Temporal anomalies. There are many anomalous places on earth. Warning: white fog

ANOMALIES IN TIME

Beginning in 1840, numerous strange incidents occurred in the northwest Atlantic Ocean known as the Bermuda Triangle. Planes, ships with crews and crews mysteriously disappeared there for no apparent reason.

We will not retell many well-known cases about which much has already been written. Let us, however, pay attention to several incidents in which victims (for lack of a more precise word) left clues before they disappeared, hinting at what they were about to encounter; as well as in cases where people who experienced strange phenomena in the Bermuda Triangle area returned unharmed.

One of the world-shattering disappearances occurred in 1945 of five Avenger bombers carrying ballistic missiles that had taken off from the Fort Londerdale military airfield for a training exercise. Some time later, all five bombers disappeared. The planes took off at two o'clock in the afternoon on December 5, 1945. The following account is taken from the book "Invisible Residents" by Ivan T. Sanderson:

“The first radio signal from the lead aircraft arrived at the base only at 3.35 pm, and, surprisingly, they did not request permission to land, but instead reported: “Calling the base. Urgent... We seem to have lost our course... We can’t see the ground... We We don’t see the ground.”

When the base was asked what their location was, they received a stunning answer:

“We cannot indicate our location. We don't know where we are at all. It seems we are lost."

When the base advised us to head west, we received an even stranger answer: “We don’t know where west is. Everything is wrong... Strange. We can't find our way. Even the ocean doesn’t look the same as always.”

Apparently the senior officer panicked and handed over command to another pilot, who also seemed confused when talking to the base. They heard a few words from the new commander, and then silence followed.

All pilots were experienced, and weather excellent. The strange disorientation that continued throughout the incident indicated that the five planes were on the threshold of another dimension. The commanders did not report any obstacles they noticed that could prevent the completion of the flight. However, they claimed that everything seemed “somehow different” to them. Most likely, they entered another dimension from which they could not return. A thorough search was carried out in the area of ​​the disappearance, but no traces of the aircraft were found... Until 1991. In the summer, divers searching for underwater treasures accidentally found at the bottom near one of Bahamas all five planes lying side by side on the bottom. It’s completely incomprehensible how they ended up there so close to each other.”

Sanderson also mentions two letters he received from a military pilot. In the first, his correspondent writes about an incident that happened to him while he was flying south over Korea in a B-26 late autumn or early winter 1955. The altitude was 7 thousand feet, and the B-26 was flying at a speed of 550 knots (1000 kilometers), while the maximum speed for this type of aircraft was 285 knots (530 kilometers), which indicated a tailwind blowing at a speed of 265 knots (490 kilometers ). Winds of 265 knots at an altitude of 7 thousand feet while moving south are something unheard of and almost impossible. In any case, the wind should have been felt on the ground, but no anomalies in the weather were observed there. The plane was also expected to experience severe buffeting as it entered and exited its southern corridor, which also did not happen.

The second letter described such a case. Fighter C-97 air force The US flew from Kwajalein Atoll to Guam at an altitude of 12 thousand feet (3650 meters). During the flight, the cruising speed suddenly increased, as if it was being pushed by 200 knots (370 kilometers) winds. Then the speed decreased to normal, and the strong wind stopped as mysteriously as it had appeared. In any case, the Si-97 covered 340 nautical miles (630 kilometers) in one hour, which was impossible for an aircraft of this type.

Sanderson asked a senior pilot to conduct a thorough analysis of the two stories. The conclusion was categorical: these incredible winds most likely rose suddenly in very narrow, isolated areas and died down just as suddenly, but gently, so that no turbulence occurred. The last comment was: “There is something very strange going on here.”

Without accepting this explanation, Sanderson puts forward a very interesting theory. He speculates that the planes may have become trapped in local "temporal anomalies" in which time moves more slowly. Thus, he argues, “the planes flew relatively longer” and returned earlier. He believes that if planes enter a time anomaly in which time flows faster, their speed slows down sharply, but the pilot attributes this anomalous phenomenon to headwinds.

Anomalies in time do not explain all the disappearances that occurred in Bermuda Triangle, but the above examples nevertheless suggest the possibility of occurrence in this region curvatures in time and space. In some cases vehicles could fall into the eternal trap of these distortions. And indeed, most likely this was the fate of the five bombers. On the other hand, two military pilots were apparently able to escape from these strange areas unharmed.

Scandal with the bulk carrier "Milena"

“We need to drink less,” the company owner said irritably to Captain William Tooker, “and not involve the whole team in these matters.” And he added, already walking down the stairs. “We will find someone who can look after the interests of the company much better than you and keep the team in line.”

And the whole point was that the bulk carrier Milena, having left the Ceylon port of Colombo on a course to Bombay - Karachi - Aden and further through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, disappeared without a trace for several months. He arrived in Bombay, which was less than one and a half thousand miles (2,800 kilometers), later than if he had been continuously moving, calling at scheduled ports, almost around the whole world. Meanwhile, the ship’s instruments stubbornly showed: not a single extra mile had been made, the course was laid out optimally. The team led by the captain confirmed the same.

In the loud newspaper skirmish between the captain and the shipowners that followed Tooker’s dismissal (many newspapers in England took the side of the crew and its commander) and at the trial, few listened to the sailors. And even those who sympathized with the experienced navigator with 20 years of experience and his comrades were very skeptical about their arguments.

“If you believe the former owner of the captain’s bridge of the Milena and the records of the instruments, which were obviously simply cleverly reconfigured, then Tuker must be reinstated immediately. But only in order to immediately send him, along with his assistants and all the sailors, to a psychiatric institution for socially dangerous patients.” Even the respectable Times made this statement on its pages. Can you imagine what the tabloids wrote...

Meanwhile, demanding reinstatement in service, the disgraced captain referred not only to instrument readings (although the electronic log with a lag and other equipment equipped with recorders, according to experts, were not opened or adjusted by anyone after leaving Colombo). The tape recording reproduced the entire radio traffic of the ship from the moment it left the loading port. Scientists have taken this story seriously.

At about 7 o’clock “Milena” was regularly in touch, and then disappeared for those very months, while she was unsuccessfully requested via the air and was even searched for with the help of coast guard ships and aviation; she was eventually presumed dead. The tape recorder recorded all communications between the ship and the shore. Then came a strange entry: “We were attacked. An unknown sailing ship is landing troops on board. Help!" This signal was not received by the radio services of either Colombo or Bombay, or the ships that were in great numbers in this part Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea.

Sign up for logbook confirms:

“On July 12, 1983, at 2:08 p.m. after emerging from the tornado, I was met and attacked by a two-masted sailing ship of unknown nationality. The attack was repulsed with improvised means and with the help of the Thompson system machine gun on board. One attacker died. After that, he continued moving on the given course.”

Doubts that Tuker and the crew should be urgently sent to a psychiatric clinic began and grew stronger after one of the radio and electronics experts expressed official conclusion this opinion: “Listening to the tape recordings submitted for research allows us to draw a conclusion about the strange behavior of the airwaves at the moment the signal for help was transmitted. The coastal and ship radio stations that had previously worked on neighboring waves and were listened to on the Milena seemed to disappear from the air. The receiver recorded a significant number of atmospheric discharges, which in their frequency characteristics differ significantly from those corresponding to the area between 7 and 20 degrees north latitude and 70 and 80 degrees east longitude.”

While experts argued and doubted, William Tooker, who soon received a new ship from the same company and retired a few years later, stubbornly continued to insist on his, for many, an absolutely fantastic version of events.

This is what the story of the ship's many-month absence looks like as described by its captain and the testimony of other living sailors from the crew. By the way, they sailed with almost the same composition for about seven years, which at first served to praise Tooker for his ability to accurately select people and work with them. After the start of the litigation, this circumstance became the reason for accusations of “conspiracy among all members of the crew, who spent about three months in revelry and rest, hiding the ship in a remote bay.”

So, just a short story. Soon after the last airing took place, “Milena” was caught in an instant squall, accompanied by a strong thunderstorm and frenzied, as the sailors said, “lightning discharges, which none of us had ever seen before.” The clouds and rain streams disappeared in the same way as the previous episode of a film disappears during film editing. The sky became cloudless, and a moderate, although fairly steady, breeze was blowing towards us. “We have not yet had time to adapt to the instantaneous bright sun, when a sailboat of an ancient design jumped out to meet us, threw hooks on our side, and then so-and-so began..."

