Where can you see in. Where and when to see the northern lights

As often happens, we judge a particular city only by its main attractions. However, any city, like any person - the more you get to know it, the more it opens up with new, unexpected facets. Below are 10 must-see places in Moscow. They are very interesting for understanding the multifaceted image of the capital.

Planetarium

The restored planetarium is of great interest to both adults and children. Anyone will find something to do here. There is a stereo cinema, as well as a small star hall with dynamic seating. The Planetarium boasts the largest dome-screen in Europe, which displays pictures of the starry sky. There are 2 halls

Lunarium, where you can playfully learn about the refraction of light, gravity, the creation of black holes, craters, etc. Everything can be turned, twisted, rocked, touched. At the Astro Site you will be told a lot of interesting things about the moon, the starry sky, and time zones.

The planetarium is located on the street. Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya at 5, building 1. Walking distance from metro Krasnopresnenskaya or Barrikadnaya. Opening hours - 9–21 (on weekends until 22).

The ticket costs from 80 to 600 rubles.

Ostankino Tower

It has long been a real symbol of the capital. Now there is a great opportunity to visit not only its open (at an altitude of 340 m) and closed (at an altitude of 337 m) observation platforms, but also to be in a museum, and then dine in a restaurant right under the clouds.

Sightseeing tours are held daily from 10 am to 10 pm.

The viewing radius in good clear weather is 60 km. The TV tower itself is 540 m high and weighs 55 thousand tons. Did you know that the Ostankino TV tower is an image of a ten-petalled inverted lily?

The tower is allowed only with an identity document. The ticket can be bought before the start of the session after registration.

Address: st. Academician Koroleva, 15, building 2. From metro VDNKh or Alekseevskaya by any trolleybus.

Observation deck Moscow City

Now you don't have to go abroad to see the skyscrapers. Moscow has its own. They have become her integral attraction.

The Moscow City project can be confidently called the most ambitious and expensive long-term construction project in Russia. Many are still debating about its expediency and its form, which distorts the historical image of the capital. However, Moscow is so diverse that a high-tech architectural cacophony has become its modern feature.

Moscow can now be seen in all its glory from a bird's eye view. One of the observation decks is located on the 58th floor of the Empire Tower. From here, the Moscow State University is clearly visible. M.V. Lomonosov, Ostankino TV tower, White House, Cathedral of Christ the Savior, etc.

From metro Delovoy Tsentr or Vystavochnaya you need to go to the Afimall City shopping and entertainment center, go up to the 2nd floor and walk to the southern entrance of the Empire tower. Tickets are sold at the Reception counter.

Pharmaceutical garden

It is located on Prospekt Mira, building 26, building 1 and is the oldest botanical garden in Russia. It is safe to say about him: he is the most informative, well-groomed, conveniently located, photogenic and cozy.

It was laid down by Peter I for the cultivation of medicinal plants in 1706, and in 1805 it was bought by Moscow State University. Of course, he experienced different times with the country, but he always fulfilled a noble mission: he talked about the world of plants on Earth.

Summer always reigns in his greenhouses. It is especially pleasant to visit them on frosty winter days. In the Palm Greenhouse, you can see a large collection of orchids from around the world. They grow among huge bananas, age-old palms and tropical vines. 1,500 species of succulents will not leave anyone indifferent. Moreover, now some plants can even be touched.

Museum "House on the Embankment"

This is the only museum of its kind in the country and one of the few of its kind in the world. The atmosphere of the 30s is recreated here. XX century based on materials from the history of the house and its inhabitants - photographs, interior items, books, personal belongings and documents.

The decision to build a house was made in 1927 due to the fact that Moscow did not have enough housing for responsible party workers. In 1931, the first tenants were party leaders, scientists, old Bolsheviks, Heroes

Soviet Union and Socialist Labor, famous writers, heroes of the war in Spain, etc. Among the inhabitants of the house in different years were Alliluyeva, Aroseva, Demyan Bedny, Zhukov, Kosygin, Lepeshinskaya, Rykov, Tukhachevsky, Khrushchev, etc.

The house was built in the style of late constructivism according to the project of B. Iofan, who intended it to be red, like the Kremlin. But due to lack of funds, the house was built in gray. In total, it has 24 entrances, 12 floors and 505 apartments.

The museum is small in size and occupies one apartment. Open Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 am to 6.30 pm, Thursday from 11 am to 9 pm, on weekends from 11 am to 6 pm.

Get to the stop. "Cinema Udarnik" from metro Polyanka, Library named after Lenin or Oktyabrskaya on any trolleybus. Address: st. Serafimovich, house 2, entrance 1.

Museum "Moscow Lights"

There is another interesting place in the Armenian lane, 3-5, bldg. 1, which is worth visiting - the Museum "Lights of Moscow". It is hidden in a cozy park. Call the intercom and go down to the basement. You will be given a remote control and an interesting program about the museum. The remote control is needed in order to turn on and off fancy lanterns-exhibits, thereby creating an atmosphere of bygone times.

Once on the second floor, you will see the recreated life of apartments from different times and lighting devices. The museum is small but educational. The inspection fee is a symbolic 30-130 rubles. Works from 11 to 18.

You can get there on foot from metro Lubyanka, Kuznetsky Most or Kitay-gorod.

Museum of Musical Culture named after M.I. Glinka

This museum has no analogues in the world and is a true treasury of monuments of musical culture. Here you can find music publications, literary manuscripts, studies on the history of culture, and rare books. The museum keeps letters, autographs, documents related to the work of Russian and foreign musical figures.

The subject of special pride of the museum is a unique collection of musical instruments of the peoples of the world, including string instruments-masterpieces of Stradivari, the Amati and Guarneri families.

Located on the street. Fadeeva, 4. From metro Mayakovskaya and Novoslobodskaya - by troll. 3, 47 to the stop. "Museum of Musical Culture", troll. "B" or 10 to the stop. Vorotnikovsky Lane.

Peredelkino

Peredelkino is such a unique place that you can enjoy nature and landscapes, admire the beauty of Orthodox churches in the Patriarch's residence and plunge into the literary world. You need to get out here for the whole day.

The village is located 5 km from the Moscow Ring Road in the south-west of Moscow. You can get there by train.

The Writers' Town with its museums of Pasternak, Chukovsky, Okudzhava is the materialized history of Soviet literature.

Restaurant "In the Dark ?!"

This restaurant is for those who like to visit original places. Dinner will be held in pitch darkness, and will be served by blind waiters. The restaurant was founded by an ophthalmologist to help blind people find their place in life.

The sighted and the blind change places here. The restaurant has 4 rooms, but the main one is dark. You must first choose one of 5 sets for dinner worth 2 thousand rubles: blue (fish), red (meat), yellow (Japanese), green (vegetarian) or white (assorted).

Then you leave your things in the safe. A dinner in complete darkness will take you 2 hours. They say that people behave the same in the dark - they get to know each other more willingly, speak louder and joke more often. In the dark, hearing, smell, touch, taste are sharpened.

From metro Novoslobodskaya or Dostoevskaya to st. Oktyabrskaya, 2/4.

Savvinskoe courtyard

Few Muscovites know about its existence, because it is hidden from the eyes of passers-by, while being in the very center. Walking along Tverskaya, be sure to look into the arch of house no. 6.

You will see a beautiful architectural monument built in 1907 by the architect Kuznetsov in a fabulous Russian style with decorative elements of the Baroque and Art Nouveau. The courtyard is a tenement house of the Savvinsky monastery. I wonder what it's up to

1937 was located directly on Tverskaya. In 1938-40. houses on the even side of the street were to be moved to the north. Many buildings were mercilessly demolished, but Savvinsky courtyard was lucky - with the help of a special technology developed by engineer Handel, it was moved into the depths of the block to a new foundation. It is hard to imagine, but the construction weighing 23 thousand tons was moved on the night of November 4, 1939. And, what is really quite surprising - without resettling its residents.

Northern Lights hunters - there is something desperate and romantic about this. If you love to travel, you are not afraid of difficulties, and you want to see with your own eyes the most mesmerizing natural phenomenon, this guide article will help you make your dream a reality. Let's figure out where you can see the northern lights, and what expert advice you need to follow in order to witness a unique sight.

General information about a natural phenomenon

From a scientific point of view, it is a glow that appears at an altitude of 80 to 100 km as a result of the interaction of molecules in the atmosphere with charged particles of energy that penetrate the atmospheric envelope from space. In other words, streams of sunlight, reaching the layers of the atmosphere, cause a bright glow of nitrogen and oxygen atoms.

You can observe a natural phenomenon not far from the magnetic poles, namely in the area limited to 67 and 70 degrees of latitude.

It is difficult to see the northern lights at the magnetic pole in the southern hemisphere due to the fact that there are no places suitable for human habitation in these latitudes. In the northern part of the planet, you can find a dozen places with ideal conditions for observing the unique phenomenon.

Be prepared for the fact that this is too rare. To see it, you will need to put together many circumstances into a single puzzle. It is likely that you will have to travel north to no avail. However, by following simple guidelines, you will increase your chances of success.

When there is shine

The season of heavenly glow is the period from the third decade of September to the end of March. The peak of activity occurs during the cold season - from November to February. In winter, in northern latitudes, the longest nights come - 18-20 hours, so the slightest glow in the sky will be clearly visible and you can take a mesmerizing, magical photo of the northern lights.

