 mission on the way to the moon, I noticed a light in the ship's window, it seemed that it was moving with us. There were several explanations for this phenomenon, another ship from another country, or these were panels that came off when we removed the rocket from the lander. But it was all wrong."
“I feel absolutely convinced that we are faced with something incomprehensible. What it was I could not classify. Technically, the definition could be one "unidentified"."
James McDivitt made the first manned flight in Gemini 4 on June 3, 1965 and recorded: “I looked through the window and saw a white spherical object against the black sky. He abruptly changed the direction of flight."
McDivitt was also able to photograph a long metal cylinder. The Air Force command again resorted to the tried and tested method, announcing that the pilot had confused what he saw with the Pegasus-2 satellite.
McDivitt replied: "I report that during my flight, I did see what some people call UFOs, namely an unidentified flying object."
At the same time, many of the astronauts' colleagues also observed unidentified flying objects during flights.
They say that in the archives of Roskosmos, an unusual story with the crew of the Soyuz-18 spacecraft, which happened in April 1975, is described - it has been classified for 20 years. Due to the accident of the launch vehicle, the cabin of the ship was shot off from the rocket at an altitude of 195 km and rushed to the Earth.
The astronauts experienced tremendous overloads, during which they heard a "mechanical, like a robot" voice, which asked if they wanted to live. They did not have the strength to answer, then the voice said: We will not let you die in order for you to pass on to your own - you need to abandon the conquest of space.
After landing and getting out of the capsule, the astronauts began to wait for the rescuers. When night fell, they lit a fire. Suddenly they heard a growing whistle and at the same time saw in the sky some kind of luminous object hovering directly above them.
By the way, the ISS cameras record unknown space objects with enviable regularity.
Cosmonaut Alexander Serebrov expressed his opinion on this issue: “There, in the depths of the Universe, nobody knows what happens to people. The physical state is being studied at the very least, but the changes in consciousness are a dark forest. Doctors pretend that a person can be prepared for everything on Earth. In fact, this is absolutely not the case."
Vladimir Vorobyov, Doctor of Medical Sciences and Senior Researcher at the Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, states the following: “But, visions and other inexplicable sensations in space orbit, as a rule, do not torment the astronaut, but give him a kind of pleasure, despite the fact that they cause fear …
… It is worth considering that this also has a hidden danger. It's no secret that after returning to Earth, most space explorers begin to feel a state of longing for these phenomena and at the same time experience an irresistible and sometimes painful urge to feel these states again."