People climbed onto the deck of the cargo ship, dressed in dresses cut from times long before the events from the book “Treasure Island.” It was difficult to make out individual words in the screams of the attackers, but everyone on the crew was convinced that it was not similar to any of the modern languages. At first, the team fought back with hooks and everything that came to hand. Then the first mate rushed to his cabin for the machine gun stored there and opened fire in long bursts. The defeat of the attackers was completed after they managed to turn on the ship’s powerful fire hoses and activate fire extinguishers with increased foaming. From all this, wild panic began in the ranks of the attackers. The sailboat immediately rolled off somewhere to the side, leaving one dead person on the deck of the cargo ship.

The body carried into the cabin was carefully examined. It belonged to a man who clearly did not know about the existence of soap, toothpaste, shaving accessories, etc. He had a wide curved knife of the Malaysian type with him. The dead man's clothing consisted of wide pants, tied with a sash, and a goatskin vest with the fur turned inside out. The trousers were clearly homespun or made from tarred burlap.

The captain ordered the body to be transferred to the ship's freezer, and locked the other “material evidence” in his safe. The first order was not carried out. The cargo ship again found itself in a thunderstorm of incredible force. The storm lasted no more than half an hour. And what followed in the words of Tooker and every single member of the team looked as they insisted from the first moment:

“Considering that we were attacked by bandits using exotic camouflage, we once again contacted the port of departure and Bombay to report the incident. And they were surprised when the local radio operators, after a long silence, almost unanimously began to shout: “So you have been found?” Are you alive?” We followed our course, didn’t go anywhere, didn’t drift in one place. What was a huge shock for all of us was not even the fact that the company’s management came down with incredible attacks, but the date on the coastal calendars was the end of October.”

By the way, the cargo of Ceylon tea lost exactly as much quality as if it had been on the road all this time. The deceased disappeared without a trace, his belongings remained in the safe.

Oddly enough, interest in the incident with Tuker and Milena was rekindled in 1991, after some clever hoaxers staged the “return of an Argentine airliner from another time zone.” And the following happened. A little-known airline informed the whole world that a Douglas plane that took off from Buenos Aires in 1938 landed at its airport in Bahia Blanco. The press was presented with the DS-3 itself, a pre-war production, and quite coherently talking about the “disappearance in time” of a young pilot, dressed in a pre-war uniform. The trick would have gone off with a bang if... First, the “commander of the airliner” was caught with the simplest lack of flight education and confusion in special terms. Following this, the retired pilot recognized in a color photograph in a magazine, for some unknown reason, the Douglas that he himself had flown and which had been written off in 1948 for sale to a private collector. The trick failed.

And then the “script for Captain Tooker’s thriller” was pulled from the editorial files. Forced to once again defend his good name, the sailor supplemented the existing materials with the results of serious scientific examinations. They, including on the basis of radiocarbon analysis, indisputably recognized:

"a) the fabric from trousers of an old cut presented for examination is burlap, made in the 16th or 17th centuries and preserved thanks to the resinous substances that impregnated it; other items can also be attributed to the same period: a knife, a vest and a belt in the form of a wide scarf, the least preserved from everything submitted for examination;

b) traces on the bulwark of the cargo ship were left by sharp, curved objects of metal origin, but small particles of this metal show that it was smelted using a technology that has not been used for at least a century and a half;

c) the sheet on which, according to the crew, the body of the deceased lay, corresponds to the time of its production and purchase indicated in the ship's documents, however, traces of liquid of organic origin (presumably blood) remaining on it cannot be accurately calculated in time due to the enormous date of their origin."

Actually, the last point and the disappearance of the body raised doubts even among scientists who supported the sailors 12 years ago and made a cautious assumption that the cargo ship could theoretically end up in another time dimension, an explanation for which can easily be found in the works of not only Einstein, but also his consistent and even opponents.

One of these scientists, Charles Moray, argued: “A corpse, having arrived in our time, could have undergone chemical processes normal for the human body in tropical conditions. After all, he actually seemed to remain in the same space for at least three centuries.” The reason for the delay of Tucker's ship? Obviously, entering and leaving the “other time curve”, which, from the point of view of the participants in the event, takes a few minutes, actually lasts months. Things? So even in museums they far outlive their former owners.

And while some gloated and others shrugged off the incident, the sailor and the explorer prepared a book. Over many years, they have collected dozens of testimonies from eyewitnesses and direct participants in “flights to other centuries.” Many opened up only to them because they were previously afraid of being branded crazy, although they had met not only pirates, but also, for example, cavemen or living mammoths. Moreover, whether this happened on land or at sea, it was invariably accompanied by thunderstorms or other manifestations of powerful electric fields.

Well, perhaps representatives of science will not rush to make a psychiatric diagnosis of witnesses of phenomena and events inaccessible to our current understanding.

The case of the Starfish

On October 16, 1992, the Indian ship Starfish left Bombay heading for Malaysia. There were 10 tourists and 39 crew members on board. At first everything went fine, but on the fifth day of the journey, a strong storm suddenly broke out. Radio communication was interrupted, and the last message from the ship was: “SOS! We're drowning! And soon the ship disappeared from all radars of ships approaching the disaster site.

When the storm subsided, five Indian Coast Guard boats set off to search for the Starfish. For several days they examined the disaster area in detail, but did not find any traces of the ship. All official reports noted that the Starfish tragically sank and all passengers and crew were killed.

Exactly three years later, day after day - October 16, 1995, in the same place, in front of the eyes of surprised fishermen, a ship appeared from nowhere. The ships nearby received a signal from him: “Everything is fine! SOS is cancelled! The storm suddenly stopped!

But no one heard any distress signal, and there were no storms in these places for more than a year!

The amazement of the coast guard knew no bounds when they learned that the mysteriously materialized ship was the missing Starfish. On board, passengers held a celebration in honor of their rescue. At first they did not believe that their ship had been officially declared lost for three years. The captain considered this statement an inappropriate joke. According to him, they sent the last distress signal no more than three hours ago, and the rest of the time they heroically fought the storm. One can imagine the horror of the Starfish crew members when they finally realized that they had been erased from life for three whole years!

Perhaps the narrated incident will seem implausible to some, but several other cases of this kind are known. As the Skeptical Inquirer magazine reported, in 1995, Louise Dupin, a French woman living in a small provincial town, disappeared under unexplained circumstances. It was not possible to find her, and relatives assumed the worst. But a year later, to the day, Louise unexpectedly returned. It took quite a long time to convince the unlucky “traveller” that her walk lasted a whole year.

It turned out that on that ill-fated day Louise went shopping. She found it a little strange that she didn't meet a single person along the way. Suddenly the sky became cloudy and a strong wind rose. The young woman felt ill for a while, and then she discovered that she had lost her way. After wandering for about an hour, she finally came to a local shop, sincerely wondering why all the neighbors were looking at her so scared...

Reports periodically appear in the press about people who mysteriously disappeared for one or another long period of time, and then reappeared in the same place. Scientists have repeatedly made attempts to study these anomalous phenomena, but so far none of the research results have been published. Meanwhile, people continue to disappear in similar ways in various parts of the planet. There is even some pattern. Usually, before disappearing, people observed a sharp deterioration in the weather. Suddenly a storm or hurricane, heavy rain began, and suddenly it became very cold. Most of the missing felt a nagging pain in their temples, their eyes suddenly darkened. Apparently, it was at this moment that a fantastic time shift occurred. According to the calculations of the missing people, only two, maximum three hours passed. Then they again found themselves in the same place where they were suddenly overtaken by a storm. One more nuance is striking. If a person believed that he had wandered for an hour, then he was found after a year, and when the disappeared person had two hours at his disposal, he showed up in real life two years later. It is noteworthy that the victims did not meet anyone on their way, and their wrist or pocket watches stopped at the moment of disappearance and return, and then started running again.

There are several hypotheses regarding these strange phenomena. According to one of them, people are abducted by aliens, who then study them for a long time. But this version does not seem convincing. Firstly, the “travelers” themselves do not remember anything about such experiences, and secondly, the similarity of such cases casts doubt on this.

Another point of view looks more interesting, although controversial. Perhaps powerful cosmic energy accumulates in some places on the planet, sometimes breaking space-time relationships. A person who accidentally gets there at this moment finds himself, as it were, trapped, out of time. But how he manages to come back is still not clear. Probably, the answer should be sought in the phenomenon of teleportation. In some ways, these two phenomena are identical.