Monitor activity on the surface of the Sun

This is the main condition for the appearance of a natural phenomenon in the sky. After solar activity, 2 to 5 days should pass - during this time the energy flow reaches the Earth's surface. The more powerful the ejection, the better the chances of success. There are sites on the Internet that display up-to-date information.

It is important! The magnetic activity of the Sun is indicated by the K-index, which ranges from 1 to 9. A favorable condition for the appearance of glow is considered to be a K-index of at least 4.

In cities, there are a lot of electric lights that disturb the contrast of the night sky and interfere with observation. In large metropolitan areas, the probability of seeing the aurora tends to zero, in which case you will need to leave the city at a distance of 50 to 70 km. If you are in a small village, it is enough to drive 5-10 km away.

Only clear weather.

The northern lights appear at an altitude of 80-100 km, the cloudy zone is lower, so the clouds completely hide the glow. In frosty weather, as a rule, cloudiness is minimal, therefore, there are more chances of success.

Follow strictly north

Moving away towards the north, you inevitably come closer to your dream.

What you need on the trip

• Car. This can be your own car or rented transport. Taking into account the difficult climatic conditions of the zone where you will have to be, the car will not only provide a comfortable movement, but will warm you.
• Stock up on gasoline. Fill the tank and grab some canisters, as the car will have to be left unstuck to keep it at a comfortable temperature.
• Hot drinks in a thermos. Do not take alcohol under any circumstances, as it warms for a short time. Better to leave the alcoholic beverage on your return home to celebrate success.
• Footwear. Pay special attention to the choice of shoes, because you will have to stand in the snow for a long time.
• Tripod. If you want to take high-quality photos and videos of the northern lights, you cannot do without a tripod.
• Spare batteries. In the cold, the batteries are discharged too quickly, stock up on the necessary amount of spare kits to replace them in a flashlight, phone, camera, camcorder if necessary. Store them in a warm place.
• Professional camera. In theory, an ordinary soap dish will do, but is it really worth going through such a long and difficult path to take a few fuzzy, blurry photos? You are traveling to capture a real natural wonder, so professional photo and video equipment is the best choice.

Where the northern lights are visible

We got to the most interesting part - where the northern lights are visible.

Where to see the northern lights in Russia

In Russia, endless opportunities open up for polar glow hunters, as almost half of the country crosses the Arctic Circle. However, it is almost impossible to get to some places in winter and the weather conditions become too harsh (temperatures below -45 degrees - a test not for weak travelers).

The best choice is to fly from Moscow or St. Petersburg to the Arkhangelsk or Murmansk regions. Such a trip is not only convenient from the point of view of climatic conditions, but it will cost less than a trip to Taimyr or Chukotka.

Murmansk

This is the closest place to the capital of Russia. The journey by train will take from 30 to 35 hours, and by plane you will fly in 2 hours. You can stay here in any small town, the main thing is that in cold weather there is a transport connection. Remember that you will have to drive by car.

Pay attention to the village of Teriberka, the village of Vidyaevo, the urban-type settlement of Pechenga. A plane ticket to Murmansk will cost an average of 7-8 thousand rubles, if you follow from Moscow. Then you need a car.

Do not be alarmed by the harsh temperatures, in the Murmansk region you can observe a wonderful phenomenon already from September at a temperature slightly below +10 degrees.

At first glance, a scientific trip can be turned into entertainment and visit the Khibiny Mountains. This is a great place for mountain skiing. Pay attention to the recreation center Kuelporr, you can get to it from Kirovsk by snowmobiles.

Arhangelsk region

The main advantage of Arkhangelsk and adjacent settlements is predominantly clear weather, the northern lights are clear and bright here. Travelers come here from September to April.

Many experts assure that even in the city itself you can see the glow in the sky, however, in terms of intensity and saturation of colors, it is significantly inferior to the aurora in the Murmansk region.

The route is best laid through Moscow or St. Petersburg. The flight will cost 6-7 thousand rubles. The rest will be diversified by a visit to the open-air sculpture museum. The best photos are taken on the coast of the Northern Dvina.

People who are resistant to extremely low temperatures come here, since here is the epicenter of the coldest climate not only in Russia, but also on the entire planet.

While waiting for the northern lights, you can go downhill skiing, rafting down rivers, and climbing mountain peaks. Lovers of comfort will certainly be interested in a cruise on the Lena River.

Taimyr Peninsula

One of the proven places in Russia where the northern lights often occur is the Taimyr Reserve. There are almost no traces of human activity. Infrastructure is developed in the immediate vicinity of the protected area - they carry out rafting on the river, walking and snowmobiling. If you have enough time and finances, be sure to go to the administrative center of the reserve - Khatanga.

Northern lights in Norway

The optimal period for a visit to Norway is from December to February. In addition to the radiance in the sky, there is another natural phenomenon here - the blue glow in the daytime.

The best way to take a cruise is by cruising along the coast of Norway. Take a route from Tromsø to Trondheim. A four-day tour costs an average of 500 euros.

You can visit the polar center located in Norway on the island of Eastvogey in the small village of Laukvik. Here you will enjoy the heavenly glow, visit exhibitions and presentations dedicated to natural phenomena.

Directly from Moscow, you can take a boat trip to the Spitsbergen archipelago, located just an hour and a half from the North Pole. Similar expeditions are organized in Norway. There are regular flights from Oslo to the capital of the archipelago - Longyearbyen.

If you don't want to leave mainland Norway, visit the cities of Tromsø and Alta.

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Northern lights in Iceland

Until recently, Iceland was considered exotic and unattainable for the average traveler. However, this is where the northern lights are most often seen.

Start your trip from Stoxeyri, a small town in the south of Iceland, located just 60 km from Reykavik.

Here you can visit Iceland's Wonder Center, listen to fascinating stories about fairy creatures and taste a drink made from the ice of a real glacier. After a portion of miracles, travelers head to the Ghost Center. Now you can start hunting for a wonderful natural phenomenon.

Iceland's most desperate guests travel to Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon. Here you will find picturesque nature and many wonders - waterfalls, geysers, thermal springs.

Aurora Borealis in Finland

Finland is called strange lakes and forests, but within the framework of our theme, another fact is interesting - in the northern part of the country, the air is so clean that the glow in the sky appears here up to 200 times a year. It is better to come to Finland in February-March or September-October.

It is better to start your trip in the city of Rovaniemi, the administrative center of Lapland. Here, excursion groups are formed, which are sent to their destination on comfortable buses. You can also go skiing or reindeer sledding. Tourists are offered an exciting night snowmobile safari, which costs an average of 60 euros per person.

In the province of Lapland, there is Sodankylä, where the observatory and the House of the Northern Lights are located. It welcomes tourists all year round, conducts excursions and fascinating exhibitions.

Oulanka Park is a picturesque place where you can not only see the polar glow, but also enjoy beautiful landscapes and picturesque nature. There is a hotel with a Finnish bath in the park.

Now you know exactly where to see the Northern Lights, and be lucky. Feel free to go to your dream, because emotions and impressions will surely become one of the brightest in your life.

See the video for what the polar glow looks like in dynamics.

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From time immemorial, people have looked at the sky and discussed whether there is life on other planets. It seemed impossible to answer this question, but one day humanity made a breakthrough. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin made the world's first orbital flyby around the Earth! True, this did not bring us much closer to solving the mystery. Science to this day cannot reliably confirm the existence of aliens, but ordinary people from different parts of the country confidently declare that they have seen them! On the occasion of Cosmonautics Day, Woman's Day decided to gather all the places in Russia where UFOs were seen.

Text: Svetlana Fedorenko, Saniya Galeeva, Yana Lyubaeva, Marina Kuznetsova, Larisa Loskutova, Alexander Chernov, Anna Gerasimenko, Natalia MishaninaApril 12, 2015

Perm (Molebsk) anomalous zone

Pointer to Prayer and a comic picture that "walks" on the Internet

Photo vk.com, molebka.ru

The outskirts of the village of Molebka in the Perm Territory (Kishertsky District) have long been chosen by ufologists, researchers of all sorts and tourists who want something unusual. And this unusual thing here is just the sea. Flying saucers hanging over the glade, glowing balls, strange sounds ... By analogy with the Bermuda Triangle, this territory is also called the Moleb or Perm Triangle, and is also mysteriously called the M-zone. According to legend, a prayer stone of the Mansi people was once located here, near which sacrifices were made. Now only the name of the village reminds of this. But, perhaps, shamans were once attracted by the same energetic force that ufologists talk about today.

In summer, you can get to the M-zone only in this way or by boat

The anomalous zone is located opposite the village, near the Sylva river. Those who have been here tell that they saw UFOs of different types: flat "plates" (similar to a hat), luminous balls of different colors, elongated "cigars" ... And from time to time there are whole UFO "gatherings": several objects appear in the sky, line up in the correct shapes, then disappear when they notice people. Some eyewitnesses even say that they managed to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations - however, there is no evidence of this. But UFOs are often recorded here. They used to shoot on film, now they take digital photographs.