Experts dealing with the problem of strange disappearances of people consider it necessary not only to conduct a detailed study of the areas where such phenomena occurred, but also to examine the missing people themselves. However, now this is hardly possible, because most scientists, despite eyewitness accounts, still do not believe in the time gap...

In addition to the strange disappearances of people, there have been cases of objects falling into invisible holes from which they could no longer be retrieved. Sometimes such an item would appear later in another part of the world. In his book Strange Mysteries of Time and Space, Harold T. Wilkins describes an incident in which a man at sea accidentally dropped a knife overboard. At the same moment, his wife (who was at home) saw with horror how the same knife fell from the ceiling in the kitchen and pierced the table.

Objects fall into holes between dimensions, but they also seem to return from them. Almost every object imaginable fell through the holes: pieces of red meat, live fish, cookies, even alligators. A strange substance called "angel hair" is often spotted in areas where UFOs have been. This is a thin, white fibrous material that falls from the sky in areas where flying saucers have been seen. Such objects often fall from a clear, cloudless sky, when not even an airplane is visible that could be blamed for what happened.

There are several such mysterious regions known on Earth that seem to be in another world. In such areas, the laws of nature have almost no force.

One such place is Magnetic Hill near Moncton in New Brunswick (Canada). Cars, rubber balls, even water - everything easily rolls... up in this strange place. The forces acting on objects are not magnetic, because non-iron objects behave in the same way as those made of this metal. On Magnetic Hill, gravitational forces act exactly the opposite.

Another strange place where things behave differently than usual is the Oregon Sinkhole along Sardine Creek near Grant's Gulch in Oregon. The Oregon Sinkhole has a diameter of about 55 meters. Strange forces pull people and other bodies into the center of the vortex, so you must deviate from the center to maintain your balance. Objects even roll uphill on an inclined plane towards the center of the funnel.

Scientific instruments confirm the presence of the force, but scientists have not yet been able to explain its origin.

Everyone can attest to the strange forces that operate on Magnetic Hill and the Oregon Sinkhole. However, there may be similar strange places on Earth that only affect some susceptible people. For example, American researcher Brad Steiger in “Mysterious Disappearances” describes a man who has the supernatural ability to pass through doors into other dimensions. Some of these doors lead to dark, lifeless places, without sound or movement, others to the past or future of our world.

If such holes in time and space really do exist, then a person cannot resign himself to just watching objects disappear into them. Let us hope that our knowledge will advance to the point where it will be possible to understand the nature of these phenomena.

The story of AVB and others

Just 10 years ago, reports of UFOs were called “fantastic nonsense.” But times are changing, and now skeptics are in the absolute minority. But since the majority of sensible people recognize UFOs and the “intelligent” elements accompanying them as a reality, albeit incomprehensible, then it is natural to recognize the carriers of this “intelligence”, that is, the inhabitants of the UFO, as real. And here it’s not far from abductions, and as a result – to contacts with people, and even very close ones...

American researcher Donald Worley, who has been studying the problem of abductions (abductions of people by aliens) for more than 30 years, personally investigated about 100 such cases. He states in Faith magazine, April 1998, that the total number of kidnappings in the world reaches hundreds of thousands, and perhaps many millions! Moreover, without taking into account abductions, which the abducted are not even aware of! What happened is confirmed by indirect signs - for example, the sudden appearance of unusual abilities in the victims. According to Donald Worley, one of the abductees, Sandra from Georgia (USA), acquired the ability to turn off street lights from a distance of 30 meters from the lamp! Another victim, Alice from Maryland, interfered with the operation of televisions and computers with her appearance. Another abductee turned off street lights when he walked under them or passed them in a car. Moreover, the instruments did not detect any electromagnetism in this person. The details of what happened were clarified from those abducted using regressive hypnosis.

In the last decade, cases of forced sexual contacts between aliens and people have become more frequent. Donald Worley talks about one of them in detail. A woman named Pamara from Richmond, Indiana knew absolutely nothing about abduction. She was pregnant, and this was confirmed by ultrasound probing. One day, Pamara and her family were driving home when five miles northeast of Donald Worley's home near Abbington, Indiana, they experienced collective abduction. The aliens released the victims after four hours, which, of course, were erased from their memory. But Pamara was writhing in pain on the floor of the car.

Later, under hypnosis, the woman said that inside the UFO she was spread out on a table and four “gray” aliens were “processing” the abducted woman in various ways, including with instruments. Moreover, they assured that “they wouldn’t do anything bad to her.” Then they plunged some kind of instrument into the body, from which Pamara experienced severe pain and labor spasms. “They pulled the baby out of me,” the victim said.

In general, it’s too early to put an end to the problem of sexual contacts with aliens. Whether they are intended for evil or for good remains to be seen. Donald Worley believes that not for evil...

It's easy to dismiss sensational stories of kidnapping, time travel, and sexual experimentation, but how can you doubt the credibility of a solid, respected lawyer?

Antonio Villas Boas was 23 years old at the time. He lived a rough, simple life on a small farm outside the city of São Francisco do Sul in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais with his parents, brothers and daughters-in-law. The family hired a worker during the day, and Antonio worked at night.

Antonio wasn't particularly surprised when, around 1 a.m., he saw what he later described as a "big scarlet star" landing at the far end of the field.

The previous evening, at about half past nine, Boas was plowing with his brother when they saw a “dimly glowing red ball” hovering about 300 feet (about 100 meters) above the northern edge of the field. When Antonio wanted to come closer, the mysterious object darted to the other end.

However, this time Boas was alone and frozen like a statue, because when the “scarlet star” descended to a height of 150 feet (about 50 meters) above his head, he saw that it was shaped like an egg.

A blindingly bright object landed "on three legs" 50 feet from Antonio. In the front part three processes were visible, also with scarlet lights at the ends. The upper, dome-shaped part of the machine rotated counterclockwise. After landing, the dome turned from red to green.

Antonio wanted to leave on the tractor, but the engine stalled. He jumped to the ground and ran across the freshly plowed field. Someone grabbed him from behind. He pushed the creature away, but immediately three more fell on him. All of them barely reached his shoulder, and he himself was not tall: five feet five inches (165 centimeters).

Desperately resisting, Antonio was dragged up the ladder to the ship. He found himself in a brightly lit small square room with metal walls.

He was surrounded by five short creatures in tight-fitting overalls and massive helmets with tubes extending from them and reaching to the armpits. The thick-soled “boots” seemed to be part of the overalls, as did the large, clumsy gloves. From the appearance of the aliens, Boas was able to discern only small, faded blue eyes.

He was taken to another, also brightly lit, oval-shaped room. There the aliens made their first attempt to start a conversation with the captive. Subsequently, Boas said that the sounds they made were “some kind of shrill, completely different from ours. If they vaguely resembled any earthly sounds, it was perhaps the barking of a dog. I still shudder at the memory of them, and I can’t even reproduce them: my throat is absolutely not designed for this.”

Having failed to communicate verbally, the five aliens stripped the reluctant farmer naked. They wiped him with a damp sponge and took him to the third room. There was an inscription blazing above the door, which Boas managed to remember and subsequently reproduce for researchers (the letters were more reminiscent of Arabic, but even this similarity turned out to be very distant). This room contained several chairs and a couch. Boas's blood was taken for analysis. Then he was left alone. A strange smell filled the room, making him sick. After that, he felt noticeably better, and he began to gradually calm down, but then the most outlandish thing began.

Boas remained naked for about half an hour. Suddenly the door opened and a naked woman “with the most luxurious body I have ever seen” walked in. She also reached Boash’s shoulder; The hair on the neck, combed in a middle parting, curled inward. They were very light, almost white - in contrast to the fiery red under the arms and on the pubic area. The stranger had a sharp chin, a straight nose, prominent cheekbones and large blue eyes. Boas noticed a scattering of freckles on his hands. The woman had a slender figure; breasts stood upright; he also noticed the wide hips. What happened next was perhaps inevitable, and it is best to leave the floor to Antonio Villas Boas himself.

“The woman silently came up and glared at me, as if she needed something. Then she suddenly hugged me and started rubbing her head on my face. The body seemed to be glued to mine and trembled.”