Geologist Emil Bachurin was the first to notice this place. In the winter of 1983, he was hunting nearby and suddenly saw a luminous hemisphere. At the place where it touched the snow, a huge thawed patch with a diameter of about 62 meters formed. After the geologist told about this unusual phenomenon, researchers of various kinds became frequent visitors to Molebka. Locals willingly told them about their observations: incomprehensible luminous objects, flashes in the sky, and so on. And besides, they complained of health problems: near the abnormal zone, they felt worse, headaches appeared, blood pressure increased or decreased.

1990 year. Researcher Marat Kabirov: "The plate hung, then an energy column and a black hole or spot formed under it"

What did ufologists record in the Molebsky Triangle?

• UFOs: luminous spheres, elongated figures, etc .;
• sound mirages: people think of incomprehensible sounds that they cannot find an explanation for;
• the course of time changes: the clock slows down;
• here accumulators and batteries run out very quickly.

“For some unknown reason, the functionality of the dosimeter died out right before our eyes (although after returning home it worked again), several diodes in the flashlights burned out, the batteries in the watch were quickly discharged, and the bio-frames behaved uneasily (in certain places),” the participant describes his impressions one of the expedition to the M-zone, the head of the Monitoring station of the Ural anomalies Dmitry Volobuev. “In addition, two people felt acute malaise: fever, blood pressure surges, etc.”

M-zone map

The M-zone itself is divided into different sections. Tourists are usually accommodated in the central meadow. But they must visit "places of power". So, the most vivid visions are described by those who have visited the Vyselki - those who spent the night here say that they saw small creatures similar to fairy elves. And disruptions in time are observed near the Black River.

Each arriving person must be shown the pyramids - these are stones stacked in three pyramids, and together they form an isosceles triangle. Measurements of ufologists have shown that a strong flow of energy comes from the tops of these pyramids. It is believed that the pyramids are a kind of beacon for UFOs, which helps the "saucers" navigate in space.

Witch's rings is another interesting place in the M-zone. A large number of photographs taken here show dark balls with light spots. They were nicknamed "witch's rings", and then the name passed to the site.

Monument to an alien and one of the "places of power" of Molebka

Photo vk.com, molebka.ru

There is evidence that a huge dark human-like figure was seen in the M-zone. “It was a moonlit night,” describes Valery Yakimov, who calls himself a stalker and organizer of expeditions to Molebka. - I imperceptibly went down into a small ravine, and suddenly something made me raise my head. I saw that two paces in front of me was a man 3 meters tall, black, opaque, proportional. I can't say how long I spent in a daze, looking at him, but I woke up running with a flashlight 10 meters from this ravine. "

Suspecting that Bigfoot could live in Molebka, the researchers even tried to lure him by making a bait from the pheromones of a large apes. But, unlike the Loch Ness monster, no one was able to photograph the prayer snowmen. But every tourist can photograph here a humanoid from another planet, however, a wooden one. Don't be surprised: just a monument to an alien was erected in the village. Locals affectionately call him Alyoshenka.

Novokubansky district of Krasnodar region

Such crop circles in Novokubansk are not uncommon

The Novokubansky District of the Krasnodar Territory is considered by ufologists to be the “capital of Russian crop circles”, since once a year they find geometric figures that have appeared from nowhere. From year to year they appear in the middle of summer, with a diameter ranging from 10 meters to plus infinity, and sometimes they wear not only a round shape: for example, last year ufologists recorded squares. The figures appear overnight, they are clearly burned out or strongly crushed, and the plants around them remain intact. Surveillance cameras at this moment do not record anything. And in the morning the farmers grab their heads. They say they are tired of the intrigues of aliens. But this phenomenon cannot be attributed to hooligans - there are no human tracks!

Several years ago, for example, giant circles, the largest of which is 40 meters in diameter, appeared in a wheat field. Very carefully, clockwise, the stems of the plant were crumpled, and the weeds around were burned, and in a special way - only the leaves were burned, while the stems remained intact and even. And on the eve in the area there were power outages, residents were sitting without electricity. The next morning, the news made a lot of noise, went through the local media. The well-known Russian explorer Vadim Chernobrov with "Cosmopoisk" also visited the area. “Novokubansky district is the Russian capital of crop circles. Most of the abnormal is happening here in the Krasnodar Territory, and in Russia this place is among the leaders, ”says Chernobrov. Local ufologists are also studying such cases, but they also have no explanation. “On the video recordings, we noticed that lizards were running in the field, but all living creatures usually disappear from such fields in a day,” local Armavir experts comment.

Unidentified flying objects also periodically appear in the sky over the area. In the dark, villagers see glowing objects hanging for a couple of minutes, which then disappear without a trace. In the 90s, people even wrote appeals to the local administration to be protected from the invasion of aliens.

It is interesting that the locals are already even humorous about the anomalous phenomena taking place. And for several years in a row there was a Novokuban festival of bard songs "Near the crop circles".

The ice phenomenon only happened once

Photo svet-mayakov.ru

But the Novokubansky district is famous for another phenomenon. 20 years ago, in winter, the Kuban river froze in a special way. In one place, a perfect ice circle appeared, as if outlined by a compass, around which the water went counterclockwise. A single place in a frozen river frightened the local population. Different versions were put forward - from a strangely operating underwater current to a UFO landing in this particular place. The villagers came ashore, but no one dared to get across the ice to the mysterious place. This went on for two weeks until the thaw began. The phenomenon melted away, and more such a phenomenon was not noticed.

Alat flower with tentacles

The Ashit River connects the villages of Alaty and Potanikha

In 1803, the status of a city was removed from Alat, and the settlement began to decay. Numerous manufactories and craft workshops moved to Kazan. But, according to local residents, it was then that the remaining residents began to regularly observe incredible phenomena in the sky.

- The whole action lasts a few minutes, - says a local resident Vladimir. - After sunset, a yellow speck appears in the sky, from which, like tentacles, multi-colored rays grow. They curl around this spot, and then fly off to the side and dissolve in the sky.

So far, no one has managed to take a photo with a cell phone or a SLR camera. The technique is probably not tuned to recognize such objects. Last year, the subject was frightened off by camera flashes. The “tentacle flower,” as the locals call it, dissolved into the sky faster than usual, and has not appeared since.

The local artists are happy to devote to "guests" whole pictures and drawings that decorate their homes.

The locals are so accustomed to space guests that they talk about flying saucers as something commonplace. And from March to early May and from mid-August to November every now and then they glance at the sky after sunset.

Photo: drawing by local resident Vladimir Chernov

A couple of years ago, not far from the Ashit River, which connects Alaty with the neighboring village of Potanikha, under the place where the fishermen saw the “flower”, the field was covered with something resembling pieces of foil. Nobody dared to take the substance with them, and by noon the "foil" seemed to have melted from the daytime sun.

Witnesses suggest that UFOs always appear above the rural cemetery between the village temples - the Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist in the village of Potanikha and the Church of the Assumption Holy Mother of God in Alaty. Locals say that both churches are connected by an underground gallery, which they tried to find during the Soviet years. And some even insist that the aliens use the Alat church as a compass. During its construction in 1712, from the square where it stands, the rays of the streets symmetrically departed in all directions of the world, which can be seen from satellite images.

Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Alaty

Maria Petrova, head of the organization "Cosmopoisk-Kazan":

- Similar observations have already been made in this region of Tatarstan. The nearby Ashit River confirms that the phenomenon is most likely related to a UFO. After all, flying saucers attract precisely large areas of water bodies.

Belovsky district, Kemerovo region, Mokhovsky coal mine

On January 31, 2015, at the Karakansky coal mine near the city of Belovo, mining master Artur Presnyakov came across an unusual object. At a depth of 40 meters, there was a stone disc with bulges on both sides in the middle. After measurements, it turned out: its diameter is 1 m 20 cm, weight - 200 kg. Amazing finds for the Karakan section are not uncommon. Fossils and mammoth bones have already been found here, but they were closer to the surface of the earth - at a depth of 20 meters. This means that the stone disc appeared even before the mammoths. According to scientists, the age of the find is about 250 million years.

Artur Presnyakov announced the find on his page on the social network, and scientists immediately became interested in her. The disk was handed over to the Kemerovo Regional Museum of Local Lore, where geologists and ufologists came for research.

Artur Ponomarev and his unusual find

Tomb or UFO?

Different versions were put forward: a disc of ancient people, a tomb, the petrified remains of sea inhabitants. But the most popular versions are two: a device for storing information or a fragment of an unidentified flying object.

- It really looks like a flying saucer, what to hide, - admitted the ufologist Vadim Chernobrov, head of the organization "Cosmopoisk". - As a specialist in aerospace aircraft, I am convinced that this shape is the most convenient in terms of aerodynamics. But if a flying saucer made of almost any material really got into the rock and lay here for 200 or more million years, this product would not have come down to us in its original form.

The ufologist emphasizes that the atoms of the material could be replaced by the atoms of the surrounding substance, and the object came to us not in its original form, but in this petrified form. As for the version that a disk is a storage medium like modern flash drives and disks, Chernobrov comments on this as follows:

- It is known that an electronic data array is well stored on silicon, much more efficiently than on many modern devices. Perhaps we are facing an experiment that was not started by us. Indeed, in Egyptian museums, for example, several such discs are also kept. For some reason, the Egyptians made them.

The disc really looks like a UFO

Photo Kemerovo Regional Museum of Local Lore, Maxim Kiselev

Scientists have conducted research and measurements, no objects inside the disc were found. Now other studies are being carried out - the composition and nature of the disc is being studied, comparing it with other finds. For example, the same discs were found in China. The version was considered that these are black boxes of interplanetary ships, carriers of information from other civilizations. Ufologists are sure that there should be similar objects on the territory of the mine. And not a couple, but a lot at once, perhaps about ten.

An alien from the Chelyabinsk region - where did the "Kyshtym dwarf" disappear?

Fans of the mysterious and inexplicable know Alyoshenka - a mysterious creature thanks to which a small village in the Chelyabinsk region became known to the whole world. It was in the village of Kaolinovy \u200b\u200bnear Kyshtym that the mummy of an unknown humanoid, which ufologists consider to be an alien from distant planets, was found and mysteriously lost. Who was he really? We may never know.

The very beginning of history was marked by the stamp of mysticism. In the summer of 1996, Tamara Vasilievna Prosvirina heard a voice in her head, which insistently called for help. The voice brought the old woman not somewhere, but to the cemetery. At one of the graves, the pensioner discovered a barely living humanoid creature. Small - 25 centimeters long, skinny, like a baby. The grandmother took pity on the creature and decided to shelter - began to look after him, fed him with sweets and gave him water. She gave him the name - Alyoshenka.

The humanoid lived with his adoptive parent for about a month. The information about him, collected later from the stories of the inhabitants of the village, was very fantastic. Some of the villagers saw Alyoshenka still alive. Eyewitnesses said that the creature smelled strange, and after eating it was covered with mucus. Some report that the creature had vertical pupils and was covered with hair.

The circumstances of the death of the humanoid are also shrouded in mystery. According to one version, after the old woman was taken to a psychiatric hospital, there was no one to look after the "alien". According to the other, Alyoshenka died much earlier, being extremely weak and unsuitable for human food. Tamara Prosvirina, unfortunately, will never tell about her strange adoptive - in 1999 she was hit by a car.

Alyoshenka's withered body was found by policeman Yevgeny Mokichev during a search. His colleague Vladimir Bendlin became interested in the find and began his own investigation. This is how pictures of Aleshenka's corpse were taken - the only thing that remained in the hands of scientists after his mysterious disappearance. Something that will help judge who the humanoid really was. A mutant, an alien, or a species unknown to science?

Alyoshenka disappeared as mysteriously as he appeared. Bendlin contacted the UFO Star Academy. Contact according to the Zolotov method "from the city of Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk region, dealing with the problems of ufology, and its employees seized the mummy - allegedly for further research... Yes, they never returned. Where this society of ufologists got to, nobody knows.

From the photo and video, one can conclude about the unique, inhuman structure of a humanoid. It has a large, onion-like head. There are teeth, but no cartilage, organs of the genitourinary system and the anus.

Who is Alyoshenka? Ufologists insist on the version of its extraterrestrial origin. Participants of the 15th season of the show "Battle of Psychics" Julia Wang and Tatiana Larina claimed that Aleshenka was indeed an alien. However, what does science say about this?

Maybe Alyoshenka was just a premature mutant baby? According to many residents of the village, this would not be surprising. The ecology of the area leaves much to be desired: the chemical industry pollutes the soil and water with heavy metals, and relatively recently - in 1957 - an explosion occurred in the local area at the Mayak plant, and radiation was added to the chemical pollution. Scientists are against this version: such mutations, in their opinion, are impossible in a human embryo. For example, he could not develop teeth in any way.

Such a twin develops on the body of his brother or sister on the principle of Siamese twins, but often develops more slowly and cannot feed and think himself. And the worst thing is that such a twin can develop inside its "carrier"! And it can even be in the uterus of a woman “sister”. Moreover, she may not even guess about it for many years. Moreover, an unsuspecting woman may one day give birth to her twin, separated from the body.

Green Island

It looks like an ordinary river island is fraught with a lot of mysteries

The river island 4 km long, located in the lower reaches of the Don River in the Rostov region, is famous for its "anomalousness". For more than 70 years, Rostovites and guests of the city have encountered strange entities here. The story began back in the 1930s: several fishermen, mooring longboats, went to the island to spend the night. In the dark, they heard something like a violent explosion! It was accompanied by large hail, but it was strange that this hail did not melt ... Several maples fell nearby, and sparks soared upwards from there, which then also turned into a strange grain. The next morning the fishermen returned to Rostov with a dull consciousness and pain in their chest ... Immediately the bridge to the island was hastily closed (it is located on the Don, not far from the city) - the NKVD soldiers hastily raided there.

One of the eyewitnesses to those events later said that as a boy he went to the island to investigate what had happened in his own way. He discovered a hole dug 20x20 meters, which then someone tried to disguise. And around the pit there are grains like lead. The guy tried to make a sinker for a fishing rod out of lead, but ... it came up! The surprise was so strong that the boy chose not to tell anyone about the strange find, and only dozens of years later, when talk about the Green Island resumed, shared his observations. Strange stories about the island appeared long before this incident: in the 1920s, Rostovites loved to tell that ghosts, drowned people and zombies often appear there.

More from history: between Rostov and Bataysk, it was planned to build an underground railway tunnel, the path of which ran directly under the island. The project had already been approved, when suddenly the authorities canceled it. At the same time, in Stalin's times, it was planned to build a children's health camp on Zeleny. However, again at the last moment, without explanation, the idea was hacked to the ground, although a construction plan had already been drawn up.

During the war, a whole regiment lay on the island ... Historians are perplexed: why was it necessary to destroy so many lives to protect a small piece of land without any infrastructure ?! Scientists speculate that what the fishermen witnessed was nothing more than the wreck of a UFO ship. Allegedly, its fragments were examined in a secret laboratory immediately built on the island. She was protected ...

Later, they decided to plant the island with poplars: in Rostov, they take root as well as possible! But the greening plan was thwarted: only a few trees took root. And it is not surprising - the measurement of radioactivity shows that it is abnormally high! This, however, does not interfere with surprising and opposite phenomena: for example, on the island you come across cherry bushes, which amaze with the size of their truly "Chernobyl" fruits, and some trees grow at an angle of 45 degrees.

The case during the search for Chikatilo, when the entire Rostov region became more active, is striking. A team of operatives was dispatched to observe on Green Island. One of them, having retired at night with a girl, suddenly saw a strange thing: before his eyes, the whole life of his companion flew in detail ... The same thing happened to her! In shock, they began to check each other for details. It all coincided!

There is also the story of a fisherman who knew the island like the back of his hand. On one of the trips, he managed to get lost there, and no matter how much he tried to get to the place he needed, he invariably returned to his boat. The amazing thing is that he followed the compass and still came to the same point.

And once a company of Rostovites who had sailed to the island to rest, had to leave it: in the midst of a picnic, they felt a strong vibration emanating from the bowels of the earth, and everyone had a terrible headache. The guys tried to get into the boat as soon as possible - the sensations in it immediately passed ... Later they recalled how they were looking for a source of vibration: there were no ships passing by, it was also quiet on the opposite bank.

But the most inexplicable case happened with an ordinary family of Rostovites who came to Zeleny Island with their six-year-old daughter Anya. The whole family was assembled, as the girl suddenly disappeared. Mother remained to guard at the tent - suddenly the daughter will return herself! Father went to comb the woodlands. An hour and a half later, accidentally glancing into the tent (where they were looking for Anya first!), The parents found her sleeping there. The girl barely managed to wake up, and then she told how she went for a walk and, getting lost, fell asleep on a large black stone in the middle of a clearing ... and woke up in a tent. After this incident, the girl began to talk in a dream in an unknown language.

Green Island is a favorite place not only for fishermen and vacationers, but also for sorcerers and magicians. Various signs of the rituals performed were found there more than once: skulls, knives and other attributes of lovers of the occult.

“One gets the feeling that some dark forces have come together here, and thanks to the constantly arising phenomena and various rituals held here, these forces began to receive additional powerful recharge from space,” says Andrey Gorodovoy, a Rostov researcher of anomalous phenomena. - This explains the periodic hovering over the island of UFOs. And it seems to me that magicians choose this place not only because of its solitude. According to legend, many centuries ago a pagan temple with human sacrifices was located here. Water is an obstacle for evil spirits, therefore it concentrated in this very place. And what happened on the eve of the Great Patriotic War, it really looked a lot like an alien ship wreck. This is also indicated by the facts that the NKVD troops secretly transported its fragments to Kapustin Yar. But a few small fragments still remained in the ground, and they give such strange side effects: wandering fires, underground vibrations, loss of memory of the people there ”.

Don Stonehenge

A little more than ten years ago, 120 kilometers from Rostov-on-Don, near the Kamenny mound near the Kerchik-Savrov farm, huge standing stones were discovered. Their location was very similar to Stonehenge - an ancient temple of the Sun located in Great Britain. The only difference is that the stones do not stand like cromlechs (blocks on which the transverse hulks lie), but look like menhirs - huge stones standing vertically. They have laid out geometric shapes - squares, circles, parallels. The estimated age of the find is 7 thousand years BC. e., that is, they are even older than the more famous megaliths in the world. It is surprising that these stones are not at all from rocks familiar to the Don steppes, but from quartzite. It emits ultrasound, and thus it is easy to navigate on it ... but who?