Antonio suspected that the smell that made him nauseous was some kind of stimulant that he did not need at all.

“Contact with the alien ended on the couch. It was a normal sexual act: she reacted exactly like an earthly woman. Then we caressed a little and repeated the act, but she began to resist.”

If so, then Antonio also lost interest - and even became offended. “All they needed was a breeding stallion to improve the breed; but I decided not to attach any importance: after all, she gave me a few pleasant minutes.”

He felt as if he was being coldly and calculatedly used. Moreover, the woman never kissed him - “she just bit him lightly on the chin.”

Immediately after this (it did not occur to Boas that, most likely, his exploits were reproduced on the monitor), the woman was called from the next room. Before leaving, she pointed to her stomach and then to the sky. Boas understood this to mean that sooner or later she and the other aliens would return to take him with them. (However, Brazilian scientists convinced him that most likely she meant her intention to give birth to his child on her planet.) After this, Antonio Villas Boas was returned to his clothes and helped to leave the ship. In parting, he tried to steal some kind of instrument as evidence, but he was prevented. Already on the ground, he saw the ship take off, sway slightly and instantly disappear into the sky. Boas stayed on the alien ship for 4 hours and 15 minutes.

The case of Antonio Villas Boas so stunned UFO researchers that his name only appeared in print 12 years later. But, although this episode became a classic of ufology, nothing was heard about Boas himself.

However, in 1978, his name suddenly appeared on a Brazilian television program, but he was no longer a simple farmer, but Dr. Antonio Villas Boas, a reputable lawyer with a practice in a small town near new capital, Brasilia. He married successfully and had four children. The only thing that changed in his testimony was a mere trifle: during the second intercourse, the alien took his sperm for analysis.

For hardened skeptics, the case of Antonio Boas has always remained a “dark country boy's fantasy.” However, now, 21 years later, a man with an academic degree, who enjoys authority in society, is intelligent, well-versed in speech, was talking about the same thing - in short, not a person who can be easily dismissed.

It should also be noted that, unlike most abductees who testified under hypnosis (often twenty or more years after the event), Antonio Boas first spoke about the incident four months later - and without any hypnosis.

“Cases with AVB” - this is the name it received among ufologists - was long considered the only one of its kind, since it included sexual contact - although in 1977 an even more sensational story was published in Germany by South African Elisabeth Klarer, who claimed that throughout 1954-1963 had numerous contacts with a crew of two who arrived from the planet Meton in the Proxima Centauri star system. One of the enlonauts, astrophysicist Akon, became the father of her child (see more about this below). Few ufologists took Klarer's revelations seriously - as well as the claims of other contactees that they visited other galaxies. Her story does not agree with the laws of celestial mechanics.

Proxima Centauri is one of three stars in the Alpha Centauri system and is a red dwarf star that is too small and unstable to support life in any form.

Until the 1980s, stories about kidnappings were generally not sexual in nature. The classic pattern can be seen in the well-known cases of Betty and Barney Hill (kidnapped in 1961 in New Hampshire), Betty Andresson (Massachusetts, 1967), Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson (Mississippi, 1973), David Stevens (Maine, 1975), Whitley Strieber (New York State, 1985) and others.

The events reported by these eyewitnesses followed the same pattern. First, the appearance of a UFO, sometimes accompanied by electromagnetic or other physical effects on the vehicles of eyewitnesses. The key factor in the vast majority of such cases occurs after the UFO has departed: it suddenly turns out that events that seemed to take a few minutes actually lasted more than an hour. Eyewitnesses conscientiously reported the incident to the police, local ufology society or sheriff. On their own initiative or prompted by relatives or ufologists, they underwent a hypnosis session in order to extract from the subconscious the memory of what happened in the mysterious “missing” time.

At the same time, many of the abducted retain clear memories of this stage of the “visit” and do not need any prompting or psychological drainage. At the same time, the actions of the aliens they described practically coincided with the testimony obtained under hypnosis, which cannot be said about the external appearance of the aliens and their ships.

As for the interior of alien ships, then, according to numerous testimonies of contactors, this is, as a rule, a brightly lit room, “sterilely clean, where everything glitters”; “white or metallic instruments” are conspicuous. The purpose of the instruments soon became clear, since the next stage of the abduction was usually a medical examination of the “guest,” often very painful.

Betty Hill and Betty Andresson independently claimed that they were examined using a “machine with sharp wires sticking out like needles.” Charles Hickson said his body was "scanned" using a floating device resembling a large eye. Betty Hill and Betty Andresson said they had needles inserted into their belly buttons as part of a "pregnancy test." Samples of skin, earwax, hair and nail clippings were taken from Betty Hill.

David Stevens had his blood tested twice; he was stripped naked and thoroughly examined from head to toe using a small “box”. Whitley Strieber claimed that he had a “huge and scary triangular object with wires coming out of it” being inserted into his rectum.

After examination, the abductees were either allowed to get dressed and leave the ship (some were transferred back by teleportation), or in very rare cases, they were given a tour of the ship.

As soon as people found themselves where they were abducted from, the object quickly flew away.

Whether stories of alien abductions are fact or fiction became a major point of debate among ufologists and captured public attention in the 1980s. New York artist Bud Hopkins, after personally witnessing the appearance of a UFO, became fascinated by stories of abductions and himself used hypnosis to extract hidden memories of the experience from the subcortex of numerous eyewitnesses. Writer Whitley Strieber in his bestselling book “Community” (later successfully filmed) used personal experience as a kidnapping victim and other eyewitness accounts obtained under hypnosis.

Undoubtedly, Hopkins' book caused a stir in the media. mass media thanks to a new, sexual component. Many men talked about special devices that were used to extract sperm from them. An even larger number of women (notably Katie Davis) were hypnotized and provided details that led Hopkins to conclude that aliens were carrying out a program of genetic research and perhaps even interfering with the genetic system of unsuspecting humanity.

According to Hopkins, hypnosis revealed that aliens first visited Katie Davis when she was a little girl and implanted a device in her head that allowed her to determine her location at any time. (Katie and other family members will be found with identical scars of unknown origin on their legs. Hopkins explains them as a breakdown of cellular material, emphasizing that other kidnapping victims had similar markings.) At a young age, Katie became pregnant, but the pregnancy was unexpectedly and mysteriously terminated. Under hypnosis, it turned out that before Katie became pregnant, aliens visited her, performed an “unpleasant intimate procedure” and flew away. A few months later they returned and removed the fruit. Many years later, after she had married and given birth to two children, the aliens returned and gave her a little girl - “the spitting image of an elf or an angel.” Apparently it was her daughter from an alien. Katie Davis was not the only woman to become pregnant by an enlonaut.

Many prominent ufologists, from ardent adherents to those teetering on the edge of disbelief, have had serious doubts about the veracity of abduction stories dating back to the days of George Adamski, who, according to him, met a Venusian in the California desert.

However, if the stories of UFO encounters are a bizarre mixture of physical and psychic realities, it can be assumed that there is a rational grain in many reports of abductions - albeit of a strange nature. But there is a big difference between the story of a man like Dr. Antonio Villas Boas and the stories that Bud Hopkins put into circulation, and the key to these differences lies in the use of hypnosis.

The famous psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) believed that in the subconscious of every person a certain number of archetypal figures are stored (archetypes are the original, innate mental structures, images and motifs that make up the content of the so-called collective subconscious and underlie the universal symbolism of dreams, myths , fairy tales and other creations of fantasy, including fiction) - from old wise men to monsters. Jung considered UFOs to be creations of human consciousness, symbols projected onto the environment. Had Jung lived longer, he would have been interested to know that UFO passengers reproduced the archetypes of appearance and behavior that he attributed to the fruits of the collective subconscious.

Despite its many advantages in various situations, hypnosis cannot be considered a reliable tool for exploring the recesses of memory unless the hypnotist is extremely careful in the methods and content of the questions. One problem is that a false memory suggested by the hypnotist can become embedded in the mind and, felt as reality, will be strengthened from session to session.

There is an opinion among ufologists that Hopkins' conclusions, based on the hypnosis of abduction victims, have a significant flaw. Critics say he is too obsessed with his idea to be a conscientious researcher. Hopkins did not specifically train in hypnosis, just as he did not study psychology. Opponents accused him of extensive and shameless use of leading questions: they say, he makes the subject understand what answer would give him the most pleasure, and also violates other rules that professional hypnotists adhere to.