Locals speculate that these stone alleys are of alien origin. As if they were built for an identification purpose: something like an airfield. Moreover, the stones have a certain direction - from east to west. This is evidenced by frequent UFO sightings. One of the farmers said that at dawn, when she was milking a cow, she saw something of an elongated shape with luminous windows hanging over the stones. The thing did not look like an airplane or a helicopter, moreover, it moved silently. This case is far from the only one.

There are other versions - perhaps the stones arranged in such a bizarre way simply served as a kind of calendar: the time and date could be calculated from the shadows falling from them. It has also been suggested that the stones could have been idols.

Mysteries of ball lightning of the Medveditskaya ridge

Ball lightning traces

One of the most famous anomalous zones on the planet - Medveditskaya ridge - is located on the border of the Volgograd and Saratov regions, not far from the city of Zhirnovsk. The Medveditskaya ridge is stretched along the steppe by a chain of low hills 200-370 m high.

The number of inexplicable things happening here is striking in its diversity.

Ball lightning has become the hallmark of the geomagnetic zone. The place where they appear most often has been nicknamed "the slope of mad lightning." It sparkles here in any weather and at any time of the year. Ball lightnings appear both singly and in large groups and move in space contrary to all the laws of physics: against the wind, slowly and low above the ground, intricate trajectories, hovering in one place for a long time. Lightning can circle for hours along one route, burning through trees that come across in the way. Many twisted birches creeping along the ground are dotted with traces of ball lightning that passed through the trunks. Studies have shown that many birches are burnt from the inside, from the root upwards, like lightning has burned them out of the ground. Cases were recorded when lightning passed through people without hindrance, leaving no damage. There is an assumption that lightning appears from the bowels of the earth, from the network of ancient tunnels, and move exclusively along the lines of these tunnels. The Medveditskaya ridge ranks second in the world after Malaysia in terms of the number of ball lightning appearances.

Traces of the mysterious tunnels can be traced back to the history of the Golden Horde, which used them to store countless treasures. IN Civil war the caves were used as shelters by the White Cossack gangs. However, this does not at all explain the reason for their occurrence.

During the construction of one of the villages, the builders unearthed an ancient burial with human skeletons more than two meters tall. Giant skulls are regularly found when plowing fields. And on the other side of the river, a burial of Lilliputians about half a meter tall was discovered. Scientists have not yet found a reliable explanation.

Volgograd UFO expeditions observed many phenomena of the Medveditskaya ridge. Not far from the slope of crazy lightning, there is a low hill of artificial origin. The radiation background of this place is very unstable, it jumps from 6 to 24 μR / hour and seems to "float" along the hill. Interestingly, soil samples show a normal background radiation, that is, the cause of the radiation is not on the surface, but inside the hill.

On the other side of the slope lies a clearing of sound waves. People here hear their echoes from several directions at the same time, accompanied by loud whistles and clicks.

Another mysterious place of the Medveditskaya ridge is the Grove of Drunken Birches. The sight of trees twisted into knots is striking and depressing at the same time. The condition of people here is rapidly deteriorating: the whiskey aches, the general tone falls. Psychics say that the earth here sucks a person's strength. You can't spend the night in the Drunken Grove - you don't have to wake up in the morning.

People regularly disappear on the Medveditskaya ridge. If they can be found in hot pursuit, they look inhibited, depressed, do not want to return and can hardly remember anything.

Residents of neighboring villages regularly observe UFOs - unidentified objects predominantly triangular in shape, which move along a broken path. The fields are dotted with triangular patches of land devoid of vegetation. It is impossible to plow these places: equipment stalls.

Numerous expeditions have also witnessed UFOs. Here are just some of the observations of ufologists:

“A star-shaped object was seen moving from the west. It moved in jerks, and before its disappearance it hovered in one place. The angular height of the object was 80 degrees, magnitude 1. The object was observed for 3 minutes. "

“While observing the sky from the camp, the team leader noticed an unusual star. After some time, it increased significantly in angular size and reached 2-magnitude. The object was observed in the northwest. After increasing in size, the UFO moved eastward, gradually losing brightness. Within 5 seconds of movement, he ceased to be visible at all. The object was observed for 1 minute. "

- Numerous studies of "Cosmopoisk" have not revealed any deviations in the Drunken Grove: radiation, electro-magnetic fields, even soil pH - everything is normal. Apparently, the reason is genetic disorders or something else very subtle and difficult to investigate, - comments Andrey Bezrukov, deputy head of the Volgograd branch of "Cosmopoisk". - Interestingly, Drunken Grove is very local: it is a group of trees a hundred meters long, around which there are quite ordinary, normal trees. Young, normal birches grow at one end. Apparently, the anomalous effect was one-time in the past and no longer has any effect.

My group and I have repeatedly observed a black UFO of a triangular shape, silently flying in the area of \u200b\u200bthe village of Novinka (there is the 4th field camp of "Cosmopoisk"). Observed in the summer in 2007-2008.

Triangular overgrown areas in the fields, in which machinery stalled, is a reality. They could not be plowed after the allegedly triangular UFOs landed there. But that was still under the Soviets. When the Cosmopoisk expedition arrived in 2007, the tracks had already lost their strange power and did not work in any way. And soon then they were smelled.

There is a secret ravine on the Medveditskaya ridge. Indeed, people disappear here in broad daylight. But its location is classified by "Cosmopoisk" so as not to attract crowds of onlookers there.

Don Shambala

The temple of the idolaters is surrounded by a giant moat

On the banks of the Don, near the village of Trevostrovskaya, Volgograd Region, there is a mysterious Romanian Mountain.

The huge mound has always been considered a "place of power" by the locals. Attempts have been made to conduct archaeological excavations here several times. At the end of the 19th century, the merchant Pyotr Avdeev was looking for gold in the mound. All hopes of enrichment were limited to the extraction of several wagons of charcoal. In the 20s of the twentieth century, a serious archaeological expedition again tried to reveal the secret of the mound. The expedition was unsuccessful. All the earth dug during the day by morning mysteriously returned to its place. The horses untied themselves at night and ran away. Local residents frightened archaeologists with stories about the terrible dark power of the mound, which should not be disturbed.

And only at the end of the twentieth century, archaeological excavations revealed to the world an amazing temple of Indo-Iranian fire-worshipers, an ancient cult place comparable in age to the Egyptian pyramids. The ancient Zoroastrians called this place “the navel of the Earth”. According to archaeological research, the age of the temple of the fire god Agni is from 2500 to 5000 years. It has not yet been possible to establish the exact age of the temple. The artificial hill, about 200 meters in diameter, is surrounded by an impressive moat. In the center of the hill is a huge 40-meter kiln of intricate architecture, which has kept a fire for hundreds of years.

Our ancestors knowingly chose this place for firefighting. The temple stands in the bend of the Don at an equal distance from the river: nine kilometers from the north, nine from the east and nine from the south. This place is considered to be filled with high energies. Here cell phones go out, but people experience an extraordinary surge of strength and vivacity.

Not far from the fire place is the Romanian Mountain, which has attracted the attention of ufologists from all over the world for many years. It is here, according to cosmoenergy, that there is one of the few places on the planet where the energy flow from the bowels of the Earth meets the flow of energy coming from space. Unlike firefighters, it is almost impossible to stay on the Romanian Mountain for more than 20 minutes: everyone starts having terrible headaches.

Local residents have repeatedly seen UFOs of various shapes here, but they have not yet been recorded on film.

The famous prophetess Vanga believed that one of the most important energy points for the entire planet is located on the Don. Perhaps it was just about the Romanian mountain and the temple of fire worshipers.

During the Great Patriotic War, the fascist troops rushed to this place. Scientists created by Hitler Ahnenerbe - a scientific institute that studied the practices of occultism, astrology and alchemy, believed that somewhere in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Romanian mountain and firefire is the entrance to the mystical Shambhala, the world of high vibrations. Was it by chance that the decline of the Third Reich began just at Stalingrad? After all, all the predictions of German astrologers convinced that the winter of 1941-1942 would be mild. The troops went light and did not intend to freeze out in the Don steppes at all. Esotericists believe that the zone simply did not let the Germans here.

Martian Chronicles of the Devil's Rumble

Martian views in the Volga steppe

Devilish play is one of the mysterious places of the Medveditskaya ridge, which deserves a separate story. In the middle of the green hills stretches a real Martian red desert with a crater in the center, about 400 meters in diameter and about 15 meters deep. Geographically, the Devil's Game is located in the Kotovsky District of the Volgograd Region, near the Romanov farm. Travelers are greeted by an amazing unearthly landscape: red sands of dozens of shades, rare ugly dwarf trees, also distinguished by a variety of colors, from green to purple and burgundy.

The sand here is very unusual, multi-colored: red, orange, pink - about 50 shades! Besides the Devil's Rumble, such sands are found only in two places on Earth. They say that if you rub your hands with them, then the skin will sparkle for a while, as if sprinkled with shiny powder. And if the sand is taken out of the anomalous zone, after a while it will change its color.

Surprisingly, the sand in Devil's Play is always wet, despite the arid semi-desert climate and low air humidity. The background radiation is normal here, but the compass needle in the crater is literally going crazy. There is no living creature here, not even the ubiquitous steppe snakes and lizards.

A crater of this size could hardly be the work of human hands, as it was formed many centuries before the era of bulldozers. None of the natural ways of forming a funnel also explains its origin: there are no relief changes necessary for such tectonic shifts, there have never been reservoirs. Soil studies have shown that there are no traces of a meteorite, even the smallest ones, here either. Although the space version is very difficult to refuse, the local landscape looks very fantastic. Multi-colored sands, unusual stones with a metallic clatter (the number of which has greatly decreased with the advent of tourists), areas of melted sand suggest a cosmodrome. But if this is a cosmodrome, then it is definitely not of terrestrial origin, because it was formed long before the appearance of the first human technologies.

Near Devil's merrymaking they have not plowed the land for a long time: here it is impossible to make a smooth furrow. All attempts to do this fail: the furrow quickly becomes crooked.

They say that if you stay here until dark, then it is simply impossible to find your way back until morning.

However, one of the leaders of the Volgograd "Cosmopoisk" Andrey Bezrukov, who visited the Devil's play with the expedition, believes that the mystery of this place is somewhat exaggerated:

- The fact of a change in the color of the sand has not been confirmed. We took it out of there a lot, but the color remained as it was. I believe that this is due to the saturation of the soil with iron, which is included in the sand in different proportions, which is why it is so colorful. The bloody merrymaking is indeed an anomalous zone, but not so much from a ufological as from a geological point of view.

Okunevo

On the banks of the Tara River, locals sometimes see strange glowing objects

Photo: archive of the magazine “Telesem. Omsk "

The Okunevo village is a regional center in the north of the Omsk region. Many thousands of years ago there was a camp of ancient people and traces of their stay are still preserved, for example, a stone sacrificial altar. And today, with the light hand of one of the Indian gurus, who at the end of the eighties decided to find and revive the ancient temple of Hanuman, Okunevo is considered the place where it was once located. Since then, this place is considered the energy center of the Earth through which divine vibrations and energy go. It is not surprising that Okunevo is a place of pilgrimage for lovers of esotericism, mysticism, seekers of spiritual enlightenment. "Okunevsky sanctuary" Omkar is included by the Vatican among the holy places of the world. They say that a variety of unexplained phenomena occur here, from visions to the appearance of UFOs. Residents of the village, numerous pilgrims and Babajists (representatives of this religious movement consider Okunevo a holy place and constantly live here) assure that UFOs are common here, and constantly see glowing balls either in the floodplain of the Tara River (a village is located on its bank), or near their own houses, then in the vicinity of the Tarsky uval, then on the Shaitan-lake, which is 7 km from Okunevo.

Local residents say that they once observed a UFO landing on the surface of Shaitan Lake: the "saucer" first hovered over the lake, then swam on its surface and dived into the reservoir. By the way, it is believed that the ancient temple of Hanuman is located just under the Shaitna Lake, and at night you can observe a greenish glow from the water.

Another case of a local resident meeting with a UFO in the mid-90s is described as follows: at three o'clock in the morning, going out into the street, a man saw an orange ball hanging over the field, and in the morning, having examined this place, he discovered a hole - a hole with an outer diameter of about a meter and going into the abyss, up to 20 m deep.

Luminous objects (mostly orange) are often seen by pilgrims and locals here. They are different in shape: glare, yellow-orange fog, or white balls. But, as a rule, in shape they resemble a whirligig - a configuration traditional for UFOs. Last summer, such a "yulu", for example, was observed in the field south-west of Lake Shaitan, at the Bergamak cordon, in the bend of Tara and in a ravine that lies immediately beyond Okunevo. And yet another "whirligig", which landed under a large tree in the bend of Tara, even deceived the photographer: at the moment when he was about to capture it, it flew to another place, then to another and finally melted.

There was a case when such an orange "whirligig" was next to a working geophysicist (scientists were studying the geomagnetic background of the area), and when he tried to reach it with the antenna of the device to measure the electrical component of the magnetic field, the readings on the device immediately went off scale - so strong was its electromagnetic field.

Sasovo, Ryazan region

The crater from the explosion is now filled with rainwater and has become a lake

Photo by Vladimir Frolov

On April 12, 1991, exactly 30 years after the first manned flight into space, a powerful explosion thundered in the fields near Sasovo. Local residents said that before that they saw glowing balls in the sky and heard a growing strong hum, but experts were in no hurry to lean towards the version with an unidentified flying object and discussed different versions. For example, one of the reasons under consideration was bags with fertilizer - ammonium nitrate left in the field, but no significant traces of this substance could be found.

The mystery was that a huge crater with a diameter of about 30 meters and a depth of about 4 was formed at the site of the explosion, and at the bottom there was a hill 1.4 meters high. An interesting fact is that a tree grew near the site of the explosion, but no damage from the blast wave was found on it. But there were testimonies that for two nights in a row the funnel was glowing from the outside, and the earth from the place of the explosion was scattered crosswise.

The power of the explosion was also surprising: glass flew out in houses located within a radius of 500 meters from the funnel. Moreover, they poured both inward and outward.

The Sasovo explosion is still of interest to ufologists, but there is still no exact data on what it was. Although local residents, perhaps, are inclined to the version of the anomalous nature of the explosion, and there are eyewitnesses of unidentified flying objects.

Dalnegorsk, height 611

Mount Lime, aka height 611

On January 29, 1986, at 19 hours 55 minutes, an unidentified flying object about half a meter in diameter crashed near the seaside town of Dalnegorsk, at the foot of a hill called height 611. The object, according to eyewitnesses, had a hard, spherical shell of stainless steel color. Someone took him for a meteorite, someone for an alien ship.

Schoolchildren became the main witnesses of the incident. One of them, at that time a fifth-grade student, and now a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences Evgeny Serebrov, recalled:

“The ball flew parallel to the ground, rising and falling several times before our eyes. There was no tail or train. There was no explosion, only a strong blow. Scientists who came to Dalnegorsk from Vladivostok and Khabarovsk, using a chronometer, calculated that the falling speed was 15 m / s, which in no way corresponded to the speed of falling meteorites. To us boys, pundits then said that we were mistaken: neither a meteorite nor a rocket fragment could fly like that, they say ... "

According to eyewitnesses, the reddish-orange ball was "the size of half the moon or a soccer ball." There were no sounds. The brightness of the red color changed - the ball flared up, then dimmed. Having flown up to the hill (aka "height 611", or Mount Izvestkovaya), the ball made a "peck" and went down sharply. After the fall, the earth caught fire, and the fire was of some strange shade.

Soon, several schoolchildren organized a sortie to the site of the object's fall. They saw a charred stump, a shallow notch, branches cut off by fragments, but they could not find any large parts.

At the site of the fall, only melted drops of some substance were found, in appearance they resembled soft metal. However, they did not lend themselves to processing with tool steel, only a diamond cutter took them. As a result, scientists came to the conclusion that for the formation of metals with such resistance, the combustion temperature had to be above 3000 degrees. Other parts of the found substance turned out to be from pure molybdenum, which is not used as a structural material on Earth due to its poor physical and chemical properties.

Two weeks later, two more appeared over the place where the first ball fell - they made four circles above the height 611 and disappeared with a flash. A year later, a whole flotilla of UFOs visited this area, and different ones - both in the form of a silvery disc and in the form of balls. There were over 150 officially registered UFO eyewitnesses in 1987 alone. In total, 32 flights of unidentified objects were registered in the north of Primorye, including 14 over Dalnegorsk. When they appeared, the picture on the TV screens disappeared, telephones and radio did not work. One of the balls hovered over Dalnegorsk, and a violet-blue ray came out of it, dim, with a diameter of about 50 cm. The ray turned out to be not so harmless - one man was standing at a bus stop, and when the ray touched him, he lost consciousness and fell. When he came to, his face was very swollen ...

In general, acquaintance with the anomalous zone in the area of \u200b\u200bheight 611 has had and continues to have an adverse effect on people - visitors to the hill complain of poor health, manifestation of inexplicable fear.

Since then, UFOs began to visit the crash site of their brother less often - the last reports that in the area of \u200b\u200bDalnegorsk "something incomprehensible was flying again" date back to 2004.

Samara onion

Samara onion

Residents of local villages and surrounding cities have repeatedly observed glowing balls, circles, pillars in the sky, shared cases of disorientation in space. Some who got lost in the tunnels of the Zhiguli Mountains told about caves with ice crystals and strange creatures frozen in them. And the real sensation was caused by concentric circles on a buckwheat field of obscure origin, which 10 years ago were discovered one July morning by residents of the new quarters of Togliatti.

Ice crystals

Internet publications claim that in the Samara State Archives the memories of the employee of "Volgostroy" Viktor Ageev have been preserved. In the early 30s, he was studying the Shiryaevsky adits in the Zhiguli mountains and once fell under a landslide. I wandered around the underground for five days and saw inexplicable things: “After long wanderings underground, I finally came out into a vast hall, some corners of which were filled with ice. In the darkness, this ice glowed with a faint bluish glow. The core of each of these enormous columns was occupied by a creature, as if frozen in ice. Apparently, there were many such ice crystals here, and unseen, fantastic monsters hung motionless inside each of them. It is extremely difficult to describe these creatures. I remember a large head hanging over the body, huge faceted eyes protruding, a large supra-frontal bump, small hands pressed to the stomach with three fingers. The body is something like a soft cocoon, rolled up into a tube and tucked into the stomach. "

Since then, there have been no such messages. Maybe because rock falls regularly occur in the adits and this room with crystals has not survived.