But the worst thing for Hopkins is that over the several decades during which the aliens “carried out genetic experiments on people,” a number of his key witnesses publicly recanted their past testimony. In 1987, Kathy Davis, the central character of Hopkins' book Uninvited guests”, frankly stated at the All-American UFO Symposium in Washington: “I don’t want to live with this anymore, because I don’t believe it. I don't believe it at all. Apparently it was something else."

Whitley Strieber, who received a million-dollar advance in 1987 for his best-selling book Community, admitted in 1991 that his impressions may have had a source other than “alien abductions.”

Attentive readers of the book themselves could guess this, because in it Strieber repeatedly hints that he happened to pass off fictional events as genuine.

Even more serious was the discovery that even those who did not know or were not interested in UFOs, under hypnosis, began to create in their imagination details of the abduction similar to those reported by eyewitnesses.

This amazing experiment was carried out in 1977 by Professor Alvin Lawson, Dr. W. C. McCall and ufologist John De Guerera at the Memory Institute near Los Angeles. The reason for the experiment was the stunning results of a study conducted by De Guerera. In the hope of obtaining even more details, eyewitness Brian Scott agreed to undergo hypnosis and “regression” - that is, to travel back in time to the moment when his contact with the UFO occurred.

In a state of hypnotic trance, Scott described his abduction by aliens. But in his normal state he vehemently denied that such an incident had occurred.

Lawson and his colleagues selected 16 volunteers who, according to the professor, “knew little and were even less interested in UFOs.” They were introduced in general terms to the classic abduction scheme: UFO landing, visit on board, medical examination. At each stage, participants in the experiment were asked what they saw and felt. Detail by detail, the volunteers produced images and impressions that were strikingly similar to those given by “real” kidnapping victims.

Lawson also noted that the descriptions of both the "real" eyewitnesses and the perpetrators of the imaginary abductions coincided with the basic archetypes that psychologist Carl Gustav Jung considered part of every person's subconscious fantasies. From this it was not difficult to conclude that people who imagined themselves as victims of abductions were simply succumbing to unconscious fantasies sleeping in the recesses of the human brain.

This text is an introductory fragment.

One of our most common misconceptions about Time is: Time is constant everywhere. But this is not true at all. There is a relationship between changes in the normal course of Time and “perishable, enchanted” places.

The most accurate watches “lie” in the area of ​​the fall of the Tunguska “meteorite”, at UFO landing sites, in various “triangles”, at test sites nuclear weapons, near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Most often, clocks are late in these places by a fraction of a second per hour, but according to a pattern that is not fully understood, at certain moments the phenomenon of “time disruption” can occur (similar to the release of accumulated energy). And then...

For many years now, this either a story or a truth has been circulating: An airliner landing at Miami airport with 127 passengers on board disappeared for 10 minutes from locator screens and from the radio airwaves. Then, appearing “out of nowhere,” the plane returned the crew and passengers from oblivion with the clock 10 minutes late.

Also suddenly in 1982, all the clocks on board one of the Black Sea ships stopped. In the same area of ​​Tsemes Bay, later, so unexpectedly for everyone, there weren’t enough seconds for the motor ship “Nakhimov” (not the only ship that sank in this area) to make a life-saving maneuver.

The phenomenon of disruption of Time can also be caused artificially, for example, with the help of a nuclear explosion. In Semipalatinsk, S. A. Alekseenko and two other military specialists were at the head of the well when an explosion occurred right below them at a depth of 3 km:

“Something lifted me up, the people in front of me suddenly appeared below and somehow shrunk. I stopped feeling the ground beneath me, it seemed all Earth disappeared... Then a heavy, heavy sigh was heard from somewhere below, after which I found myself at the bottom of a deep ravine - Ivanov disappeared from view, and Konstantin Mikhailovich found himself on the edge of a cliff - I saw him, as if through a huge lens, magnified several times once!

Then the wave subsided, we were all again standing on a flat surface, which was shaking like jelly... Then, as if a door to another world had been sharply slammed, the shaking stopped, and the earth’s firmament froze again, returning to me the feeling of real gravity...”

In the 18th century in Sicily, in the town of Tacone, lived a respected artisan Alberto Gordoni. On May 3, 1753, the artisan was walking through the castle courtyard and suddenly suddenly disappeared out of the blue, “evaporated” in front of his wife, Count Zanetti and many other fellow tribesmen. Amazed people dug everything around, but did not find any depression into which they could fall.

Exactly 22 years later, Gordoni appeared again, appearing in the same place from which he disappeared - in the courtyard of the estate. Alberto himself claimed that he did not disappear anywhere, so he was placed in a mental home, where only seven years later a certain doctor, Father Mario, spoke to him for the first time. The artisan still had the feeling that very little time had passed between his “disappearance” and his “return.”

Then, 29 years ago, Alberto suddenly fell into a tunnel and came out through it to a “white and unclear” light. There were no objects there, only bizarre devices. Alberto saw something that looked like a small canvas, covered in stars and dots, each pulsating in its own way.

There was one oblong creature with long hair, who said that he had fallen into a “crack” of Time and Space and it would be very difficult to bring him back. While Alberto was waiting for his return - and he fervently asked to be taken back - the “woman” told him about “holes that open in the dark, about certain white drops and thoughts that move at the speed of light (!), about souls without flesh and bodies without souls, about flying cities in which the inhabitants are forever young.”

The doctor was sure that the artisan was not lying, and therefore went with him to Tacona. Alberto took a step and... disappeared again, now forever! Holy Father Mario, making the sign of the cross, ordered to fence off this place with a wall, calling it the Devil’s trap.

Where did such “enchanted places” come from on our planet? After all, this is contradicted by another myth, invented by us ourselves - Time is not affected by any natural phenomena. It turned out that Time slows down not only near massive cosmic bodies and when moving at near-light speed; numerous experiments have also confirmed the relationship between the speed of rotation of bodies and the change in Time near them (clocks lag behind near the center of rotation, while at the periphery they hurry).

Almost all places with an anomalous flow of Time on our planet are located precisely where there are flows of large masses of water around the circumference. These include giant (up to hundreds of kilometers) whirlpools in Bermuda, turns of sea and treacherous underground currents, and bends of rivers. For example, the high-energy fields that exist on the Zhiguli bend of the Volga have long become famous for their strange mirages and the flights of a large number of UFOs in this area.

Air vortices (tornadoes, tornadoes) produce a somewhat lesser effect, however, they also carry the whole “bouquet” of phenomena associated with changes in Time: the delay of clocks, changes in the weight of objects, the appearance of unusual extrasensory abilities in people after exposure to a vortex. A typical example is the famous Bulgarian woman Vanga, who after flying inside a tornado became blind, but in return received the gift of foresight and the ability to talk with the souls of the dead.

Once in Georgia (1984) they checked the correct operation of all undamaged clocks located in houses destroyed by a recent tornado. They didn’t find a single intact alarm clock or one that was working correctly, and in one yard an electronic alarm clock with an 8-minute advance time was pulled out from under the rubble. It is a pity that the tornadoes “do not agree” to conduct a better experiment.

A well-known incident occurred during the war with the crew of a bomber returning to its front-line airfield in very heavy cloud conditions. In the half hour that has passed since the last location check, this plane somehow covered the “extra” one and a half thousand kilometers and emerged from the “strange cloud” all the way beyond the Urals!

Sir Victor Gooddard's plane was also caught in a severe storm in 1934, and what happened to it can only be called a "miracle." There were dense dark clouds all around, and suddenly ahead the pilot noticed a piece of land illuminated by the sun. Sir Goodzard looked at the airfield, filled with a very bright, blinding light, the strange-looking hangars and the yellow planes next to them. There was nothing like this in Scotland, Guddard knew that for sure! It was not possible to land; the plane again fell into some strange cloud.

Four years later, he finally ended up at this airfield, where they had just started painting planes yellow. According to Guddard, who later became an air marshal, he actually somehow saw the future of this airfield, as if illuminated by powerful lamps.

Incredible effects occur in a rotating charged plasma, a miracle known as ball lightning. The Artemov couple from Vladivostok described their meeting with this “guest from another Time” in a letter addressed to the “Phenomenon” commission:

“In 1990, ball lightning flew into our window. It did no harm, bursting somehow silently. We experienced a shock a little later, when the “Time” program began to be broadcast on TV, although all the clocks in the apartment still showed “fifteen to nine.” It’s probably still possible to explain why the electronic alarm clock malfunctioned. But mechanical wristwatches, and even cuckoo clocks, strangely fell behind at the same time...”

What else do we know about Time? That it is constant and continuous? But a striking example of the discreteness (i.e., intermittency) of Time is shown to us by many cosmic objects, including the strangest of them - pulsars.

By the way, these cosmic bodies meet many signs of artificiality: small sizes (about a kilometer), high speeds (up to 500 km/s), high stability, in addition, pulsars are often “lined up” in space in clear lines in the form of geometric figures (and according to According to the calculations of the candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences V.B. Neumann, pulsars are not spheres, they have the shape of disks or cylinders).

The archives of ufology have recorded many cases of mysterious phenomena occurring with incomprehensible frequency. More than once, in a variety of places, a strange pattern was noticed - the appearance of a UFO in the sky exactly one day, a week or a year after its previous visit: in February 1913 over Toronto (Canada); in 1950 over Farmington (New Mexico); in 1950 in Kolyma; in September 1972 in the city of Taree (Australia); in 1977 in New Guinea; in 1977 in the province of Huesca (Spain); in December 1978 in Olonets (Karelia); in 1982-1983 over Zhirnovsk (Volgograd region); in 1985 over Batumi; in 1987 near Staraya Poltavka (Volgograd region).

Cases of people moving through Time (including a whole number of days into the future or past) can rightfully be called no less amazing events.

In one of the regimental archives of the old Russian army, an investigative document was kept, signed by all the officers of the regiment and members of the emergency commission:

“The regiment was awaiting the arrival of the appointed regimental commander. One evening they saw that the apartment prepared for him was illuminated. When everyone had gathered in the hall, the commander left the office, talked with the officers and made some orders. The next day in the morning they again informed about the arrival of the commander. The surprised officers gathered in the hall again.

The commander came out of the door again, said the same thing as the day before, gave the same orders and, continuing the conversation, headed into the office. Approaching the doors, he shuddered and asked: “Do you see?” When everyone approached, they saw: another regiment commander was sitting at the desk - his double. The actual commander approached his double, and when the latter instantly disappeared, he fell dead to the floor.”

Vyazemsky had similar meetings “with himself” in St. Petersburg (he found himself sitting writing a letter) and with Empress Anna Ioannovna in 1740, 3 days before her death (the guard, on orders, almost opened fire on the false autocrat).

The transfer of people (or their souls, phantoms) in Time, in which the traveler does not meet with his double in the past and future, ends, fortunately, without tragic consequences. During Mark Twain's trip to Canada, a dinner was given in his honor in Montreal, where among those present he noticed Mrs. R. next to him. In the evening he was told that some lady wanted to see him. He recognized the visitor as Mrs. R., who looked and was dressed exactly the same as the day before. But R. was extremely surprised by Twain’s story - she had just arrived in Montreal from Quebec!

Similar stories happened with the Irish poet Eats; abbot of the monastery of Alfonso de Ligoro in 1744; by the English poet Byron in Greece in 1810.

Would you object to the following “law”: Time flows in only one direction (the “arrow of time” principle)! There is not a single law prohibiting Time from going “backward”; all physical formulas are valid for Time flowing in any direction!

But how can such “abnormal” phenomena be detected, since distinguishing them from “normal” ones is sometimes very difficult? It is possible that you won’t have to search specifically, it will be enough to conduct a thought experiment: expand Time in the descriptions of already known mysterious and unsolved events and see if they become more understandable.

The experiments of Professor N. Kozyrev, in which he measured the speed of radiation coming from bright stars, simply baffled many. The results of the experiment were unexpected even for the Pulkovo astronomy professor himself; needless to say, he was soon simply accused of uncleanliness of the experiment.

Let me briefly remind you of the essence of the experiment: a telescope was pointed at a star (Sirius), at the focus of which there was a radiation recorder (for example, a quartz oscillator). Result: the sensor recorded radiation coming from the points: where we see the star now and where it was 8 years ago (the speed of this radiation is equal to the speed of light); where it actually is now (the speed of radiation is extremely high or instantaneous); and from the point where she will be in 8 years!

The paradoxical result can only be explained if we assume that the last radiation came from a star system located in the Future! Consequently, the movement of the signal occurred... against the normal course of Time!

The archives of ufology have recorded many cases of sightings of UFO connections. What it is? Imagine - two “saucers” are flying across the sky, approaching each other and... disappearing. Unclear! Very often both objects are completely or almost completely similar. As in the case of the connection of two “plates” in the Alps in 1968, where both objects with cylinders at the bottom and rods at the top were mirror-like.

How did two devices become one? Did one enter the other? The paradox can be resolved if we assume that there was originally only one UFO. But we saw him twice: when he moved towards the Future, like us, and when he flew against the course of our Time. What we saw as the moment of connection of two objects is actually the moment of “turning the direction” of the UFO’s flight in Time.

Observatory on the island of Khortitsa - an ancient time machine?

Recently, people have been paying close attention to religious buildings made of stone, built at the turn of the Stone and Bronze Ages. Some of these structures quite accurately indicate known directions on the horizon and celestial sphere and are astronomical observatories. Incredibly, it is on their territory that all sorts of temporary anomalies and ghosts are observed.

Space-time anomalies - what are they?

Anomalous zones are characterized by so-called space-time anomalies. Their nature is still little studied. A person who finds himself inside such an anomaly sometimes falls out of the usual course of time. His “personal” time may slow down - in such cases, for example, several minutes pass on a person’s watch, while they may be searching for him for several hours. There are cases when people, while in an anomaly, saw scenes from other eras and even participated in them.

Spatiotemporal anomalies on the island of Khortytsya

Zaporozhye ufologists have been talking about the fact that Khortytsia Island is an anomalous zone for a long time. It may seem incredible, but the island of Khortitsa itself is a giant time machine. As parapsychologist Igor Kolomoets reports from his diaries: “I had to go to Zaporozhye and conduct biocorrection sessions. Every second person told how he observed strange lights over the Dnieper and how strange things were happening on the island of Khortytsia. People sometimes see ghostly silhouettes from the past of the Zaporozhye Sich.”

Eyewitnesses see mysterious ghosts on Khortitsa; for example, the image of an old German Mennonite was seen on the island. Also, a 20th century traveler who fell asleep on Khortitsa became an eyewitness to the battle between Svyatoslav and the Polovtsians. In this incredible dream or temporary anomaly, he and his defenders fought with all their strength, but were killed and thrown from the cliffs into the Dnieper. Later, when the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station was being built at the beginning of the 20th century, five finished swords from the 12th century were found at the bottom of the river in the same place. It can be assumed that there is some kind of space-time anomaly on Khortitsa, and those who fall into it can see the past.

The time machine exists!

In the southeastern part of the island of Khortitsa there are ancient sanctuaries. The largest of them is the sanctuary-observatory complex, located on the Bragarnya hill, which is located on a hill above the Dnieper at a level of 31 m and is limited by the Sovutina and Velikaya Molodnyaga ravines. Before its discovery, the sanctuary was hidden under a large layer of sand, made of granite stones in the form of a complex of several ring-shaped masonry and platforms.

Using the methods of archaeological research, directions can be identified within the observatory: landmarks to the points of sunrise and sunset on the days of the solstice, etc. And also, a pot with a calendar pattern was found in the sanctuary. The entrance to the building is directed towards the summer solstice.

Some researchers believe that this observatory on Khortitsa, with its still little studied purpose, is a real time machine! Around the hill with the observatory, the Molodnyaga beam is “twisted” in a spiral - part of an ancient mechanism. The entrance to other times is on the line connecting the observatory to the source of the beam. Crossing the line from northeast to southwest on the night of the new moon, you can find yourself in another time dimension. In addition, at the top of the hill you can feel a soft flow of beneficial cosmic energy (for a better effect, ancient people raised their palms and face to the sun).

Where do these “air killers” come from and why do they have such monstrous power? To this day, a variety of phenomena accompanying tornadoes remain unexplained. Consider, for example, glass without the slightest crack, pierced by pebbles, or wooden houses, pierced right through by boards.