This photo was taken with a cell phone near the intersection of Gorky and K. Marks Streets in Togliatti. It depicts a triangular UFO, which is quite common in these places. The confidence index is the highest possible.

Glowing objects

But most often, those living on the Samara bow have to observe glowing balls, rays, groups of dots.

- The luminous object was observed, for example, on the night of May 1, 2006, by two groups - from the Stone Chalice (tourists, students of the VUiT) and from Lake Yelgushi, - shared at the scientific and cultural forum "Samara Luka: Legends and Reality" senior researcher of Togliatti Museum of Local Lore, journalist Lydia Lyuboslavova. - At about midnight (23:40) he appeared at a high altitude and moved from south to north, towards Kurumoch airport, without sounds. It was not possible to determine the flight altitude and the size of the object due to darkness, but visually it resembled a very large star. A plane was taking off from Kurumoch at that time. The object stopped (!) In the air and smoothly turned to the side, described a curve and disappeared, as if melted. The observation process took quite a long time, about 10 minutes, so it is very doubtful that we were dealing with ball lightning.

Another fairly common phenomenon is fog clots. Here is what Lydia Lyuboslavova tells about this:

- In June 2005, our group walked along the southern bank of the Samara bow from Shelekhmeti to Osinovka. We moved along the top, along the rocks, along a heavily overgrown path. In the area of \u200b\u200bthe Visly Kamen rock, one of the participants, who was walking in front of everyone, noticed a wrapped figure (assures that it was a man's) to the left of the path, that is, above the cliff itself. An elderly man allegedly crossed the path and merged into the rock. It is curious that the participant did not know about publications in the press, which cited similar episodes: meeting with an old man disappearing into the rocks. Another example. On the evening of April 30, 2006, in the Yelgushi tract, I watched for about half an hour a procession of tourists moving through the wasteland (about 100 meters away), which then took the shape of animals and disappeared imperceptibly. (Again, I will draw a parallel: in the works of cultural researchers, there are stories of local residents about similar phenomena: for example, people see haystacks moving in a meadow. They attribute this to the machinations of the goblin.)

The head of the Togliatti UFO Commission, Tatyana Makarova, says that over 15 years of the commission's work, more than a thousand reports of UFOs and anomalous phenomena in Togliatti and its immediate vicinity have been accumulated. And this message base is constantly updated.

What's the matter, explain!

When witnesses of anomalous phenomena turn to people scientists with a request to explain what they have experienced, they, as a rule, dismiss or talk about the subjective features of the psychoemotional and physiological perception of a person.

Indeed, for a long time there was no clear explanation of where concentric circles appeared on a buckwheat field, for example, in July 2005. The townspeople have already forgotten that story or remember with a laugh, agreeing that this is the work of some joker-hooligan.

- Dumps on the buckwheat field do not have a single sign that would indicate their anomalous origin. It is also known who did it. But for obvious reasons I cannot name the names, - says the head of the Togliatti UFO Commission, Tatyana Makarova.

Photo site of the Togliatti UFO Commission

The photo was taken in the Avtozavodsky district of Togliatti on October 13, 2011 with a cell phone camera. The object, which is captured on it as being (flying) in the sky, has no analogues among the known technical devices.

However, some scientists still undertake to explain what is happening. But so far, apart from the conclusion that the Zhiguli Mountains are the strongest anomalous zone, there is no progress. One of the most fantastic versions belongs to the Samara search group "Avesta": in the thickness of the Zhiguli mountains at great depths for many millions of years a certain technical device, once created by the ancient supercivilization, has been working. This device creates a force field around itself, which prevents the flow of water flows through the mountain range. That is why the Volga for all these millions of years has been forced to go around the Zhiguli mountains, making a strange bend in its middle course. This hypothetical geomachine is a kind of bunch of force fields - electromagnetic, gravitational, biological, or others that are not yet known to us. It is these fields that have been helping the Zhiguli limestones (which, as you know, are very susceptible to erosion by water) for more than ten million years, keep the ancient river bed in a stable position, preventing even its slight displacement. According to the Avesta group, extraterrestrial civilization needs this underground energy complex to feed the extra-dimensional channel that connects their world with the earth's surface. Such a channel can play the role of a kind of television camera through which a distant civilization sees everything that happens on our planet. Proof of this is the strange mirages that are regularly observed in the sky over the Samara bow, as well as over some other points of our planet.

- Such versions as those of Igor Pavlovich from the "Avesta" group should be treated with particular caution, because, forgive me, this is a fantasy, and nothing more, "says Tatyana Makarova, head of the Togliatti Ufological Commission. And he continues: - Scientists do not explain what is happening in any way. Firstly, such phenomena occur not only in the Samarskaya Luka, but also in a fairly large adjacent territory. Secondly, while there is an accumulation of factual data, and in order to understand the mechanisms of what is happening, serious field studies are needed, which so far no one is doing both due to inaction and due to imperfect technical support. Therefore, there can be no more or less objective explanations so far.

“As a researcher, journalist and materialist, I am confident that any phenomenon can be explained scientifically,” says Lydia Lyuboslavova. - The question is whether modern science is ready to give it. Everything has its time. Maybe it's good that there are no clear, intelligible explanations yet? The unknown attracts. Including tourists.

Photo site of the Togliatti UFO Commission

The most striking photograph of several similar ones taken by different photographers at different times in different places of the Zhiguli. This photo was taken in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Racheyskie Alps natural monument (near Syzran). During the shooting, the photographer and his companions did not see (did not have time to notice?) Any foreign objects in front of the lens of a digital camera. The object (and other similar objects) differs significantly from possible natural objects that fell into the lens (birds, flies, planes, etc.). The confidence index is the highest possible. Narrated by L. N. Lyuboslavova.

1965 year. Local residents with delight and fear at the same time observed a strange elongated object flying without a single sound, the size of which was about 300 meters. When the UFO flew over the peaks of the Khamar-Daban ridge, three white balls separated from it and flew away at high speed in the other direction. This case was officially recorded by the UFO Commission.

1967 year. A UFO has landed not far from one of the Baikal villages. According to local residents, tall, almost two-meter-tall creatures, very similar to people, dressed in silver overalls, emerged from the space object.

The same 1967. The Il-14 plane was preparing to land at the Irkutsk airport. The liner was already entering the runway when a mysterious object of enormous size appeared next to it. The UFO first illuminated the plane with a bright beam, then followed for a while, repeating all its movements. And then he disappeared as imperceptibly as he appeared.

By the way, about the airport of Irkutsk. Ufologists have long been saying that it was built in an anomalous zone. During its existence (it began to function in 1925) 11 (!) Catastrophes happened here, and only one of them managed to avoid casualties.

1971 year. Leningrad engineer Georgy Filippov with his wife and son rested on Lake Baikal. Once on an inflatable sailing raft, they moved away from the coast at a distance of no more than a kilometer. The sun went down, and the man, wanting to return to the shore, tried to start the engine - to no avail, he wanted to set the sail - the wind changed direction. It got dark. And suddenly the man looked back and saw three luminous columns rising up from the water, which, having joined, formed a pyramid. A black triangular platform appeared under the columns. After a few seconds, the columns broke away from the surface of the water and began to rise upward, and then they seemed to be drawn into the platform and turned into bright white lights. A few moments later, the platform moved to the opposite side from the coast and disappeared.

1982 year. Military swimmers held training camps on Lake Baikal and dived to a depth of 50 meters. There, in the water column, they once noticed strange creatures of almost 3 meters in height, who were swimming in helmets, but without scuba gear and were dressed in silvery wetsuits. Military submariners decided to catch one giant. They plunged into the water, stretched a thin strong net there and tried to throw it over one of the unknown. But something strange happened: it was as if someone had pushed them to the surface. As a result, three out of seven swimmers died from decompression sickness, four were left disabled. After this incident, ufologists began to say that at the bottom of Lake Baikal there may be an underwater base of aliens from space.

2006 year. Above Lake Baikal, near the village of Bolshiye Koty, UFOs arranged a real light show for vacationers: more than ten balls hovered over the lake and left only a few minutes later.

Circles of the correct shape with a diameter of 25–40 meters have existed on Olkhon Island for a very, very long time. Historians have tried to explain the origin of the circles by the fact that these are supposedly traces from the buildings of Buryat yurts, but if we compare, the diameter of the circle is 20-30 times larger than the traditional yurt. Biological scientists argue that the circles are nothing more than myceliums, consisting of growing intertwined threads. The local population believes that these are traces of the tengriyas - mystical creatures who descend to the ground every full moon and lead a round dance. Ufologists, on the other hand, believe that the circles are evidence of aliens visiting the earth.

As proof of the unearthly version of the origin of circles, you can cite the stories of people who traveled in circles. Those who tried to enter the center of the circle say that they had a feeling of some kind of obstacle that needs to be pushed through (this is like pushing through a film). Moving along the border of the circle resembles immersion in the water column. And some lovers of the mystical and mysterious argue that if you stand in the very center of the circle, then there is a slight change in consciousness.

“In general, the entire Urals is an anomalous region,” says Aleksey Martin, coordinator of the Russian UFO station in the Urals. - We have a lot of minerals being mined, development is underway, a lot of resources. All this attracts the attention of cosmic beings who draw energy for their activities in such zones. We also have many military and industrial facilities - in this case, we can say that they are interested in man-made human activities. But why the Sverdlovsk triangle became anomalous is difficult for us to judge - there is nothing here except for the thermal power station and the quarry, other creatures cannot be interested in this. But we assume that there is a natural anomalous zone that feeds them on an energy level.