If the cases are somehow explained by the enormous speeds along the edges of the vortex, then how can we explain the wooden chips stuck in the rails they pierced through, or the straws stuck into a concrete wall, like needles in a pillow. Alone hypersonic speeds it is difficult to explain this, and therefore some researchers are talking about possible spatio-temporal anomalies inside the tornado.

Giant vacuum cleaner

IN North America it is called simply and matter-of-factly - tornado (from the Spanish tornado - rotating). In Rus', this phenomenon has a more emotional name - tornado, which absorbs a wide variety of similar meanings. It comes from the Old Russian word “smarch” (cloud) and is akin to such cognate words as “twilight”, “gloom”, “morok” (something stupefying, clouding the mind), “measurement” (a state of altered consciousness, mass psychosis).. All these words fit the formidable one perfectly. natural phenomenon. Here are the chilling memories of one of the sailors who survived the meeting with him:
“The Diamond steamer was finishing loading when someone’s frightened cry was heard:
- Tornado! Look, a tornado!
The tornado was already no more than half a kilometer away from us. Its shape was similar to an inverted funnel, the throat of which was connected to the same funnel descending from heavy clouds. It continuously changed its shape, now swelling, now contracting, and rushed straight towards us. The sea bubbled and foamed at its base like a giant bowl of boiling water. We rushed to the stern to get into the boats, but the whirlwind, changing direction, rushed along the side of the steamer, captured a boat loaded with people in its whirlpool, retreated for a moment and moved towards us again.

He sank the second boat, and played with the third like a cat with a mouse, filled it with water and sent it to the bottom. Then something strange happened. The tornado rushed upward. Instead of the deafening roar of bubbling water, an ear-splitting hiss was heard. A mountain of water began to rise under the spinning pillar, and the Diamond tilted to the left side, scooping up water on its side. Suddenly the terrible column broke, the sea leveled out, and the tornado disappeared, as if we had seen it in a dream..."

In Russia, tornadoes are not as frequent as in America, but their consequences are also impressive.

Thus, the legendary Moscow tornado of 1904 has been remembered for more than a hundred years. On a hot summer day, June 29, at 5 p.m., a gray pointed funnel hung from a dark thundercloud about 11 kilometers high, accompanied by flashes of lightning and the roar of thunder, into the southern Moscow region. A column of dust rose towards her, and soon the ends of both funnels connected. The tornado column grew to half a kilometer wide and moved towards Moscow. Along the way, she caught the village of Shashino: huts flew into the sky, debris from buildings and pieces of trees flew around the air column at breakneck speed.

And a few kilometers west of this whirlwind, along the railway through Klimovsk and Podolsk, the second, the so-called “brotherly” tornado, was moving north. Soon both crashed into Moscow districts, passing in a wide strip through Lefortovo, Sokolniki, Basmannaya Street, Mytishchi... Pitch darkness was accompanied by terrible noise, roar, whistle, lightning and unprecedentedly large hail - up to 600 grams in weight. A direct hit from such hailstones killed people and animals, broke thick tree branches...

One of the fire brigades mistook the tornado for a column of smoke and hurried to put out the fire. But the tornado scattered people and horses in seconds, smashed fire barrels into splinters and headed towards the Yauza and the Moscow River. The water first boiled and began to bubble, like in a cauldron. And then the eyewitnesses observed truly biblical picture: the tornado sucked water from the rivers to the very bottom, it did not have time to close, and for some time a trench was visible. A grove of hundred-year-old trees in Lefortovo Park was destroyed, and an ancient palace and hospital were damaged. Hundreds of houses along the path of the tornado turned into ruins.

More than a hundred people died, hundreds were wounded and maimed. At the German market (the Baumanskaya metro area), a tornado lifted a policeman into the air, who “ascended into the sky, and then, stripped and beaten by hail, fell to the ground” two hundred fathoms from the market. And the railway box with the lineman, having flown 40 meters, collapsed onto the railway track. Miraculously, the lineman remained alive... It is curious that the rampant nature of the elements lasted in Lefortovo for only two minutes.

This is not surprising: such mad whirlwinds do not live long, sometimes up to half an hour, but occasionally long-lived ones appear. The Mattoon tornado of 1917 is considered such a record killer. He lived for 7 hours and 20 minutes, covering 500 kilometers during this time and killing 110 people. Alas, such victims are no exception. Between two and six hundred people are killed by tornadoes every year. Material damage from tornadoes amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars.

The birth of “air killers”

Where do these “air killers” come from and why do they have such monstrous power? Scientists have a good idea of ​​the causes of tornadoes. But science is not yet able to accurately predict their characteristics. The difficulty lies in the lack of real measurements inside the tornado. Now American scientists (and in the USA, tornadoes occur about 50 times more often than in Europe) are racking their brains on how to create an armored mobile laboratory that is maneuverable enough to catch a tornado, and at the same time so heavy that a tornado cannot carry it away.

So far science has only general information about the tornado. For example, it is known that a typical tornado most often originates in a thundercloud, and then descends down in the form of a long, several hundred meters, “trunk”, inside of which the air quickly rotates. The visible part of a tornado sometimes reaches one and a half kilometers in height. In fact, the tornado can be twice as high, it’s just that its upper part is hidden by the lower layer of clouds.

But often a tornado is born in absolutely cloudless, hot weather. The air heated from the ground rushes upward in an ascending flow, creating a zone of low pressure below, near the ground. Over some more heated places of the earth such updraft, which means the air rarefaction is stronger. Warm air rushes from all sides into this zone of low pressure, into the “eye” of the future tornado. As it rises, it twists (in the Northern Hemisphere, usually counterclockwise), creating an air funnel. We observe something similar, only directed downward, when we open a plug in a bathtub or sink filled with water. At first the water simply rushes down, but soon a funnel of rotating water appears around the hole.

The rotating funnel acts as a separator: centrifugal forces push heavier moist air from the center to the periphery, which creates dense walls of the funnel. Their density is 5-6 times greater than that of ordinary air, and the mass of water in them is many times greater than the mass of air. A tornado of medium strength - with a funnel diameter of 200 meters - has a wall thickness of about 20 meters and a mass of water in them of up to 300 thousand tons.
Here are the impressions of the miraculously saved army captain Roy S. Hall from Texas, who on May 3, 1943, with his family, visited the center of such a crater.

“From the inside,” Hall recalled, “it looked like an opaque wall with a smooth surface, about four meters thick, surrounding a columnar cavity. It resembled the inside of an enamel riser and extended upward for more than three hundred meters, swaying slightly and slowly arching to the southeast. Below, at the bottom, judging by the circle in front of me, the funnel was about

50 meters across. Higher up it expanded and was partially filled with a bright cloud that flickered like a fluorescent lamp.” As the rotating funnel swung, Hall saw that the entire column seemed to be composed of many huge rings, each of which moved independently of the others and caused a wave that ran from top to bottom. When the crest of each wave reached the bottom, the top of the funnel made a sound reminiscent of the cracking of a whip. Hall watched in horror as a tornado literally tore a neighbor's house to shreds. According to Hall, “the house seemed to dissolve, different parts of it were carried away to the left, like sparks from an emery wheel.”

Another interesting fact recently emerged: it turns out that tornadoes and tornadoes are not just air funnels, they consist of huge amount smaller tornadoes. This is somewhat reminiscent of a thick twisted ship's cable, woven from several smaller cables, which, in turn, consist of even smaller ones - down to the elementary threads.

Dangerous tricks

Tornadoes usually move downwind at car speeds - from 20 to 100 kilometers per hour. The boundary of the devastation zone can be very sharp: sometimes there is almost complete calm at a distance of just a few tens of meters from it.

In some cases, the speed of the vortex at the periphery of the funnel reaches 300-500 kilometers per hour, and sometimes, according to indirect estimates, it can even exceed the speed of sound - more than 1300 km/h. At such colossal rotation speeds, centrifugal forces create a strong vacuum inside the vortex, sometimes several times less than atmospheric pressure. Often the pressure difference inside and outside the tornado is so great that sealed containers covered with the center (“eye”) of the tornado simply explode from the inside. This is how gas cylinders, tanks, tanks, river buoys fly to pieces...

Often, when a tornado completely covers a house with locked doors and closed windows, due to the huge difference in internal (ordinary atmospheric) pressure and low external pressure, the structure literally bursts. In the same way, a tornado sometimes blows up the captain's cabins on ships.

Let's add to this picture a hissing, a piercing whistle or a terrifying roar - as if dozens of jet engines are working simultaneously... It happens that near a tornado, people not only panic, but also have strange physiological sensations. They are believed to be caused by strong ultra and infra sound waves that are beyond the audible range.

However, there are many funny cases associated with tornadoes. So, on May 30, 1879, the so-called “Irving tornado” lifted a wooden church and its parishioners into the air during a church service. Having carried it four meters to the side, the tornado moved away. The parishioners escaped with a slight fright. In Kansas, on October 9, 1913, a tornado passing through a small garden uprooted a large apple tree and tore it into pieces. And the hive with bees a meter from the apple tree remained unharmed.

In Oklahoma, a tornado carried away a two-story wooden house along with a farmer's family, leaving the stairs that once led to the porch of the house undamaged as a joke. The tornado tore out two rear wheels of an old Ford standing next to the house, but left the body intact, and the kerosene lamp standing under the tree on the table continued to burn as if nothing had happened. It happened that chickens and geese caught in the tornado zone flew high into the air and returned to the ground already plucked.

Having exhausted its energy, the tornado parts with what it managed to draw into itself along the way. He himself will disappear, and a thunderstorm with rain will greatly surprise you. Reddish-colored water from a pond or swamp river sucked out by a whirlwind can return to the earth in the form of colored rain. It often rains from fish, jellyfish, frogs, turtles... And on July 17, 1940, in the village of Meshchery, Gorky Region, during a thunderstorm, it rained from ancient silver coins from the times of Ivan the Terrible. Obviously, they were recovered from a shallow treasure that was opened and “stolen” by a tornado.

Harness the tornado!

Why do scientists spend so much effort studying tornadoes and tornadoes? Well, of course, to learn how to prevent or at least weaken their rage. And besides, I would like to understand how and where tornadoes receive colossal energy, and, perhaps, create the appropriate technologies.

And the energy is truly gigantic. The most common tornado with a radius of a kilometer and a speed of 70 meters per second is comparable in energy release to an atomic bomb. The power of the flow in a tornado sometimes reaches 30 gigawatts, which is twice the total power of the twelve largest hydroelectric power stations of the Volga-Kama cascade. Of course, it is tempting to embrace vortex technology for clean power generation.

But harnessing a tornado is attractive for another reason. The tornado theory can help in creating fundamentally new types of devices and instruments: from anti-gravity platforms and levitating devices (so-called elevators) to vacuum cleaners, from loading and unloading devices to cotton pickers and similar equipment.

The enormous lifting force inside the tornado suggests that there are interesting solutions for aviation and astronautics here. Such work was carried out back in the Third Reich. Their main ideologist was the Austrian inventor Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958), who made perhaps the most fundamental discoveries of the 20th century and, with his vortex theory, opened completely new sources of energy to humanity. He discovered that the vortex flow under certain conditions becomes self-sustaining, that is, external energy is no longer needed for its formation. The energy of the vortex can be used both to generate electricity and to create lift in aircraft.

The scientist was imprisoned by the Nazis in a concentration camp, where he was forced to work on a flying disk project that used his vortex engine - the so-called Repulsine levitator. Small, not much larger than today's household vacuum cleaner, the device, according to experts, created vertical thrust of at least a ton. A prototype of the “flying saucer” was manufactured and even passed flight tests. But the Nazis did not have time to put it into mass production, and the disc-shaped aircraft was destroyed at the end of the war.

Transported to the USA after the war, Schauberger flatly refused to restore his engine for American soldiers. He believed that his discoveries would serve peaceful and noble purposes. In 1958, an American concern fraudulently obtained from Schauberger, who did not own English language, signature under the document in which he bequeathed all his records, devices and rights to them to this concern. According to the agreement, Schauberger was prohibited from conducting further research. Having learned about the monstrous deception, the great inventor returned to Austria, where five days later he died in complete despair. There is still no information about the use of his inventions by the concern that took possession of them.

Despite some progress in the study of tornadoes, the little that scientists know about this phenomenon sometimes does not agree with any logic.

Why, for example, does part of the enormous energy of a multi-kilometer thundercloud suddenly concentrate on small area air vortex? What forces support the counter flow of air inside the “trunk” - up along its axis, and down at the periphery? Why does the pillar have such a sharp outer boundary? What gives a tornado funnel its rapid rotation and monstrous destructive power? Where does a tornado get the energy that allows it to exist without weakening for several hours?

Once upon a time, ship captains tried to avoid a dangerous meeting with a sea tornado by shooting at the approaching column of water from cannons. Sometimes this helped, and from the impact of the cannonball the vortex would disintegrate without causing harm to the ship. Today they are shooting from an airplane at the junction of the already appeared “trunk” with the cloud. Sometimes this helps: a dangerous vortex breaks away from the cloud and disintegrates. They are also treated with special ones. reagents are potential sources of tornadoes - mother clouds, causing moisture condensation and rainfall.

And yet, scientists do not know any guaranteed ways to prevent a tornado. Therefore, for a long time, the formidable “waltzing devils” will perform their destructive dance, instilling fear and bringing with them death and destruction.

There are places on Earth where so-called chronal phenomena are observed. People there sometimes lose track of time, and the clocks malfunction...

For example, in the Montenegrin city of Kotor, all the clocks show the wrong time - some are in a hurry, others are behind. In the Middle Ages, in order to correctly calculate time, city authorities were forced to introduce the position of a state pedometer. This person was instructed to leave the house every day at sunrise and walk at the same speed, first towards the city gates, and then back. At the same time, he had to look at his watch. If the duration of the one-way journey differed in time from the duration of the return journey, this indicated an anomaly.

Interestingly, city residents associated the hourly interruptions with changes in the force of gravity. The clock is wrong - that means you're expecting an earthquake! The townspeople packed up their things and hastily left their homes. Whether their expectations were justified or not - the chronicles are silent about this. However, the last earthquake in these places happened in 1979, and time continues to be strange.

To the east of Tver (Russia), between the villages of Tukhani, Soboliny and Sosnovets, there is the so-called Sandov triangle. People here walk in circles for days, compasses and other instruments stop working. Tver surveyor Valentina Zemlyanoy had to verify the presence of this anomaly from her own experience.

In the course of our work, we had to examine this area too,” says Valentina. - So what: when we entered the zone, one of our comrades discovered that his watch had stopped. They began to check, and it turned out that the watches of all members of the expedition had risen at the same time.

When we got out in Tukhani, we asked the time local residents, and looking at their wristwatch, they were surprised to find that it was moving smoothly, and without any lag. They again had the same time as in Tukhani, Sandov, Moscow...

Later we told the geophysicists who came to Tukhani about the extraordinary phenomenon. Having become interested, they entered the area with their Sosna radiometric device, which measures the level of radiation and determines the presence of magnetic fields. But the device turned off and they couldn't do anything with it.

V. Zemlyanaya sees the reason for the phenomenon in the occurrence of sand and gravel mixtures underground. This creates a magnetic anomaly that affects devices and people. As for the clock, which is sometimes behind, sometimes going correctly, then at the exit from anomalous zone The chronometers apparently speed up and after a while return to normal rhythm, so that people do not notice anything.

Something similar is observed in the Verkhovazhsky district of the Arkhangelsk region, in archival records for June 30, 1912. It is said that the members of a scientific expedition that visited there and investigated the magnetic field, led by the scientist of the Imperial Academy of Sciences Alexander Loidi, all their watches simultaneously malfunctioned.

In the village of Morozov, which is 28 km from Verkhovazhye, in 1944 they committed forced landing five military aircraft: the pilots’ instruments all went off scale at the same time and they lost orientation. However, this happens not only in Morozov.

Back in the 90s of the last century, St. Petersburg geophysicists recorded a local geomagnetic anomaly in the vicinity of Verkhovazhye. According to one version, the cause of its occurrence could be iron ore deposits. Not long ago, an expedition of three people arrived in these places under the leadership of Candidate of Geographical Sciences Anatoly Ekhalov. Researchers calculated that the center of the anomalous zone is located in a small forest on the river bank one and a half kilometers from Chushevice.

Before entering the zone, they deliberately checked their wristwatches, but after five hours all the chronometers already showed different time; The quartz watch ran two minutes ahead, the mechanical one was five minutes behind, and the electronic one actually stopped and showed the same time - 11.65!

By the way, even replacing the battery the next day could not bring them back to life.

 

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