In the 80s and 90s, it was here that the largest number of documented UFOs was recorded. Moreover, their flights took place along the same trajectory and at the same height, which makes one think about a certain "route". Just balls flew by, from which glowing rays emanated, there were also luminous points that moved along broken lines, which no human aircraft is capable of. They hovered in the air, there were jumps, accelerations.

Photo personal archive of Alexei Martin

In these same places people often wander, for hours they cannot find a way out of the forest, although whichever way you go there, you can quickly reach civilization. Moreover, they do not wander over a huge territory, but over an area of \u200b\u200b2 by 2 kilometers. Travelers walk in circles and return to the starting point over and over again. Others, on the contrary, can cover 10 km at a leisurely pace in an hour.

In the Sverdlovsk triangle, footprints - seemingly human - are often found, which go to some open area and abruptly break off. If this is a person, then his disappearance is absolutely inexplicable!

In 2008, a film crew from one federal channel came to the anomalous zone - they were filming a program. They wanted to interview fishermen who were sitting on the small shores of a lake within the zone. They put up the camera, and on the screen - flashes of color. We decided to move to another place - it's the same there. The TV crew feared for their technique and fled to film in safer locations. And they said that this happened to them only once, when they were filming at a factory near open-hearth furnaces.

There has been no urban development in this area for a long time. Now the buildings of the Ural Federal University are being built there, and ufologists are afraid that something might happen to those who will study and work there.

The article tells about those parts of the world where you can watch the Northern Lights - the most beautiful light show arranged by nature itself.

Each person is unique, therefore travelers with their desires and dreams are also different. Someone prefers to relax on the sea coast, while others are closer to the mountains. Someone likes snowboarding, while others like diving and the underwater world. There are people who travel to another country just to see its sights or architecture, others - to enjoy the beauty of its landscapes. And there are those who travel the world to see the most beautiful natural phenomena. And one of them is the beautiful and amazing Northern Lights.

If you are wondering where in the world you can see the most beautiful Northern Lights, then this article is especially for you.

What is the Northern Lights?

There is a saying: "Whoever has seen the Northern Lights, luck will accompany him all his life!"

To begin with, it is worth talking about what this natural phenomenon is, why it arises at all. The name of the Northern Lights is due to the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora. This phenomenon occurs when there is a collision of highly charged electrons from the solar wind and various elements contained in the atmosphere above the North Pole. The sun periodically throws huge streams of electrically charged particles into outer space. When they reach our planet, they burn out, passing through the earth's atmosphere - as a result, we can watch light shows of incredible beauty.

Interesting fact: Northern Lights are called so only in Russian, in most others the phenomenon is called "Aurora Borealis". In Finnish it will be - "revontulet" (in our language "fire foxes").

When can you see the Northern Lights?

It is very difficult to predict the exact time of the appearance of the Northern Lights, but you can talk about those parts of the planet in which they occur most often. The text also provides helpful hints in case the light show is never seen.

Best spots to watch the Aurora Borealis

There are several countries and locations where you can see the Northern Lights. True, even at these sites, a light show is not a guaranteed phenomenon.

• Norway, Spitsbergen. This is an island located in such a part of the world as the Arctic, and is part of. It is located between the 74th and 81st parallels. The higher this parameter, the higher the likelihood that you will be able to observe beautiful light shows. The best time to observe the Northern Lights in Svalbard is between November and February. In addition to this natural phenomenon, tourists get the opportunity to observe the polar night. It is at this time of the year that sunlight cannot be seen in the Arctic, so the sun does not appear in the sky. But you can watch the light blue twilight, which is the best time during the day when you get the chance to see the Northern Lights. If you come to Svalbard any other month, then the only things you can see are polar bears, walruses and reindeer, as well as endless arctic landscapes. Another opportunity to see the Northern Lights in Norway is.

  

• Finland, Kakslauttanen. This is the name of the Finnish resort located in, also in the Arctic. There are excellent conditions for tourists, given that the resort is located in relative proximity to the North Pole. You can stay in Kakslauttanen in a cozy igloo glass or in one of the traditional wooden cottages with a fireplace and Finnish sauna. In addition to watching the Northern Lights, here you can arrange reindeer safari, snowmobiling and skiing. Not far from the resort is located Urho National Park, which is an interesting place for excursions.

  

  Observation deck for observing the light show

• Sweden, Jukkasjärvi. It was in this Swedish village that Sweden's first hotels made entirely of ice were built. The Northern Lights are one of the main attractions of this place. So that the lights of Yukkasjärvi do not interfere with enjoying this beautiful sight, night flights are organized for tourists to places where the Northern Lights appear in all their glory. In addition, here is located space center "Esrange", in which everyone can see the starry sky. As with any Arctic resort, all sorts of winter activities are available here, such as snowmobiling or skiing.

  

  There's a pretty good show in Sweden too

• Iceland, Reykjavik. For residents, the Icelandic capital is perhaps the most accessible place to observe the Northern Lights, if you do not take into account the places on the territory of our country. In addition, it is a country with stunning nature, which will not leave anyone indifferent. This is a simple paradise for introverts and connoisseurs of fabulous landscapes.

  

  Iceland is one of the best viewpoints of Aurora Borealis

• North of Canada. And this, on the contrary, is the most expensive option to see the Northern Lights. In northern Canada, this natural phenomenon can be observed almost everywhere. Even if you fail to witness a light show by nature itself, Canada is full of both natural and man-made attractions. To see the Northern Lights in Canada is worth visiting and National.

  

Where can you see the Northern Lights in Russia?

On the territory of our country, this phenomenon is observed practically in the entire north, from Chukotka to Karelia. However, most of these places are very difficult to reach, and temperatures there drop to extremely low values. Therefore, it is better to go for the Northern Lights in Russia in or the Murmansk region.

All year round to see in the sky the milky way galaxy it is possible only in the southern hemisphere of the Earth, it is located directly above the head (the photo shows what this global cluster of stars).

In the Northern Hemisphere Milky Way can be observed in the southern and southwestern part of the sky, but only from February to September. It is best seen in June at 12 am, and in September it can be seen as early as 9 pm.

See Milky Way being in a big city is impossible, there are too many sources of electric light to observe it. I myself watched it while in the outback of the Chelyabinsk region in villages in which there are no street lamps either 🙂

The company has Google there is a creative project called 100,000 stars (on the site I have designated, you can fly through our Galaxy and see what constellations and individual stars it consists of), in this project they visualized our galaxy with the help of computer technologies Milky Way, created a panorama of how it (the Way) looks in different parts of the Earth.







More than a hundred years ago, astronomers believed that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Our galaxy has about a hundred billion stars and about twice as many planets, so it's not even surprising that scientists made such a mistake. The Milky Way is just one of the billions of galaxies in the universe.

1. According to legend, once the Chumaks went to the Crimea for salt, and guided themselves by the night sky, and so the name of our galaxy, popular in Ukraine, appeared - the Milky Way. The name Milky Way is also popular.
2. In ancient Rome and Greece, the Milky Way was called the milk river, hence the most popular name in the world - the Milky Way.
3. In India, our galaxy is called Akasha Ganga, which is translated from Sanskrit as the Ganges of heaven.

4. in ancient Chinese myth, the gods lifted the river to heaven, and this is how the Milky Way appeared and that is why it is called the Silver River in China.

   Earth is located on the outskirts of the Milky Way, the distance to the center of our galaxy is more than 8.5 kilo parsecs, or more than 27,000 light years. To better understand the size of the Milky Way, imagine that the diameter of the solar system is only 1 mm, then the size of our galaxy would be more than 85 km.

5. If the Earth revolved around the Sun at the same speed that the stars revolve around the center of the Milky Way, then a year on our planet would last 3 days, not 365.
6. The orbital speed of the solar system around the center of the Milky Way galaxy is about 220 km / sec, or 0.073% of the speed of light.
7. The Milky Way rotates at a speed of about 270 kilometers per second. Thus, the actual place in space where you were an hour ago is now 972,000 km away from you.
8. At the center of the galaxy is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A *. The mass of the core of our galaxy is about 4.3 million times the mass of the Sun.
9. When we see the Milky Way in the night sky, in fact, our eyes can only see about 0.0000025% of the billions of stars in our galaxy.
10. The Milky Way is constantly growing as a result of mergers with other smaller galaxies. The Milky Way is currently swallowing stars from the Sagittarius dwarf elliptical galaxy.
11. Our galaxy in about 5,000,000,000 years will unite with the Andromeda galaxy.

The Milky Way can be seen with the naked eyes in the night sky in cloudless weather, preferably on and on moonless days or at small phases. The Milky Way is a multitude of not very bright stars, located on approximately one relatively narrow line. The fact that these stars are part of a spiral galaxy became known to scientific astronomers relatively recently, and people saw the Milky Way in very ancient times and gave this cluster of stars such a name. Therefore, it is not correct to define the Milky Way as part of the galaxy. The first photo given by Olga Andreeva outwardly has nothing to do with milky way... Those who wish can see this with their own eyes, looking at the night sky.